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PNG vs JPG: 6 simple lessons you can learn from our mistakes
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Slides and notes from my three hour Redis tutorial
These slides and notes were originally written to accompany a three hour Redis tutorial I gave at the NoSQL Europe conference on the 22nd of April 2010.
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The Facebook F8 Story No one is writing: Nothing works.
If you develop Facebook applications, or have a website you’d like to integrate with Facebook connect, you have undoubtedly seen at least some of the videos from the F8 Conference this weeken…
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What if you had bought Apple stock instead of that iPod?
Currently, Apple's stock is at an all time high. A share today is worth over 40 times its value seven years ago. So, how much would you have today if you purchased stock instead of an Apple product? See for yourself in the table below. A huge thanks to everymac.com for the original prices and release dates. All values…
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The advantages of programming on a small netbook
Most software developers prefer to work on "fast" computers, and I am normally one of them. Many of my tools work best with lots of memory, ...
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How to use time travel to improve your life.
I’ve discovered a way to bring a new perspective to your life. To explain it, I have to tell a little story. Driving home Friday night, I was remembering a time years ago, when my daughter Lauren (now…
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Debt: The first five thousand years
Debt has always involved institutions that control debt’s potentially catastrophic social consequences. It is only in the current era that we have seen the creation of a planetary administrative system that protects the interests of creditors.
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Banned from buying iPads... for life.
I had planned on reviewing the iPad in my next post, but instead I’ll dedicate this entry to my photo below and an incident that happened today. Review of the iPad coming soon. (UPDATE: now p…
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Turning on your Reality Distortion Field
I was catching up over coffee and a muffin with a student I hadn’t seen for years who’s now CEO of his own struggling startup. As I listened to him present the problems of matching lithium-ion bat…
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Clojure Protocols can extend final Java classes (like java.lang.String)
Clojure is written in terms of abstractions. There are abstractions for sequences, collections, callability, etc. In addition, Clojure supplies many implementations of these abstractions. The abstractions are specified by host interfaces, and the implementations by host classes. While this was sufficient for…
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Gizmodo and the Prototype iPhone
I have two issues regarding Gizmodo’s actions regarding this story.
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Deceiving Users with the Facebook Like Button
Facebook just launched a super-easy widget called "The Facebook Like Button". Website owners can add a simple iframe snippet to their html, enabling a nice "Like" button with a count of other people's "Likes" and a list of faces of people if any of them are your friends. The advantage of this new tool is that you…
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Bump
One of the nice things about this job is that I’m meeting lots of interesting startups who are doing mobile apps. My fave so far is Bump .
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Why I Hate Adobe
Ok…hate is such a strong word. I don’t exactly hate them…I don’t hate anyone actually (not that I can think of ). However, the image below …
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Richard Stallman: "I Wished I Had Killed Myself"
I received a review copy of Steven Levy's seminal book Hackers back in the 1980s, but never read it. I did, though, keep it, because it lo...
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