April 2008
32 posts
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Find your favorite Starbucks or Tim Hortons ; ) →
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Online beautifier for javascript →
Beautiful and free.
gabrielmansour: Nicely formats your JavaScript so it’s actually legible. Great for inspecting scripts in the wild that have been compressed and minified.
Kodak Gallery now in Canada! Affordable quality... →
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“Live!
Dream big dreams,
But act with humility.
Be brave, be courageous,
But...”
– Yours truly.
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“A developer’s second best friend after grep is tar, that means backup,...”
– Source: Any smart developer.
And here are the tools of the trade:
tar -zcvf /target/file.tar.gz backup_source
tar -xvzf target_restore.tar.gz
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“‘Your camera has a borrowed soul, one that comes with each click and each...”
– JH.
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“Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.”
– Dale Carnegie.
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Crowds, Protests, Movements and SMS →
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Flickr Video - Why so broken? →
Cameron and thousands of Flickr fans can’t be wrong. Why did Flickr introduced video in a half-hearted 90 second way?
Why introduce video in the first place? Flickr is about photography. Improve the photo experience! We still don’t have:
Private Group Albums for people not on Flickr
Any photo editing capability, not even crop or re-size
Color advice on image colorspaces, did you...
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“grep is your friend”
– Every developer I can think of. Favorite grep line, the recursive search of stuff from here to beyond ; )
grep -Rin “where is that!” .
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iRepair.ca: Mac and iPhone Repairs in Toronto →
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Jolt Awards - PHP Zend Framework →
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Vi Cheatsheets, very useful even if you don't like... →
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Ruby Natively on Mac OS X →
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“For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that...”
– Nelson Mandela (via toolmantim)
Freedom is the greatest challenge, for it assumes fairness and caring. No wonder democracy has a hard time working in places where both values are underrated. As Mandela said however, when we respect one another in liberty, true freedom shines.
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“If you focus on
what you’ve left behind
you will never be able
to see what...”
– Chef August Gusteau. As written in the original Ratatouille screenplay by Brad Bird, Jan Pinkava and Jim Capobianco.
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“Life belongs to the bold.”
– JH, yours truly : )
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OpenSSH Server for Windows! →
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““It is a dam that’s cracking. We are trying to plug the holes with...”
– Tracy Chevalier, author and head of the U.K.’s Society of Authors. Seen first here.
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Your Twitter is not your blog is not your Tumblr...
Justin Williams has hit the nail on the head with this one.
So here goes my extra 4 points to his great post:
Choose the best social networks for you. So if you are photographer, choose Flickr, if you are into Video YouTube is a must, if you have a pulse Facebook or MySpace, and if you are into tech Twitter
Avoid features! Concentrate on the community and what you need. So yes Twitter is not...
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The Gutenberg Project - Earth's Free Online... →
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Acceleration: Why it is happening in society...
No it’s not just connectedness, although that’s part of it. The secret lies behind the true meaning of McLuhan’s quote: ”the medium is the message.” Most people do not understand the quote, they think that “somehow, the channel supersedes the content in importance” which is not what he meant. The true message is that: Everyone’s extended self...