Nice article.
https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/the-product-minded-engineer/
Author: Collin Anderson
What to look for in a code review
A particular type of complexity is over-engineering, where developers have made the code more generic than it needs to be, or added functionality that isn’t presently needed by the system. Reviewers should be especially vigilant about over-engineering. Encourage developers to solve the problem they know needs to be solved now, not the problem that the developer speculates might need to be solved in the future. The future problem should be solved once it arrives and you can see its actual shape and requirements in the physical universe.
https://google.github.io/eng-practices/review/reviewer/looking-for.html
The Wrong Abstraction
“prefer duplication over the wrong abstraction”
- Programmer A sees duplication.
- Programmer A extracts duplication and gives it a name.This creates a new abstraction. It could be a new method, or perhaps even a new class.
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Programmer A replaces the duplication with the new abstraction.
Ah, the code is perfect. Programmer A trots happily away.
- Time passes.
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A new requirement appears for which the current abstraction is almost perfect.
- Programmer B gets tasked to implement this requirement.Programmer B feels honor-bound to retain the existing abstraction, but since isn’t exactly the same for every case, they alter the code to take a parameter, and then add logic to conditionally do the right thing based on the value of that parameter.
What was once a universal abstraction now behaves differently for different cases.
- Another new requirement arrives.
Programmer X.
Another additional parameter.
Another new conditional.
Loop until code becomes incomprehensible. - You appear in the story about here, and your life takes a dramatic turn for the worse.
https://www.sandimetz.com/blog/2016/1/20/the-wrong-abstraction
Avoid Else, Return Early
I totally agree. In most cases it’s a good rule of thumb.
– Return as soon as you know your method cannot do any more meaningful work
– Reduce indentation by using if/return instead of a top-level if/else
– Try keep the “meat” of your method at the lowest indentation level.
– Error handling is noise.
http://blog.timoxley.com/post/47041269194/avoid-else-return-early
Designing Windows 95’S User Interface
The development of the user interface for a large commercial software product like Microsoft® Windows 95 involves many people, broad design goals, and an aggressive work schedule. This design briefing describes how the usability engineering principles of iterative design and problem tracking were successfully applied to make the development of the UI more manageable. Specific design problems and their solutions are also discussed.
Keywords
Iterative design, Microsoft Windows, problem tracking, rapid prototyping, usability engineering, usability testing.
However, the fixes would not have been made if the team had not believed in making the most-usable product possible. Key to this belief was our understanding that we probably weren’t going to get it right the first time and that not getting it right was as useful and interesting to creating a product as getting it right was.
https://socket3.wordpress.com/2018/02/03/designing-windows-95s-user-interface/
Software Complexity Is Killing Us
Highlights from https://www.simplethread.com/software-complexity-killing-us/.
We get enthralled by the maelstrom of complexity and the mental puzzle of engineering elegant solutions: Another layer of abstraction! DRY it up! Separate the concerns! Composition over inheritance! This too is understandable, but in the process, we often lose sight of the business problems being solved and forget that managing complexity is the second most important responsibility of software developers.
Looking forward to the future, it is unlikely that language design will give us the same kinds of improvements we have seen over the last few decades.
We, as an industry, need to find ways to simplify the process of building software, without ignoring the legitimate complexities of businesses. We need to admit that not every application out there needs the same level of interface sophistication and operational scalability as Gmail.
Our answer to the growing complexity of doing business cannot be adding complexity to the development process – no matter how elegant it may seem.
We must find ways to manage complexity by simplifying the development process. Because even though managing complexity is our second most important responsibility, we must always remember the most important responsibility of software developers: delivering value through working software.
My Del.icio.us bookmarks
- Prophecy
2015-02-27T15:21:57 - Top 100 Grossing E-Commerce Sites Ranked by Checkout Usability – Baymard Institute
2012-10-10T15:09:32 - screenshots from top 100 checkouts
- The Wirecutter | A List of the Best Gadgets
2012-07-16T18:09:44 - The best technology in every category. I keep forgetting the name of this site.
- git-annex
2012-03-24T19:58:44 - git for large files
- IX WebHosting
2011-12-14T16:36:42 - $47.40/yr shared hosting, dedicated ip address. 2 year minimum. dns for $7.49/yr
- The NTLM Authentication Protocol and Security Support Provider
2011-08-26T21:32:44 - i may need to read this
- connecting to navision
2011-08-26T21:07:11 - this guy has some good articles on connecting to navision using different languages (including javascript!)
- HTML5 Rocks – HTML5 vs Native: The Mobile App Debate
2011-08-23T14:36:44 - this sums up the native vs web app debate pretty well.
- Learn to code | Codecademy
2011-08-22T20:38:14 - from christine z
- Pool Filter Manual
2011-08-18T14:31:53 - Microsoft Dynamics NAV Test Drive
2011-05-10T15:33:37 - Microsoft Dynamics NAV
2011-05-10T15:32:52 - SSL Certificate Tester – Check Certificates
2011-05-04T19:30:06 - ShairPort 0.03 released
2011-04-12T14:21:29 - I’ve been waiting 3 years for someone to find a way to emulate an Airport Express.
- SIMILE Widgets | Timeline
2011-03-23T18:31:42 - This is pretty cool.
- CSS Embedded Images | drupal.org
2011-03-18T21:28:21 - modern browsers support data urls, ie supports MHTML
- 365 Things To Do in South Bend
2011-03-18T15:55:09 - Create a new Fiddle – jsFiddle – Online Editor for the Web (JavaScript, MooTools, jQuery, Prototype, YUI, Glow and Dojo, HTML, CSS)
2011-03-15T03:06:42 - Coding basics | Yahoo! Style Guide
2010-11-17T15:29:53 - Yahoo’s basic intro to HTML
- JQuery Core Style Guidelines – jQuery JavaScript Library
2010-10-26T01:44:31 - JQuery is jslint compliant.
- Publications by Googlers
2010-10-22T03:02:31 - looks interesting.
- Servants – companions-eng
2010-09-23T14:39:14 - New Every Morning by Scott Underwood as performed by Lindell Cooley …
2010-09-21T12:08:14 - PyDhcpLib website | Main / HomePage
2010-09-10T17:22:33 - I will need to play with this some day.
- What are regular expressions? – Analytics Help
2010-09-10T13:16:47 - Google Analytics’s intro to regular expressions.
- Mnemonic major system – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
2010-07-21T19:08:34 - sweet
- Sage MAS 90 Data File Layouts
2010-07-21T15:33:32 - How data is stored in MAS, plus character limits (firefox or ie required, not chrome compatible)
- 46 Years of Displays: Dayton’s/Marshall Field’s/Macy’s Holiday themes
2010-06-30T17:11:17 - spookylukey / cciw-website / source — bitbucket.org
2010-06-29T21:33:23 - A large django project.
- CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: St. Francis of Assisi
2010-06-01T14:01:57 - Font Squirrel | Create Your Own @font-face Kits
2010-05-26T18:44:14 - Yup. This site actually made a working .eot file (unlike the last 3). I had to uncheck “add hinting” to get the font to show up correctly.
- AFP548 – Networking on OS X – configd
2010-05-24T20:21:55 - How macs handle changing network configuration.
- Mac OS X: What Are All Those Processes?
2010-05-24T20:15:15 - If I ever get a mac, I’ll study this page well.
- BuiltWith Technology Usage Statistics
2010-05-17T17:18:53 - All sorts of interesting stats about how websites are built. Super interesting.
- Google map markers | CTAPbIu_MABP’s BLOG
2010-05-15T21:28:21 - A list of google hosted maps markers.
- YouTube – Length Contraction and Space-Time
2010-05-11T01:07:12 - we watched this senior year. pretty cool stuff.
- Rands In Repose: The Foamy Rules for Rabid Tools
2010-03-31T15:28:17 - Use the right tool for the right job.
- FiledBy – Author websites, author directory, author search
2010-03-20T20:47:38 - “www.filedby.com the most comprehensive online directory of book authors on the Internet” I found a book on this website I haven’t been able to find anywhere else.
- Moogaloop API
2010-03-19T18:53:21 - vimeo javascript api
- Photoshop Sweded Hi-Res on Flickr – Photo Sharing!
2010-03-12T17:37:23 - real life photoshop
- 1910 World Missionary Conference – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
2010-03-04T13:54:40 - Sean’s been reading about this.
- Our Sunday Visitor’s Web Store
2010-03-02T20:37:56 - I like these sort of urls.
- L002 3-Digit ZIP Code Prefix Matrix
2010-02-24T18:27:53 - I think this is official zip code data.
- how to track multiple svn branches in git – Bart’s Blog
2010-02-01T14:34:19 - Apparently git looks at ancestor commits to automatically figure out which remote svn branch to dcommit to.
- Python Package Index : Index of Packages Matching ‘django’
2010-01-28T23:56:24 - django packages. from jeremy.
- ONIX Requirements for Inclusion in Bowker Products
2010-01-25T20:31:07 - useful info here
- Prayers for All Christians
2010-01-22T13:20:37 - Lord’s Day Ceremony
- Offline NT Password & Registry Editor
2010-01-20T02:27:49 - Originally came in handy to edit the registry on a rootkit infected computer. Turns out the password reset utility works well too.
- Notebookcheck: Notebook & Laptop Reviews and News
2010-01-18T19:34:25 - looks like a good indepth laptop review site.
- Lenovo – Laptop with Intel® Pentium® Processor – Black Matte – G550
2010-01-18T19:30:47 - Jeremy asked me “If you were to buy a laptop today, what would you get?” This would be my answer, assuming I don’t have a laptop currently.
- People of Praise Gathered In Dinkytown part 2
2010-01-15T18:56:19 - oldie but goodie. we will bow
- New Blog Defaults » description WPMU DEV – WordPress MU plugins, themes and more
2010-01-13T18:24:57 - could be useful
- treebeard — Efficient tree model implementations for Django — django-treebeard v1.52 documentation
2010-01-12T19:28:44 - recommended over parent = models.ForeignKey(‘self’)
- robhudson/django-debug-toolbar @ GitHub
2010-01-08T04:19:24 - i’m sold
- Data matcher
2010-01-08T03:14:27 - match one set of data to another. written in javascript
- RTMPy – RTMP for Python
2010-01-07T14:38:53 - this may be enough to replace red5.
- Flash Media Server, Red5 examples by Dennie Hoopingarner
2010-01-07T14:33:09 - flash audio recorder
- Red5 : Open Source Flash Server Open Source Flash
2010-01-07T04:12:22 - wow.
- Flowplayer – Flash Video Player for the Web
2009-12-18T18:01:37 - GPL flash video player
- fluxiom: Online Media Management
2009-12-18T17:57:29 - similar goals to media manager
- The Development of the C Language
2009-12-17T19:18:20 - how c was invented. i’ll have to read this some time.
- Comparing JSON modules for Python
2009-12-16T15:30:31 - an in depth article showing the little differences in how each library handles corner cases.
- ZoneOS ZoneScreen
2009-12-11T18:18:01 - looks similar to maxivista, but free for personal use and can do linux
- Demo video about using multiple monitors with MaxiVista
2009-12-11T17:17:00 - Amazing stuff. I wish it were open source.
- How to secure a credit card number (Software Engineering Tips)
2009-12-09T15:36:34 - Don’t hash credit card numbers.
- xlwt README
2009-12-08T02:25:19 - Python library to read/write excel files. Fork of pyExcelerator. Looks more active too.
- Cooliris | Discover More
2009-12-08T01:34:01 - embeddable cooliris that uses flash instead of their plugin.
- JQuery File Upload Plugin Script – JQuery File Upload Script – Uploadify
2009-12-07T17:52:14 - similar to swfupload
- django-piston
2009-12-06T04:19:12 - “Piston is a Django mini-framework creating APIs.” Used by bitbucket.org
- Very Short Introductions – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
2009-12-02T02:57:58 - looks interesting
- ANSI C Rationale Introduction
2009-12-01T22:13:29 - ANSI C Rationale Purpose and Spirit of C
- Dipity
2009-11-27T21:53:51 - i have been looking for a way to easily put things on a timeline. I think this is what i want.
- YouTube – The Beach Boys – Ol’ Man River (2009 Remix)
2009-11-23T03:02:10 - from David
- TestDisk – CGSecurity
2009-11-20T21:00:26 - This is pretty cool. via Andy
- Robert Harder » Stream iTunes over SSH
2009-11-18T19:05:07 - Wow. I did not know this was possible. I’ll have to try it sometime.
- HDMI Cable, Home Theater Accessories, HDMI Products, Cables, Adapters, Video/Audio Switch, Networking, USB, Firewire, Printer Toner, and more!
2009-11-17T04:12:44 - “Buying video cables from Amazon is usually a ripoff; I suggest Monoprice.” – Jacob Kaplan-Moss
- Git Resources
2009-10-20T03:11:19 - some git notes from 37signals
- Monitoring WiFi access points – MDC
2009-09-24T15:08:03 - “Code with UniversalXPConnect privileges can now monitor the list of available access points, getting information on their SSIDs, MAC addresses, and signal strength. This can be used in tandem with Geolocation to offer WiFi-based location service.”
- Google Scripts
2009-09-23T16:48:43 - * Create your own custom spreadsheet functions
- Automate repetitive tasks (e.g. process responses to Google Docs forms)
- Link multiple Google products together (e.g. send emails or schedule Calendar events from a list of addresses in a Spreadsheet)
- Customize existing Google products (e.g. add custom buttons or menus to run your own scripts)
- List of common misconceptions – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
2009-09-09T21:39:41 - This is awesome. From Josh.
- YUI Library: Uploader
2009-09-09T21:20:27 - Yahoo’s equivalent of swfupload.
- Turn Thunderbird into the Ultimate Gmail IMAP Client – Downloads – Lifehacker
2009-09-01T21:31:11 - Fairly thorough walk though of how to configure Thunderbird for Gmail, in addition to Gmail’s help pages.
- Color Picker
2009-08-14T17:59:35 - XEP-0126: Invisibility
2009-08-13T00:32:09 - it appears that you can do invisibility on google talk outside of gmail.
- Plunkitt of Tammany Hall by William L. Riordon 1963
2009-08-11T21:58:32 - George Washington Plunkitt – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
2009-08-11T21:56:32 - David says that this guys is awesome.
- Socket Programming HOWTO — Python v2.7a0 documentation
2009-08-10T01:43:55 - (same as previous) I learned a lot from this.
- Socket Programming HOWTO
2009-08-10T01:42:43 - I learned a lot from this.
- Fred Visticot blog: Google Gears Desktop Drag and drop operation
2009-07-10T13:30:46 - “During the Google I/O event, The Google Wave prototype has been unveiled. During the demonstration, a drag and drop operation has been realized between the desktop and the browser. This new capability is possible thanks the new Google Gears plugin V0.5.21.0.”
Shows how to do it.
- django-photologue – Google Code
2009-06-30T15:39:17 - django-batchimport – Google Code
2009-06-29T15:11:28 - “Allows for batch import of django model data via uploaded Microsoft Excel (or Open Office or CSV files saved as Excel) file.”
- Pinax
2009-06-29T15:10:21 - django-syncr – Google Code
2009-06-11T17:10:46 - Ben F found this. It syncs data with flickr, twitter, etc.
- An introduction to git-svn for Subversion/SVK users and deserters
2009-06-11T17:03:59 - A decent guide to git svn.
- Download details: Script Debugger for Windows NT 4.0 and Later
2009-06-09T19:47:52 - Praise God for this! Isn’t as good as firebug, but was enough to show me what wasn’t working during a presentation this morning.
- Wolfram|Alpha
2009-05-18T16:02:25 - Awesome website found by Ficker and Ben
- Solid Waste & Recycling
2009-05-12T21:27:42 - Minneapolis Soild Waste and Recycling. Lots of good information.
- Whats Its Color: Find the complementary and primary color of any image
2009-05-06T04:49:29 - Tells you what color scheme to use based on an image. Similar to one of the features dabbledb has.
- Micro Center – Refurbished HL-2140 Laser Printer
2009-05-02T19:13:06 - $60 laser printer after rebate
- 960 Grid System
2009-04-30T21:54:56 - Mentioned in class. Looks interesting.
- pyquery: a jquery-like library for python — pyquery v0.3 documentation
2009-04-30T03:30:24 - jquery like interface for working with html in python.
- http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn/trunk/tools/client-side/change-svn-wc-format.py
2009-04-27T22:09:15 - downgrade a subversion working copy from 1.6 to 1.5
- Bulk IP address location – Enter one or more addresses to find their geolocation.
2009-04-24T18:43:19 - tortoisegit – Google Code
2009-04-23T03:22:19 - I have been waiting for this for so long
- Memory upgrades from Crucial.com – About Crucial:Media Toolbox
2009-04-09T01:54:17 - Tells you what slots your computer has, what sticks are currently in the slots, and what type of memory is compatible.
- lxml – the most feature-rich and easy-to-use library for working with XML and HTML in the Python language.
2009-04-08T19:44:26 - What Adrian uses in everyblock for parsing html and xml
- Open Source – Dimdim: Web conferencing for everyone. Dimdim provides free, open source collaboration for online meetings, eLearning, desktop sharing, education, unified collaboration, webinar, web meetings and more. Available in free hosted or GPLv3 do…
2009-04-08T15:36:40 - An Open Source audio and video conferencing server and client.
- Behind the scenes of EveryBlock.com
2009-04-07T15:37:18 - from justin
- ManualsMania – Samsung – SGH-T629 – SGH-T629 User Manual (ver.1.0) – ENGLISH
2009-04-06T00:27:38 - Manual for my cell phone
- PingPlotter
2009-03-26T04:26:23 - I have been wanting a program similar to this for a long time.
- Traceroute Tree Online
2009-03-26T04:19:12 - This is cool. Run tracert for multiple ip addresses in windows, then copy and paste the results to this website and it generates an awesome graph of the network topology. Note though that anyone can see your graph online. They also link to a linux program that can generate these graphs.
- Facebook Developers | Tools
2009-03-25T17:54:58 - Facebook API for csci5980 class.
- Placeography
2009-03-23T15:11:17 - From Hannah B. Mostly just Minnesota.
- Add and remove Django-Admin Inlines with JavaScript
2009-03-17T21:04:13 - jquery code to add/remove items from a formset
- Elgg.org
2009-03-17T21:01:49 - open source social network website software. From Kevin
- TiddlyWiki – a reusable non-linear personal web notebook
2009-03-16T13:55:48 - Abe just showed me this. It is written entirely in javascript. It uses some sort of hack to save files on your computer. Does not require server side support. It has a very good latex plugin. It is mainly designed for one editor.
- VirtualBox
2009-03-13T04:05:43 - I saw someone use this for emulating unix.
- Microsoft DreamSpark
2009-03-10T22:38:35 - Free Microsoft software for College and High School students.
- HP laser printer print defects
2009-03-06T02:29:21 - Interesting. I wonder how helpful this actually is
- Category:Bridges on the Mississippi River – Google Maps
2009-03-03T04:02:24 - A sweet hack to get data points for the Mississippi River
- SpaceMonger Freeware download and review – keep track of free space on your drives from SnapFiles
2009-03-01T23:36:47 - A sweet program I use to find out how what is taking up space on my computer.
- Where data goes when it dies and other musings | FactoryCity
2009-03-01T22:11:42 - “I would therefore agree with Tantek’s oft-repeated admonishment that services that are serious about their data should always start by marking up their sites with microformats and then add additional APIs to provide functionality (as TripIt did). It’s simply good data hygiene.” “The second thing that I thought about was that, since the site was microformatted with XFN, xFolk and other formats, recovering structured data from these caches would likely be most reliable way of externally reconstituting Ma.gnolia, in lieu of other, more conventional data retrieval methods.”
- Opera: Web Standards Curriculum
2009-02-26T04:06:37 - “this is awesome” – Jeremy.
- Pauls Online Math Notes
2009-02-18T20:22:12 - According to Colleen: “Super helpful math website for Calc I through IV and beyond”
- Online Bible Study Tools – Your Gateway to Bible Resources
2009-01-31T18:29:39 - The missionary section has been using this
- SkyGlobe
2009-01-30T02:53:47 - Night star program we used in 8th grade
- FileHippo.com – Download Free Software
2009-01-29T03:38:11 - Old versions of tons of free programs. Similar to oldversion.com
- GEO 1001/1101: EARTH and its Environments
2009-01-27T03:39:14 - Class I am taking
- YouTube – Claude Bolling – Suite for Cello and Jazz Piano Trio – Romantique
2009-01-24T17:16:41 - an awesome song.
- django-reversion – Google Code
2009-01-20T18:22:59 - This is pretty cool. It serializes an object’s data after every change and records it. It even has solutions for the related models problem.
- YouTube – EmergencyCall Emergency Call 911 Oak st
2009-01-15T04:41:34 - This is pretty funny. 22 seconds. requires sound
- 1098-E
2009-01-11T02:30:56 - tax info for loan
- StaticGenerator for Django
2009-01-11T02:25:09 - “How many CPU cycles do you suppose are wasted on blogs that are generated every request? Wouldn’t it make more sense to generate them only when they’re updated? StaticGenerator is a Python class for Django that makes it easy to create static files for lightning fast performance.”
- serve – by Jeremy
2009-01-09T19:21:54 - great for transferring a small number of files to people.
- IE NetRenderer – Browser Compatibility Check –
2009-01-07T18:44:43 - Thomas MacLaren School Colorado Springs Home Page
2009-01-06T19:37:39 - Charter School in Colorado Springs based on Trinity
- Return Boolean True
2008-12-26T18:41:28 - This guy wrote a post yesterday saying that he’s trying to write a python program to handle eye.fi uploads
- EyeFi Linux Hacking
2008-12-26T18:11:44 - Looks like someone started a blog on figuring out how it works, although it is fun to figure these things out on your own, this could save me a lot of time.
- SkreemR Mp3 Search – World’s Greatest Mp3 Search Engine – Find music, podcasts, ringtones, interviews and speeches.
2008-12-15T04:45:09 - “The World’s Greatest Mp3 Search Engine”
- TrimPath TrimSpreadsheet Demo
2008-12-01T17:38:39 - Demo of an open source javascript spreadsheet.
- Songza: The music search engine & internet jukebox. Listen. Now.
2008-11-26T16:34:19 - looks similar to seeqpod
- CSci 1121: Introduction to the Internet
2008-11-25T19:41:08 - possibly going to take this class next spring
- CSci 1113: C++ Programming
2008-11-25T19:40:16 - Probably going to take this class next spring
- MATH 1151 Math 1151, Precalculus II
2008-11-25T19:37:20 - possibly going to take this class in the spring
- Ladle Rat Rotten Hut
2008-11-25T04:40:57 - My teacher read this to our class in 6th grade.
- mail-trends – Google Code
2008-11-24T15:58:02 - Sweet gmail statistics program kevin showed me
- EtherPad: Realtime Collaborative Text Editing
2008-11-19T21:32:20 - Google Docs clone that is very good at multi-user editing at the same time.
- iGoogle Motion Chart Gadget
2008-11-10T04:19:28 - based on Gapminder
- Gapminder – Home
2008-11-10T04:15:56 - Open Source data visualization software presented at a Ted Talk and bought by Google.
- Task-Centered User Interface Design : 4. Evaluating the Design Without Users
2008-11-05T03:20:34 - Task Centered User Interface Design Heuristics – from class.
- John McCain – The Making (and Remaking and Remaking) of the Candidate – NYTimes.com
2008-10-28T16:54:47 - Interesting article that includes behind the scenes the week of McCain’s VP Announcement.
- libgmail — Python binding for Google’s Gmail service
2008-10-26T21:38:21 - python libary that connects to gmail’s web interface
- Series: Gmail Architecture «
2008-10-26T21:38:01 - This guy did a bit of reverse-engineering of the gmail web interface. Reminds me of
- jscrob2 – iTunes plug-in w/ iPod sync support & real-time submissions – iTunes (Windows Version) – Last.fm
2008-10-26T20:52:16 - tiny plugin for itunes the submits songs to last.fm. alternative to http://www.last.fm/forum/827/_/47398
- Variety Theatre 2008 | “Can’t Stop the Beat!”
2008-10-21T19:42:55 - Hugh Springer Jr put together an online flyer for the Variety Show.
- Free-Codecs.com :: Download QuickTime Alternative (QT Lite) 2.7.0 : QT Lite is a lightweight version of QuickTime.
2008-10-17T17:40:50 - Quicktime alternative. Much smaller than Apple’s version. Fully compatible with iTunes
- jscrob2 – iTunes plug-in w/ iPod sync support & real-time submissions – iTunes (Windows Version) – Last.fm
2008-10-17T03:28:37 - tiny plugin for itunes the submits songs to last.fm
- Communication Center
2008-10-15T18:04:08 - website I helped make
- SeeqPod – Playable Search – Find. Discover. Watch. Listen. Share.
2008-10-13T01:31:47 - Searches the internet for mp3’s and puts lets you queue them in a playlist.
- Google 2001
2008-10-07T02:41:56 - In honor of our 10th birthday, we’ve brought back our oldest available index. Take a look back at Google in January 2001.
- Template Tags « WordPress Codex
2008-10-03T18:37:20 - I’ve ended up using that page a ton over the last couple months
- YouTube – Hip Hop Violin – Paul Dateh and inka one
2008-10-03T13:36:06 - Justin showed me this.
- The Little Flowers of St. Francis
2008-10-01T14:52:27 - Shared Status Messages – Google Talk for Developers – Google Code
2008-09-30T20:53:43 - Offline NT Password & Registry Editor
2008-09-29T02:46:06 - Found this tonight. It’s the only alternative to the windows API for editing binary registry hive files that I know of.
- YouTube – Like_youknow
2008-09-27T05:21:51 - Amazon Mechanical Turk – Welcome
2008-09-26T14:56:06 - amazon’s outsourcing market.
- generating python module dependency graphs
2008-09-26T12:36:18 - Graph of imports between files.
- p910nd
2008-09-16T22:05:02 - p910nd is a small printer daemon that does not spool to disk but passes the job directly to the printer. Normally a lpr daemon on a spooling host connects to it with a TCP connection on port 910n (where n=0, 1, or 2 for lp0, 1 and 2 respectively).
- Brother International – Printers – HL-1440
2008-09-16T20:31:18 - Printer we got from South Bend.
- DjangoCon 2008 Sessions
2008-09-16T17:27:16 - Videos of the sessions from DjangoCon 2008, the first ever international Django conference. DjangoCon 2008 was hosted by Google’s Open Source Team at the company’s headquarters in Mountain View, CA, USA Sept. 6 & 7, 2008.
- University of Minnesota Webcam
2008-09-12T14:17:40 - webcam of the mall area
- Coldplay – What If – Listen free at Last.fm
2008-09-12T13:44:51 - for some reason I deleted this song off of my computer
- Scrum (development) – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
2008-09-10T01:33:55 - “Sprints” are 15-30 days. Sprint Planning Meeting: Project Owner tells the team what items he wants done and Team determines how much of this is possible. Once the sprint starts, the specs and requirements are frozen. Every day morning there is a 15 minute “Scrum meeting” where progress is reviewed. This meeting is done standing up, so it does not last longer than it should. At the end of the sprint, the software is shippable
- Welcome | AmazonFresh
2008-09-09T02:46:08 - Amazon grocery delivery service.
- YouTube – The Raconteurs “Steady, As She Goes”
2008-09-09T02:07:01 - Ben and I like this song
- YouTube – Mark Ronson – Just
2008-09-09T01:58:08 - remix of radiohead’s just. I don’t care for the video.
- YouTube – Nostalgia 77 – Seven Nation Army (White Stripes Cover)
2008-09-09T01:54:28 - cool seven nation army cover
- CSCI 5801: Software Engineering I
2008-09-07T20:03:23 - class i’m taking
- CSci 5106 – Programming Languages – University of Minnesota
2008-09-07T20:01:24 - class i’m taking
- CSci 5115: User Interface Design
2008-09-07T20:00:27 - class i’m taking
- Math 5248: Cryptology and Number Theory
2008-09-07T19:59:27 - class i’m taking
- Weekly Class Schedule
2008-09-07T19:55:29 - Renewed-Life.com featuring books, Bibles, music and more to help you live in Christ.
2008-09-07T19:41:23 - FileMerge diff on Flickr – Photo Sharing!
2008-09-07T04:01:40 - Equal Transit Time Fallacy – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
2008-09-06T19:15:38 - The way I learned how lift works is incorrect. There is no requirement that two particles traveling around a wing need to meet up on the other side.
- The Official ImgBurn Website
2008-09-03T23:18:09 - Legal version of DVD Decrypter
- Dropout With a Capital D
2008-08-26T19:46:30 - This guy explains why he dropped out of college
- Monty Hall problem – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
2008-08-20T01:53:26 - Suppose you’re on a game show, and you’re given the choice of three doors: Behind one door is a car; behind the others, goats. You pick a door, say No. 1, and the host, who knows what’s behind the doors, opens another door, say No. 3, which has a goat. He then says to you, “Do you want to pick door No. 2?” Is it to your advantage to switch your choice?
- adherents.gif (GIF Image, 886×643 pixels)
2008-08-05T01:33:14 - Awesome map of religion in the united states
- It’s an HTTParty and Everyone Is Invited! // RailsTips.org by John Nunemaker
2008-07-30T18:28:18 - Abstract generic http rest api
- netaddr – Google Code
2008-07-25T12:49:41 - Python library for dealing with ip addresses
- A List Apart: Articles: Community: From Little Things, Big Things Grow
2008-07-18T19:27:19 - “I adore it when people tell me that Flickr makes them feel a certain way. From the outset, I worked hard to make the site seem as if there was a person behind the screen talking to you. As we churned out pages to piece the site together, I obsessed about
- kurtanderson08 – Kurt M. Anderson for United States Senate from Minnesota
2008-07-17T02:56:11 - My dad is running for US Senate again.
- Election Reporting
2008-07-17T02:55:15 - My dad is running for senate again.
- Ironic Sans: Thsrs – The Shorter Thesaurus
2008-07-10T13:08:54 - from: ben 1. Enter a long word. 2. Receive shorter synonyms.
- Django Unit Tests and Transactions — Stereoplex
2008-07-07T17:38:21 - js_httpd
2008-07-06T17:05:40 - “really small HTTP server in JavaScript” You could modify this to run in a web browser using comet.
- Abe’s Tumblelog – Mom’s Lord’s Day Bread
2008-07-04T19:57:48 - Olson Bread
- Digital Web Magazine – Portable Social Networks, The Building Blocks Of A Social Web
2008-07-03T13:28:55 - “If you only read one article on portable social networks, make it this one.” – Simon Willison
- The Perfect 3 Column Liquid Layout: No CSS hacks. SEO friendly. iPhone compatible.
2008-07-02T17:08:09 - google-styleguide – Google Code
2008-07-02T13:20:41 - “When you’re working on a large software project, how you express something may be a vital part of the code. At Google, we’ve adopted a set of conventions intended to give all contributors a common coding vocabulary. This ensures that it’s as easy as poss
- Regex Tester – RegexPal
2008-07-01T13:08:08 - Fluid – Free Site Specific Browser for Mac OS X Leopard
2008-07-01T12:36:50 - Safari powered site specific browser for mac os x
- Three Index Cards To Easily Remember The Essence Of Test-Driven Development
2008-06-30T15:10:14 - Log In
2008-06-29T20:06:02 - Very cool looking login screen
- Free Online Database Application, Web Database Application, Online Database Software, Sample Database Applications, Web Form Builder, HTML Forms, Web Forms, Online Forms: Zoho Creator
2008-06-29T03:34:28 - Looks similar to http://dabbledb.com/. From Abe.
- wtop – Google Code
2008-06-25T17:41:01 - “wtop is like “top” for your webserver. How many searches or signups are happening per second? What is the response time histogram for your static files? wtop shows you at a glance. “
- Kaltura – Open Source Video Platform
2008-06-25T17:07:16 - “Kaltura’s open source platform enables any site to seamlessly and cost–effectively integrate advanced interactive rich–media functionalities, including video searching, uploading, importing, editing, annotating, remixing, and sharing. Kaltura’ goal i
- Twitter / comcastcares
2008-06-24T21:52:38 - Comcast is on twitter.
- Bridge Construction Set
2008-06-24T13:10:29 - Looks like SimBridge or something.
- How to tell which CD you need to reinstall Windows XP using a product key
2008-06-23T00:13:23 - tells you how to determine by the Product ID, product key what license of XP a computer has.
- Slicehost – VPS Hosting
2008-06-22T23:38:33 - pop.org is hosted with this.
- Milwaukee Avenue Historic District – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
2008-06-19T12:43:14 - Sean mentioned this at dinner last night. “The earliest example of a planned workers’ community in Minneapolis”
- Link to PDFs from HTML — The PowerPoint FAQ
2008-06-18T22:30:33 - works, and much more.
- Post to Del.icio.us
2008-06-18T13:22:22 - bookmarks toolbar
- 6.5.1 Itertool functions
2008-06-17T21:24:08 - Cool stuff. I have made chain and count on my own before. Turns out I didn’t need to.
- Seth’s Blog: Email checklist
2008-06-17T12:34:31 - “# Is it going to just one person? (If yes, jump to #10)
- Since it’s going to a group, have I thought about who is on my list?
- Are they blind copied?
- Did every person on the list really and truly opt in? Not like sort of, but really ask for it?
#
- Google Open Source Blog: Standing Against License Proliferation
2008-06-16T12:42:11 - “we are nearing 100,000 projects hosted on Google Code. The trend around licensing is obvious: GPLv2/GPLv3 represent 42.6% of the projects, and Apache is 25.8%. MIT, BSD, and LGPL are at about 8% each, Artistic at 3.5%, and MPL 1.1 at a mere 2.7%. This fo
- DOSBox, a x86 emulator with DOS
2008-06-14T03:12:17 - A must have if you want to play any old 2D game.
- blueprintcss – Google Code
2008-06-13T13:25:15 - “I must admit, I’m pretty impressed by the Blueprint generator/compressor script; being able to pick my columns, widths and class names and get the starter CSS for a new layout is hot.” – James Bennett
- Cyberduck | FTP for Mac OS X.
2008-06-12T20:49:40 - from:yoster84
- Asterisk :: The Open Source PBX & Telephony Platform |
2008-06-12T15:55:07 - Open Source phone software.
- Photoshop-like JavaScript Color Picker
2008-06-09T18:27:32 - i had to search for a while to find this.
- COM Automation: Type Information (II)
2008-06-09T01:09:11 - IDispatch, GetTypeInfo, ITypeInfo, GetTypeAttr, etc. Unfortunately, python’s win32com does not abstract this much to my knowledge.
- Chat and text display issues in “Halo: Combat Evolved”
2008-06-08T05:36:13 - Apparently I actually do need Microsoft XML Parser.
- Comet Daily » Blog Archive » Persevere Adds Comet Support
2008-05-28T12:46:33 - a json database that allows for subscribing to changes.
- UnixCommandLineKungFu – Fullscreen
2008-05-27T02:04:56 - crazy linux command line tricks. never heard of a lot of these.
- Camera Hacks: Turn Your Point-and-Shoot into a Super-Camera
2008-05-26T03:28:44 - My camera is now awesome! custom firmware.
- Drop.io: Simple Private Exchange
2008-05-25T17:15:27 - save a file up to 1gb online. it will stay up as long as someone views it every year. seems to be very easy.
- R2D2 Projector
2008-05-25T16:41:37 - A remote control projector that can drive around the room.
- Pure JavaScript vi within a browser
2008-05-25T14:16:24 - vim implemented in javascript.
- ongoing · Multi-Inflection-Point Alert
2008-05-22T01:46:59 - a good summary on the current state of computers. I find it interesting that he says that although processors are supporting more and more threads that threading is not the way to go.
- Yahoo! UI Library: Browser History Manager
2008-05-22T01:35:57 - Framework for javascript url framents
- Generator Tricks for Systems Programmers
2008-05-21T12:41:07 - in depth on how to make pipelines in python using generators.
- 1027 Univesity Avenue SE
2008-05-17T15:22:26 - SourceForge.net: Xming X Server for Windows
2008-05-15T01:49:53 - almost forgot the name of this. nice and basic xming x server. much easier to install and maintain than cygwin
- Session variables without cookies
2008-05-14T17:06:00 - Stores up to 2MB of data in the window.name variable. Basically tab-local session data, but vulnerable to XSS.
- Computing Facilities – math.umn.edu
2008-05-14T04:04:22 - listing of the math department’s linux computers
- Products Center — Vigor2910G
2008-05-09T21:14:33 - interesting. this router can connect to two different internet connections at once, allowing redundancy and twice the bandwidth.
- Johnny Chung Lee – Projects – Wii
2008-05-09T19:47:47 - Chris showed me this. Watch the second video. Wiimotes cost $40. This is awesome.
- $14 Steadycam The Poor Mans Steadicam
2008-05-09T19:41:52 - “Steadycams (or camera stabilizers) are attachments used to capture smooth looking video even when the camera and camera operator are in motion. The camera operator may walk (or even jog), move through tight hallways and doorways, and even climb up and do
- rossp.org – django-authopenid – Google Code
2008-05-09T18:15:20 - “This up and coming Django application provides a new user-authentication interface built on top of the Django ‘auth’ module and Simon Willison’s Django OpenID Consumer application.”
- Can python threads take advantage of use dual core?
2008-05-09T18:08:33 - Threading on the regular python interpreter does not take advantage of multiple cores. Threading on Jython and IronPython both do take advantage of multiple cores. Summary: Use Python threads for IO operations in parallel, not for computations in parallel
- Jeditable – Edit In Place Plugin For jQuery
2008-05-09T16:54:03 - The web needs more of these.
- MX-100 3.5″ USB Hard Drive Enclosure
2008-05-08T17:50:55 - $15 hard drive enclosure I might buy
- 15-750 — Graduate Algorithms — Spring 2006
2008-05-05T05:15:35 - page 3 has pseudo code for version 2 of Luby’s MIS algorithm
- What are Public DNS Servers?
2008-05-01T21:35:25 - Heuristics for User Interface Design
2008-04-28T22:58:18 - ‘These are ten general principles for user interface design. They are called “heuristics” because they are more in the nature of rules of thumb than specific usability guidelines.’
- YDN Theater: The State of Ajax | Douglas Crockford
2008-04-28T22:41:22 - Douglas Crockford has a critical view of the future of the web. If we don’t fix the problems with the web, it may be replaced with Microsoft Silverlight or Adobe AIR. 38 minutes.
- vi-vim_cheat_sheet.gif
2008-04-28T21:58:16 - adm3a-hjkl.jpg
2008-04-28T21:47:52 - AnchorFree
2008-04-23T15:28:12 - “Free Wi-Fi/HotSpot Finder”
- Web pages for MPI and MPE
2008-04-21T00:23:27 - MPI Routines reference function calls
- The final hour for filing taxes
2008-04-17T19:11:21 - “I got the paper work done about 20 minutes ago.” – Sean is at 1:28
- hugin – Panorama photo stitcher
2008-04-16T20:39:37 - open source, very nice
- Bossanova – Blue Bossanova.mp3
2008-04-15T03:44:21 - good song Chris found
- Class Search – Search Results
2008-04-15T02:31:54 - I will need to take a literature class eventually.
- MSSE: Master of Science in Software Engineering
2008-04-15T00:52:45 - This program has some cool looking classes.
- Le Corbusier – Towards a New Architecture
2008-04-14T02:18:46 - book I need to read for architecture class
- 2008-2009 Room and Board Rates
2008-04-11T20:20:52 - Glad I am not living in the dorms. $470 per month, not including food. Of couse it has the advantage of the 9 month contract, which leaves you free to live somewhere else over the summer. They also require a meal plan of at least $571/mo.
- Skyhook Wireless
2008-04-11T15:11:38 - Skyhook ran vehicles around the streets of 8000 cities, and recorded the locations, mac addresses, and signal strengths of over 23 million wireless access points. The data can now be used to locate where you are based on the surrounding wi-fi signals.
- Administrative Debris
2008-04-09T21:39:10 - “I’ve convinced myself that a separate admin area or settings page ought not exist at all and that the functionality provided could be integrated more naturally with the site’s primary content.”
- Video on Flickr! « Flickr Blog
2008-04-09T20:41:45 - flickr now allows videos up to 90 seconds
- kyte: Mobile
2008-04-09T02:15:39 - broadcast live video from your java enabled cell phone
- Blue Bossanova by Bossanova
2008-04-05T04:19:53 - found by Chris
- Bob Dylan: Make You Feel My Love
2008-04-05T03:48:12 - Paladin Tools Home Theater 70053 Tool Kit
2008-04-04T12:11:54 - Just purchased for J-T concert
- 6 x 2 S-Video Audio/Video Selector Switch w/REMOTE with with ALL Gold Plated RCA Jacks
2008-04-02T15:02:53 - 6 source, 2 output video switcher in South Bend
- Empty Thoughts: JSON Generic Serializer
2008-04-01T01:09:12 - “The reason the default json serializer (django.core.serialize) doesn’t work well for my purposes is because the default implementation is built around the idea that the objects that are serializable need to be deserializable as full objects as well. I
- pep8.py
2008-03-28T21:24:54 - “a tool to check your Python code against some of the style conventions in PEP 8”
- iROC Innovative Idea Cache
2008-03-28T18:33:06 - “Project to collect and evaluate innovative research & technology ideas on campus. Ideas can be voted on, evaluated, discussed and either implemented or shelved for possible later use.”
- Ustream.tv
2008-03-28T16:07:00 - This does nearly everything we dreamed of last summer, plus it is free and easy.
- Downloads for Dazzle Digital Video Creator Products
2008-03-28T14:31:06 - The closest thing to drivers for the two usb video capture devices on pinnacle’s website.
- Gmail – Compose Mail
2008-03-21T18:31:30 - compose a new gmail message
- THE SPIRITUAL EXERCISES OF ST. IGNATIUS OF LOYOLA
2008-03-21T12:21:28 - List of Google acquisitions – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
2008-03-20T21:39:23 - Relationships are complicated | FactoryCity
2008-03-20T20:40:09 - “I believe that technically-mediated social networking at any level beyond very simple, local applications is fundamentally, and probably persistently, a bad idea. From where I stand, the only sane response is to keep our conceptions of friendship and aff
- Dynamo: Amazon’s Highly Available Key-value Store
2008-03-18T04:11:38 - very cool stuff, I want to read this
- What can we learn about usability…
2008-03-18T03:38:32 - A quick lesson on design
- Martian Headsets – Joel on Software
2008-03-17T18:32:10 - “As usual, the idealists are 100% right in principle and, as usual, the pragmatists are right in practice. The flames will continue for years. This debate precisely splits the world in two. If you have a way to buy stock in Internet flame wars, now would
- Agile Testing: Running a Python script as a Windows service
2008-03-16T21:55:35 - Runs a python program in the background automatically on startup with no users logged on.
- Txt2day Cell Phone Provider Lookup
2008-03-16T02:14:12 - This gives an estimate for the provider of a cell phone number.
- Buy Tickets | Guthrie Theater
2008-03-15T22:29:55 - I need to go on a Guthrie backstage tour for Arch class.
- JotForm – Easiest Form Builder
2008-03-14T14:52:59 - looks a lot better than wufoo.com
- University of Minnesota and Trapeze Networks Announce World’s Largest 802.11n Deployment
2008-03-12T18:03:36 - Net-SNMP
2008-03-12T02:09:42 - I can’t find a good pure python snmp client, so I’ll have to keep using this in the meantime.
- University of Minnesota Bookstore
2008-03-11T23:13:13 - If you know of a book you want to read, you can search by the author or ISBN to see if there is a class that uses that as the text book.
- CLOC — Count Lines of Code
2008-03-11T23:04:44 - pretty simple, written in perl
- Introduction to Parallel Computing
2008-03-11T16:39:35 - part of the book for my class
- You Used Python to Write WHAT? – CIO.com – Business Technology Leadership
2008-03-07T17:40:48 - A very nice, broad overview of Python, with pros and cons. See also Ruby, PHP, and Javascript.
- Tinkerable Software
2008-03-07T03:47:46 - This guy is all about people being able to change the software they use. That is his philosophy, but he suggests writing code to customize things. There should be an easier way to do it.
- How to Do Anything Photographic
2008-03-06T18:13:28 - A Small Orange – Web Hosting, Software and more!
2008-03-06T17:20:02 - shared hosting one:ten uses
- Web hosting provider – Bluehost.com – domain hosting – PHP Hosting – cheap web hosting – Frontpage Hosting E-Commerce Web Hosting Bluehost
2008-03-06T17:15:43 - from:abe
- When TCP Breaks: Delay- and Disruption-Tolerant Networking
2008-03-06T14:43:43 - how to get the internet in space
- Steve Chen: YouTube to Add Live Video « NewTeeVee
2008-03-06T02:57:08 - Gojko Adzic ” Two data streams for a happy website
2008-03-05T23:12:12 - Idea of seperating the cacheable from the non-cacheable from the start.
- Free! Why $0.00 Is the Future of Business
2008-03-05T19:19:28 - It really goes into the economics of how free 2.0 works.
- An Incremental Approach to Compiler Construction
2008-03-05T16:49:14 - creating a scheme assembler from c and assembly from:Malcolm Tredinnick
- Could you go live with less than 600 lines of code?
2008-03-02T16:05:40 - “If I’m prepared to operate within the constraints of the platform (whatever that is) how much effort would that save me? How many more “interesting ideas” could I turn into working products if I was prepared to follow these constraints? How many m”
- UI Breakthrough-Command Line Interfaces
2008-03-01T19:50:59 - idea that modern search engines are the new command line interface
- Balsbaugh7: Morning Prayer
2008-02-29T04:18:43 - newforms: emptying fields after failed validation – Django users | Google Groups
2008-02-28T14:27:11 - much easier
- Google Talkabout: Google Talk chatback
2008-02-28T13:58:57 - embed google talk on a webpage so you can talk to guests “To use chatback, you must have a Google Talk account … but your visitors don’t have to!”
- Productivity over time « sammy.snickerpi
2008-02-28T03:02:23 - Ben’s tribute to xkcd
- Masterpiece Engineering
2008-02-27T22:57:40 - How to prolong lithium-based batteries
2008-02-27T03:13:39 - 35W Bridge project rebuild
2008-02-23T18:00:18 - live webcams of the 35w bridge construction site
- Top-10 Application-Design Mistakes (Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox)
2008-02-23T00:05:27 - dmitrig01 | drupal.org
2008-02-22T22:28:31 - This drupal develper is 12 years old, and apparently has had a drupal user account since he was 10
- Stats about all US cities – relocation info, maps, race, income, photos, education, crime, weather, houses, etc.
2008-02-19T23:51:56 - Everyblock.com for the rest of us! via justinw
- EvilChuck: Tell Python to Shove it!
2008-02-19T23:44:18 - A dictionary interface to many different storage backends
- Salon Technology | Fear of links
2008-02-19T21:49:42 - “Weblogs, typically, are personal Web sites operated by individuals who compile chronological lists of links to stuff that interests them, interspersed with information, editorializing and personal asides. A good weblog is updated often, in a kind of real
- Git – SVN Crash Course
2008-02-17T18:13:15 - git for svn users
- ManagedQ: The Search Application
2008-02-14T03:41:16 - very cool, a little slow
- OAuth wiki / ServiceProviders
2008-02-12T22:12:49 - List of current websites that support OAuth
- Plays Well With Others at Like It Matters
2008-02-12T21:18:06 - “One of my favorite buisness model suggestions for entrepreneurs is, find an old UNIX command that hasn’t yet been implemented on the web, and fix that.” -Marc Hedlund
- CSE Undergraduate Scholarships
2008-02-11T23:56:43 - Official Google Docs Blog: Stop sharing spreadsheets, start collecting information
2008-02-11T23:42:25 - Stay At Home Servers
2008-02-11T19:28:28 - A children’s book explaining home servers. (Also available on Amazon in paperback) (from:Karen)
- Freeware Tools and Utilities for Windows
2008-02-11T17:13:35 - very high quality and useful freeware utilities for windows
- Evergreen-Bloomington :: Experience God– Not Religion
2008-02-10T18:44:02 - Concept Drawings of “our new old building” from Kevin from Micah
- Visual jQuery 1.1
2008-02-10T05:50:49 - Dr. Dobb’s | Concurrency and Python | February 3, 2008
2008-02-08T04:17:43 - “When thinking of concurrency, it’s useful to distinguish between I/O throughput and CPU throughput. Does the problem involve lots of concurrent requests, or does it involve lots of data to crunch? This distinction is important because some techniques wor
- pydot – Google Code
2008-02-08T04:13:23 - How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
2008-02-08T02:10:16 - “You shouldn’t be offended by this; by hacker standards, your respondent is showing you a rough kind of respect simply by not ignoring you. You should instead be thankful for this grandmotherly kindness.”
- Brother Yun
2008-02-07T14:22:29 - Brother Yun comes to Minnesota Feb 14th
- Social Graph API – Google Code
2008-02-06T23:05:37 - Shows your social graph
- Evergreen-Bloomington :: Experience God– Not Religion
2008-02-06T21:56:10 - Google Maps API
2008-02-06T16:42:19 - The primary objective of the EGeoXml extension is to be able to take a “My Maps” KML file, … and render the markers, polylines and polygons under the API in a manner that exposes those objects, allowing them to be manipulated by the calling program.
- USI Wireless high-speed broadband wireless internet services
2008-02-04T22:24:40 - City of Minneapolis Wireless Service
- Image:Whaling in the Faroe Islands.jpg – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
2008-02-04T21:13:35 - 43 dead whales, some have their intestines spilling out.
- UNITE Distributed Learning: Your Course List
2008-02-04T19:50:20 - Archived videos of my classes.
- ASPN : Python Cookbook : Easy threading with Futures
2008-02-01T18:27:46 - To run a function in a separate thread, simply put it in a Future: A=Future(longRunningFunction, arg1, arg2 …). It will continue until you need the result of your function. You can read the result by calling the Future like a function: print A()
- Database Design, Application, Development & Administration
2008-01-31T22:53:34 - Has most of the sql data from the book
- SENG 5199: SEng 5199 – Announcements
2008-01-31T20:50:24 - Dynamic Languages Graduate class.
- Dabble DB: Explore Dabble
2008-01-31T14:53:37 - Wow. I wish this was open source.
- Arc’s Out
2008-01-30T19:58:08 - “Good cleanness is a response to constraints imposed by the problem. Bad cleanness is a response to constraints imposed from outside– by regulations, or the expectations of powerful organizations.”
- Top Ten Mistakes of Shopping Cart Design Revisited: A Survey of 500 Top
2008-01-30T16:40:28 - SysExporter: Grab data from list-view, tree-view, combo box, WebBrowser control, and text-box.
2008-01-30T02:33:18 - Very nice program I used to use a lot. “SysExporter utility allows you to grab the data stored in standard list-views, tree-views, list boxes, combo boxes, text-boxes, and WebBrowser/HTML controls from almost any application running on your system, and ex
- Internet Owl – Website Monitoring and Change Detection Software
2008-01-30T02:29:03 - Useful for any public website that does does not have RSS. Sure I could make one of these myself, but I just don’t have the time.
- Pastoral Bible Foundation / Christian Community Bible
2008-01-29T13:34:08 - PDFs most of the Christian Community Bible. “Always REFRESH your browser. This page is being updated regularly.”
- CSCI4211: Introduction to Computer Networks
2008-01-29T01:01:12 - class webpage
- General Purpose Classroom R25 Webviewer
2008-01-28T23:00:14 - View class schedules by room. Is there a class in a certain room at a certain time? Uses software called R25
- Technical mastery requires social innovation « Jon Udell
2008-01-28T22:38:00 - Here’s a related example from Gmail. Recently, the application’s URLs became more RESTful. A message URL now looks like this: https://mail.google.com/mail/#inbox/116edd484f4ca72e. Why? So that you can bookmark it, exchange it, compose it with other th
- Qtrax
2008-01-28T20:46:48 - “Free and Legal Music Downloads” – Wacker told me about this.
- Sketching with a Sharpie
2008-01-28T12:55:48 - Profile System Discussion | Emmaus Project
2008-01-26T21:53:52 - Scala (programming language) – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
2008-01-26T05:32:41 - apparently it’s the next new thing.
- EveryBlock
2008-01-23T22:53:03 - “What’s happening in my neighborhood?” – Adrian Holovaty’s new website has gone live.
- CSci 4707: Practice of Database Systems, Spring 2008
2008-01-23T22:03:04 - class webpage
- Jon Udell | CUSEC 2008 | Hacking the Noosphere
2008-01-23T20:41:13 - “social hacks” “LibriVox is actually powered by a set of agreements and protocols and traditions. You can imagine encoding those in software, and the project’s founder might have wanted to, if he’d had access to the right kind of …”
- Candygram
2008-01-23T17:28:39 - Candygram is a Python implementation of Erlang concurrency primitives. Erlang is widely respected for its elegant built-in facilities for concurrent programming. This package attempts to emulate those facilities as closely as possible in Python.
- Bram Cohen’s Journal – Great Programmers
2008-01-23T17:08:27 - The realy difficulty in coming up with something like BitTorrent is that it involves fundamentally rethinking all of your basic approaches. This is very difficult for humans to do. We attack any new problem we encounter with techniques we already know, an
- Lisp: The Golden Age Isn’t Coming Back, Let’s Welcome a Bright Future
2008-01-23T03:37:35 - Internet Programming
2008-01-23T00:36:51 - class webpage
- Course: Introduction to Parallel Computing: Architecture, Algorithms, and Programming
2008-01-22T19:09:26 - Parallel Computing class webpage using moodle.
- Christian school glories in new Eagan location
2008-01-17T19:41:40 - Minneapolis Colocation – St. Paul Colocation – Minneapolis Managed Hosting – St. Paul Dedicated Hosting – High-speed Connectivity – DSL – Minnesota Web Hosting | VISI
2008-01-15T20:31:41 - MyFox Twin Cities | First Day of School…In January?
2008-01-15T18:28:35 - School’s been in session for several months now, but some students in Eagan are walking into their school’s classroom for the very first time today. M.A. Rosko reports from Trinity School at River Ridge to explain.
- HP JetDirect proxy and Emulator
2008-01-14T02:08:09 - make a usb printer appear as a hp jetdirect printer?
- 7 PEP 342: New Generator Features
2008-01-12T23:49:56 - GoogleReaderAPI – pyrfeed – Google Code
2008-01-11T18:18:52 - shows how to create a custom front end user interface to Google Reader
- Fifty Years of Software Development
2008-01-11T05:51:10 - “I believe that source control was not widely prevalent until 1999. Here’s why:”
- O’Reilly — The History of Programming Languages
2008-01-11T05:44:49 - Graph of the evolution of languages
- AskTog: A Quiz Designed to Give You Fitts
2008-01-11T05:34:04 - Fitts’ Law: The time to acquire a target is a function of the distance to and size of the target.
- Lenovo Support & downloads – Drivers and software – 3000 N200 (type 0769)
2008-01-11T02:40:10 - drivers for my laptop
- Software Engineering 5199 – Dynamic Languages
2008-01-09T18:37:59 - looks like an awesome class, but for grad students only. maybe i’ll just read the lecture notes.
- R6RS.Org
2008-01-09T18:23:26 - Revised Report on the Algorithmic Language Scheme
- CookBookThreadlocalsAndUser – Django Code – Trac
2008-01-07T19:35:05 - give models access to the current user via thread-global variable
- tsv2email
2008-01-05T23:41:32 - little utillity I wrote
- Django | Using newforms with models | Django Documentation
2008-01-03T22:13:03 - form_for_model and form_for_instance are deprecated, modelforms is the new solution.
- Acer Aspire 4315-2004
2008-01-03T16:14:00 - $380 laptop, no dvd burner, 512 ram, 4200 rpm hard drive
- Lenovo 3000 N200 0769-ALU
2008-01-03T15:47:52 - $400 laptop, sd card reader, but only 512 ram (I have another 512 stick), no dvd burner
- Utility Mill – Makes Utilities
2008-01-03T15:20:25 - Make a python utility with a HTML Form front end easily
- BeginnersGuide/NonProgrammers – PythonInfo Wiki
2008-01-03T04:02:50 - Cheap VPS Hosting at VPSLink
2008-01-02T23:53:50 - WestHost
2008-01-02T23:50:19 - cheap, but seems to only allow one domain?
- YouTube – Rube Goldberg – Japanese Championships
2008-01-02T21:57:55 - dude
- eTimecards Staff Home
2008-01-02T16:59:19 - timecard webpage for work
- 26″ Mens’ Roadmaster Mt. Fury Mountain Bike – Wal-Mart
2008-01-01T23:05:11 - Software and interface
2007-12-31T18:49:05 - Pippy
- Django and Comet
2007-12-31T01:31:01 - This is excelent. This allows real time events using django
- AVoverCat5.com – The definitive audio-visual structured cabling resource
2007-12-31T01:09:54 - A Green Light for Common Sense – washingtonpost.com
2007-12-24T21:45:46 - a small town in Germany abandons almost all of its traffic laws as an effort to increase safety. I like this type of thinking.
- The Iceberg Secret, Revealed – Joel on Software
2007-12-18T20:15:59 - User Interfaces are 10% of the program, but all anyone pays attention to when they think about what has actually been done.
- Fire And Motion – Joel on Software
2007-12-18T18:35:24 - Dinkytown – Google Video
2007-12-16T21:32:14 - good stuff
- Design Patterns – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
2007-12-07T23:01:14 - Creating OpenSearch plugins for Firefox – MDC
2007-12-07T20:14:20 - import this. » Blog Archive » HOWTO: Secure Firefox and IM with PuTTY
2007-12-07T20:01:51 - how to use an ssh as http proxy
- James Henstridge » OpenID 2.0
2007-12-07T19:40:17 - directed identity seems to be a very useful feature.
- Christians Movement Calls I-35 A ‘Highway Of Holiness’
2007-12-07T17:42:40 - very similar target area
- \\\\\\\”Identity\\\\\\\” the most widely misused term by Internet experts
2007-12-07T17:10:11 - Identity, like a driver’s license on the internet, on a blog that escapes titles way too much.
- Developer’s Guide – Google Chart API – Google Code
2007-12-06T19:27:12 - Remote Desktop / Terminal Services Tip – Console session – The Planet Forums
2007-12-06T02:47:13 - Live Webcam in a CSOM computer lab
2007-12-06T00:39:04 - Comet works, and it’s easier than you think
2007-12-05T22:08:36 - National Action Application – People of Praise – Northern Virginia Branch at www.popnova.org
2007-12-05T20:09:57 - Airplane Graveyard
2007-11-28T03:54:30 - lots of planes on google maps
- Eventlet – Second Life Wiki
2007-11-27T16:35:42 - Tamper Data :: Firefox Add-ons
2007-11-27T15:58:07 - MacMall – #1 Mac Store, iPod nano, Mac Intel, Mac Computers & LCD TVs
2007-11-27T15:10:10 - Indy 911 Calls | IndyStar.com
2007-11-27T14:43:47 - Action History
2007-11-27T04:34:12 - Orbited: PylonsChat Tutorial
2007-11-24T18:43:03 - /django/trunk/django/db/transaction.py – Django Code – Trac
2007-11-21T04:01:13 - Uses a cool threading/stack trick. With this trick, it is possible to keep track of the request object for each thread, and log the request object no matter how deep in the stack you are.
- Eye-Fi » Home
2007-11-13T17:56:01 - this is what i need. (supports wpa)
- SJMC Conference Center
2007-11-12T19:48:07 - Room in Murphy hall all decked out for video conferencing. It is designed for 32 people.
- Create a multiboot CD (or USB flash drive) – MEPIS Documentation Wiki
2007-11-08T19:10:41 - ThinkGeek :: Ethernet Crossover Adapter
2007-11-08T05:01:43 - this is hearby on my wishlist
- Citrix » Secure Access Control » SSO » VPN » Remote Desktop Solutions
2007-11-08T04:07:29 - Objective Windows Terminal Server & Remote Desktop Info
2007-11-08T04:01:18 - ACM Queue – A Conversation with Werner Vogels: Amazon’s CTO explains what’s behind its growth from online bookstore to e-commerce juggernaut.
2007-11-06T15:41:38 - “For us service orientation means encapsulating the data with the business logic that operates on the data, with the only access through a published service interface. No direct database access is allowed from outside the service, and there’s no data shar
- Latest Firefox 1.5.x.x
2007-11-04T17:35:20 - Apparently they are still updating version 1.5 of firefox 1.5.0.12 is the current version
- Windows Vista: Which Edition Should You Get? – HelpWithWindows.com
2007-11-03T19:46:48 - very nice comparison of the features in the different editions
- Bit Twiddling Hacks
2007-11-02T14:38:49 - This would have been helpful last spring for csci 2021
- Elsewhere I’m: Relationship Update Stream
2007-11-02T13:59:34 - Is it Christmas?
2007-11-01T21:37:46 - You can subscribe to the RSS feed too.
- They Write the Right Stuff
2007-11-01T21:01:10 - NASA, Formal methods, Don’t allow creativity. Have bug hunt competitions. If there is an error, it is an error in the process.
- Microsoft tips for donating computer equipment
2007-11-01T03:07:10 - c h r o m a s i a / photoblog / little planet #1
2007-10-31T20:53:59 - Top 100 largest classrooms
2007-10-31T04:14:27 - IT Case Studies-Cisco on Cisco – Cisco Systems
2007-10-25T14:55:41 - Bible Geocoding
2007-10-25T14:32:01 - Routing and Switching-Case Studies – Cisco Systems
2007-10-25T01:07:47 - Border Gateway Protocol – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
2007-10-24T16:52:24 - CTWatch Quarterly ” Reinventing Scholarly Communication for the Electronic Age
2007-10-24T03:12:04 - Service discovery – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
2007-10-24T03:09:12 - Blackbaud The Financial Edge
2007-10-24T01:20:30 - QuickBooks Enterprise Solutions Online Resource Center
2007-10-24T01:17:10 - Accounting and Financial Planning Software with Business Management Tools – QuickBooks – System Requirements
2007-10-24T01:15:26 - Peachtree by Sage Premium Accounting for Nonprofits 2008 – System Requirements — Sage Software, Inc.
2007-10-24T01:12:10 - A List Apart: Articles: Paper Prototyping
2007-10-23T22:03:49 - Video: Social Bookmarking in Plain English | Common Craft – Video Production and Consulting
2007-10-23T21:51:21 - Rebuilding I-35W Bridge in Minneapolis, MN
2007-10-23T15:08:16 - Building Communities with Software – Joel on Software
2007-10-23T14:42:24 - “Small software implementation details result in big differences in the way the community develops, behaves, and feels.”
- Subtraction: If It Looks Like a Cow, Swims Like a Dolphin and Quacks Like a Duck, It Must Be Enterprise Software
2007-10-23T14:20:17 - From the first comment:
“It’s pretty bad software, then; but it offers every single feature you could ever want (which looks good on paper, but not as good in real life)” - TokBox
2007-10-20T22:47:00 - webservices.xml.com: What Is Service-Oriented Architecture
2007-10-20T22:33:13 - What is SOA? – SOA and Web Services Explained
2007-10-20T22:32:04 - PLEAC – Programming Language Examples Alike Cookbook
2007-10-19T16:29:52 - CNM Hexagon – A research project into persistent presence
2007-10-18T18:44:18 - UMN internal ubuntu mirror
2007-10-18T14:34:44 - this is the one i want. 3000kb/s
- Ubuntu Releases
2007-10-18T00:53:23 - local umn ubuntu mirror
- Welcome to mosaickr – Create mosaics from flickr pictures
2007-10-17T20:36:20 - I finally found a website that will do it
- Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon)
2007-10-17T16:16:48 - next version of ubuntu gets released oct 18th
- Tech Talk: Linus Torvalds on git
2007-10-15T19:40:30 - Bug.gd – Help, has anyone seen this error?
2007-10-15T19:39:31 - Implementing an Enterprise-Wide Space Management System – A Case Study at the University of Minnesota
2007-10-13T05:39:48 - Subcommittee on Twin Cities Facilities and Support Services
2007-10-13T05:12:30 - notes about discussions having to due with buildings since 2001
- Unfuddle: Free Source Control, Bug and Issue Tracking
2007-10-12T21:48:18 - 15 Free CD/DVD burning alternatives to Nero
2007-10-12T18:19:43 - Vine & Branches
2007-10-12T18:01:57 - Configuring Apache httpd
2007-10-12T17:59:40 - thats the way I like to do things: “start with no configuration and keep fixing it until it does what you want. “
- Registration Times
2007-10-12T02:57:35 - journa-list scraper
2007-10-11T22:08:56 - NetFiles
2007-10-11T21:28:46 - 5GB of free storage space
- IPAM Appliance Solution – IP Address Management – Infoblox Built-in IPAM Appliance Solution with Integrated DNS and DHCP
2007-10-10T16:55:09 - U of M just got this
- Google Code for Educators
2007-10-09T15:18:48 - Pete Lacey’s Weblog :: What is SOA?
2007-10-06T19:33:46 - “[SOA is] a mind set. It is the generally held belief that when implementing systems one should expose system functionality for general consumption directly from the network, as well as or instead of burying it behind a user interface.”
- Open Source Alternative to Commercial Software – Downloadpedia
2007-10-05T19:17:13 - i may reference this in the future
- InfraRecorder
2007-10-05T19:12:22 - Open Source CD burning program
- Brad Fitzpatrick’s OpenID system launched
2007-10-05T19:06:34 - Blog post about the OpenID launch July 5th 2005
- Information Technology Newsletter – September 1997
2007-10-05T16:45:22 - U of M newsletter from 1997. Page 11 has some cool stuff about the network upgrade.
- Google Maps, HTML version
2007-10-04T14:19:02 - University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
2007-10-04T01:35:56 - Mark’s Blog
2007-10-04T01:24:23 - the sysinternals guy. he will search for hours to figure out every bug
- Microsoft TechNet: Windows Sysinternals
2007-10-04T01:22:30 - Very nice and robust tools for windows. They were good before microsoft bought them too.
- WebRunner
2007-10-01T21:15:34 - An SSB is an application with an embedded browser designed to work exclusively with a single web application. It’s doesn’t have the menus, toolbars and accoutrement’s of a normal web browser. Some people have called it a “distraction free browser”
- Baked Ziti I
2007-10-01T20:38:46 - dinner tonight
- Williams Arena Eastward
2007-09-27T12:06:35 - another live webcam (requires java)
- live webcam near the new stadium
2007-09-27T03:49:53 - Capital Planning and Project Management, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
2007-09-27T03:47:52 - current construction projects
- webmail mailbox view
2007-09-27T03:27:33 - old school umn webmail
- University of Minnesota Annual Tuition Rates: 1960-61 to 2007-08: Twin Cities Campus
2007-09-27T03:14:01 - Calendars
2007-09-27T03:04:28 - basic calendars of holidays and breaks
- The Hub Information
2007-09-27T03:03:21 - this used to have some nice information about bypassing resnet scans
- Universal Extractor | LegRoom.net
2007-09-27T03:01:15 - nice windows extractor i’ve used for a couple years. It can extract many types of files including install files.
- Matlab Information
2007-09-27T02:10:45 - free matlab for it students
- YUI: Douglas Crockford on Javascript
2007-09-25T14:05:02 - Labnotes » Read Consistency: Dumb Databases, Smart Services
2007-09-23T22:14:28 - But the important distinction here is that we’re pursuing a loosely coupled architecture, so we no longer share data directly through the database. Each service is independent, it exposes an interface that we’re going to use to retrieve and change sta
- OATH | initiative for open authentication
2007-09-23T21:50:24 - U of M authentication in Java
2007-09-21T14:57:27 - “This bean class is used to authenticate a user against the University of Minnesota X.500 system.”
- Shared Stuff from People You Know
2007-09-21T04:16:42 - looks kinda like a google version of del.icio.us
- One Bag – leisure and business travel packing list – travel light!
2007-09-20T21:28:05 - Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction – Books24x7.com – Referenceware for Professionals:
2007-09-18T21:27:26 - chapter 5.2 of Code Complete for a homework assignment
- GroundBreaking – TwikiLovesTheo
2007-09-18T18:22:26 - kinda random..
- OAuth
2007-09-18T13:17:23 - Jottit
2007-09-17T16:19:40 - quick wiki
- Minneapolis Bridge Collapse Provides Early Test of Wi-Fi Network
2007-09-15T19:11:41 - lots of cool internet and video technology assisting in the recovery
- Camera 1629 I-35W @ University Ave
2007-09-15T18:52:43 - traffic cam of bridge site.
- Defying Classification: Django Sprint Day 2 (liveblogging)
2007-09-15T17:46:02 - “I seem to have convinced somebody to take on the task of reorganising i18n.txt into something a bit more structured for the two types of readers (developers and translators). I’ve been wanting to do that for ages (rewrite it, not necessarily convince som
- teaching python variables
2007-09-15T03:43:27 - Amazon Architecture | High Scalability
2007-09-11T22:25:49 - If you have a new business idea or problem you want to solve you form a team. Limit the team to 8-10 people because communication hard. They are called two pizza teams. The number of people you can feed off two pizzas.
- Internet Services
2007-09-11T15:20:29 - “We’re the dot in umn.edu!”
- Minnesota Internet Traffic Studies (MINTS)
2007-09-10T19:57:48 - University of Minnesota Tuition Fact Sheet
2007-09-10T19:01:24 - Google Reader
2007-09-10T18:32:17 - del.icio.us
2007-09-10T00:21:34 - I’m really starting to like this website.
- Central Corridor Light Rail Transit
2007-09-10T00:04:20 - Parking and Transportation Services, University of Minnesota Hot Topics
2007-09-09T21:13:55 - “What-If” (Major Shopping) APAS report
2007-09-09T20:30:48 - wikimarkup – Google Code
2007-09-09T03:34:49 - Second Ward, Minneapolis
2007-09-07T21:41:39 - This is the public policy forum of Minneapolis Second Ward (Green) City Council Member Cam Gordon and his staff. We use this space to talk about some of what Cam’s working on, explain his positions, and share a little of what life in City Hall is like.
- Python for system administrators
2007-09-07T03:08:20 - September 2007 Django sprint
2007-09-06T19:09:30 - EveryBlock
2007-09-06T18:31:01 - Click for a Zip Code Boundary Map.
2007-09-06T18:17:34 - CSci 4011: Formal Languages and Automata Theory Fall 2007
2007-09-06T17:43:10 - class i am taking
- UMFoundry
2007-09-06T16:20:52 - NTSFAQ Wiki
2007-09-06T16:11:04 - XFN – XHTML Friends Network
2007-09-05T18:37:28 - social-network-portability – Microformats
2007-09-05T18:27:44 - VGA over Cat-5 cable
2007-09-05T16:57:51 - Windsurfer Antenna template
2007-09-05T16:50:27 - Beautiful Soup: We called him Tortoise because he taught us.
2007-09-04T18:48:39 - Classroom Management Department Classroom Schedule Viewer
2007-09-04T18:21:29 - Dell – Support
2007-08-31T17:04:47 - you can find all kinds of information like when the warranty expires, what the specs are in, etc with just the service tag.
- Thoughts on (and pics of) the original Macintosh User Manual
2007-08-30T14:53:59 - AccuBroadway
2007-08-30T14:44:14 - Possible Study Areas : Campus Maps, University of Minnesota, TC
2007-08-27T20:38:30 - campus fellowship pictures
2007-08-27T19:32:03 - Campus Fellowship
2007-08-27T19:30:35 - Why the U of M does not like Skype.
2007-08-24T19:08:08 - NTS DHCP User Registration
2007-08-23T14:53:19 - register your mac address for internet at University of Minnesota
- django.utils.version
2007-08-21T22:04:30 - how to get the revision number from subversion
- new way to make shell scripts in django
2007-08-21T21:27:34 - Django | The Web framework for perfectionists with deadlines
2007-08-21T20:29:08 - For the record
- New families rejuvenate old neighborhood
2007-08-20T21:01:37 - Brad’s Thoughts on the Social Graph
2007-08-19T05:14:37 - Interstate 35W Bridge in Minneapolis, MN
2007-08-19T05:00:40 - plans for the new bridge
- Learning jQuery
2007-08-19T04:47:08 - Why Process Monitor does not work on my computer
2007-08-16T12:56:43 - Installing Django on MacOS X (development version)
2007-08-16T02:08:09 - AuditTrail – Django Code
2007-08-15T13:10:41 - jQuery for JavaScript programmers
2007-08-15T12:29:49 - Vertical Centering in CSS
2007-08-13T20:02:57 - Synergy
2007-08-12T19:27:27 - Redirecting the mouse and keyboard is as simple as moving the mouse off the edge of your screen. Synergy also merges the clipboards of all the systems into one, allowing cut-and-paste between systems. Furthermore, it synchronizes screen savers so they all
- Basic storage usage
2007-08-10T13:33:33 - StartCom Free SSL Certification Authority – Home
2007-08-08T12:32:38 - Buxfer: Track Your Money
2007-08-03T13:52:34 - Ultra High Security Password Generator
2007-07-31T19:32:45 - crucial
- YUI-based Image Cropper Widget
2007-07-31T12:39:39 - Thread Synchronization Mechanisms in Python ::: www.effbot.org
2007-07-29T23:34:56 - Invite Share – Everyone is invited!
2007-07-28T20:13:54 - Citybuilder.org – Building People of Praise Cities
2007-07-28T17:25:54 - I suppose I should link to the sites I go to most often, not just the ones I can’t remember how to get to.
- Django Master Class
2007-07-24T15:46:09 - Handouts for the tutorial given at OSCON, July 23th, 2007
- Citybuilding
2007-07-24T12:34:11 - Ohloh, the open source network
2007-07-20T16:28:05 - 19 Eponymous Laws Of Software Development
2007-07-18T02:01:37 - How-To Guide for Descriptors
2007-07-17T20:11:01 - python descriptors
- Never Use a Warning When you Mean Undo
2007-07-17T16:59:17 - use “undo” instead of “are you sure?”
- Improving Google’s Social Network
2007-07-15T19:31:43 - Action Update – August, 2002
2007-07-15T19:19:36 - Action Update – August, 2002
- Grepping your web logs
2007-07-14T16:50:19 - Beating the Averages
2007-07-12T18:46:14 - Beating the Averages
- templatemaker – Google Code
2007-07-07T16:41:10 - Unicode data in Django
2007-07-05T12:32:41 - Encoding with MEncoder
2007-07-01T19:30:07 - some great tips for using mencoder
- Python Interprocess Communication and Networking
2007-06-26T20:32:07 - so cool
- Do’s and Don’t’s For Application Writers
2007-06-22T21:13:49 - First Allendale team ever
2007-06-21T23:55:14 - Live Blogging with Amazon S3 – Sitening Blog – Nashville SEO (Search Engine Optimization) and Web Design
2007-06-21T23:38:52 - Live Blogging
- Code Monkey Song
2007-06-21T23:35:45 - kinda popular at one:ten
- Google Mondrian: web-based code review and storage
2007-06-19T13:30:10 - Opening new firefox window with a new session
2007-06-18T21:26:35 - Flickr: Make a badge
2007-06-13T13:17:30 - create flickr thumbnails for embedding on another site
- What else is burried down in the depth’s of Google’s amazing JavaScript?
2007-06-08T20:34:28 - iStumbler
2007-06-07T17:43:50 - Understanding Threading in Python LG #107
2007-06-07T17:31:27 - Real-time Web Monitor
2007-06-07T17:29:16 - Four Company Men: Working for the Kingdom
2007-06-02T00:28:10 - for the archives
- Google Trends for Linux Disto’s
2007-06-01T18:49:06 - I think Ubuntu is winning
- What is reCAPTCHA?
2007-05-27T19:10:48 - This is a really cool idea.
- Windows FFMPEG binaries
2007-05-27T03:38:34 - U of M registration statistics
2007-05-27T02:30:26 - i keep forgetting the address of this website
- ettercap
2007-05-25T20:27:19 - Center for Internet Security – Standards
2007-05-25T20:25:52 - Monday in China for my sister
2007-05-25T20:02:34 - It’s a long post, but i like it
- Python web development and frameworks in 2007
2007-05-16T19:34:37 - scaling a website
2007-05-15T18:30:22 - Generic Names for Soft Drinks by County
2007-05-15T16:40:48 - this is old news, but still good
- API Dashboard – ProgrammableWeb
2007-05-15T16:15:19 - list of api’s on the web
- ProgrammableWeb
2007-05-15T16:14:08 - this is kinda cool
- Fab@Home
2007-05-07T21:23:40 - rheingold’s brainstorms: Art of Hosting Good Conversations Online
2007-05-06T18:39:04 - Technorati
2007-05-02T21:57:09 - i keep forgetting this website
- Antenna on the Cheap (er, Chip)
2007-04-27T12:51:06 - I kinda want to make this
- umn transfer, ap, test out, etc
2007-04-20T14:03:13 - Alec Johnson’s experience teaching at Trinity School River Ridge
2007-04-07T00:49:07 - U of M Microsoft Campus Agreement Program for Students
2007-04-06T19:57:58 - Roadmap for NTS Video Services
2007-04-06T19:56:12 - “people-of-praise” via Dan
2007-04-06T18:42:01 - Setting Up Mac OS X Tiger for Web Development
2007-04-05T02:03:37 - UMN Computer Science Course Prerequisite Chart
2007-04-04T13:36:20 - i love this thing
Fewer Features is better
Keep it simple.
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- See others succeed: An applicant that talked to a lot of people inside GitLab mentioned that compared to other companies one thing stood out the most. Everyone at GitLab mentioned wanting to see each other succeed.
Efficiency: We care about working on the right things, not doing more than needed, and not duplicating work. This enables us to achieve more progress which makes our work more fulfilling.
- Boring solutions: Use the most simple and boring solution for a problem. You can always make it more complex later if that is needed. The speed of innovation for our organization and product is constrained by the total complexity we have added so far, so every little reduction in complexity helps. Don’t pick an interesting technology just to make your work more fun, using code that is popular will ensure many bugs are already solved and its familiarity makes it easier for others to contribute.
- Be respectful of other’s time: Consider the time investment you are asking others to make with meetings and a permission process. Try to avoid meetings and if one is needed make attendance optional by making the invite optional, by having a clear agenda linked from the invite, and by documenting the outcome. Instead of having people ask permission trust their judgment and offer a consultation process if they have questions.
- Spend company money like it’s your own: Every dollar we spend will have to be earned back, be as frugal with company money as you are with your own.
- Freedom: You should have clear objectives and the freedom to work on them as you see fit.
- Frugality: Amazon states it best with: “Accomplish more with less. Constraints breed resourcefulness, self-sufficiency and invention. There are no extra points for growing headcount, budget size or fixed expense.”.
- ConvDev: We work according to the principles of conversational development.
- Short verbal answers: Give short answers to verbal questions so the other party has the opportunity to ask more or move on.
- Keep broadcasts short: Keep 1 to many written communication short, as mentioned in this HBR study: “A majority say that what they read is frequently ineffective because it’s too long, poorly organized, unclear, filled with jargon, and imprecise.”.
- Managers of one: We want team members to be a manager of one who doesn’t need daily check-ins to achieve their goals.
- Responsibility: Over rigidity when possible we give people the responsibility to make a decision and hold them accountable for that instead of imposing rules and approval processes.
- Accept mistakes: Not every problem should lead to a new process to prevent them. Additional process make all actions more inefficient, a mistake only affects one.
Iteration: We do the smallest thing possible and get it out as quickly as possible. If you make suggestions that can be excluded from the first iteration turn them into a separate issue that you link. Don’t write a large plan, only write the first step. Trust that you’ll know better how to proceed after something is released. You’re doing it right if you’re slightly embarrassed by the minimal feature set shipped in the first iteration. This value is the one people underestimate when they join GitLab, the impact both on your work process and on how much you achieve is greater than anticipated. In the beginning it hurts to make decisions fast and to see that things are changed with less consultation. But frequently the simplest version turns out to be the best one.
- Reduce cycle time: Short iterations reduce our cycle time.
- Work as part of the community small iteration make it easier to work with the wider community. Their work looks more like our work and our work is quicker to give feedback too.
- Minimum Viable Change (MVC): Always look to make the quickest change possible to improve the outcome. If you think it is better than what is there now do it, no need to wait for something polished.
- Make a proposal: If you need to decide something as a team make a proposal instead of calling a meeting to get everyone’s input. Having a proposal will be a much more effective use of everyone’s time. The people that receive the proposal should not feel left out, the person making it should not feel bad if a completely different proposal is implemented. Don’t let your ego to be involved early or to see your solution implemented stand in the way of getting to the best outcome.
- Everything is in draft: At GitLab we rarely put draft on any content or proposals. Everything is always in draft an subject to change.
- Under construction: As we get more users they will ask for stability, especially in our UX. We should always optimize for the long term. This means that users will be inconvenienced in the short term, but current and future users will enjoy a better product in the end.
Qualities that make the most difference in programmers productivity
- Bare programming abilities: getting sub-tasks done
Surprisingly the ability to use basic imperative programming constructs very efficiently in order to implement something is, in my experience, not as widespread as one may think.
- Experience: pattern matching
An experienced programmer eventually knows how to deal with a variety of sub tasks. This avoids both a lot of design work, but especially, is an extremely powerful weapon against design errors, that are in turn among the biggest enemies of simplicity.
- Focus: actual time VS hypothetical time
Internal factors are procrastination, lack of interest in the project at hand (you can’t be good doing things you do not love), lack of exercise / well-being, poor or little sleeping.
External factors are frequent meetings, work environments without actual offices, coworkers interrupting often and so forth.
- Design sacrifice: killing 5% to get 90%
Often complexity is generated when there is no willingness to recognized that a non fundamental goal of a project is accounting for a very large amount of design complexity… A project that is executed in order to maximize the output, is going to focus exactly on the aspects that matter and that can be implemented in a reasonable amount of time.
- Simplicity
the two main drivers of complexity are the unwillingness to perform design sacrifices, and the accumulation of errors in the design activity.
An initial design error, in the wrong hands, will not generate a re-design of the same system, but will lead to the design of another complex solution in order to cope with the initial error. The project, thus, becomes more complex and less efficient at every wrong step.
each time a complex solution is needed, it’s important to reason for a long time about how the complexity can be avoided, and only continue in that direction if no better possibility is found even considering completely different alternatives.
- Perfectionism, or how to kill your productivity and bias your designs
things like robustness, simplicity, ability to deliver in time, are often never accounted for.
- Knowledge: some theory is going to help
To be a super expert of everything is not required, but to be at least aware of a multitude of potential solutions for a problem certainly is.
- Low level: understanding the machine
Good competence of C, the understanding of how CPUs work and clear ideas about how the kernel operates and how system calls are implemented, can save from bad late-stage surprises.
- Debugging skills
The sum of being good at gaining state about a bug, incrementally, in order to fix it with a rational set of steps, and the attitude of writing simple code that is unlikely to contain too many bugs, can have a great effect on the programmer efficiency.
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