Open Source won’t get you laid.
I just read Jaron Lanier (father of virtual reality, etc.)’s December blog post, “Long Live Closed-Source Software,” re: the open-source movement’s ability to create faithful copies and complete inability to innovate in the user space.
Although I use some open source software RELIGIOUSLY (Firefox web browser, QuickSilver, some web coding programs), Lanier’s totally fuckin right — […]
Behind the Scenes on Shipping Flash 8
It’s weird seeing another team inside our old building (601 townsend, former organic office).
Macromedia - Flash Developer Center : The Making of Flash 8
Zync - a New Way NOT to Advance the State of the Art
If you have the chops to make something cool, why not do it in a place where people where actually discover it, instead of preaching to the converted?
Stand-out Developer Programs
Ever wonder why some software projects consistently produce great software, and others fizzle out?
Yelp on Wheels, 2.0
Waiters on Wheels provides online ordering for restaurants without the time to make create their own websites. Last night at SuperHappyDevHouse, in between flapping my gums and eating too many nachos, I finished version 2 of my Yelp on Wheels! mashup. Installing this will add Yelp’s community “star” ratings to the Waiters on Wheels listings […]
Glossdeck, A New Presentation Theme for S5
A standards-compatible presentation template that doesn’t look shifty.
“Valuation” - Statistics on Feed Me Links
Total Lines of Code = 15,212
Breakdown by programming language:
PHP: 10360 (68.10%)
sh: 4030 (26.49%)
Perl: 822 (5.40%)
Development Effort Estimate in Person-Years = 3.49 (41.8 mo.)
(Person-Months = 2.4 […]
Sniffing out Splinkers (Spam Linkers)
SEO (search engine optimization) and SEM (search engine marketing) purport to make sites search-engine-friendly so spiders can index your pages and find your content — fine. But often what masquerades as SEO/SEM is nothing more than unscrupulous hosers filling legitmate sites with spammy links (splinks) to fake, ad-filled websites they’ve created to harvest click-advertisement money. […]
Upgrading to VLC media player 0.8.6a on mac OS X?
The word on the street is it could be extremely crashy. Does anyone have any feedback to confirm or deny this?
VLC media player 0.8.6a on VersionTracker
Paying for Software?
[editor: this post is unfinished, but the statute of limitations has passed, so i’m making it available anyways. show your work. :-]
Strangely, I’ve noticed that the software I pay for legally, out of respect for the developers and the value it brings to me, not to mention the desire not to be arrested, ends up […]