Archive for the ‘ tech ’ Category
Every now and then I am working on a project that uses subdomains extensively. Up until now I had to use my local hosts file and a bunch of hosts I had to maintain by hand. Tiresome. Now thankfully there’s smackaho.st and the more concisely named lvh.me. These DNS entries point to 127.0.0.1 and have [ READ MORE ]
The IT Crowd is brilliant. This little clip doesn’t make sense if you don’t know the series, so if you don’t, fetch it from teh intertubes and LOL! [ READ MORE ]
You only appreciate fast version control when you’re on a slow link. Thank you Linus for creating git, I would have gone insane without it today! [ READ MORE ]
Google has just announced Java support for their App Engine. So what? Ruby on Rails on teh Google is what! Yes, sir, you too can deploy your Rails application absolutely free on Google’s infrastructure. See this post for more details. Nice. Wanna bet that Google will natively support Ruby in the future? (thanks Daniël) [ READ MORE ]
How many data can you put in a Tweet? Well, 140 characters. Think again. By using encoding software, like ZIP, you can put a whole lot more into one little Tweet. There is even an International Longest Tweet Contest for it. The record is something like 4000 characters! [ READ MORE ]
HTML5, the next version of the language of the web, is a wonderful thing. It’s a real step forward in terms of semantics and making browsers more powerful. Any day now I will relaunch a major website done completely in HTML5. Working on that, I discovered some caveats implementing the audio tag. [ READ MORE ]
Validating e-mail addresses can be a pain. Most of the time you want some syntax checking, just to prevent the most horrible abuse. But more often than not some actual e-mail address pops up that is invalidated by your regular expression. [ READ MORE ]
I love open source. And I love contributing to open source projects. Every time one of my patches is accepted into a project, I can’t help but smile. [ READ MORE ]
A nice piece of art: A Tool To Deceive And Slaughter is a black box with an internet connection. Every time someone buys it, it seeks connection to the internet and after seven days places a bid on eBay for itself. [ READ MORE ]
As much a brilliant idea as it is funny: the web 2.0 suicide machine. One click of a button removes you from many social networks, deletes your tweets, and erases your online presence. Since the Dutch “word of the year 2009″ is ontvrienden (unfriending) this kind of app just needed to be created. Now go [ READ MORE ]