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Remember The Milk can sync with your iPhone calendar
From the moment we tried Siri on our shiny new iPhone 4S, we knew we had to teach Siri to add tasks to Remember The Milk.
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Sane RSS usage
The first time I went without RSS in August, I simply went around to three or so of what I consider to be the best sites to get the latest news from. I combined that with my usual e-mail communications … and my regular scans of Twitter in order to figure out what was going on during the day. It was stress-free, and I…
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Firefox 6 for web developers
Download Firefox 6 What's new in Firefox 6? The most notable addition to this new release are the <progress> element, touch events, Server-Sent Events as well as the return of ...
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A few of my Git tricks, tips and workflows
This post is based on a talk I gave at the 18th Cocoaheads Meetup Vienna (CHW018) on Feb 17th, 2011. It is an annotated tour of my Git config, Git related scripts and commands, and various other tips and tricks I picked up over the years. You can find most of these things in my dotfiles repo, as well with a lot of…
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Sublime Text 2 Build 2091
Sublime Text 2 Build 2091 is available now, with a raft of new features. Many thanks to everyone who has tested the dev builds during this time.
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"I think that djb redo will turn out to be the Git of build systems."
I think that djb redo will turn out to be the Git of build systems. What do I mean by that? Well, think about version control systems before the cryptographic-DAG systems, and especially Git, came along. Everyone (everyone you'd want to work with, at least) agreed that a version control system was…
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How to build your own "Watson Jr." in your basement
IBM Developer is the source for hands-on training and in-demand learning on relevant technologies such as generative AI, data science, Java, and more.
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Why I do my resume in LaTeX
I’m guessing most of you have seen the comic explaining how a programmer reads your résumé. No, I don’t do my résumé in LaTeX just to get the +12 bonus. There are a handful of reasons I think it is a good idea. It stands out My résumé isn’t written in 12 pt. Arial or Times New Roman, which sets it apart from 75% of…
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Overview of Text Editors for Programming on the Mac
In the last 10 years many new text editors became available for Mac OS X. Since I have tried most of them I wanted to give an overview and a brief description about each one of them. This is for developers that are looking for decent editors on the mac to get their job done.
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Hacking Christmas lights
I went to Costco the other day with my wife to pick up some Christmas lights. While there, I found the most awesome christmas lights ever: the GE Color Effects G-35 .
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Sublime Text 2 (Build 2111) gets vi key bindings, indent guides
Sublime Text 2 Build 2111 is available now , with new features including indent guides, improved project support, new commands for working with HTML, and last but not least, Vintage Mode , adding support for vi key bindings.
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How to hide Ryanair
Take a company you have a problem with 1. Imagine you hate Ryanair. I do not btw they are just an example of a company this would work on. 2...
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IOS Integration Testing by Square
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Sublime Text 2 Build 2139 Released
Sublime Text 2 Build 2139 is out! Some of the notable new features in this beta are:
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Stop A/B Testing and Make Out like a Bandit
This is the blog post that led to Myna . Sign up now and help us beta test the world’s fastest A/B testing product!
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Chromium Notes: Ninja, a new build system
When we first started porting Chrome away from just Windows, we intended to use Scons to build Chrome on all our platforms. But early on in development I discovered that Scons, despite its admirable goals of correctness and ease of use, was quite slow — it could take 40 seconds from starting Scons before it decided to…
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2011 Rubyist’s guide to a Mac OS X development environment
Update: A better approach is detailed in Laptop Setup for an Awesome...
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The Acceleration of Addictiveness vs Willpower, Productivity, and Flow
A year ago Paul Graham posted The Acceleration of Addictiveness , and I just re-read it thoroughly. It is a wonderful insightful post. I agree with the whole thing and if you haven't seen it yet go read it first.