Month: February 2009

  • links for 2009-02-28

    Pirate Bay Witness’ Wife Overwhelmed With Flowers | TorrentFreak This is a pretty cool story. (tags: law legal bittorrent piratebay thepiratebay p2p) 10 Steps To The Perfect Portfolio Website | Design Showcase | Smashing Magazine What makes a good portfolio on the web? (tags: internet programming webdesign css business personal design)

  • links for 2009-02-27

    IconDock — A Simpler Shopping Cart « Usability Post This is a neat way to do a shopping cart. (tags: ecommerce css design webdesign usability ui userinterface) Do Mathematicians Eat the World’s Tastiest Breakfasts? | Discoblog | Discover Magazine What is the perfect formula for the world's best pancake. (tags: pancake food cooking mathematics) Slipknot […]

  • links for 2009-02-26

    Penny Arcade! – The Ecology Of The Suburban Thug Where do you get your cinna-on at? (tags: humor pennyarcade webcomics) Two dudes hugging – Feministing Don't you love it when pundits make comments about the same exact stuff that happened in other presidencies but never said anything bofore that. (tags: stupid politics feminism gender sexual) […]

  • links for 2009-02-25

    Handle 1 Billion Events Per Day Using a Memory Grid | High Scalability Main way to scale to that large of a system: "database centric –> cache centric –> memory grid" (tags: webdevelopment programming performance scalability cache database) Poll: Politicians trusted more than business leaders on economy – CNN.com Interesting poll especially when it came […]

  • links for 2009-02-24

    Startups in 13 Sentences The 13 sentences that your startup should follow through on. (tags: startup business entrepreneurship) BBC NEWS | Americas | 'Likely' US Commerce chief named Do we finally have a Commerce Secretary, in the form of Former Washington Governor Gary Locke? (tags: secofcommerce usa politics obama) Findings – Politics in the Guise […]

  • links for 2009-02-23

    Building and Scaling a Startup on Rails: 12 Things We Learned the Hard Way | High Scalability What are some simplistic yet good rules to build a scalable site? (tags: scalability database webdevelopment programming compression performance)

  • links for 2009-02-22

    BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Clinton urges stronger China ties "Hillary Clinton has called for a deeper US-China partnership, on her first overseas tour as US secretary of state." Who could have guessed. (tags: hillaryclinton politics china usa environment economy humanrights tibet freedom communism) U.S. Concedes Afghan Attack Mainly Killed Civilians – NYTimes.com "An airstrike […]

  • links for 2009-02-21

    Release:jQuery 1.3.2 – jQuery JavaScript Library Latest jQuery released, bunch of bug fixes. (tags: jquery javascript framework opensource)

  • links for 2009-02-20

    Sprint: Customer defections continue; Can Palm’s Pre reverse the slide? | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com Sprint is such a lousy company. (tags: sprint cellphone business mobile palmpre) Slashdot | Microsoft.com Makes IE8 Incompatibility List! IE8 is already turning into a mess. (tags: microsoft ie8 ie browsers standards) Pharyngula: Quote of the day Maybe CBS […]

  • links for 2009-02-19

    Cory Doctorow’s craphound.com >> Blog Archive » Flashbake: Free version-control for writers using git For any writer looking to create a digital record of everything that they write, this looks really cool. (tags: writing software backup archive git sourcecontrol) jQuery simplyScroll – Logicbox "simplyScroll is a jQuery plugin that can animate (scroll) a set of […]