Maps is Google’s newest web application and it’s tying developers’ and users’ panties in a knot… in a good way.
(Sidebar: If you don’t know what Google Maps is yet, the hole in which you live must be both deep and well-decorated. But it’s never to late to jump on the bandwagon. Learn more by reading […]

Installing apache modules never made much sense to me. I’ve done it a few times without fanfare and yet every time I’m faced with some new module, it’s like starting from scratch.
I needed the WebDAV module mod_dav installed because I’m setting up a Subversion code repository, and a full server install of Subversion requires apache […]

Nicholas D’Angelo <nick at nicksfriends.com> wrote:
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> Send me that hosting link.
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> nick
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OK, buddy, you asked for it!
Searching Feed Me Links for ‘hosting’ gives up a lot of good ones to start with.
I also maintain my own list of good hosting provider links, which I’ve tagged with the word “hosting“.
Finally, and most recently (and this […]

Gmail-Lite is an interface around Gmail, which essentially filters out all the javascript and presents a bare-bones Gmail which will work on any browser (including Lynx, your phone, etc.)
I set up a local instance here for playing around: url censored.
Or you can install your own server: http://gmail-lite.sourceforge.net/
Now all you need is a keyboard to type […]

Did you know that Gaim supports IRC?
I’m excited about this because I just discovered meme.b9.com, a great utility site that supports storing and bookmarking specific chat conversations [from specific IRC channels]! Holy limping cats! This level of bookmarkable specificity is rare, and highly useful. These are the pieces that support, and advance, the web.
Read […]

SQL can be a pain. it’s a declarative language, which can be cumbersome to coders used to the procedural world of programming in the large. And unlike eLisp or Perl, it tends to lack builtin, contextual documentation. The hapless application builder is left with two options: doggedly deny that actually learning SQL has any real […]

I live in a highly linked environment.
Links, quotations, and cross-referenced source code mean that I waste a lot of mental space on maps of how certain functions call other functions, or how source files include other source files, and in what order.
What if there were automated ways to visualize the links? Ways to create a […]

wtF is up with no way to forward / manipulate a whole message thread at once???
This is now part of GMail.

…seems like a good idea. Most of the bitching about its Alpha nature seems unfounded; so what if they’ve no good search solution yet — it’s a free storage and presentation vector for all your multimedia. (And once someone writes an appletalk/ftp bridge for it, it’s “goodbye, idisk!”)
http://ourmedia.org/

This is a Galilean revelation, and quite lucid.
http://feedmelinks.com/56833
Required reading for anyone who considers themselves a serious ActionScript coder.