June 2009
29 posts
Let's make the web faster - Google Code →
Some interesting readings about increasing speed of your website, really useful :)
taf2's curb at master - GitHub →
This is an interesting gem to use curl in your ruby scripts
Disable auto completition in Firefox 3.5
I’m using Firefox 3.5 and I noticed that it auto-completes my forms. I set in preferences to don’t record anything but some textboxes (like search box) still remembers my old inputs. I hate it!
But I found how to disable it in about:config!
Just set browser.formfill.enable to FALSE
That’s it! :)
Why free software shouldn't depend on Mono or C# →
I agree … it’s strange because usually I don’t … but I have to agree with Stallman
LESS - Leaner CSS →
It looks interesting! I’ll try in the next project :)
seattlerb's UPnP-1.2.0 Documentation →
An interesting gem to work with UPnP … it’s really funny to work with it! :)
Amazon Mechanical Turk
I looked many times Amazon Mechanical Turk with a bit of curiosity and many ideas to use it … but actually I can’t still use it!
I hope Amazon will open soon the use of it to everybody … I want it! :(
ruby-tumblr →
A simple but useful ruby gem to use Tumblr API
Copy/Paste adjustments in Aperture
I found a really useful trick in Aperture, if you have many images and you want apply the same adjustments to all you can make your adjustments on the first image, press Shift + Command + C (to copy adjustments) then select the others images and press Shift + Command + V (to paste adjustments).
Done!
A huuuuuge time saver! :)
VI Keyboard Shortcuts →
A useful list of keys, I use vi really often when I’m on a remote server via SSH, it’s my favourite (remote) editor :)
Aviary.com Talon →
A really useful extension for Firefox to integrate Aviary.com tools in your browser
Apache HTTP DoS →
Interesting … it sounds crazy that Apache simply waits forever! :)
XMPP | (G)uille Carlos →
A simple introduction to XMPP, a nice read for beginner :)
Opera Unite →
A new interesting project from Opera, a web server used to share ‘things’ with other people integrated in the Opera browser.
I would prefer it based on open protocols …
Moousture →
An interesting library that allows you to intercept mouse (or any other pointer) gesture in your website (based on MooTools)
Palm Pre -> Enable Root Access →
How to get root access to Palm Pre? Look this :)
“git config push.default matching”
– To kill the message on every push (after installed the news version of git)!
alex blabs - git config push.default matching
Installing Git
In the last link suggested the author used macports to install/update git, I prefer to compile it from source, it’s a really simple and quick operation!
First we need to download the source:
$ curl -O http://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/git-1.6.3.2.tar.gz
Now we expand the archive:
$ tar xfvz git-1.6.3.2.tar.gz
enter in the new directory:
$ cd git-1.6.3.2
and prepare everything:
$...
Git Up! 10 Reasons to Upgrade Your Old Git... →
An interesting article, honestly I use git everday and no one of these commands is useful in my workflow, but it’s important to know what are your choices, if you know your tools you can work better!
ClickTale →
I agree that know what your visitor see is useful for many reasons, but at the same time I think that must be a limit to that. ClickTale (this is the first product I see, probably there are many others) is too invasive, not just log pages but also clicks and gives a video of the ‘user experience on the site’ … if I know that a site uses ClickTale (or similar products) I would...
Two interesting speech from Los Angeles Ruby...
I haven’t seen all but these three videos looks interesting!
Sinatra: The ultimate rack citizen by Blake Mizerany
Managing Ruby on Rails for High Performance by Bill Lapcevic
Rhodes Framework for Mobile Client Development by Adam Blum
Opera 10 Beta
I’m trying Opera 10 Beta, I’m not really interested about mail, news, etc but just about the browser.
It looks really fast! By now I think it’s the fastest in rendering (I didn’t benchmark it), the feeling is really good!
The bad is a common ‘bad thing’ I find in Opera everytime I try it … when my mouse goes over an image this moves a bit (not much but...
MIT Database Systems (6.830) TA Course Notes →
I didn’t read it all yet (it will take much time) but it looks really interesting!
A little review of Palm Pre @ msnbc.com →
I’m angry with Palm, I’m a developer and I’m evaluating to buy the new iPhone or the Palm Pre. The idea to build app for the Pre using just html and javascript is really interesting but I signed up on Palm Developer Network by long and I didn’t received anything! And its launch is really close! Now there is the first chapter of an OReilly book … but I would like to be...
Why 'robots.txt and 'favicon.ico' are bad ideas... →
An interesting post about robots.txt and favicon.ico.
Honestly I agree to the concept that “web is baed on links” so there is no reason to fishing robots.txt and favicon.ico … but at the same time there is no logic to read a page to discover where robots.txt is and then see that you can’t index anything in the site.
I think that crawlers can fish just robots.txt, but...
Scaling PostgreSQL using CUDA | High Scalability →
A thing I always liked of PostgreSQL was its great extensibility, now you can use CUDA too!
(CUDA allows you to write C program that uses GPU and not your CPU)
DSLR Camera Remote Professional →
I have just bought “DSLR Camera Remote Professional” of onOne Software. This little app for iPhone and iPod Touch allows you (a canon DSLR camera owner) to shot using your iphone/iPod via wifi. The interesting thing is that it works like a remote control without have to pay much money! Yes … it requires your camera connected via USB to your mac/win, but it isn’t a great...