Category: Programming
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Talk like a Pirate, Code like a Scurvey Dog! (Escape Pod)
This is a remarkably fun pirate hacker story that borders on magical reality. It really captures the pre-bubble esprit-de-haxor of the 90’s. http://escapepod.org/2009/11/26/ep226-pirate-solutions/
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The psych behind seductive apps (UIESpoolcast)
Ever wonder why your kids really really … really gotta collect that one last Lego toy? Why do you hypermile? Why do you collect more and more twitter followers? Ah: set completion, feedback and scarcity are at play. http://www.uie.com/brainsparks/2010/05/19/spoolcast-stephen-andersons-designing-seductive-business-apps-live/
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OpenPlans – Open Source City Planning
Here are some wonderful open source volunteerism-centered city planning web applications being demoed in NY. I really like the idea of letting citizens suggest places to focus city services, not just bike racks, bike paths, but things like schools and bus routes. This could really lower the bar from showing up to city hall with…
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Database Joins, Reddit, NoSQL
There’s been a lot of online discussion about NoSQL this year. Thomas Gideon produced a podcast episode about using NoSQL vs joins. This morning I was pointed to this Highscalability post about Reddit. Quoting: There are no joins in the database and you must manually enforce consistency. No joins means it’s really easy to distribute…
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2010-05-17 Web apps should be fast
Have I worked on any applications that have all 10 of these concepts? It’s an interesting read. It mostly speaks towards building software that has charisma. I don’t think I’ve ever really worked on a product that has charisma. I’ve certainly helped speed sites up, and helped make them more useful. Many products I’ve worked…
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Translating Filenames — Bash Voodoo Style #linux
This is an example of using Bash to convert a crazy apache log and translating the filename into an IIS log pattern: d=`date +%Y%m%d` find k -type f \ | while read filename do nextfile=”${filename/k\/done?0.www\./k2/www-Server_T${d}_}.log” echo “$nextfile” cat $filename | $translate > “$nextfile” done I love how I can refer to a shell variable ($d)…
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Tail the Latest Log File
I’m grateful for Cygwin. I wouldn’t know how to do this in cmd–though I should probably learn how to do it in PoSH. find LogFiles/W3SVC1 -type f | xargs ls -1tr | tail -n1 | xargs tail -F I need to make it an alias now….
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Longest MySQL Replication Run? #lfnw #mysql
I’ve heard of people replicating MySQL from coast to coast. I’d love to hear if anyone attending @lfnw has longer replication runs. Happy to share some examples at my talk on Sat. http://linuxfestnorthwest.org/sessions/mysql-performance-and-availability
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Crazy mod_rewrite examples? #lfnw #opensource
I’d love to see some wacked mod_rewrite uses! Got one? I’ll put them on screen on Sun @lfnw http://linuxfestnorthwest.org/sessions/using-apache-modrewrite-ninja
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