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Zsh: The last shell you will ever need
Introduction Last week, the all-knowing Mako inspired me to give zsh a shot. He started me off with a .zshrc file, and now a week later, I’ve been spreading the word to as many people as I ca…
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37signals' follow up on "Get Satisfaction, Or Else..."
On Tuesday I posted Get Satisfaction, Or Else. The post detailed how we felt Get Satisfaction misled our customers into thinking the Get Satisfaction site was an official place to get 37signals customer service and support. The post brought out passionate responses on both sides of the issue. Fi…
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Working on It (TextMate)
Over the past two years, posts on this blog have slowed to just a trickle, and a number of TextMate users have asked about TextMate’s status, or publicly worried about its future. This blog post, the first I’ve written here in a long time, is an attempt to assuage those concerns and answer some of the most frequent…
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Why I like Redis
I’ve been getting a lot of useful work done with Redis recently. Redis is typically categorised as yet another of those new-fangled NoSQL key/value stores, but if you look closer …
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Microsoft Update Quietly Installs Firefox Extension
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How to price enterprise software
One of the topics that is a common dilemma founders of enterprise software companies face is pricing It’s a complex issue which does not lend itself
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More on today's Gmail issue
Posted by Ben Treynor, VP Engineering and Site Reliability Czar Gmail's web interface had a widespread outage earlier today, lasting about 1...
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Frequently Forgotten Fundamental Facts about Software Engineering
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Reversing Tooth Decay with Good Diet
In the last post, I discussed the research of Drs. Edward and May Mellanby on the nutritional factors affecting tooth formation. Dr. Mellan...
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Training Rats as Traders
I crafted this skinner box exclusively for the rattraders' training; it is equipped with airconditioning and a music device. The picture above shows the special light signal that indicates the start of trading. (image by Nora Friedel)
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Recreating the button
Until some future version of HTML gives us new native controls to use in a browser, at Google, we’ve been playing and experimenting with controls we call “custom buttons” in our apps (among other custom controls). These buttons just launched…
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A brazen ripoff of Twitvid
Now the guys running the knockoff have copied Twitvid's graphic design as well. Here's the site when they first launched,
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Boston College Campus Police: "Using Prompt Commands" May Be a Sign of Criminal Activity
On Friday, EFF and the law firm of Fish and Richardson filed an emergency motion to quash [pdf] and for the return of seized property on behalf of a Boston College computer science student whose computers, cell phone, and other property were seized as part of an investigation into who sent an e-...