Firefox 1.5 Beta
Everything you wanted to know
Languid
Google Web Accelerator
More on why the Google Web Accelerator is bad news.
Important
SQL formatter
Ten Things to Do with IIS before You Die
Matt Foley - Here's a list of ten ways to make IIS the best it can be.
A big bad m***********
Right now on CNN, I'm watching the final approach of the worlds largest passenger plane, the Airbus A380.
http://maps.google.com/
Google has added satellite images to their map search! That's mojo. (link in upper right on map view.)
Easily convert HTML text to Flash
Yahoo! API
Yahoo! now has an API
You can write apps using data from Image, Local, News, Video and Web
Update: Jeremy has plenty of links to the same subject
You can write apps using data from Image, Local, News, Video and Web
Update: Jeremy has plenty of links to the same subject
Ajax
Building communities with Software
Joel: "Small software implementation details result in big differences in the way the community develops, behaves, and feels."
This is a must read for all software developers
This is a must read for all software developers
Picasa 2
Google have just released Picasa 2, haven't tried it, but it has something to do with finding and enjoying the pictures on your computer in matter of seconds.
The BileBlog
"Sadly though, the rest of the site remains the same pathetic
incompetent
avoided-all-human-computer-interaction-classes-I'm-a-geek-forfuckssake
attitude we've come to know and love from those inbred gimps"
Nobody, and I mean nobody, rants like this guy.
Nobody, and I mean nobody, rants like this guy.
Google Maps - Overview
"So, in the spirit of Google Suggest and GMail, I've decided to have
a quick peek under the hood to figure out what makes it tick"
Read more
Read more
Stewart Butterfield on Flickr
An interview with Stewart Butterfield, CEO of Flickr, a great service, and arguably the most hyped as well.
All dressed up, but nowhere to go?
A9.com - Yellow Pages like you've never seen before
A9.com, the search engine from Amazon, has launched a yellow pages service
containing actual pictures from where the business are located.
From their site:
"The most powerful technology A9.com invented for Yellow Pages is “Block View,” which brings the Yellow Pages to life by showing a street view of millions of businesses and their surroundings. Using trucks equipped with digital cameras, global positioning system (GPS) receivers, and proprietary software and hardware, A9.com drove tens of thousands of miles capturing images and matching them with businesses and the way they look from the street."
Here's how they did it
From their site:
"The most powerful technology A9.com invented for Yellow Pages is “Block View,” which brings the Yellow Pages to life by showing a street view of millions of businesses and their surroundings. Using trucks equipped with digital cameras, global positioning system (GPS) receivers, and proprietary software and hardware, A9.com drove tens of thousands of miles capturing images and matching them with businesses and the way they look from the street."
Here's how they did it
Ruby on Rails
"I'd rather write a video game in Fortran than have to write another web-based application without Rails." -
Austin Moody
I haven't tried Ruby, nor Ruby on Rails, but for anyone that knows Fortran that says quite a lot.
I haven't tried Ruby, nor Ruby on Rails, but for anyone that knows Fortran that says quite a lot.
Note to self:
If MySQL is spiking 100% CPU cycles, check your indexes one last time...
Mac Mini
I've never used a Mac in my life, but with this little beauty available that can easily change.
Dream Team
The creators of one of the best software applications ever made. They're pretty sharp.
Best Software Essays of 2004
Calling all alpha geeks: If you're short of some quality reading material, stop by this section at JOS. It's a list over nominations for Best Software Essays of 2004.
Joel is editing a new book where the best of these essays will be included. There's some stuff in there you really don't want to miss, like:
How to Ask Questions the Smart Way - By Eric Raymond
Joel Spolsky, How Microsoft Lost the API War
since1968.com Nick Bradbury Interview
Rory Blyth: Excel as Database - This is really funny ;)
CSS Slideshows
Eric Meyer har created something he calls S5. It's a simple system for creating slideshows using CSS, XHTML and DHTML. Pretty awesome stuff, check it out.
File sharing no more ? I think so.
The only positive thing about patents like these (norwegian) is that we fortunately never hear another word about them again.
Making software that creates fake files and spreads it on file sharing systems gets you a patent ?
Making software that creates fake files and spreads it on file sharing systems gets you a patent ?
