June 2007
17 posts
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ReMix '07 Singapore
I was in Orchard today for my company’s distributor meet at the Phoenix Hotel. So I decided to drop by Geek Terminal for Microsoft’s Pre-Remix ‘07 event instead of Ruby Brigade’s meetup which was being held at Aljunied. Also I wanted to meet Lee Brimelow from Frog Design mostly because I’ve heard a lot about Frog Design.
Anyways had a nice chat with Lee....
Indian Animation Studios See Top Dollars In 2D To... →
Interesting business opportunity!
How to Work the Room - Found+READ →
Nice tips for the socially challenged :)
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God I miss Pandora radio!
Last.fm sucks because it never streams properly in NUS (if it doesn’t stream properly inside the NUS network, then there’s something seriously wrong with their service!).Slacker has a Windows-only desktop client and a web-based Flash interface that promptly keeps crashing in Firefox. One of the worst Flash sites I have encountered in a while!SoundPedia is the only thing which works...
Stevey's Blog Rants: Rich Programmer Food →
“Code generation is straightforward, assuming you know enough recursion to realize your grandparents weren’t Adam and Eve.” Hilarious rant by Steve Yegge!
Many Tricks · Service Scrubber →
Lets you edit the Services menu in Mac OS X. Freeware!
ThisService →
Turns any kinda command-line script into a Mac OS X Service (shows up in the Services menu of each running app). Now I know where those TextMate folks stole this idea from!
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NUS officially loves Skype
NUS is probably the only university I’ve heard of which officially encourages students to use Skype on their own network to make calls. They’ve been doing this “Skype awareness” thing for the past 2 years!
More posters…
Above pictures belong to Peter.
Alexandre Vassalotti » Pickle: An interesting... →
Interesting post which explains how the popular pickle (serialization module) Python module works.
In Sweden, online service revealing any person's... →
This is pretty scary! But I never get why people always make such a big fuss when the entire information is already available offline to begin with.
PureFTPd Manager for Mac OS X →
Nice FTP server and GUI Manager tool.
Humanized > Weblog: What's That Music? →
The music in Humanized - Enso’s demo videos is apparently from a song called “Chick A Boom” by Mocean Worker. Love that song!
InfoQ: The Futures of Ruby Threading →
One article that explains almost everything about threading, multi-cores, and global interpreter locks. Touches on Python, Ruby and Erlang.
» Linux Kernel Modification Process →
Flowchart-y take on the process of getting your code into the Linux kernel. Actually I’ve been asked by my friends to explain how this process works many times.
google-diff-match-patch - Google Code →
A Googler releases Diff Match and Patch libraries (avaliable in JS, Java and Python)
iPhone to Support Third-Party Web 2.0 Applications →
Since when do we have “web2.0 internet standards”? seriously standards?
NokAir.com - Low fares airline →
Cheap airlines from Thailand. They’ve regular flights from Bangkok to Bangalore. I flew in their first such flight last week (I lied down in economy class because the whole row was empty!)