December 2009
91 posts
Early Adopters: 5 Ways To Get Users To Your New... →
Early Adopters: 5 Ways To Get Users To Your New Website: So you just built the next great web app, the launch day has finally come and …. silence. Crickets chirping. You anxiously check your…
Downloads for jezhumble's javasysmon - GitHub →
Get cpu and memory stats and uptime cross-platform using a single jar.
Early Adopters: 5 Ways To Get Users To Your New... →
So you just built the next great web app, the launch day has finally come and …. silence. Crickets chirping. You anxiously check your Google Analytics stats and see that despite having the coolest…
Why Coder Pay Isn't Proportional To... →
theodp writes “John D. Cook takes a stab at explaining why programmers are not paid in proportion to their productivity. The basic problem, Cook explains, is that extreme programmer productivity may…
Brief: Apple allegedly preparing devs for mystery... →
Apple is telling “select” developers to prepare their apps for a demo in January—one that won’t be limited to a fixed 320x480 iPhone screen—according to sources speaking to Business Insider. This…
Piper: 75% chance of Apple Jan. event, 50%... →
As rumors of Apple’s forthcoming tablet device pick up steam once again, one Wall Street analyst sees a 50-50 chance of the device being unveiled in January.
Coding Horror: Actual Performance, Perceived... →
Nice write-up from Jeff Atwood on the psychology behind progress bar design. Backed up by “Rethinking the progressbar” by Chris Harrisson
Online javascript beautifier →
Online javascript beautifier: This little beautifier will reformat and reindent bookmarklets, ugly javascript, unpack scripts packed by the popular Dean Edward’s packer, as well as deobfuscate…
Apple tablet could have 'imminent' Jan. 2010 debut... →
As Apple reportedly pushes to launch a subscription television service, the company is also rumored to unveil its long-awaited tablet device in January, a new report states.
jQuery Plugin - Feature List →
This jQuery plugin enables simple and easy creation of an interactive Featured Items widget.
Online javascript beautifier →
This little beautifier will reformat and reindent bookmarklets, ugly javascript, unpack scripts packed by the popular Dean Edward’s packer, as well as deobfuscate scripts processed by…
Push Notifications « Waveboard →
To use push notifications with your iPhone Waveboard App you will need to add thee xwaveboard@appspot.com robot to the Wave you want to recive notifications from. Then follow the instructions of the…
Java HotSpot VM Options →
-XX:ErrorFile=./hs_err_pid<pid>.log If an error occurs, save the error data to this file. (Introduced in 6.)
Closure Lite - Just in time for Christmas! →
When I was an undergrad at MIT, the end of the fall semester meant I had about 5 weeks of freedom to hack on stuff before the start of the spring semester. At MIT, instead of starting classes back up…
Round-robin Django setup with nginx →
Round-robin Django setup with nginx. An nginx trick I didn’t know: a low proxy_connect_timeout value (e.g. 2 seconds) combined with the proxy_next_upstream setting means that if one of your…
Third-Party AWS Tracking Sites →
A couple of really cool third-party AWS tracking sites have sprung up lately. Some of these sites make use of AWS data directly and others measure it using their own proprietary methodologies. I…
Evolution du webdesign →
Si vous êtes ici c’est que vous aimez le webdesign, cet art est finalement récent puisque la première page internet date de 1992 et on ne peut vraiment parler de webdesign dans son cas! L’article de
Tchaikovsky, le métro et leurs rendez-vous ratés →
Entendu ce matin dans le métro parisien : « Suite à un mouvement social, le trafic sera normal sur l’ensemble des lignes de métro… », assure, par hauts-parleurs, une employée de la RATP bien…
RT @InsideEXTJS: RT @extjs: We are very excited to welcome our new creative director & @jQTouch creator, @DavidKaneda: http://bit.ly/7Pnj2j
Watchdavidkaneda:
Outside is an upcoming weather app for the iPhone with a beautiful UI and push notifications.
jeanregisser: Works quite nicely ;) RT @simonw:... →
jeanregisser: Works quite nicely ;) RT @simonw: Playing with @natbat’s WebKit “let it snow” bookmarklet http://clearleft.com/news/36
jeanregisser: Works quite nicely ;) RT @simonw: Playing with @natbat’s WebKit “let it snow” bookmarklet http://clearleft.com/news/36
Ext JS 3.1: Massive memory improvements, TreeGrid,... →
On behalf of the Ext Team, I am extremely excited to announce the final release of Ext JS 3.1. With this release we rededicate ourselves to making Ext JS the best it can be, in both features and…
Free gagne la quatrième licence 3G →
C’est maintenant officiel et acquis. Free sera bien le quatrième et dernier opérateur de téléphonie mobile 3G en France. Il aura fallu pour ça des mois sinon des années de tergiversations pour…
How SnapABug works - and what they should do |... →
SnapABug is a hosted solution you can add to your website. It allows your users to send you bug reports along with a screenshot. This screenshot is generated using an included Java applet.
Why signed applet trust is a stupid question (and... →
Nicely written explanation of the Java applets permission / signing policies stupidity
Amazon CloudFront Now Supports Streaming Media... →
Amazon CloudFront now supports streaming of media files stored in Amazon S3. You can now use CloudFront to improve access to your static content (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and so forth) as well as…
Browser Size →
Browser Size : a tool to see how others view your website
(Google labs)
Clean Up Duplicate Contacts in Gmail →
In January, Gmail’s Product Manager Todd Jackson said that Gmail will include a contact deduplicator. “Jackson says a de-duper is on the way and that contacts will have more of a presence both in…
No Knobs →
Current systems were built in an era where resources were incredibly expensive, and every computing system was watched over by a collection of wizards in white lab coats, responsible for the care,…
Debugging with GDB | BetterExplained http://j.mp/5yiUjK Nice starter guide for gdb debugging
URLs in Ruby →
Last year I showed you how to turn Ruby into Java. This year I want to show you how to write URLs in Ruby. Let’s have
them return their body, shall we? For example: >>...
PastryKit: An iPhone Webdev Library from … Apple →
John Gruber has spotted a library for iPhon web apps, from none other than Apple. This mysterious library, called PastryKit, seems to have flown under the radar as a Google search…
stanlemon.net : jgrowl →
jGrowl is a jQuery plugin that raises unobtrusive messages within the browser, similar to the way that OS X’s Growl Framework works.
What Matters Now: Download the Free E-Book →
Author Seth Godin has compiled a free 80-page e-book entitled What Matters Now, a collection of thought-provoking nuggets from authors and technologists across the web. I’m thrilled that I…
Debugging with GDB | BetterExplained →
Shared by Mathieu Ravaux
Nice starter guide for gdb debugging
Debugging with GDB
Têtes pour dentifrice →
Voici un petit accessoire amusant et qui devrait plaire aux enfants (et indirectement les encourager à se brosser les dents). Ces têtes d’animaux se vissent sur votre tube dentifrice et apportent…
Semantic Versioning →
Semantic Versioning. Tom Preston-Werner provides a name, specification and URL describing the relatively widely used Major.Minor.Patch versioning system. This is really useful—by giving something…
Unicode code converter →
Unicode code converter (via). Fantastically useful tool to convert strings of characters in to every unicode and/or escaping syntax you can possibly imagine.
Javascript Charts Roundup →
Following up from last week’s post about gRaphaël, I thought I’d try to summarize some of the other charting options available to JavaScript developers.
Flot
Flot is a jQuery-based JavaScript…
Writing maintainable code →
Three years ago, I gave my first talk at Yahoo! entitled, Maintainable JavaScript (slides). The point of the talk was to encourage people to use more rigor in their JavaScript coding. A lot of…
Weelya Announces Ajax Push Engine (APE) v1.0 →
The team at Weelya announced v1.0 of the Open source APE JavaScript Framework & APE Server, their comet-based push engine created to ease the client/server communication.
New features in APE…
Downloadify – create downloads on the fly without... →
Downloadify is an interesting solution to offer files as downloads without having to create temporary files and loop through a script that sets a force-download header.
As shown in the demo…
Fastest XMPP Sessions with HTTP Pre-Binding →
XMPP session establishment is normally quite fast over native sockets,
but over BOSH, the round-trip latency of several request and response
pairs can be quite high. Among its other benefits, …
Amazon EC2 Spot Instances - And Now How Much Would... →
Shared by Mathieu Ravaux
Very interesting aspect of Cloud Computing ! Reverse bidding on Amazon EC2 instance costs; I’d like to see if it gives a the opportunity to crawl the web with an effective…
A quote from Weston Ruter →
Recently Google Translate announced the ability to hear translations into English spoken via text-to-speech (TTS). Looking at the Firebug Net panel for where this TTS data was coming from, I saw…
Faites votre propre site d’app iPhone. | Le... →
Bouygues Telecom autorisera la VoIP sur son réseau... →
My five favourite apps to get my job done →
I was asked by .net magazine to list my five most used applications at the moment and why not publish my results here, too. So here is what I use to deliver my day to day job as a developer…