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 ahead and start unfriending!
I am sure many of you reading this have received Michael’s plea this morning as well. The original developer of the MySQL database is worried that his brain child will be terminated by its new owner Oracle. I think his worries are justified. He pleads for you to sign a petition to keep MySQL free. I have signed, but all this makes me contemplate moving to PostgreSQL. I think it’s a better database engine anyway and this might be just the tipping point. I will probably start experimenting with it in new projects.
Getting ImageMagick onto your computer would be so incredibly difficult I would often just forgo the entire thing and pray that image manipulation would sort of work on the server. Well, no more. Claudio Poli has written a great bash script to install the whole thing with one command. Clone this repo and execute it. Works perfectly!
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OMG. I just finished the ultimate Snow Leopard review. Took me longer than Lord of the Rings! (yes, the book) It’s thourough, my friends. And technical. But if you’re a computer geek you should read it. There’s delicious treats to be found.
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Only a handful of people know I used to be big in the demo scene. So consider this my demo-outing. What is a demo? It’s a small computer program showing shapes, sounds, textures and graphics. Demos rock because they do unbelievable amounts of stuff in very tiny files. I’ve embedded a video of one particular demo full of jaw-dropping awesomeness. This one is only 4 kb. Four k!!!.
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It was bound to happen. Someone has used an iPhone to track a shipment of cargo. I must say I like the idea!
Time for a vague problem. Yesterday I splurged on a new MacBook Pro 15 inch. But I had huge problems getting it to connect to my wireless network at home. And I am not the only one. Turns out it is incompatible with Time Capsule’s default setting! Argh! Continue reading
Great post on how to publish video on your website, 2009-style. I reckon the <video> tag is here to stay, but I don’t really like the implementation outlined in that post. I would much prefer using something like swfobject to render all that code.
A pretty awesome app has appeared for iPhones. It allows you to see through your iPhone when writing an email. Uses the camera on the other side of the phone. Brilliant! PS I am getting an iPhone in june when they’re updated.
Sorry for the acronym soup, but part of my job is research and development of new website building techniques. I have found a neat and fast way of maintaining websites in the nanoc + haml + vlad combo.
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