mortals wear shoes
From mj:
They break out the infrastructure and make it P2P. This could shift the responsibility for uptime to others and allow them to host their own options for advertising or value-added services. Maybe even license the software out so there are a bazillion twitter servers out there. This would be the method by which Twitter [...]
Blueshell - UK E-commerce partnership company
Vivanco Direct - UK Electronic Accessories Store
Scartplug.com - UK audio and video cable store
White Wave - Cyprus web development company
None of them are particularly spectacular, but I felt I should let people know a bit about what I’ve been working on. I’m also working on a website for a [...]
From Cimota.
cat ~/.zshist | awk ‘{a[$1]++} END {for(i in a)print a[i] ” ” i}’ | sort -rn | head -10
2870 ls
2444 cd
659 vi
348 rm
254 svn
232 ssh
206 telnet
182 whois
180 egrep
179 sudo
Here’s the scenario: you’re writing a green field web application. This application will be used to power more than one e-commerce site, which means that it must be easily tailored. You can use any toolset you like, and the requirements are fairly standard (e.g. exporting data to CSV, modern UI, payment gateway, [...]
1. Prove it works
write the simplest code possible to show one thing working end-to-end
This can be as horrible and hackish as needed. I regularly hardcode things like URLs, integers, strings, file names/paths: whatever is needed just to show that the idea works. E.g. for Rickshaw, I started off by always sending a file [...]
The 7th Ironcoder contest was announced today (for some definition of today - damn those pesky time zones). I think this year I actually feel confident enough to take part, even if I accomplish not very much For those who have no idea what it is, each contest selects a theme and [...]
Here’s a quick preview of the product I’m currently working on. It’s called Rickshaw and it’s designed for people who like the convenience of sending (large) attachments via e-mail. Using Rickshaw your attachments are stripped from the mail as it is sent and uploaded to your designated server. The attachment is replaced [...]
If you happen to be using Xcode and get this somewhat baffling error message when building:
syntax error before ‘AT_NAME’ token
The problem is that you are missing an @end in some file that you’ve #imported, probably a header file. This error also shows up as “parse error …” in some versions of Xcode (took me [...]
I’ve started working on some projects with a bunch of guys who are not used to using version control systems. This post is as much for them as it is for anyone else. I won’t go into how to install subversion, because that is covered by many other people elsewhere. I also [...]