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Archives for April 2008
Show me some Twitter API enhancements, baby
April 29, 2008 by Leave a Comment
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April 28, 2008 by Leave a Comment
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A summary explanation of Mark Dowd’s incredible Flash vulnerability exploit. This is what real genius is made of. I envy.
Yossi Kreinin praises Tcl and so should you!
April 22, 2008 by Leave a Comment
Yossi Kreinin writes a very fair and positive blog entry about why he can’t believe he’s praising Tcl. In response, I left this comment on his blog:
I’m so glad you’ve put aside language bigotry and evaluated Tcl fairly–when you do, it’s easy to see how convenient it can be for some tasks.
Of course I’m biased, but I also think Tcl is a fantastic language for developing web applications-thus, my affinity for AOLserver.
When you reduce web development to the simple process of “consume bits from a data source, transform strings, output bits to a network socket” … Tcl’s simplicity really makes rapid development a breeze, coupled with AOLserver’s library of Tcl procs to ease some common tasks.
I hope more folks give Tcl a fair shake, given it’s one of the oldest and arguably the most mature scripting language out there.
Even if you have no interest in Tcl, do read Yossi’s blog entry about it. He really takes a close look at what makes for a good embedded scripting language and that’s useful for anyone who is building an application today that needs such a thing.
Tags: programming, Yossi Kreinin, Tcl
A Buzz Lightyear … dildo?
April 21, 2008 by 5 Comments
My wife went to a swap meet tonight, where folks bring things they want to get rid of and exchange it for stuff that others are trying to dump. As a goof, she saw this and knew I’d want to blog a picture of it:
Yeah, seriously, WTF is that? Is that really a Buzz Lightyear dildo? I don’t think this is what Buzz meant when he said, “To infinity, and beyond!” Hell, look at his crossed arms and disinterested look as he tries not to look downward.
Of course, this is one of those stupid “turn it on and the top spins around with lights” toys, but if you flick the switch and hold the top, the shaft rotates … hello?! Even my 8 year old daughter asked me, “Daddy, what’s the green thing at the bottom do?” All I could do was shake my head sadly and say, “Nothing, honey. Now go upstairs and brush your teeth and go to bed.”
You just can’t make this stuff up.
Tags: Buzz Lightyear, toy, dildo
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April 21, 2008 by Leave a Comment
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SQL Server 2005 Developer Edition = $49.95.
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David Case (no relation to Steve Case) wrote a remarkably accurate and detailed article on AOL’s recent history and sad mishaps.
No, your kid is NOT the cutest …
April 16, 2008 by 4 Comments
Todd Jordan carries on the discussion of “why is it not cool to submit your own content to link sharing sites?” Here’s my answer that I left as a comment:
Submitting links to your own works is the “of course my kid is the cutest” problem. Let me explain …
Content sharing sites thrive because of the signal-to-noise ratio: high quality, low volume (compared to “the web at large”). As you point out, nobody has time to visit every page on the web. Social link sharing sites (Digg, Stumble, etc.) work because someone else’s effort (submitting a link) results in your being able to visit a subset of the web, presumably of hand-selected better-than-average quality.
So, of course you’d want to submit links to your own stuff, because, you know, it’s better-than-average, right?
WRONG. Of course your kid is the cutest. But, if other people also think your kid is cute, maybe you’re on to something.
If everyone starts submitting links to their own stuff–intsead of someone else who also thinks your stuff is worth sharing with others–then these social link sharing sites’ signal-to-noise ratio will plummet and finding the worthwhile links amongst the crap will make them less useful and usable.
If you can’t find at least one or two people who think your content is worth submitting somewhere, then maybe you have to just accept that maybe it is, indeed, crap.
Tags: blogging, social media
Sun is finally moving MySQL to the next phase
April 16, 2008 by 2 Comments
I love it when I can go against the angry mob!
Marten & Jonathan: Good for you! Take those bits closed-source, make customers pay for the functionality, and use that money to hire talented QA engineers. Let companies pay for the stuff and demand actual timely bug fixes to the real problems that linger in the MySQL code base.
Of course, I wholly expect that 18-24 months later, you re-open the source for these products, once they’ve been polished up. The companies will be pissed, but we all benefit from higher quality products.
Look around, folks … this is the cycle we’ve observed many times of open source software. The fact that Sun is making these changes now is a good sign for MySQL’s longevity as a technology and product and that is only good for the open source community.
Tags: Sun, MySQL, open source, business
Kiek in de Kök, not what you might think
April 14, 2008 by 2 Comments
One of the many blogs I read belongs to Trading Goddess, who seems to find some of the best pictures to use with her blog entries, like this one:
Being an American who only speaks English and has a juvenile sense of humor to boot, I got a good chuckle out of this picture. Of course, I couldn’t leave well enough alone and had to find out what this actually meant (it couldn’t really mean what I thought it meant, could it?) and Wikipedia comes to the rescue. It turns out, “Kiek in de Kök” is “an old German language nickname for towers, mainly those which were parts of town fortifications.”
So, the next time you ask someone, “what’s cooking,” you might just be asking them for a Kiek in de Kök. Watch out. :-)
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April 14, 2008 by Leave a Comment
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The next release of Ubuntu after Hardy Heron will be Intrepid Ibex. Seriously, WTF?
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Linus files a bug about Gnash, looking to enable his wife to get Rick-rolled. Awesome.
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Star Ledger offering $5K bounty for the “best” New Jersey-oriented Facebook app. Interesting idea, not sure if I’m interested, though.
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Skittles vodka. Mmm. Tasty! Shoot the rainbow.
Fedora 8 RPM of character counting plugin for Pidgin
April 10, 2008 by 7 Comments
After Callum let me know that the Linux binary of the character counting plugin for Pidgin worked on Fedora 8, I decided to spin a RPM built on Fedora 8 proper. After a bit of reading and hackery, I have produced a x86 RPM for Fedora 8. Here’s the source, which includes the patch and the .spec file, as well as the RPM:
I’ve also spun a new Debian binary, as well:
And, if you’re looking for the Win32 binary, you can still get it off this page.
I’m glad so many of you out there who use Pidgin find this plugin useful. Thanks for all the positive feedback.
Programmer, husband, father, singer, guitarist, tinkerer, reverse engineer, strange, and living in New Jersey. 
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