Links from March 30th
In Commentary on 30 March 2009 tagged browsers, cars, database, design, food, links, scalability, security, Web development with no comments
- Jason Santa Maria: Reflections on Layer Tennis. Really, really great post on participating in Layer Tennis. I loved this.
- SF Gate: Food, service uneven at Absinthe. A review of Top Chef participant Jamie “Top Scallop” Lauren’s San Francisco restaurant by Michael Bauer. Brutal.
- John Resig: Determining Browser Market Share. Deep thoughts on measuring browser market share.
- New York Times: Vast Spy System Loots Computers in 103 Countries. Uncovered by researchers at the University of Toronto. Also read this followup from James Fallows.
- Goodnight, Raleigh: Memorializing a Magnificent Oak and “The Great Pacificator”. A little local knowledge about Raleigh.
- The Economist: Germany’s racy auto banks.
- Tim Bray: On Rack. A nice, short introduction to Rack, the glue that provides an interface from Ruby applications to Web servers.
- MySQL Performance Blog: PROCEDURE ANALYSE. Very useful for optimizing your MySQL schema.
- Vanessa Fox: Transforming the Relationship Between Citizens and Government: Making Content Findable Online. Advice on making data more searchable, pertinent to anyone publishing online.
- Last.fm: Last.fm Radio Announcement. Users not in the US, UK, or Germany have to pay up to listen. Music licensing sucks.
- LastFM Firefox Extension. Scrobbles Pandora tracks to Last.fm, for people like me who feel weird anytime they listen to a song and the data isn’t transmitted to Last.fm.
- intranation: Development virtual machines on OS X using VMWare and Ubuntu. A clever alternative to MacPorts or Fink.
- Trustico: Buy GeoTrust, VeriSign SSL Certificates At Cheaper Prices – Strategic Partner United States. I hate paying for certificates. These guys are cheap.
There are no comments yet. You could be the first!
No Comments Yet