RoggaBlog

Clojure and Android -- Daniel Solano Gomez

2012-02-14T21:41:00.000-08:00

http://blip.tv/clojure/daniel-solano-g%C3%B3mez-clojure-and-android-5953832

Max's Bucket List -- EE Times

2012-02-14T17:50:00.000-08:00

http://www.eetimes.com/electronics-blogs/other/4236043/Ten-things-I-want-to-do-before-I-die-?cid=NL_MCU&Ecosystem=microcontroller-mcu

Spookily Realistic Skin Rendering (SSS) -- Jorge Jimenez

2012-02-11T22:39:00.001-08:00

SSS == Separable Subsurface Scattering
Jorge Jimenez
Needs lots of grunt to render quickly.
Stunning results though!
http://www.iryoku.com/separable-sss-released

PC Magazine online

2012-02-10T05:07:00.001-08:00

http://www.pcmag.com/

On Peering in New Zealand (nztelco.com)

2012-02-10T04:41:00.001-08:00

http://nztelco.com/content/?p=442

Chuck Lorre Vanity Cards - Warning: May make you think!

2012-02-05T16:34:00.000-08:00

Ever watched "Dharma and Greg" (where I first noticed these) or other Chuck Lorre productions (Two and a Half Men, Big Bang Theory,...) and got frustrated because the 2-second flashed message at the end was too short to read?
Ever thought "I'm going to record that and freeze-frame it so I can read it"?
Someone's saved you the trouble:
http://chucklorre.com/index.php?p=45
Enjoy!
And thanks, Chuck :)
Big, Big Bang fan :)

How to fail at Commercial Software

2012-01-30T02:21:00.000-08:00

http://successfulsoftware.net/2011/10/03/12-ways-to-fail-at-commercial-software/

applelogic.org - FPGA + Apple II

2012-01-28T19:57:00.000-08:00

http://www.applelogic.org/

Some veeery kewl stuff in here.

How to Detect a Toxic Customer (SoftwareByRob)

2012-01-28T18:22:00.001-08:00

Wish I'd seen this a long time ago...
http://www.softwarebyrob.com/2010/12/09/how-to-detect-a-toxic-customer/

How to Detect a Toxic Customer (SoftwareByRob)

2012-01-27T22:16:00.000-08:00

Wish I'd seen this a long detect-a-toxic-customer/>http://www.softwarebyrob.com/2010/12/09/how-to-detect-a-toxic-customer/

Updated Terminal Emulator (?) -- acko.net

2012-01-24T00:23:00.001-08:00

http://acko.net/blog/on-termkit/

Git-Flow Issues? (Scott Chacon)

2012-01-23T23:52:00.001-08:00

http://scottchacon.com/2011/08/31/github-flow.html

windows-7-emulation-with-css3-and-jquery

2012-01-23T23:49:00.000-08:00

http://www.normansblog.de/demos/windows-7-emulation-with-css3-and-jquery/

Kill Hollywood (Y Combinator)

2012-01-23T23:32:00.000-08:00

http://ycombinator.com/rfs9.html

10 things you need to do if you were FIRED yesterday (James Altucher)

2012-01-23T21:03:00.000-08:00

http://www.jamesaltucher.com/2011/03/10-things-you-need-to-do-if-you-were-fired-yesterday/

What Can We Learn From Woody Allen? (James Altucher)

2012-01-23T21:01:00.000-08:00

http://www.jamesaltucher.com/2012/01/9-things-i-learned-from-woody-allen/

Why? Because He Can...

2012-01-23T17:44:00.000-08:00

http://www.radiolive.co.nz/Kiwi-recites-periodic-table-while-solving-Rubiks-Cube/tabid/439/articleID/25581/Default.aspx

Model Airport in Auckland

2012-01-02T16:56:00.001-08:00

http://www.imogenia.com/

1:600 scale

Does he allow visitors?

Miniatur Wunderland (Hamburg)

2012-01-02T13:38:00.000-08:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACkmg3Y64_s&feature=youtube_gdata_player

The funniest thing I have seen all year

2011-12-18T16:38:00.000-08:00

This guy could do standup... wait, he *is* :)

OK, this is now officially *the* funniest thing I have seen in the past year
Forget Friday, or even Matt Mulholland's Bohemified cover of it...
If you're a (computer) geek at all, this is *it* !

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zRN7XLCRhc&feature=channel_video_title

LMAO ~34min and following

Enjoy... maybe visit the little room first though :)

Why Your New Programming Language Will Not Work

2011-12-17T00:29:00.001-08:00

http://colinm.org/language_checklist.html

The Mature Programmer - C Bloom Rants

2011-12-16T23:38:00.001-08:00

http://cbloomrants.blogspot.com/2011/11/11-22-11-mature-programmer.html

eMail Makes You Dumber Than Dope?

2011-12-14T01:26:00.000-08:00

http://articles.cnn.com/2005-04-22/world/text.iq_1_mails-iq-messages?_s=PM:WORLD

7 Things Highly Productive People Do (or so I'm told)

2011-12-14T01:15:00.000-08:00

http://www.inc.com/ilya-pozin/7-things-highly-productive-people-do.html

Bouncy Castle

2011-12-11T17:04:00.000-08:00

http://www.bouncycastle.org/

NDepend CQL C#

2011-12-05T19:31:00.000-08:00

http://www.ndepend.com/

FitSharp -- FitNesse for C#

2011-12-05T19:18:00.000-08:00

http://fitsharp.github.com/FitSharp.html

Accelerating Hindsight: Rapid Prototyping in Common LISP

2011-12-04T20:47:00.001-08:00

http://www.nhplace.com/kent/PS/Hindsight.html

Emacs Keybindings for Factor

2011-12-02T16:47:00.000-08:00

http://stack-factor.blogspot.com/2011/11/emacs-keybindings.html

Gerald J Sussman -- 'We really don't know how to compute" lecture outlinks

2011-12-02T16:23:00.000-08:00

Truth Maintenance Systems for Problem Solving:
http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/6926

Building Problem Solvers (Artificial Intelligence) [Hardcover]:
http://goo.gl/kfBB6

Truth maintenance systems (Tutorial) [Unknown Binding]:
http://goo.gl/nRESM
Truth Maintenance Systems: Tutorial Program [Paperback]:
http://goo.gl/HSNcf

Your Brain At Work -- David Rock -- Google Talk

2011-11-23T20:41:00.001-08:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeJSXfXep4M

Jeff Wofford - Four Kinds of Stuck

2011-11-23T17:42:00.001-08:00

http://www.jeffwofford.com/?p=838

Nice analysis - see related blog posts too - nicely written.

Thanks Jeff!

Scott Chacon at Strange Loop 2011 -- GIT - Tale of Three Trees

2011-11-11T12:59:00.000-08:00

http://www.infoq.com/presentations/A-Tale-of-Three-Trees

.NET PInvoke Wiki

2011-11-10T14:03:00.000-08:00

http://www.pinvoke.net/

Solving Rubik's Cube - pogobat beginners method Dan Brown

2011-11-08T20:01:00.000-08:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAeLResB4nQ

Guitar Notes Master

2011-11-05T23:14:00.001-07:00

http://www.guitarnotesmaster.com/?hop=main1

AI - John McCarthy Video

2011-11-04T00:08:00.000-07:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ozipf13jRr4&feature=uploademail

John McCarthy on AI -- Thinking Allowed

2011-11-04T00:06:00.000-07:00

http://www.thinkingallowed.com/2jmccarthy.html

Anders Hejlsberg on the future of C#

2011-11-03T23:34:00.000-07:00

http://channel9.msdn.com/blogs/pdc2008/tl16

Very impressive - a real treat to hear Anders speak on language design.

Petzold .NET Book Zero

2011-10-31T13:54:00.001-07:00

http://www.charlespetzold.com/dotnet/

Distortion Effects simulations optical migraine

2011-10-30T19:31:00.000-07:00

http://irlen.com/distortioneffects.php

Inspirational Media - Marcus Ardern

2011-10-30T15:19:00.000-07:00

http://www.inspirational.org.nz/acatalog/Main_Site_Marcus_Ardern_9.html

How am I the Dad?

2011-10-30T14:51:00.000-07:00

http://hellogiggles.com/how-am-i-the-dad

60-new-open-source-apps-youve-probably-never-heard-of

2011-10-28T22:02:00.000-07:00

http://www.datamation.com/open-source/60-new-open-source-apps-youve-probably-never-heard-of-1.html

Vintage Chips and Vacuum Tubes - DDJ 2005 Jon Erickson

2011-10-11T16:47:00.000-07:00

http://drdobbs.com/184406123

Scruffy vs. Neat AI

2011-10-11T04:08:00.001-07:00

http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/cogaff/sloman.scruffy.ai.pdf

Charles Petzold -- WPF 3D Graphics book

2011-10-11T02:47:00.001-07:00

http://www.charlespetzold.com/3D/

Charles Petzold - WPF Book

2011-10-11T02:05:00.001-07:00

http://www.charlespetzold.com/wpf/

Charles Petzold - WPF Book

2011-10-11T02:05:00.000-07:00

http://www.charlespetzold.com/wpf/

DTrace review

2011-10-10T23:29:00.000-07:00

Something interesting at ~4:30?

This guy is Sheldon! :)

2011-09-27T03:30:00.000-07:00

http://plusist.com/merlyn/NTkzODM

PID Control Wikipedia

2011-09-27T01:48:00.000-07:00

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PID_controller

Mozilla Firefox SDK for Add-ons

2011-09-27T01:46:00.001-07:00

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/developers/builder

Dr. Evil's new ISP? - Sweden

2011-09-23T16:18:00.001-07:00

http://www.gizmag.com/underground-atomic-shelter-internet-providers-hq/19777/

Nice UI for tracking games in 2011 Ruugby Woorld Cuup

2011-09-20T23:14:00.000-07:00

http://rugby.europcar.ie/

Intelligent and Lazy - Rey Mendoza's Blog

2011-09-19T20:04:00.001-07:00

http://reymendoza.blogspot.com/2007/06/intelligent-and-lazy.html

NYT -- Extreme Schooling in Russia

2011-09-16T15:31:00.000-07:00

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/18/magazine/my-familys-experiment-in-extreme-schooling.html?pagewanted=1&_r=2&ref=general&src=me

Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI)

2011-09-16T01:08:00.000-07:00

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffusion_tensor_imaging#Diffusion_tensor_imaging

Thingiverse: Stars tracker

2011-09-10T06:07:00.001-07:00

http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:11376

ForthOS

2011-09-10T00:45:00.000-07:00

http://www.forthos.org

Nice maps of Spectrum usage in NZ -- nztelco.com

2011-09-09T23:24:00.000-07:00

http://nztelco.com/content/?p=324

String Theory Lecture 1 Stanford

2011-09-09T19:57:00.000-07:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25haxRuZQUk&feature=list_related&playnext=1&list=SPA2FDCCBC7956448F

NZ 700MHz to be eaten by MoTelco's (like everything else?)

2011-09-09T19:47:00.000-07:00

http://www.tuanz.org.nz/blog/e379f711-b2b6-4423-9e32-4a8bf9f301db/0315f8d2-3dec-49d1-bc2f-a0d8f1037d14.html

Chess@Home - on the grid

2011-09-09T19:27:00.000-07:00

http://sylvainzimmer.com/2011/09/06/chessathome-building-largest-chess-ai/

Experiment - Development Time for static vs. dynamic type systems

2011-09-09T19:07:00.000-07:00

http://wadler.blogspot.com/2011/09/experiment-about-static-and-dynamic.html

ForthOS

2011-09-09T19:05:00.000-07:00

http://www.forthos.org

Bruce Powell Douglass' page at IBM Rational

2011-09-09T16:15:00.000-07:00

http://www-01.ibm.com/software/rational/leadership/thought/brucedouglass.html

emacs iBuffer mode

2011-09-06T05:05:00.000-07:00

http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/IbufferMode

x86 Boot Latency measurement - Gilad ben Yossef

2011-08-24T03:32:00.000-07:00

http://benyossef.com/benchmarking-boot-latency-on-x86/

Charles Proxy

2011-08-24T03:21:00.000-07:00

http://www.charlesproxy.com/

Nasty UAV

2011-08-02T17:34:00.001-07:00

http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2011-07/diy-uav-hacks-wi-fi-networks-cracks-passwords-and-poses-cell-phone-tower

IBM PC 30 years old this month (BYTE)

2011-08-02T17:24:00.000-07:00

http://www.informationweek.com/byte/commentary/personal-tech/desktop-pc/231002983?cid=nl_byte_2011-08-02_html

Node.js introduction (good)

2011-08-02T17:13:00.000-07:00

http://anders.janmyr.com/2011/05/not-very-short-introduction-to-nodejs.html

Classic Kiwi ads go online - Film Archive

2011-07-22T17:34:00.000-07:00

http://www.3news.co.nz/Classic-Kiwi-ads-go-online/tabid/367/articleID/142301/Default.aspx

Solar-Sinter 3D Printer

2011-07-22T17:15:00.000-07:00

http://www.gizmag.com/solar-sinter-3d-printer/19046/

Writing Secure Web Applications - Advosys

2011-07-22T03:39:00.000-07:00

http://advosys.ca/papers/web/61-web-security.html

What every programmer should know about memory

2011-07-22T03:37:00.000-07:00

http://lwn.net/Articles/250967/

Linux Test Project - ltp

2011-07-21T23:18:00.000-07:00

http://ltp.sourceforge.net/tooltable.php

Top Linux Monitoring Tools - Cyberciti

2011-07-21T14:52:00.000-07:00

http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/top-linux-monitoring-tools.html

Some useful and perhaps less-well-known tools mentioned here.

You Need a System to Grow

2011-07-16T16:11:00.000-07:00

Jessica at Luumin.com on order vs. chaos in everyday life:

http://blog.luumin.com/2011/07/04/need-a-system-to-grow-2/

ICEHOUSE

2011-07-15T21:37:00.000-07:00

expensive
'shit website'
OK content
small company - next level
mentoring / monthly meeting
pay for it - $500 pmonth?

gen IP or exporting
no interest in NZ-focuses biz's

no web focus
in Auckland
shoestring/lean/free

all about them
not sold to
why sign up?
lucky to be chosen
push their partners / advisors
no hightech advisors
tech on own
biz advisors etc

what are they --
landlord? VC? hardass? govt? picking winners?
no transparency?
what's tie-up with Auck Uni?
with govt?
govt-funded VC?
$US150k y-combinator
VC more or less guaranteed
parking bad, furniture bad

what does tech community want?
next level
who can we talk to?

NZTE?
financial?
networking?
pitch deck?
sniffing glue? / work on this...
cofounders
biz ppl
tech ppl
somebody doing biz/tech intro in WN

WINZ do/dont hae a scheme
5k capital grant
need to be on dole and to get off it

practical education? what's wanted?
SPARK program 1.5 times?
biz school icehouse collaboration
day course?
paid - reasonable money value

NZCE program?

maths
Rob Coup?

presenter == ??

@barnaclebarnes, @amatix, @szechuan, @leancto

podcasts - how is it going?

startupTV

success stories - and failure stories
why? who?

database of skills

database of resource people

NDA's

disjoint networks
us
govt networks
big biz nwk
Fonterra

booster seats ? SFO 1 month
Annie?
who do you see?
(Y Combinator)

what networks are they talking about?

accts
lawyers
local and intl money
distrubution
marketing
adv
sales

ICEhouse gets lots of govt funding

filtering?
who is committed to real biz (not Social Media Experts :) )
lots of fake angels in NZ

Good guy network

Lance - he's a good guy

personal recommendations

see other people - ~50 ppl - dont curl up and die

different colored stickers - monthly meeting?

1st Wednesday of month
talk thru sales pitch of how they assist startups

3000 new companies in NZ over what period?
want 1000 companies responsible for

Turn up to our events
Icehouse outside of the icehouse

mentoring adv 2 hours a week at $50ph?

have a new fund for super-early stuff

cut deals for circumstances

Grow Wellington - not many good ones

better Twitter presence?

not interested in the mobile apps space

$2-5M -plus money

feeding the funnel ? (Godin?)

Andy ????

untrusted
lack of transparency

WN Grow Bright Ideas
free events
build trust

Gearman

2011-07-15T21:00:00.000-07:00

Tim Uckun
http://tim.uckun.com/

enspiral
Linux + postgreSQL + Ruby + Rails + Gearman
application
"search internet every 10 minutes and predict the future"
goal achieved
1000 seasrches per minute
twitter and reddit digg facebook etc
url mentions
trendings - how fast?
likes videos etc
predict viral or not

painless parallelization
LCA conf Brisbane talk
Manager anagram
workers
massive dist fault tolerant fork mechanism
Joe Stump SimpleGeo
protocol - multiple implementations
diff languages
[scheme / CL / Clojure / FORTH / Factor?]
C and Perl serers
gearman::server CPAN

C: http://launchpad.net/gearman

Go client

Client API
commandline tools
user def SQL db functioins

MySQL etc

worker API
most common langs
usually in same pkgs as client API
cmdline tool

Why Gearman?
lotsa msg brokers
FOSS and not
unique in scope
vs. rapid rabbit?

OSS simple fast multi language
flexible app design
no SPOF

persistent Queues or not

default - jobs ponly stored in mem
various persistence opts
MySQL Drizzle
POstgreSQL
SQLite
Tokyo cabinet
...

Foreground or background
sync and async

large scale archs will work but can start off simple

how does it worek?

clients servers workers
every worker conn to every server
clients not conn to all servers
(no replication)
can get around it

use cases
scatter / gather
map-reduce
async queues
pipeline processing
Erlang says duh - but this is Ruby

scatter gather

# of tasks concurrently
speed up web apps
tasks dont need to be related
alloc dedicat resources for diff tasks
push logic down to where data exists
auto-balancing

DB query x 2 fulltext srch
location srch
...

map/reduce

similar to s/g but split one task

push logic to where data exists (map)
report aggregates or other sumery (reduce_
can be multitier
can be syns, async
aggregates/summary services

client, n tasks, can delegate to subtasks

Async queues
help to scale
not everything needs immed processing
email
tweets
log entries
notofications
insert and indexing

LCA 2011

pipeline processing

some tasks need series of xformations
chain workers to send data for next step

client -> worker -> worker -> worker -> server? DB

examples
ruby

more complex sync client
lambdas

event handlers

example - worker raises an exception
gearman server takes exceptions and raises exception in client library (?)

LAMP excel spreadsheet via COM
SQL Server without TTS / TDS?
cross-platform
ans cross-language

chnked data client

data, completion events

get state of the queue (query gearman itself)

serialized hash to see on screen
hash = Gearmam::srver.new(gearman_servers).status

Zabbix? monitoring tool

alarm on empty work queue

database UDFs

database trigger
start bkgnd jobs on db changes

PostgreQSQL, MySQL , drizzle

SELECT gmen_servers....

Opitonal ingredients

Databases
shared/dist file sys
other nwk protocols
http
email
domain specific libs
image manipulation
full-text indexing

timeouts

by default ops block forever
clients may want timeout on foregnd jobs

workers may need to periodically run oter code besides job callback

cluster-wide cron's

keepalive
over crashes
(job state is persistent?)

other jobs - may not be good thing - not done in an hour -> alarm (e.g.)

Shortcomings
clients must conn to all servers
no replication betw servers
can solve with mysql postgreSQL replication
slower than pure messaging servers
logging not all that great

steps must be taken to assure recovery of queued msgs if a server is completely destroyed
small community - development has slowed
(on which fronts?)

rapid/rabbbit enqueue

all-or-nothing logging level 2 vs 3 big step in volume - pretyt much sux

recently devt has picked up pace again
Brian Akers (MySQL and Drizzle guy)
several new versi0ons
bug - in PHP or other?

CLint ?? also working on it
OSS proj
in C
BSD license? GPL?

priority in queues? - yes but not the way you'd think

retries in X hours / submit job @ time
new feature

boost libs C++

http://gearman.org/

mailing list, docs, related projects

#gearman on irc.freenode.net

Xing using it

PHP people extension? libs

Questions?

Justin??
website lowtraffic
gearman in db server
occasional heavy lifting
queue certain size - fire up vm's til queue only has 3-4 entries in Q

startup time for VM non-critical

Tim - Linode instance 256K ? M? instance

global config file
Capistrano cap deploy

5 twitter and 6 youtube workers etc.

Social Productivity

2011-07-15T20:15:00.000-07:00

Web company on K Road - making a social productivity app
social Productivity
social + productivity the perfect app
human traits - one size doesn't fit all
timesheeting
suite of tools - with flexibility
what does it mean ? prob nothing
does it make sense? not really )
is it just a buzzword? probably

witrh harry ferguson @nzharry
and Jess(ica) Desmond @fromaquasar

procrastination
really believe will do better next time
denial!!
tomorrow i will....
crime and punishment / Ulysses - siberia / morocco
task threshold - how to get motivated
motivation is about the 1st 100 pages of the book
techniques - just 5 mins
e.g. tidy house for 5 mins
tend to continue once momentum starts

energizer bunny - inferior feeling :)
accountability
someone to prevent you from telling little lies to self
fear of failure
(effect on mood?)
contrary research re. sharing publically vs actually doing it?
[ask them about it]

personal / work time split
move toward integration

case studies
Facebook - workspace as well as personal lives
didn't happen! FAIL
some aspects too open for enterprise uptake
Moscovitz - peeled off another company - Asana

piles of cash

differences in how people react
overwhelm - too much info demands
Lumen - inhouse (dogfood) - beta soon?

Google+
Facebook / Asana alliance?

list
bundles projects binders
contextual communication
task-based discussions
online todo list
[Wave?]
metadata
status
all in framework of list
privacy settings
communicate re what i am working on and whats happening in life
[is there an assumption / templates re. hierarchy of groupps etc.? - else there is large setup burden

picked busiest area for applications
email / task mgmt fully converged?
e.g. Google+ / gmail / task / calendar
starting small
around the individual
lots of existing apps from ppl who worked in teams
[training?]
James and John engineers
Harry and Jess guinea pigs
[?need more guinea pigs?]

john - support to help stop procrastinating - platform on top of S/W
support network ,accountability
not trying to write another Tony Robbins self-help guru book :)
not hardwiring in particular way of doing things
GTD / other methodologies can be used with it

Jive - collab comms
mostly visible-everything model?

August beta?
individual with mentor support
[will limited scope limit its success?]
All tasks into the aplication - not on paper
the bucket a la GTD
grouping works well
not tagging or categorization
tasks can be on multiple lists
day list
rollover to next day
inbox zero
mentor can view state of the world for individual
take time out to update system before doing anything else

Google Wave - fave product ever (James?)
too complex?
designed email as if it was new thing
alt: integrate existing - lean - 37signals BaseCamp model
product attachment theory (invented and discovered had already existed)
alt: start with list and expand from there
not oversimplisctic
no barriers
not overwhelm

what's in it for mentor?
burden
personal life? Mum might be interested
people like to be in a respected position
find right person
some not interested ; some obsessive - will help with everything and overwhelm
project / subject-specific
passionate people as mentors

[luumin.com]

procrastination in a positive way
unstructured / not burdensome
can check up in a break from work

life coaches / biz coaches

Web app productivity #bca5

2011-07-15T17:06:00.000-07:00

@snikchnz
Mal Curtis - Web app productivity
learnable
sitepoint.com
online education marketplace
web biz education freelancing etc
mal.co.nz
HTML
CSS
js
Ruby
php
Rails
Amazon EC2 deployment
macvim?
scc git + github
SASS stylesheet mgmt
RSpec simpletest
cucumber
cont integration

github
paid non-opensource

share team members

mkdir bca
cd bca
git init
git status
touch README.md
git add README.md
staged - now green (on Mac?)
commit -m "Added readme"
git status

Github stores and provides interface to GIT commmands
Githug - create new repo
existing git repo?
can add remote
push - can pull too??
git push -u origin master

SASS
syntactically Awesome Stylesheets
style with attitude
makes CSS fun again
vars
nesting
mixins
selector inheritance
[alt: stylist? stylus?]
DSL
color assignments
.scss file
bca.scss app style sheet
include in other sheets
incl without .scss extn
apple-K clears screen :) in Mac
public/stylesheets - deployed from here?
#sass --watch -c app/stylesheets:public/blah.scss
SASS is a Ruby gem
gem install sass ?

debugging with firebug ? line #'s - CSS file linenums - xref tpo .scss line # ?
break up into page etc stylesheets, buttons etc.
compression support for production?
Rails 3.1? nope - 3.09?

Unit testing? RSpec for Ruby devt
Behaviour-driven
for PHP: Simpletest
PHPUnit
learnable
define biz logic as test cases
regression alarms / reporting - unrelated coade not breaking something?
testr.dev
courses.mal.vm/dev/tests
# of passes, fails, exceptions
assertations?
assertions?

Dropbox should have done test :) -- issue from a few weeks ago?
simpletest
Cucumber
S/w dev teams describe how s/w should behave in plain text
Scenarios - outline and steps
WebRat - automate browser testing - selenium?
heavy AJAX/JS stuff needs Selenium for testing
press button -> correct page?
github andrewk behaviour
course_steps.rb
'Given' precondition
'When'
'Then'
'And I should see'
can give to nondev's to specify what should happen
coverage reports?
bundle exec cucumber featuresw/sales_page.feature
DEPRECATION_WARNING
sets up database? truncates tables
CI server push if all tests pass
(is this == production?)
diff drivers for langs
Capistrano deploy
Jenkins CI server / push

Sponno Mac apps

2011-07-15T16:28:00.000-07:00

Payment Charles
bugs etc... real Apple guys - no contact with cust unless bad bugs
XCode
document - based app ? MDI equiv
incognito wraparound safari - doc based
winmail extractor - one window (not doc-based)
equiv dialog-based in Windoze lingo?
clockLock app - what does it do? :)
where do u start?
differnet paradigm for iPhone devt
.nib files
visual prototype - menu and window
controls
app delegate AppDelegate
new file
obj C class
locker.h header
mfile
class lock app delegate
button drop
xib
butler symbol
create control
obj on left
make instance of class locker
NSLog("hello")
wire action to button?
1-2k on winmailextractor
exchange attachment windat files blacch
=> made winmail dat viewer
not greatly lucrative yet on Mac - may improve?
vs. iPhone
incognito made $100 ?
kioskMonster $5-600
long tail - 3 years without update sorry :)
can have multiple windows etc - cf. iPhone stuck to one i/f
stickies for presentation :)
NSTaskth
fullscreen lockin Kiosk app Kioskmonster
mirror with wget
flash, js not so well for spidering
htttrack:
-free mirroring etc
rewrites link refs internal
htttrack writing to some files it shoudn't
beware 64-bit apps - old Mac intel solo 32-bit - won't work
LIPO - 64 and 32-bit packaged together
icons
screenshot
icns file
icon composer in XCode
make mult sizes
github sponno - photo file conv to multiple sizes
FS -interesting
stuck to few places to save files
/users/documents/
Textmate?
test on Guest account - permissions-minimal test
binaries include
what is an ap pon the mac?
appviz.app - directory in a zipfile
can pull other ppls apps apart easily
(how is it deployed though?)
bundles ~=
potentially difficult to profit
no kiwis making mac apps and making money
can make standalone - github etc - don't *have* to go thru App store
rush to the bottom in iOS market has reversed - up 18% yoy
lingon startup prefs
$5
coder html5 uploader CODA $99
omnigraph in mac app store
iOS games call of duty $10 on iPhone
productivity apps are top category on iPhone
(!)
namemangler $10 on appstore
juice king color mixing - iPhone sounds crazy etc
loss-leader and cross-market
focus groups? no!
think talking to 10yo kid about what u make
how to sound cool when describing it (elevator pitch)
15 - 20 yo - exciting?
check apps store
TNEF binary free winmail files
winzip extractor is one of top apps (iPhone?)
time looking what is hot
me-too
create 5 more apps the same
don't spam
- but can put up different flavours
spot holes to fill?
google search for apps?
appcharts.com
popularity
rolling heads
coins down platforms
#1 in games?
top 50 in global charts?
did the idea stick?
sucky design - redo redesign similar concept
ppl to build apps for you
online jobs
rentacoder
odesk (big)
10 pl quoting
$0.50 ph
incredible CV is cheap on ODesk too
:)
can rip off ideas - unprotected
can't do rush jobs - local advantage
risky - no trust
amazing code from ODesk - Zen :)
go, make Mac apps - free coffee for life! :)

Big Data storage etc

2011-07-15T15:20:00.000-07:00

Peace S/W utilities - 100 row inserts per power bill in CO

RIAC
Cassandra
PostgreSQL9 has more unstructured data features
NoSQL
MongoDB
up-front schema design important
Robert O'Brien
ACID, BASE -- eventual consistency -- concensus problem
can't do shared nothing with bank balance e.g.
oops - Guy left!
hybrid solutions - relational plus noSQL -- by hand
Hadoop
Guy's back! :)
FOO - NYC? show us your stack
gone off MongoDB
(why?)
if mySQL solves problem, use it
PostgreSQL h-store engine? new
high-write vs high-read/query reqs
operationl considerations
#machines
how to develop
deployment, evolution
SQL not relational (?) - R O'B
Glen Barnes
flume central server
OLTP + analytical - conflicting needs
solution: replicate (denormalize)?
robot filter
geocode
...
other anomalies
Guy : what about huge records (but not many of them necessarily?
MongoDB grid file system
e.g. Radio Telescope etc.
CFD struct mech
scientific
hard to nail down rigid schema for metadata
Petabyte databases
conference MySQL
1P records
(link from Mark Derricutt to Guy)
TB per record
medical scans
x-ray @ cellular level 30GB per record / blob
Provenance - algorithm version etc. - where data came from and how processed
Guy involved with EU grid provenance project til 2006
use cases organ transplant privacy
Aircraft design
German Aerospace
flight simulation
airflow / CFD/ CAD meshes - pressure on surface - FEM mech deformation
100 CPU hours per run - don't want to rerun when forgot little thing like algo version
Rob O'B no longer complete self-contained record in one place - use queues more
Gear-man - Tim ?? session
graph database - transactions, actor state
neo4j ?
REDIS
CouchDB
memcachedb
greenplum?
STB amazon
XML db's Termino? (e)Xist? Berkeley (db) ?
VoltDB
Stonebraker - destroying his reputation / selling soul?
all redundancy in H/W - everything in RAM
high-freq trading
Mark D Spring data - hibernate
Tokyo? Kyoto? Sky were using Tokyo?
Hadoop / RIACK / Cassandra
Mongo most popular by far ?
promoted self by speed claims (but will lose data sometimes)
Guy teaching in Honors paper
PIG query based langs
map-reduce
couch targeting mobile
non-robust links
big data can be quite small
Data Science - O'Reilly - Data Size?
u4j New4j? scientific data (who?) neo4j
not transactional use case
=> graphs analysis
millions of nodes - look for patterns
perturbations - see whether nwk evolves
graphviz
neo4j GPL cut down - AfferoGPL license for full ACID-compliant version
designed to work around 'the cloud hole'
AGPL - must make code available even if not distributing modified project
infinitegraph
torquebase? (Tim ?)
gremlin? query language on top of Neo4J
HF trading = FPGA GPU etc coming in - big $ for sub-ms ping times in same datacentre as market servers
need to be first
Bitcoin
Oracle license $1M US - Peace
2days on paper - call centre

Vitamin-R for Mac

2011-07-14T13:15:00.000-07:00

http://www.publicspace.net/Vitamin-R/

OmniFocus

2011-07-14T13:14:00.000-07:00

http://www.omnigroup.com/products/omnifocus/

Things (for Mac)

2011-07-14T13:12:00.000-07:00

http://culturedcode.com/things/

ADHD: "Super-power"?

2011-07-14T13:02:00.000-07:00

http://www.smartmoney.com/small-business/small-business/entrepreneurs-superpower-for-some-its-adhd-1310052627559/?link=SM_mostemailed

Linaro ARM Linux Consortium

2011-07-12T01:45:00.000-07:00

http://www.linaro.org/downloads/

PostgreSQL 8.4 SQL Commands

2011-07-11T21:44:00.000-07:00

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/static/sql-commands.html

Using OpenOffice Base with PostgreSQL

2011-07-11T21:16:00.000-07:00

http://www.postgresonline.com/journal/index.php?/archives/8-Using-OpenOffice-Base-2.3.1-with-PostgreSQL.html

pgsql interactive postgres application

2011-07-06T22:33:00.000-07:00

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/app-psql.html

Books on Embedded Linux - Linux for Devices

2011-07-04T19:32:00.000-07:00

http://www.linuxfordevices.com/c/a/Linux-For-Devices-Articles/Books-on-Embedded-Linux/

PostgreSQL on Ubuntu

2011-06-30T18:40:00.000-07:00

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/PostgreSQL

Teledeltos Paper - "Mexican Computer"

2011-06-21T20:37:00.000-07:00

http://electronicdesign.com/article/analog-and-mixed-signal/what-s-all-this-teledeltos-stuff-anyway-12594.aspx

Bob Pease on Mentoring

2011-06-21T20:29:00.001-07:00

http://www.national.com/rap/Story/0,1562,7,00.html

Best of Bob Pease

2011-06-21T19:58:00.001-07:00

http://www.national.com/rap/Story/Index/0,1563,0,00.html

Semiconductor Processing steps

2011-06-21T19:41:00.000-07:00

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semiconductor_fabrication#List_of_steps

RoggaBlog

Clojure and Android -- Daniel Solano Gomez

Max's Bucket List -- EE Times

Spookily Realistic Skin Rendering (SSS) -- Jorge Jimenez

PC Magazine online

On Peering in New Zealand (nztelco.com)

Chuck Lorre Vanity Cards - Warning: May make you think!

How to fail at Commercial Software

applelogic.org - FPGA + Apple II

How to Detect a Toxic Customer (SoftwareByRob)

How to Detect a Toxic Customer (SoftwareByRob)

Updated Terminal Emulator (?) -- acko.net

Git-Flow Issues? (Scott Chacon)

windows-7-emulation-with-css3-and-jquery

Kill Hollywood (Y Combinator)

10 things you need to do if you were FIRED yesterday (James Altucher)

What Can We Learn From Woody Allen? (James Altucher)

Why? Because He Can...

Model Airport in Auckland

Miniatur Wunderland (Hamburg)

The funniest thing I have seen all year

Why Your New Programming Language Will Not Work

The Mature Programmer - C Bloom Rants

eMail Makes You Dumber Than Dope?

7 Things Highly Productive People Do (or so I'm told)

Bouncy Castle

NDepend CQL C#

FitSharp -- FitNesse for C#

Accelerating Hindsight: Rapid Prototyping in Common LISP

Emacs Keybindings for Factor

Gerald J Sussman -- 'We really don't know how to compute" lecture outlinks

Your Brain At Work -- David Rock -- Google Talk

Jeff Wofford - Four Kinds of Stuck

Scott Chacon at Strange Loop 2011 -- GIT - Tale of Three Trees

.NET PInvoke Wiki

Solving Rubik's Cube - pogobat beginners method Dan Brown

Guitar Notes Master

AI - John McCarthy Video

John McCarthy on AI -- Thinking Allowed

Anders Hejlsberg on the future of C#

Petzold .NET Book Zero

Distortion Effects simulations optical migraine

Inspirational Media - Marcus Ardern

How am I the Dad?

60-new-open-source-apps-youve-probably-never-heard-of

Vintage Chips and Vacuum Tubes - DDJ 2005 Jon Erickson

Scruffy vs. Neat AI

Charles Petzold -- WPF 3D Graphics book

Charles Petzold - WPF Book

Charles Petzold - WPF Book

DTrace review

This guy *is* Sheldon! :)

PID Control Wikipedia

Mozilla Firefox SDK for Add-ons

Dr. Evil's new ISP? - Sweden

Nice UI for tracking games in 2011 Ruugby Woorld Cuup

Intelligent and Lazy - Rey Mendoza's Blog

NYT -- Extreme Schooling in Russia

Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI)

Thingiverse: Stars tracker

ForthOS

Nice maps of Spectrum usage in NZ -- nztelco.com

String Theory Lecture 1 Stanford

NZ 700MHz to be eaten by MoTelco's (like everything else?)

Chess@Home - on the grid

Experiment - Development Time for static vs. dynamic type systems

ForthOS

Bruce Powell Douglass' page at IBM Rational

emacs iBuffer mode

x86 Boot Latency measurement - Gilad ben Yossef

Charles Proxy

Nasty UAV

IBM PC 30 years old this month (BYTE)

Node.js introduction (good)

Classic Kiwi ads go online - Film Archive

Solar-Sinter 3D Printer

Writing Secure Web Applications - Advosys

What every programmer should know about memory

Linux Test Project - ltp

Top Linux Monitoring Tools - Cyberciti

This guy is Sheldon! :)