July 2007
11 posts
dmiessler.com | study | lsof →
Everything about the lsof unix command.
Jul 29th
O'Reilly Open Source Convention 2007 •... →
All the presentations from OSCON 2007 in one place! I especially liked the “Advanced Production Troubleshooting” talk by Theo from OmniTI.
Jul 29th
Django Master Class →
Must-read tutorial on Django given at OSCON 2007 by Jacob, Simon Willison and Jeremy. Not meant for beginners.
Jul 25th
The Uncarved Blog: Partial Function Application is... →
Jul 25th
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Making money through Flickr
I realized my friend Arpan has really transformed into a kick-ass photographer. I remember exactly one year ago when we went to Sim Lim to buy a camera and he ended up buying a Fujifilm FinePix S5600 for S$700. He was such an amateur back then. Last week he told me Singapore Airlines bought the rights to publish some of his pics on Flickr in their in-flight magazine KrisFlyer. I just wish he...
Jul 21st
IEEE Spectrum: The Athens Affair →
Two Greek computer scientists describe how a group of hackers hacked into Vodafone Greece and eavesdropped on the conversations of a lot of high-profile people including their Prime Minister.
Jul 14th
Dumpster Diving - Found+READ →
Inspiring story of iContact.com founders - they started with a revenue of $12k in 2003. It’s a miracle their expected revenue for 2007 is $6.5m!
Jul 12th
ONLamp.com -- MySQL FULLTEXT Searching →
“MySQL requires that you have at least three rows of data in your result set before it will return any results.” - I wasted about 20 mins because of this!
Jul 9th
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Skitch and Pownce invites
I have 2 Skitch (Mac only) and 6 Pownce invites left. If you want one, just leave a comment on this post (remember to type in your email address).
Jul 7th
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What does thread-safety really mean?
I finally found a good explanation of what thread safety really means over here: This is generally a tricky subject - claiming a component/class/lib/package/whatever is "thread-safe" usually causes a bit of confusion without further definition of what "thread-safe" means. At Rogue Wave, we use four different categories of thread-awareness to describe C++ code. A) Single Thread - no...
Jul 6th
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Software update from the future
Found via FactoryJoe
Jul 2nd