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“Scrobbler is a [ruby library] wrapper for the audioscrobbler (last.fm) web services.” It looks very ncie.
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Some cracking comments about the needs of templating systems, and the development thereof. In particular: “Refactoring CSS is about making it more manageable, not shorter”
Discovery of the day
09 May 2007
I appear to have been born about four hours after the first emoticon.
Colour me surprised.
- err.the_blog.find_by_title(‘Be Dee Dee and Me’) — Nice introduction to test::spec from Chris; need to re-read this at some point.
Tagged as: testing bdd rails ruby rspec testspec - How to find the max row per group in SQL without subqueries – Xaprb — As with so many other SQL challenges, if you re-phrase the question, it’s easy to select the maximum or minimum row per group without subqueries. The key is to understand what you want, and to be able to word the problem in a way that translates from En
Tagged as: sql mysql database programming performance howto
- Mood-Lab — Mood-Lab Concept – comes highly recommended as a cheap DAC for things such as a Squeezebox…
Tagged as: dac audio hifi - Das Keyboard – The Blank Keyboard for Demanding Users. — Add to cart. No keycaps, built like a tank, $90… I’d take that over and Optimus any day.
Tagged as: keyboard hardware geek atc for:dotcode - Download MacFLAC 2.1.2 for Mac – MacFLAC is a GUI for FLAC audio codec – Softpedia — MacFLAC is a graphical frontend for FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec), developed using Applescript Studio.
Tagged as: mac osx flac audio codec software - Burningbird » Web 2.0 Beats up Web 1.0, Leaves Bloody Pulp — "In case you missed it, let me repeat this: we will be charging the owner of the bucket for 403s and 404s, since they consume system resources." S3 jumps the shark, mayhap?
Tagged as: s3 amazon webservices storage
- macosxhints.com – A suite of shell scripts for FLACs and MP3s — Flac to MP3 with a single bash script. Just what the doctor ordered…
Tagged as: mp3 flac audio mac scripts conversion
Conferences and speaking engagements
03 May 2007
Not much posting here for a while. Sorry. Lots of things going on, notably work, and also an impending hosting move. Erk! Anyway, I felt it was time to highlight some upcoming stuff I’m doing.
Exciting thing #1: I’m going to be speaking at Interesting 2007. The lineup looks awesome; I’m really glad that I’m going to be there, let alone be speaking. My talk is going to be about “pipes and tubes”. That’s not a metaphor. Things that might get covered: underground railways, pneumatic messaging, packet-switching, barrel-making, the logistics of building a chocolate factory. I’m still working it out, but it should be fun at the least. There’s so much other good stuff there – looking forward to finding out how to split a log with an axe, and to hear Schulze talk about comics (hurrah) and so many other things. And… I’m on the same bill as Matthew d’Ancona. Blimey.
Exciting things #2: I’m going to be at Reboot 9 in Copenhagen at the end of the month. Last year’s Reboot was a wonderful, wonderful experience: lots to chew over and lots of new friends found, so I’m really excited about this year’s. I’ll also be around in Copenhagen for a few days afterwards, for holiday. Everything’s booked apart from the hotel (tips welcome), and I can’t wait.
Exciting times, eh? I hope to be documenting them a bit more here.
- BernieCode » How to debug JavaScript with Visual Web Developer Express — Useful for work, at least.
Tagged as: ie javascript debug debugger debugging - collision detection: The roundest objects ever built by hand — "The most perfectly round objects ever made by humanity, flying through the void on one of the purest scientific quests ever." Wow.
Tagged as: science space physics experiment spacetime wow
- Peter Van Dijck’s Guide to Ease » Blog Archive » The top 10 presentations on scaling websites: twitter, Flickr, Bloglines, Vox and more. — Simon is right: nice to have all this lot in one plsace.
Tagged as: scaling development infrastructure presentation performance web application