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Corey Donohoe is a GitHubber

Today marks Corey "atmos" Donohoe's first day as a GitHubber. He'll be helping us make GitHub more awesome.








We're all super excited to have Corey on board, and a quick browse through his repos explains why: Sinatra, node.js, and OAuth are among...

Julian Andres Klode: Google Public DNS blocks wikileaks.org (Update: No, they don’t)

It seems that Google is blocking wikileaks.org in its ‘Public DNS’ servers (8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4):

; DiG 9.7.1-P2 @8.8.8.8 wikileaks.org
; (1 server found)
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER

JIEHAAAHH!!! Mijn manuscript wordt uitgegeven door Podium!

Ik heb over het schrijven van mijn manuscript het afgelopen jaar regelmatig geblogt.
Hier vind je alle blogposts bij elkaar en hier vind je de laatste posts die ik schreef over het schrijven ervan: 1, 2, 3. Dit artikel, van direct na de 1e versie ...

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Foursquare Surpasses 3 Million Users

FoursquareFoursquare now has more than 3 million users, if the site's public user registration numbers are correct.The 3 millionth member appears to be Brian S. from St. Louis, Missouri, who has yet to check in to any venues via the mobile-based social...

Benjamin Humphrey: The joke that is Maverick’s default wallpaper

As many of you know, I tend to be the first to criticize anything in this community of people who are often afraid to voice their opinion about something. This time, however, I’m not going to do the talking, I’m just going to share some comments.
A...

Use different configs for different environments

Coming from Rails, I was surprised that I couldn't find any support for multiple configuration environments in CakePHP. There were a couple of other solutions for Cake, but I found them a bit complex for what they try to achieve. Having said that, my m...

Attention, couch potatoes! Walking boosts brain connectivity, function

A group of "professional couch potatoes," as one researcher described them, has proven that even moderate exercise -- in this case walking at one's own pace for 40 minutes three times a week -- can enhance the connectivity of important brain circuits, ...

Reading Rainbow slowed down

oh childhood

Quotes: Paris Hiltons Twitter, Shortly After Being Arrested for Cocaine Possession

In bed watching Family Guy. Love this show.! So hilarious! Stewie is my favorite :) love his accent. PARIS HILTONs Twitter update, shortly after being arrested for cocaine possession in Las Vegas.

Eric Hammond: Updated Ubuntu AMIs for EC2 released by Canonical

As Scott Moser announced, Canonical has released updated AMIs (Amazon Machine Images) for running Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid, Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic, and Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy on Amazon EC2.

The table at the top of Alestic.com has been updated to reflect the new AMI ...

Skull-A-Day Makes A Skull Image Using Brain Slices at Mtter Museum

Noah Scalin of Skull-A-Day made a giant skull image using brain slices at the Mtter Museum in Philadelphia.
via Make

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New Skateboard Design: The Strongest and Lightest In The Market

The new carbon fiber skateboards from RollsRolls incorporate a new deck concept, provisioning for better riding and making them the lightest and strongestlongboardscurrently available in the market.
The deck lowers the center of gravity which provides ...

18 Creative Calendar Designs

Whether we like to be organized or not, Calendars are rather a necessary thing that is seen every day in many different versions. Whether it is on your cellphone, wristwatch ...Continue Reading on Walyou

Changes and fixes coming to Digg's redesign

The new Digg is out and available for everyone, but a few things went awry or missing along the way. Digg's founder Kevin Rose has come out with a laundry list full of things that are being done.

Introducing the Digg Known Issues pages

Hey all -
We've created a couple of different Known Issues pages to keep you abreast of bugs and other issues affecting the functionality of the site.
read more

Canned Beer Is The Future of Good Beer

#blotto




America makes some of the world's finest beers. And now those beers are getting the conveyance they deservecans. More

Digg v4: release, iterate, repeat.

At Digg it's our job to try new things, analyze the usage data, iterate, and evolve. While not everyone is happy w/the new design, as of right now the usage looks extremely good (ie. more people registering (43,000+ new users yesterday), digging, consu...

IdeaPaint

Screw putting up a dry erase board in your home office turn a whole wall into one with IdeaPaint ($30-$175). This ingenious paint turns anything you can paint into...

7 Stories About Women Heroes in Tech - Please Send Us More

The technology press is full of stories of heroic men. In the startup economy, they often take the form of brave men who quit steady day jobs to join crazy startups. That's an inspiring kind of story; I wrote about Louis Gray doing that earlier this ...

Computer Wire Dress by Tina Sparkles

Systems Supernova, a dress made out of recycled computer wires created by Tina Sparkles for the Keep Austin Beautiful Recycled Fashion Show.
Made mostly of recycled computer wiring, the Systems Supernova dress addresses the growing problem of e-waste i...

Cannibal restaurant in Germany?

Ads for a new Berlin restaurant called Flime are requesting people to donate body parts for hearty meals. Naturally, people are flipping out. Of course, whether this is all a hoax remains to be seen. I bet it's a (rather provocative) prank. From The Gu...

Nike Air Maxes get a Wii Balance Board infusion

Recently Nike -- a shoe company that seems to enjoy a side dish of tech from time to time -- challenged 78 artists to "hack" its shoes and come up with something decidedly different than your typical Air Force Ones. Now, a lot of the projects were more...

One Million Calls Placed From Gmail in 24 Hours

If you're as big as Google, there's no such thing as a small product launch. So when Google introduced voice calls into its webmail service Gmail,

The Downfall of Digg (Hitler doesn't approve)

Hitler is frustrated as the rest of us.

Zuckerberg: “Guess What? Nobody Wants To Make Lists.”

A couple days ago, I wrote a post wondering if it wasn't time to change Facebook's social graph dynamic? Specifically, I called for a simplified system that had two layers: your friends and your followers. I think that their current social management ...

Formspring Ramps Up Social Features As It Passes 16 Million Members

Formspring, the Q&A service that lets users invite their friends to

Bankruptcy for Blockbuster

Film News: Vidtailer to file for Chapter 11 in September -- Here's how much the landscape of Hollywood's homevideo biz has shifted over the years: Netflix is readying to pay Epix $1 billion for a slate of movies, while Blockbuster is being taken down b...

Dustin Kirkland: Buy 1, get 8 Free! Or, a Useful Awk Hack...

But first, a couple of updates...If you appreciated my errno post, you might be happy to know that /usr/bin/errno is now provided by the ubuntu-dev-tools package in Maverick. This probably won't be the permanent home for the utility (currently in disc...

Michael Lustfield: Nginx Book Review

Most anyone reading this already knows me. My name is Michael Lustfield. I'm running the servers of a starting web development company called Kalliki Software. We've been in business for a little while now. When we started we had an Apache Web server w...

Dave Beckett, Leaving Yahoo – Joining Digg

Foursquare Now Tells You When Youll Become Mayor

Just when I was about to give up hope of ever becoming mayor of Mashable HQ on Foursquare, the location sharing social network has launched a new feature that might help alleviate my checkin fatigue: am I mayor yet?According to the new feature, which l...

I F***ING LOVE DIGG V4

Git Notes Display

I just blogged about the new git-notes functionality over at the Pro Git blog. If you're interested in using Git notes for something, you might be interested to know that GitHub now supports them and will display them on your commit pages.

If you pus...

PayPal and Slide Co-founder Becomes a Google VP of Engineering

Max Levchin, the founder of recently-acquired Slide and co-founder of PayPal, has been named Googles newest vice president of engineering.Levchin joined the company as part of Googles $182 million acquisition of Slide, the company he founded and ran as...

Canon EOS 60D: 18 megapixels and 1080p video flexes its articulating screen this September

Well, what do we have here? Last we heard about the Canon 60D it was just a twinkle in our articulating screen of a peripheral vision. And now it's official -- my, how times have changed. Here's what we know: the 18 megapixel DSLR boasts 1080p H.264 vi...

Vit D linked to cancer, autoimmune disease genes: MedlinePlus

Scientists have found that vitamin D influences more than 200 genes, including ones related to cancer and autoimmune diseases like multiple sclerosis -- a discovery that shows how serious vitamin D deficiency can be.

Mackenzie Morgan: Is packaging new software hard?

EDIT: Sorry Planet readers. I tried adding a "read more" thing to shorten it, but apparently that doesn't change the RSS feed, just the blog's front page. And yes, I will fix up the Ubuntu Wiki later.
A common answer to my question about why people ...

Podcaster Leo Laporte, the everywhere man

Leo Laporte arrived Thursday at Bob Hope Airport in Burbank.
On Friday morning he arrived at the office of KFI AM 640, the radio station that airs his syndicated "The Tech Guy" program. At 3:42 p.m., he was back at the airport, ready to fly home to Pet...

High Quality MySQL driver for Node

High Quality MySQL driver for Node: Now that Felix Geisendörfer launched his node powered site http://transloadit.com, he’s tacked the much needed task of writing a high quality MySQL protocol implementation in pure JavaScript.

Using the high perfo...

Git Extras: Helpful tools for Git

Git Extras: Helpful tools for Git: If you’ve ever been working heavily on a project that uses git, you’d know, that sometimes it’s good to have a few extras to help you out, and that’s what TJ Holowaychuk’s recent project git-extras provides!...

300,000 Largest Websites Visualized With Favicons

An interesting visualization over at Nmap.org shows the favicons of the 300,000 biggest websites on the Internet (according to Alexa), with the size of the favicons corresponding to sites with the most traffic.

Presidential Prank of the Day (PIC)

Seif Lotfy: GNOME Activity Journal 0.5.0 (Development Release) & New Data Providers

The Activity Journal (powered by Zeitgeist) has been finally rolled out from what was in trunk. We reduced some of the functionality Randy developed in our development branch since we wanted a smaller scope of things to fix for now.
You can read mor...

Rename Refactoring

Rename is one of the most useful refactorings at all. The developer can alter the name of a selected type, type member, function, constant in the code. Users of NetBeans PHP IDE could use Instant Rename feature since 6.5 and now in daily builds the Ren...

Mohamad Faizul Zulkifli: Windows 7 Theme For Ubuntu Linux

Transform your Ubuntu to Windows 7 familiar look now. The right way to make you child or wife feel happy when using your Ubuntu desktop/laptop. Sounds funny, take a look here.read the installation manual here http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Win2...

Jono Bacon: 11.04 Ubuntu Developer Summit Announced

Hot on the heels of the announcement of the Natty Narwhal, I am tickled pink to announce the details of the next Ubuntu Developer Summit taking place in Orlando, USA from 25th – 29th October 2010. We also have a brand new Ubuntu Developer Summit webs...

EXCLUSIEF! Backstage @Lowlands: de shit die ze je niet laten zien.

Het afgelopen weekend heb ik items gemonteerd voor Film it Yourself van 3voor12 (hier het overzicht en hier zijn straks de edits te zien)
Maar tussen de optredens, de hitjes, de snacks, de marketing en het monteren door, kwam ik backstage iets tegen w...

GithubFinder: JavaScript-powered Github repo browser

GithubFinder: JavaScript-powered Github repo browser: For those times you need to quickly browse a GitHub repo but don’t want to clone it locally, check out GitHubFinder from Alex Le.



Modeled after the Mac OSX finder, GitHubFinder provides a famil...

Diego Turcios: Frequently Problems when we use Oracle in Ubuntu

When we begin to work on Oracle in Ubuntu. We have some troubles to run Oracle. Some of the common
mistakes it gives us is that the user is not part of the dba group, or similar errors.I am living a
 small guide I did thanks to many google search, so ...

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Mark Shuttleworth: 10.10.10.10.10…..

Saw this URL fly by today… wow and thank you to the Ubuntu Ads guys

So, who’s up for making Maverick Movies? It would be great to have a “10 best features in 10.10″ video collection for release. Unity’s awesome and then there are things to...

slablet: Stylish CSS layout for iPad and more

slablet: Stylish CSS layout for iPad and more: If you like Sencha Touch, the HTML5 mobile framework we recently covered in Episode 0.3.0, but long for a more declarative, markup-driven approach, then keep an eye on Slablet from Fellowship Technologies....

Type Hierarchy View

Everyone who uses daily builds of our PHP support in NetBeans IDE might noticed couple of new features that were added after 6.9.1. One of them is Type Hierarchy View which is helpful for OO PHP code. 
To show this view use action from editor popup...

Mark Shuttleworth: N-imal?

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New Ubuntu will be called: Natty Narwhal

Oh yes, it’s that time of year again, when numerate pollsters make nasal proclamations about the naming of the next next version of Ubuntu. When gazers of balls crystal provide nifty suggesti...

Chase Douglas: Decoding Apple’s Magic Trackpad

Notes on the meaning of protocol bits
We’ve received a lot of questions on whether Apple multitouch products will be supported in Ubuntu 10.10. I’m pleased to say that all of the currently available products will have some support:

Magic Mouse
Mag...

The Fridge: Multi-touch Support Lands in Maverick

Canonical is pleased to announce the release of uTouch 1.0, Ubuntu’s multi-touch and gesture stack. With Ubuntu 10.10 (the Maverick Meerkat), users and developers will have an end-to-end touch-screen framework — from the kernel all the way through ...

Mark Shuttleworth: Gestures with multitouch in Ubuntu 10.10

Multitouch is just as useful on a desktop as it is on a phone or tablet, so I’m delighted that the first cut of Canonical’s UTouch framework has landed in Maverick and will be there for its release on 10.10.10.
You’ll need 4-finger touch or bette...

CakePHP Plugins - A Biblical Retelling

I'm just going to list a few plugins I use and abuse on a daily basis, as well as things

Mohamad Faizul Zulkifli: Spreadtweet By Elliot Kember

Need a Twitter client ?Dont want your boss know that you are tweeting while you are in office ?Introducing Spreadtweet, a twitter client that looks like Microsoft Excel.p/s: suitable for secretaries, typist, etc but remember, your network administrator...

Nitrode: A lightweight HTTP Server on top of Node.js

Nitrode: A lightweight HTTP Server on top of Node.js: Released earlier today was Nitrode, which aims to be FASTCGI type server for Node.js, this is a server for those who want the power of something like Nginx, but would prefer to write the logic in Ja...

Streaming Spotify to a PS3 from Ubuntu

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WANT!
A post came up a couple of days ago on the Spotify “What’s new” feed: how to stream spotify wirelessly to your stereo, which got me thinking about something I’ve been after for a while – the ability to stream spotify a...

Streaming Spotify to a PS3 from Ubuntu

A post came up a couple of days ago on the Spotify “What’s new” feed: how to stream spotify wirelessly to your stereo, which got me thinking about something I’ve been after for a while – the ability to stream spotify audio to PS3. This is men...

Matthew Helmke: Nginx HTTP Server

I started using Nginx as my primary web server a little over 18 months ago. At the time, I was using an underpowered server with low memory, and I wanted to replace Apache with something lighter. Even though I still love Apache for its power, configura...

Complicated Mechanisms Explained in simple animations

Radial Engines Radial engines are used in aircrafts having propeller connected to the shaft delivering power in order to produce thrust its basic mechanism is as follows Steam engine Principle Steam engine once used in locomotives was based on the r...

Design updates

Earlier today we rolled out a minor design update to the site. Notably, we have a brand new home page (remember, you can always get to the homepage at http://github.com/home):



It's simpler, sweeter and to the point. GitHub has evolved a lot since...

Programmer Productivity: Measuring Results

This is post #2 of my programmer productivity series.

Before I embark on trying out various productivity strategies, I need to establish a set of metrics that will help me understand what works, and what doesn't.

For now I decided to keep track of tw...

gollum: A simple, Git-powered wiki with a sweet API and local frontend.

gollum: A simple, Git-powered wiki with a sweet API and local frontend.: If your open source project needs a wiki, GitHub will leave you saying “My PRECIOUS!” After much anticipation, GitHub has finally taken the curtain down on their new git-power...

Making GitHub More Open: Git-backed Wikis

We've been hearing a lot of great feedback regarding our current wiki system. Today, we're launching the first phase in a rollout of a completely rewritten Git-backed wiki system to address these issues. Each page is a file in a directory. Each chan...

Seif Lotfy: My sexy desktop

Well I received a lot of comments and mails about my overall *sexy* desktop layout and look…
So to get everyone down a bit here is what you need to use and set up to have your desktop look like mine…

Get the Elementary wallpaper right here



Get ...

Brian Murray: Biking Ubuntu

This past weekend I participated in the Providence Bridge Pedal, in Portland, Oregon, with both of my sons. This is an interesting event because they close the top deck of both interstate highways over the Willamette river which bisects Portland.
I wa...

html5-boilerplate: Best practices starting point project for HTML5 and mobile web apps

html5-boilerplate: Best practices starting point project for HTML5 and mobile web apps: While HTML5 is expanding in definition to include any whizz-bang feature in the post rounded corner web era, implementing actual HTML5 in your web app can be confus...

smoothie: Lightweight JavaScript library for smooth real-time charts in the browser

smoothie: Lightweight JavaScript library for smooth real-time charts in the browser: Providing real-time, smoothly updating charts in the browser is a challenge. London-based developer Joe Walnes has tackled the problem with Smoothie Charts, a lightwei...

Og Maciel: Book Review: Python 3 Object Oriented Programming

Python 3 Object Oriented Programming
I can’t claim to have looked hard for a Python book on object oriented programming (OOP) but I was immediately attracted to the title of this book. Sure, you can find small tutorials here and there about some spec...

Seif Lotfy: Bringing fun back to the desktop…

After Jorge linked me up with this idea
I quote from the blog post:
I think it would be fun to add an achievement system to the Ubuntu Desktop, like is done on Steam and XBox.
The tricky part is tracking various events and finding amusing correlation...

HAProxy Logging in Ubuntu Lucid

At transloadit we use HAProxy "The Reliable, High Performance TCP/HTTP Load
Balancer" so that we can offer different services on 1 port.
For instance, depending on the hostname, a requests to port 80 can be
routed to either nodejs for api.transloadit....

Announcing: HTML5 Boilerplate

When kicking off a new project, I've always wanted to take with me all the kickass tricks I learned on the previous one. This project has been on and off for the last 2.5 years with a whole lot of on lately. Finally, HTML5 Boilerplate is ready to share...

Dustin Kirkland: Dear Bash, please ping me when you're done running $FOO

UPDATE: The "alert" alias has landed in Maverick's /etc/skel/.bashrc ... thanks for your support!!!How often do you run a command line tool on your desktop that takes a really long time? Maybe something like make, debuild, rsync, or wget?You probably ...

Canonical Design Team: The first milestone

As work on the font continues we thought it would be good to get some insight from the people working on developing it. In the first of these posts, Bruno Maag explains where the team are and what’s coming.

The first milestone

Hinting lower case ZH...

Oxford Archaeology: KVM, VMBuilder & Puppet - (Really) Automated deployment

I've spent some time automating the deployment of virtual machines using vmbuilder and puppet. There are two reasons behind this:I give every IT person in the company (about 8-10 of us) a VM for development, to play with new software and try fancy conf...

Easily Filter Notifications by Repository

We added a special header to all outgoing repository and direct message notifications that should make it much easier to filter emails:






Direct messages get a List-ID of user.github.com, while repositories get repo.user.github.com. Do you want to...

Canonical Design Team: An Update to the Ubuntu Light Themes

One of our key objectives when we started conceptualising the new themes was their ability to be immediately recognisable as Ubuntu, even if represented as a small screenshot. As easily recognised as when it used to be brown – but not that brown… t...

Generate PhpDoc

Today, I would like to show you how one can generate documentation for his/her PHP project. Fortunately, it is a very simple task in NetBeans. First, validate in IDE options that your PhpDoc installation was recognized and that the PhpDoc script has be...

GitHub Jobs launches tomorrow

In a little over twelve hours from now we'll be flipping the switch on GitHub Jobs. That means you only have until midnight PDT to post a job at our discounted $150 rate.

We're really excited with the quality of jobs being posted and can't wait to fl...

Oxford Archaeology: Even Accenture say so

In a press release that surprised me (I'm more used to thinking of them as a .net developing, MS Shiny Partner, if ain't got a 6-figure pricetag it ain't worth nothing sort of a consultancy), Accenture have announced nearly everything open source is ju...

Jorge Castro: Stack Applet, vanity for your SE rep.

Here’s a nice little application that will tell you what your reputation is on any site on Stack Exchange, including Ubuntu.
I mailed George Edison (the author) with some tips and stuff, and next thing you know he’s got it up on Launchpad ready to...

Still No Sleep

Michael Lustfield: Persistent SSH

It's time for another post. Recently I've had issues with dropping network connections or wanting to connect and keep working on the same thing from other systems. Most of you probably already know the answer. You screen.
Sounds easy enough. My issue i...

Debian : purge packages marked with rc status

Packages with rc status are not completely removed from the system, configuration files are still present.
If you have a bunch of rc packages you need to purge, as root, type :
dpkg --list |grep "^rc" | cut -d " " -f 3 | xargs sudo dpkg --purge
Source ...

7 Scaling Strategies Facebook Used to Grow to 500 Million Users

Robert Johnson, a director of engineering at Facebook, celebrated Facebook's monumental achievement of reaching 500 million users by sharing the scaling principles that helped reach that milestone. In case you weren't suitably impressed by the 500 ...