June 2010
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-6-27) →
Uffie (54)
Marina and the Diamonds (19)
Panda Riot (13)
The Audition (12)
Artist Vs. Poet (12)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Awesome HYPER CRUSH remix of Katy Perry’s...
“[At Apple] we experiment with and explore materials, processing them, learning...”
– Core77 speaks with Jonathan Ive on the design of the iPhone 4: Material Matters
“They have never, ever, ever needed a label for their love,” she said....”
– ‘Wow, what a long engagement that was!’
YUI Blog: Mobile Browser Cache Limits - Android,... →
In early 2008, Wayne Shea and Tenni Theurer wrote a YUI Blog post on iPhone Cacheability in which they shared the results of research into various characteristics and limitations of Mobile Safari’s cache. Among other things, they found that individual components larger than 25KB were not cached, and that there was a maximum total cache size of between 475KB and 500KB.
Much has changed since...
iPhone 4 FaceTime Video Sex Line Chat →
Just… you know, putting this out there:
Starting an online interactive pornography firm where woman will use the iphone 4 to video chat with potential customers on a pay as you go basis. Hours are flexible, pay will increase as the business builds. Woman will receive a free iphone 4 to use as personal time when not working. Woman will talk to potential clients and chat with them and perform...
RingoJS vs NodeJS →
Good stuff (ignore the dick waving):
Unless you ‘ve been living in a cave for the last year, you know that server side (better: ‘general purpose’) JavaScript is all the rage. Everything started with CommonJS: the emerging standard spawned an ecosystem of compatible implementations competing against each other while advancing the JavaScript state of the art.
Then, NodeJS happened:...
node.js knockout →
The contest format will be similar to Rails Rumble: Build any web project you can imagine; In 48 hours, starting from scratch; With a team of up to 4; Using node.js and whatever else you want.
“Steve Jobs issued his response in a message responding to an e-mail from the Ars...”
– BBC News: Apple issues advice to avoid iPhone flaw
Brandon Konkle: Provisioning a new Ubuntu server... →
Good stuff, I personally like mod_wsgi, but it’s cool to see how this stuff is evolving and how other people make things work:
A friend of mine, Kevin Whitaker, recently posted a great article about getting up and running with Django in a server environment for testing or production. He used Ubuntu, Postgres, Nginx, and FastCGI to make up his stack. I’ve never set up Nginx before, so...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-6-20) →
Lady Gaga (73)
Uffie (35)
Marina and the Diamonds (28)
Flying Lotus (21)
Artist Vs. Poet (18)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
“Overall, my impression of this book was favourable. It’s definitely not a...”
– Review of Django 1.2 E-commerce - I was a technical reviewer on this book
“You put all the pieces together and then just basically go nuts, designing your...”
– DIY tablet kit is less than $400, more complicated than an iPad via Engadget
“Vista aims to change all that. By beefing up security, Window’s users should get...”
– Five Reasons Why There Will Be No Macs in 2010 by AppleMatters via IRC
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-6-13) →
The Audition (139)
Marina and the Diamonds (9)
La Roux (7)
Major Lazer & La Roux (3)
Diplo (2)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Safari Reader users, read this
If you have Safari 5 installed, click the “Reader” icon in your address field.
What’s going on?
Note the above code is an example and would need to be altered to work elsewhere, but I hope you get the idea.
Basically I’m detecting if you’re using Safari 5 (by checking to see if your browser is from Apple and if it supports geolocation—which is new in version 5) and...
Github Repo for Shorturl Extension →
Shorturl Safari Extension
In a nutshell:
Add a button to your toolbar and a keyboard shortcut (opt+s for now) to your browser . If you don’t see it show up there by default, you can right click the toolbar and “customize toolbar” and drag it in.
By default will attempt to determine if the site you’re on has specified a link tag with rel=”shorturl” or similar and give you that.
If it...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-6-6) →
Flying Lotus (32)
Lady Gaga (29)
The Audition (29)
Marina and the Diamonds (27)
Artist Vs. Poet (27)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Slashdot: Android Compatibility and Fragmentation →
I’ve read similar stuff about developing for Blackberry phones, except blackberry is way worse at this point:
I’ve developed 7 Android apps and the huge diversity of Android versions and devices out there really is a nightmare. I have an enormous number of extra code paths due to it. All this extra complexity makes apps tougher to write, tougher to test, tougher to debug, tougher to...
The 7 Stages of Apple Haters' Grief
Predict failure of new apple product
Attribute early success of new apple product to rabid fanbois affected by the reality distortion field
Attribute longer term success of product to stupidity of consumers
Purchase previously scorned product for stupid relatives so they stop bothering you to help support the open source version of apple product sold by Super Lucky Technology Extreme that you...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-5-30) →
The Audition (103)
Major Lazer & La Roux (33)
Marina and the Diamonds (33)
Lady Gaga (30)
Glee Cast (29)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz