September 2008
9 posts
Nassim Taleb's latest essay: A map of the limits... →
Nice read. Extension of what he already wrote in his book, “The Black Swan”.
“If your object is responding to a method/message, and crashes halfway through,...”
– Reia: Classes and Objects! : The Art of Science
Getting stack trace from a running Python... →
This recipe is really cool. In order to debug a long-running Python process (if not you could just use pdb), you register a signal handler (for SIGUSR1). When you need to debug the process, send the process the signal. The signal handler then prints the stack trace, starts an interactive console (using the code module) and populates the context with the globals() and locals() from the current...
Notes on Python's dict →
Proposal: user-friendly API for multi-database... →
Thanks to Cal Henderson’s talk at DjangoCon ‘08, things are moving fast wrt multiple DB support in Django, doing more frequent releases, etc.
Death and Near-Death Experiences on Wall St. -... →
Detailed recap of Lehman’s and Merrill Lynch’s CEOs long days at work over the last week.
BearHugCamp For Those Who Missed It archives |... →
Nice summary of everything that was discussed at BearHugCamp (which apparently is where all the cool micro-blogging folks hang out these days). Lots of talk about XMPP PubSub, OpenMicroBlogging (OMB) spec, BOSH, etc.
“By registering pownce:// and instructing the Service Provider to redirect the...”
– OAuth on the iPhone - I’m Mike
Pownce does OAuth the right way on the iPhone but a lot of users don’t get it apparently. This blog post was discussed quite a bit at the Yahoo Open Hack Day 2008 in lieu of all the OAuth-enabled APIs that Yahoo is planning to launch very soon (I’ll do a...
Barcamp Bangkok 2 talk - How to date a Jap girl →
31o5 is awesome…I loved the term “surface kindness” :)
Found this via Preetam
August 2008
9 posts
Using git with dropbox →