Sean Cribbs led a very wide ranging talk on how to manage and contribue to an open source project at last weeks Raleigh Ruby Camp.
Some things really stuck out to me:
1. The move to Github quieted the number of people who thought they were heavy handed as they could just fork whenever they wanted.
2. [...]
Running an OpenSource Project - Sean Cribbs
How 37 Signals Deploys Their Software
I had a great time last Saturday at Raleigh Ruby Camp and met a host of Ruby on Rails developers working on interesting things.
One of the discussions that occurred was lead by Mark Imbracio of 37 Signals. I’ve posted the audio below and have linked to some of the topics that came up in [...]
User Augmented Reality Interface
While the title of this post may sound like I just strung four random words together, they actually accurately describe the following video that depicts what augmented reality interfaces might look like.
For the time being, I think we’re still going to do more with iPhones than holographically projected images, but videos and other speculative [...]
How To Batch Convert Photos for Free with OS X
Many people don’t realize that every copy of OS X ships with a robotic personal assistant: Automator.
Automator is a drag and drop tool that allows you to quickly throw together time saving mini applications.
Something many people need to do is to repeatedly convert photos from one size or format to another, and while it’s [...]
How to Run Windows on OS X for free with Sun’s Virtualbox
VMWare Fusion and Parallels have been the two dominant OS X virtualization methods for running Windows (or Linux) inside of OS X.
While both are great applications, they each cost around $80 US.
Recently, Sun Microsystems (makers of Solaris, big purple servers and pony tailed CEO’s) have unleashed a new virtualization product on the world: VirtualBox, and [...]
Quake Family Tree
BoingBoing’s post today about the Wikipedia Quake Tree below caught my eye as I had played so many of Quake and Quake derivatives. I was curious just how many and went through and highlighted all the ones I remembered on the pic below.
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Nelson’s RSS Problem
Nelson Minar was helping a friend sort out why: “Google Reader was sending folks to his own domain rather than directly to the link destination.”
Turns out it is because of the differences between guid and link elements in an RSS Feed. You can tell he’s really frustrated with the time and effort this cost him [...]
Rackspace, Malls and the Environment
I hadn’t checked out any of the FastCompany.TV ScobleShows. The one that caught my eye is below and features a tour and some extensive interviews with various Rackspace higher ups as they tour and discuss their reasoning for taking over an abandoned mall and making it into a new high tech data center. What I [...]
WordPress 2.5
I didn’t realize that it had been so long since I’d posted anything (or even looked at this site), but was motivated to dig back in after seeing Kevin Burton’s posts about the WordPress BlogSpam Cancer that is rapidly spreading.
I have a sort of sick fascination with these weird new security threats as they flow [...]
SETI@Homepage
I was trying to figure out how you could potentially make a SETI@Home client implemented in Javascript. With some quick Googling I found an interesting proof of concept paper describing: “Unwitting Distributed Genetic Programming via Asynchronous JavaScript and XML“.
We present a proof-of-concept system fordistributed computation of genetic programming via asyn-chronous javascript and XML (AJAX) [...]