November 2009
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Avoiding some of the negative trade-offs in the...
So my buddy Tammer’s recent post about the Gang of Four’s Template Pattern reminded me of some code I saw recently. A start-up’s greenfield project had it’s authorization done in a pretty clean way using the template pattern. Basically every object determined what could be done to it, something like this:
After continuing this approach to fully cover CRUD you make a...
Maus hanging out in bed
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So after trying both I like posterous better than...
It just seems easier to use and they seem to be making more improvements, while tumblr seems sort of stalled. Since it’s so easy to post to multiple services with posterous I’ll just keep my tumblr around as a back-up, but I’m redirecting the feedburner feed to here instead. I’m sorry if this causes duplicate entries in feedburner, but this is the last time I swear. The...
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My Favorite bash Tips and Tricks
which produces the same result. However, brace expansion becomes quite useful when the brace-enclosed list occurs immediately before, after or inside another string: $ echo {one,two,red,blue}fish onefish twofish redfish bluefish $ echo fish{one,two,red,blue} fishone fishtwo fishred fishblue $ echo fi{one,two,red,blue}sh fionesh fitwosh firedsh fibluesh Notice that there are...
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SSD degradation due to software development usage...
http://macperformanceguide.com/Storage-SSD-Reconditioning.html
“Six months of experience with the Intel X25-M solid state drive (SSD) on the Mac Pro revealed the severe degradation of write speed to roughly 1/4 of the original speed, with unpredictable pauses. This behavior was induced by intense usage of the SSD for software development, an inappropriate use for an SSD, because over...
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A great photo essay by THomas Hoepker of East...
http://inmotion.magnumphotos.com/essay/pictures-vanished-country
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interesting new ruby, redis-based background...
http://github.com/blog/543-new-resque-web-ui http://github.com/defunkt/resque
Yet another queuing system, but I do like the look of the included Sinatra mini-app for managing it. And isn’t redis all the hot thing now? Or is that a negative?
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