September 2007
18 posts
Hacker News | Paul Graham is so good, Arc is Blub... →
Paul Graham fandom
Stevey's Blog Rants: Ten Tips for a (Slightly)... →
Another hilarious (but very true) blog by Yegge about tech resumes! All his tips make sense if you were applying to the likes of Google, MSFT, Yahoo, Amazon or any good tech startup. Don’t ever do this when applying to IT in an investment bank.
Rubicode - RCDefaultApp →
Awesome utility. Why did I not know of this before?
Xee - free Mac OS X Image viewer →
Replacement for Preview (which tries to do everything but doesn’t do a good job at anything). For PDFs, I prefer Skim (which is also free).
ITA Software - Puzzle Archive →
Weblinks: Example | High Scalability - How scaling... →
Yield demo: High Performance trick by Joseph... →
Smarr recommends you to yield to the browser by doing a setTimeout(someFunc(), 0) so that the browser gets sometime to go update the UI and come back to executing the rest of the Javascript.
Frank Hecker, Writings : What "Sales Engineers" Do →
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Tutorial: Creating sexy DMGs for your Mac OS X...
You’ve probably seen a window like the one below open up in Finder when you tried to install an app in Mac OS X by double-clicking the DMG file. I’m going to teach you how to do it yourself (it is ridiculously simple once you know how to do it!).
Follow these steps:
Open Disk Utility. Create an empty DMG image of a sufficiently large size. Don’t worry we’ll compress...
Mac OS X - how to update /etc/hosts at Holy... →
AVR Television » Blog Archive » Special: The Story... →
The story behind the famous micro-controller.
Good things come in small packages: The advantage... →
Technology Review: A Haven for Patent Pirates →
“Buying a patent and forcing your rights has become a new kind of entrepreneurial activity in recent years,” says Gillam. “It’s also completely legal.”
CouchDB Talk - Some Context - plok →
JSONPath - XPath for JSON →
VGA over Cat-5 cable →
This is a neat idea!
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Catching IOErrors in Adobe AIR after a...
If you read Adobe AIR’s HTML documentation (atleast as of today), it doesn’t tell you how to catch an IOError which can occur if you’re attempting to download a file but the server hosting the file is unreachable.
Here’s the correct event to bind your URLLoader object to:
function onDownloadComplete(event) {
var data = event.target.data;
// do...
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New Apple Keyboard
I just got myself a brand new Apple Keyboard (wired version). It feels just like the MacBook keyboard. If you’re not a big fan of the MacBook keyboard, you should seriously consider not buying this one.
I decided to buy the Apple keyboard because it has an in-built USB hub (2 ports). Now I can use 4 USB ports all together (2 from the MacBook and 2 from the keyboard). But remember that...