May 2007
26 posts
Software Engineering Radio →
May 30th
9 tags
Using tcpdump to extract URIs to flv videos
Just a quick tip: $sudo tcpdump -s 1514 -Ai en1 'tcp port 80 and tcp[((tcp[12:1] & 0xf0) >> 2):4] = 0x47455420' Doing the above in a Terminal would help you to monitor all HTTP GET requests. I’m currently using it to find out the URLs to the *.flv videos on most of the Flash-based video sharing sites. Unplug and VideoDownloader FF extensions sorta work only for a few well-known...
May 30th
Wolf Paulus' Web Journal - Booting a Mac →
Mac OS X boot up options
May 27th
NodeBox | Home →
NodeBox is a Mac OS X application that lets you create 2D visuals (static, animated or interactive) using Python programming code and export them as a PDF or a QuickTime movie. NodeBox is free and well-documented.
May 26th
Anyhere Software →
Photosphere - HDR software for Mac and Linux
May 26th
9 tags
OS X lacks a lot of security mechanisms found in...
A security professional from a company called Determina recently gave a talk on reverse engineering Microsoft patches to find security vulnerabilities at Google [Google Video]. He actually demoed an exploit in Windows Vista (has something to do with ANI file loading library which gets used by both IE and Firefox and other browsers). But what is more interesting is his last slide where he...
May 23rd
django- -:inurl:/source -inurl:/wiki -inurl:/soc -... →
Third party Django projects hosted at code.google.com
May 23rd
MF Bliki: RailsConf2007 →
Martin Fowler says 40% of ThoughtWorks projects in the US are Ruby based. Pretty impressive!
May 22nd
Technocation - 2007 MySQL User Conference And Expo... →
May 22nd
RailsConf 2007 • May 17, 2007 - May 20, 2007 •... →
More presentation slides
May 20th
RailsConf 2007 PresentationSlides - Kwiki →
May 20th
Evening at Adler →
Interesting panel of independent Mac Developers talk about how they make a living writing Mac software (QuickSilver guy, OmniWeb, NetNewsWire and a few others were present)
May 20th
.: Senlick :. USBOverdrive for Mac OS X →
If you’ve a Logitech mouse and a Mac, then you need this to get all those buttons working. Great piece of software!
May 16th
1 tag
Double-shot plastic casing
MIT TechnologyReview has interesting articles on industrial design innovation in electronic products. First one is on Apple (ya that’s pretty obvious) and the second one is on Helio. But Apple, Rolston says, “will change a whole factory’s process.”What’s more, he adds, the company keeps its eyes open for newmanufacturing possibilities, no matter how obscure. One...
May 16th
Upload files using flash and javascript -... →
May 16th
7 tags
Budget airline boom in India
It’s all good for us - the customers! Found via spoonman
May 13th
Rageh Inside Iran - Google Video →
Interesting documentary on Iran (well mostly Tehran) by BBC.
May 10th
Stifflog - Erlang For The Practical Man →
An email-RSS gateway in Erlang.
May 9th
10 tags
Adobe's history
I’ve just started reading Founders At Work (the book is great if you love reading about Silicon Valley entrepreneurs). By far the most interesting chapter I’ve read until now (only finished reading half of the book) is the one on Adobe’s co-founder, Charles Geschke. Ok this might be because I kinda knew the story behind the other companies and their founders (Flickr, ViaWeb,...
May 9th
VirtualBox →
Opensource x86 virtualization for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. If you’re looking for an alternative to Parallels, this is your best choice. Works much better than Q.
May 8th
The Hindu Business Line : Taking on Google! →
An article on Sridhar Vembu, CEO of AdventNet (the Indian company behind Zoho Office). This is the only Indian company which seriously kicks some ass (even Google’s ass) in the web2.0 space.
May 7th
Python Cheese Shop : processing 0.21 →
Package for using processes which mimics the threading API (work-around the Global Interpreter Lock).
May 3rd
IT Conversations: Caterina Fake →
Nice panel discussion with Caterina Fake (Flickr co-founder). She talks about the initial days at Flickr.
May 2nd
7 tags
Automatic SSH login with password + ShellWatcher...
I wanted to monitor the processes running on poundbang.in (because for some reason Apache spawned too many of those Flup WSGI-server processes and got my shared account in trouble!). Anyways here’s how I’m monitoring the processes: Download and install ShellWatcher Dashboard widget. Download and install pexpect (also includes pxssh - SSH cmd automation library). You need this for...
May 1st
11 tags
SilverLight and DLR
I wonder how Adobe feels after these two announcements from Microsoft (if they’re not, they should be scared!). Miguel De Icaza has a nice summary of what’s been happening at Mix 07 and also the implications of all this on the Mono project. This is all good! We don’t need Flash and AS anymore. Writing a RIA for the browser using my favorite language (C#, Python, Ruby or...
May 1st
April 2007
23 posts
Peter Van Dijck’s Guide to Ease » Blog Archive »... →
Apr 30th