Learning something new every day.
The Kernel – The golden age of the developer
I’m trying to do more of this moving forward even in little bits and pieces I think help me stand out as a developer and it’s good to help the community which provides the basis of so much of my daily income (CakePHP, jQuery, etc).
The Year of C.E.O. Failures Explained – NYTimes.com
However, business schools seem to create an environment that rewards not making happy customers, not doing the ethical thing, not doing the thing that protects the environment down the road.
John Kary – git 1.7.8 changes for the everyday developer
Some small but useful changes to Git, git grep now being able to search untracked files in particular is useful.
BBC News – Cambridge University puts Isaac Newton papers online
One of the geniuses of all time.
Adblock Plus – Allowing acceptable ads in Adblock Plus
I’m all onboard with this, in fact I’ve even written my own Adblock Plus filter to enable ads that I want to see.
Chrome Developer Tools
Paul Irish shows off some of the fanciness that Google has added to Chrome for developers.
Ars Technica – Google Earth, other mobile apps leave door open for scripting attacks
Oops, just because it doesn’t look like a browser doesn’t mean it doesn’t suffer the same security holes.
life and times of sha.ddih – Why wireless mesh networks won’t save us from censorship
This is a really compelling argument as to why unplanned wireless mesh networks won’t work at scale.
FarukAt.eş – Micro-payments And The Web
One of the great big problems on the web today is how to make money from publishing content (if your end goal is making money from content).
Got any book recommendations?