Speed Hashing

Space Bar ~ More Space, More Ports, Less Clutter

Wintersmith - Static site generator powered by CoffeeScript, Jade, Underscore, and Node.js

wemux - multi-user terminal multiplexing for party pair programming based on tmux

Converting to Twitter Bootstrap

GitHub for Mac: Easier Updates

Angelina Jolie Costume

via reddit

Sysadmin Sunday 54

This is Sysadmin Sunday, a post of interesting links from throughout the previous week.

How Visa Protects Your Data
Git explodes
Secure Boot impact on Linux

Subscribe to our RSS feed and follow us on Twitter for interesting links throughout the week.

Chalk Waterfall

Chalk Art by Edgar Mueller Found thanks to Hooch

A sense of humor

A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It’s jolted by every pebble on the road.
    — Henry Ward Beecher

Thanks Brother Paul
 

Fire Tornado

Tagged: extreme, fire, gifs, tornado, yikes Submitted by: ChemoPower

FOREHEAD MUSTACHE

FOREHEAD MUSTACHE
because 1 mustache isn’t enough
Submitted by: Unknown

Fan of This Move

Tagged: bed, ceiling, FAIL, gifs, inflatable mattress, ouch Submitted by: Unknown

The Important Field

8 Extreme Halloween Costumes for Geeks

If you're gonna do something, make sure it's memorable, and these geeky costumes are extreme to say the least. Starting off, we have a terminator robot. Continue reading to see the other eight.


[via Toxel]

Good Recovery

Tagged: extreme, gifs, good recovery, hill, racing, skills Submitted by: Unknown

Driving In Europe

Tagged: cars, driving, europe, gifs, wtf Submitted by: Unknown

New - AWS Management Console Support for the Simple Email Service

The Amazon Simple Email Service gives you a simple and cost-effective way to send any volume of bulk or transactional email. We send millions of emails on behalf of thousands of Amazon SES customers each and every day.
You can now access Amazon SES thr...

Elastic Load Balancing: More IPv6 Support, More Metrics, More IP Addresses

We have made some improvements to our Elastic Load Balancing product:

IPv6 is now supported in the Asia Pacific (Singapore) and Asia Pacific (Tokyo) regions.
Each Elastic Load Balancer reports six new metrics to Amazon CloudWatch.
The DNS entry associ...

Sad But True

Tagged: critters, gifs, life, sad but true Submitted by: UnknownVia: peetaah.tumblr.com

Boxee for iPad & Spotify update

We released Boxee for iPad version 1.2 into the iTunes app store today.
Here’s a run down of the standout new features in the app.

If you look to the lower right hand corner of this screenshot you’ll see the new remote control for video you’ve s...

Sjentelmen

Twintig stappen NORMAALDOEN voor mannen.

Zurb Foundation - Design scaffold for your web app

Zurb Foundation - Design scaffold for your web app: The talented team at Zurb has released Foundation, a design scaffold for building web applications. Much like HTML5 Boilerplate, Foundation comes with some sensible markup defaults, however it goes fa...

Carpet Swinging

Tagged: carpet, FAIL, gifs, ouch, work Submitted by: Unknown

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Full Stack CakePHP Deployment With Chef and Capistrano - Part 2

This text is the second in a long series to correct an extremely disastrous talk at CakeFest 2011. It

Say Hello to Hubot

For the past year or so we've been telling people about Hubot, our amazing Campfire bot. We have a lot of fun working on Hubot. He makes us laugh, he ships our code, he is the interface to our CI server, and a whole lot more. Over the last year, he's...

Vinyl biking

Many of us (at least here in The Netherlands) put on music while biking. But did you know soon it might be possible to spin vinyl records by simply riding your bike? Thanks to  designers Liat Azulay (also founder of Ludduvudde), Merel Slootheer, Piete...

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Carpeting

Tagged: carpets, cats, Caturday, cute, gifs, rugs Submitted by: Unknown

First Annual Octocat Dodgeball Tournament a Success!

The first annual Octocat Dodgeball Tournament was held yesterday in San Francisco at the Mission Rec Center. 17 teams joined us for 4 hours of ball throwing fun, in the process raising $57,000 for charities.



We were even joined by our own little da...

New Old Hints

Hi all! It's several weeks when we last introduced you some pure PHP improvements, isn't it? But now, it's here again :-) Today we would like to write something about old well-known PHP hints, their new implementation and new improvements. Here they ar...

Punches Thrown

Tagged: gifs, MMA, ouch, punches, UFC, yikes Submitted by: cocobox

Party Under The Bridge

Full Series Of Pics

Kitten Jumps

Tagged: cats, Caturday, gifs, kitten, truck, yikes Submitted by: TSGIGORVia: www.youtube.com

Pulling a Plane

Tagged: Caturday, get a job, gifs, plane, pulling Submitted by: Unknown

Clint Byrum (SpamapS): Juju ODS Demo – The Home Version

A few weeks ago I gave a live demo during Canonical CEO Jane Silber’s keynote at the Essex OpenStack Conference, which was held in Boston October 4-7 (See my previous post for details of the conference and summit). The demo was meant to showcase ou...

GitHub Secrets

Over the years we've added quite a bit of stuff to GitHub. Sometimes we ship huge features, sometimes we ship small, lesser-known bonus features.

Let's talk about some of those secret features you may not know about.

Whitespace



Ever have someone p...

This Bro is a Pro-Partier

Tagged: bro, dancing, extreme, gifs, lsd, party Submitted by: Unknown

Punching Bag Fail

Tagged: FAIL, gifs, punching bag, whoops Submitted by: Unknown

Why ESI is Still Important, and How to Make it Better

More than ten years ago, I was working at Akamai and got involved in the specification of Edge Side Includes (ESI), sort of a templating language for intermediaries.
In that time, interest in ESI has grown, waned and been reborn. As far as I can tell,...

Amazon Simple Queue Service: Batch Operations, Delay Queue, and Message Timers

We have added some nice new features to the Simple Queue Service. You can now use batch operations to send and delete messages with greater efficiency and at a lower cost. You can make any of your queues into a delay queue, and you can also use message...

SEEMS LEGIT

SEEMS LEGIT
Submitted by: gus

Rectangular Selection

If you use development build, you probably noticed that NetBeans editor added Rectangular Selection action. I don't need this functionality every day, but it can be helpful in some case. One of such case is when you need to delete line numbers in a tex...

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Do a Google Search for ‘ip’ and Get Your IP Address

Millions of us know the trick of getting our public IP address. Most go to ipchicken or the site aptly called “whatismyip”. Well, Google just made all that unnecessary.

You can now just search for ‘ip’ (yes, two letters) and it’ll return you...

Zend Studio + GitHub

Yesterday Zend announced full support for Git and GitHub in the next version of Zend Studio (9.0). If you're a PHP developer, chances are you know about Zend — and if you're using GitHub, your life just got a whole lot more awesome. Take a PHP projec...

All of the Hooks

Over three years ago, @pjhyett launched GitHub Services with just four services: Campfire, IRC, Lighthouse, and Twitter. Since then, 124 other people contributed to a total of 67 68 3rd party services. We and many others depend on these services to p...

iPhone luistert toetsaanslagen van pc af

De accelerometer in smartphones kan gebruikt worden om wachtwoorden af te luisteren. Als je de telefoon naast een toetsenbord ligt herkent hij door trillingen toetsencombinaties.

Ninja Turtle Noses

More at Teenage Mutant Ninja Noses

How Springs are Made

Tagged: gifs, how its made, industry, springs Submitted by: Unknown

Take That, Ya Dummy

Tagged: dummy, eventual win, FAIL, gifs, ouch, pride, punching, puns Submitted by: Unknown

Building Relationships

50 of the World’s Best Breakfasts

1. A full English Breakfast – it must have beans, sausages, bacon, eggs, mushrooms, hash browns and toast. Of course, it should all be knocked back with a cup of tea, but black pudding is optional as far as I’m concerned.

2. Breakfast in Iran – ...

The Easiest Way to Solve a Rubik’s Cube

This may be useful to a certain time traveling celebrity…
Tagged: Dr Who, gifs, legos, machine, magic, phone, rubiks cube, science!, technics Submitted by: UnknownVia: ARMflix

Aaron Toponce: Use wget(1) To Expand Shortened URLs

I’m a fan of all things microblogging, but let’s face it: until URLs become part of the XML, and not part of your character count (which is ridiculous anyway), shortened URLs are going to be a way of life. Unfortunately, those shortened URLs can be...

Jack Russell Exercising Himself

Jack Russells are phenomenally cute.
Tagged: ball, cute, gifs, jack russell terrier, sundog Submitted by: _C_A_T_Via: thedailywh.at

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Sharing Todo Lists with iOS 5's Reminders app

Last night I figured out that it’s possible to share your reminder lists with other iCloud users, like a Groceries list shared with my wife Kate, which we’re trying out right now.
The new Reminders app in iOS 5 leaves a lot of room for improvement...

No More Sexting Your GF, Bro

Tagged: bro, cars, communication, gifs, text Submitted by: Federico

JazzLibs - Ruby CLI to rollout and manage JavaScript libraries

JazzLibs - Ruby CLI to rollout and manage JavaScript libraries: JazzLibs is a small Ruby library from Paul Engel to stamp out a repository structure and manage JavaScript libraries. The simple Thor-based CLI unfurls a new project that includes:

a sou...

Three Smart Guys Doing Something Smart

Tagged: FAIL, gifs, nut shot, ouch, smart, triple fail Submitted by: Unknown

C-C-C-Combo Breaker!!!

Tagged: awesome, gifs, judo, killer instinct, martial arts, reversal, throw Submitted by: RicoMunster

Sysadmin Sunday 52

This is Sysadmin Sunday, a post of interesting links from throughout the previous week.

A lsof guide
The Search for a More Perfect Kilogram
Leveled Compaction in Apache Cassandra
Why you should never build a backblaze pod
MongoDB + RabbitMQ: Distribut...

Paige - Site generator for GitHub pages powered by Docco and Node.js

Paige - Site generator for GitHub pages powered by Docco and Node.js: If you love the minimal approach of Docco, take a look at Paige, a site generator from Rodrigo Thauby for GitHub Pages.



Paige includes some sensible, attractive defaults, but you ...

Customizable, localized add-to-home-screen script for iOS

Customizable, localized add-to-home-screen script for iOS: Supporting two dozen languages and easily customizable with CSS, add-to-home-screen from Cubiq makes it easy to let users add your site to the iOS home screen.

Pacifist Cat

Tagged: cats, Caturday, cute, gifs, guns, war, wtf Submitted by: Unknown

No You Can’t Use My Door

Tagged: cats, Caturday, dogs, doors, gifs Submitted by: Unknown

Sidney Vollmer: Alles ruikt naar chocola (fragment)

De eerste muur is bijna helemaal Keniaans geel. Willem komt binnenlopen terwijl ik de tweede muur verf. Hij gooit zijn spijkerjack op een stoel, rolt een verfroller door een bak en klimt op een kruk. ‘Alles goed?’ vraag ik. Hij bromt instemmend. Kl...

Lessening the Blow

Submitted by: Sonic

Don’t Give Me That, Hermana

Tagged: beard, epic, gifs, slap Submitted by: UnknownVia: www.reddit.com

Almost Success, Hermana!

Tagged: almost, FAIL, fist bump, gifs, hand shake, white people Submitted by: Unknown

Spotify Now Streaming Music With Custom Boxee App

Spotify’s endless catalogue of music has arrived on Boxee.

When I tell people about Spotify, I say it’s like iTunes, but with millions and millions of songs built in… and sharing that makes “Ping” look like an 8-track.  With its recent Face...

Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) released

The Ubuntu 11.10 release is available. "For PC users, Ubuntu 11.10 supports laptops, desktops and netbooks
with a unified look and feel based on an updated version of the
desktop shell called 'Unity', which introduces specialized 'Lenses'.
Finding a...

Optical Illusion: Growing and Shrinking Cigarettes

Tagged: cigarettes, gifs, magic, optical illusion Submitted by: TSGIGORVia: www.youtube.com

Invest in us.

One of the ideal times to start a company is when you've come up with an idea for a product that has the potential to really scratch an itch that people have in both work and play; an itch that some have today, but that you know many more people will h...

Features I’d like to see in InnoDB

I had some conversations with a few people at Oracle Open World about features that would be beneficial in InnoDB. They encouraged me to blog my thoughts, so I am.

Someday I’d like to have a clear mental list of features I want in MySQL in general, ...

Issues Dashboard for Organizations

Organizations. Issues dashboard. Together at last.

Now you can discover all issues across your organization from a single page!

You can also use the context button to switch between organizations effortlessly.

STUCK

STUCK
no, no, I’m just stretching before the movie starts.
Submitted by: fareon

The Code Tab

¡OH MY SCIENCE EVERYTHING HAS CHANGED!



Welcome to the Code tab. GitHub launched over three years ago, but to this day we've never touched our main repository navigation structure. This is the first of many steps designed to take GitHub into the fut...

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Introducing Issue Mentions

With Issues 2.0 and GFM, it is easy to link to users, issues and commits from issue comments:



You can also mention issues directly from commit messages, and the mentioned issue will link back to the commit:



Now, the same is true when you mention ...

Crazy Man Jumps Over Lamborghini

Tagged: cars, extreme, gifs, jumping, lamborghini Submitted by: TSGIGORVia: www.youtube.com

InnoDB is red hot, MyISAM not

Everyone who started using MySQL before 5.5 started off with MyIsam. It was the default storage engine and you had to go out of your way to use anything else. It was a good looking database, rugged, simple and fast in many respects. But crash recovery...

Mirroring

Tagged: gifs, mirroring, monkeys, nature, silly Submitted by: TSGIGORVia: www.youtube.com

Drowning In Puppies is The Best Drowning

DOGS? IN MY INTERNET?
Tagged: dogs, drowning, gifs, puppies, so cute, sundog, want Submitted by: _C_A_T_Via: dogs.icanhascheezburger.com

Just Rock On

Tagged: avalanche, collapse, gifs, nature, rocks Submitted by: Unknown

Biking in Africa

Tagged: africa, biking, gifs, ouch, wear a helmet Submitted by: Unknown

Node v0.5.9

2011.10.10, Version 0.5.9 (unstable)

fs.watch interface backed by kqueue, inotify, and ReadDirectoryChangesW (Igor Zinkovsky, Ben Noordhuis)
add dns.resolveTxt (Christian Tellnes)
Remove legacy http library (Ben Noordhuis)
child_process.fork returns a...

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Anarchy in the UK

Tagged: anarchy, gifs, kids, ouch, tea Submitted by: Unknown

Clowning Around

via uniquedaily

The Corliss Resolution

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Dog Welcoming

Tagged: army guy, dogs, gifs, heartwarming, soldier, sundog Submitted by: Unknown

Rat’s Death Wish

Tagged: bravery, dogs, gifs, rats, sundog, wtf Submitted by: Unknown

Keeping Googlebot Happy Revisited

I stumbled upon an older blog post I wrote a couple of years back discussing the advantages of keeping your site fast, specifically so Google can crawl it efficiently to keep their index as fresh as possible. I loaded up Google's Webmaster Tools to see...

You Are Traffic

Steve’s dent

Short URL: http://farukat.es/p612

Wait Was that a No or a Yes?

Tagged: answers, art, Art Basel 2010, Markus Raetz, mindwarp, no, yes Submitted by: TSGIGORVia: www.youtube.com

Steve

I was sitting in an office as news started coming in yesterday that Steve Jobs had passed away. Shocked, I verified the news, paused speechless for a moment, shared it with my wife in astonishment, and worked on. I worked hard and finished designing a ...

School Us Awesome One

Neil Patrick Harris is the man, man.
Tagged: gifs, graph, Neil Patrick Harris, sad but true Submitted by: fareon

Integrated IAM Policy Generator

You can now create custom IAM (Identity and Access Management) policy documents from the IAM tab of the AWS Management Console. You can use a custom policy document to gain access to a number of advanced IAM features such as limiting access by user age...

Oracle works on Dtrace for Linux (The H)

The H reports on Oracle's plans to bring DTrace to (Oracle) Linux. "There is no word on what the Linux port of 'Dynamic Tracing Facility' (also known as Dtrace) will look like, but it is considered a major function in newer versions of Solaris. A blog ...

Bundler 1.1.rc is out!

Bundler 1.1.rc is out!: If you do any work with Ruby and Rails, then you’ve (probably) grown to love Bundler, an awesome gem that resolves the dependencies for all your other gems.

The bundler team has been working hard on a new release, and they’...

modusops:

NYC Sunset.

modusops:

NYC Sunset.

nevver:

DesignBoom

nevver:

DesignBoom

What a Delightful Song!

Tagged: bongos, cute, gifs, music, spider Submitted by: UnknownVia: www.reddit.com

An Easy Way to Build Scalable Network Programs

Suppose you’re writing a web server which does video encoding on each file upload. Video encoding is very much compute bound. Some recent blog posts suggest that Node.js would fail miserably at this.
Using Node does not mean that you have to write a ...

Cheer Squad

Tagged: back flip, cheer leaders, FAIL, gifs, ouch

Alles ruikt naar chocola: foto’s van de lancering

(helemaal onderaan alle thumbnails, daarboven een toelichting op de avond en hier alle foto’s in een gallery:



Lancering 'Alles ruikt naar chocola'








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Full Stack CakePHP Deployment With Chef and Capistrano - Part 1

This text is the first in a long series to correct an extremely disastrous talk at CakeFest 2011.

Sysadmin Sunday 50

This is Sysadmin Sunday, a post of interesting links from throughout the previous week.

What good Web Developers should know about sending E-mail
MySQL.com Sold for $3k, Serves Malware
Debunking the NoSQL Hype from Oracle: “Go for the tried and true...

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Double Fail

Tagged: double, FAIL, gifs, MMA, ouch, tko Submitted by: Unknown

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That’s Why It’s Called Ultimate Fighting

Tagged: gifs, MMA, nards, ouch, punching Submitted by: _C_A_T_

Working Those Abs

Tagged: abs, babe, exercise, gifs, punching bag, sit-ups Submitted by: Unknown

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New Blog RSS Feed Location

Our blog RSS feed has moved to http://github.com/blog.atom

Update your feed reader now if you want to stay up to date with all the exciting GitHub action. We've moved off Feedburner (R.I.P.) and the old feed will only remain active for 30 days.

Drift: an iPad app for GitHub Gists

Greg Borenstein (he hooked up our stoplight to our ci build system last year, remember?) and Devin Chalmers just announced that Drift is available on the App Store. Drift is an always-versioned text editor for the iPad, backed by GitHub Gists.





No...

Junip - To The Grain (live session)

Junip - To The Grain (live session)

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ISS Captures Breathtaking Footage of Northern Lights

Most commonly known "as auroras, the International Space Station photographed a magnificent green and red hue from its orbit 200 miles up." The footage you're about to see was captured as the ISS traveled over the southern Indian Ocean on September 17,...

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They Are So Sour!

Tagged: candy, gifs, lord of the rings, LOTR, sour patch kids Submitted by: UnknownVia: theuniblog.evilspacerobot.com

Alles Ruikt naar chocola: de website.

 Hij is online. De website van Alles ruikt naar chocola. Lees meer over het boek, onze BookApp, bestel een gesigneerde kopie en, mocht je het boek hebben: gebruik het boek voor een beetje Playtime.

Issues Dashboard

The new Issues Dashboard. Now you can get all your issues on all your projects.



Similar to the Pull Request Dashboard, the Issues Dashboard consolidates all of your issues in one tidy little page. Use the filters to show issues in your repositories,...

Browser Market Pollution: IE[x] is the new IE6

You may soon be developing for 76 browsers.
(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻
Lemme take a step back… So it's fair to say that for most of us, IE6 has gone the way of the dodo. Good! Now in IE7, we have less CSS issues, working PNGs, but pretty much the...

Aurora Borealis Seen From Space

Tagged: earth, gifs, satellites, space Submitted by: Unknown

Happens to Me All the Time

Tagged: forever alone, gifs, love, tumbleweed, visual metaphor Submitted by: Guto

USN-1216-1: Linux kernel (EC2) vulnerabilities

Ubuntu Security Notice USN-1216-1
26th September, 2011
linux-ec2 vulnerabilities
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its
derivatives:


Ubuntu 10.04 LTS




Summary
Multiple kernel flaws have been fixed.




Software descript...

nevver:

Foam core

nevver:

Foam core

What’s Next

There has been a lot of speculation and trepidation about the future of TextMate recently, mostly about whether there will be another major release. Work on 2.0 began and while we wish it could have been completed faster we are very pleased with how it...

Using bcrypt for passwords in CakePHP

CakePHP uses salted sha1 hashes for passwords by default, and has for a while. There has been some talk on the mailing list lately of switching the default hashing to something more secure, such as bcrypt. I think this is a great idea, and will find ...

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Trash Shadow

Shadow Sculpture by Tim Noble & Sue Webster More at Environmental Graffiti

libuv status report

We announced back in July that with Microsoft’s support Joyent would be porting Node to Windows. This effort is ongoing but I thought it would be nice to make a status report post about the new platform library libuv which has resulted from porting N...

500 Internal Server Error

500 Internal Server Error

CERN Discovers Particles That Break the Speed of Light

You read that right, "an international team of scientists at the Gran Sasso research facility outside of Rome announced today that they have clocked neutrinos traveling faster than the speed of light." Click here to see more. If you're not familiar wit...

WTF?

Tagged: david cross, gifs, good question, wtf Submitted by: Hillariouz

IMGP5273

The Next Web posted a photo:

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LESS + CakePHP, best buddies

LESS takes CSS to a whole new level by extending it with dynamic behavior (think of working with variables, functions or mixins directly in CSS).
Here below a few quick notes about integrating LESS with CakePHP.
The original idea is by Phally (Frank d...

One Million

Lazy man's responsive web design

The Boston Globe recently raised the bar for responsive web design.

Please allow me to lower it.

For our playbook, I wanted to provide a pleasant reading experience for desktop and mobile web browsers. However, I’m lazy.

My answer to “what’s t...

Do you have any unused variable, please?

Today we would like to introduce you a very useful feature, which is well known by most of you. Do you know experimental hint which tried to check your unused variables? I hope you do. But almost noone used it. And why? Because it was slow, unstable an...

Toast Coasters

Designed by Patricia Naves Found via This Isnt Happiness

Think Fast

Tagged: ball, FAIL, gifs, headshot, kids, ouch Submitted by: Unknown

Infinite Drink!

Tagged: awesome, drinking, gifs, Samuel L Jackson Submitted by: UnknownVia: iwdrm.tumblr.com

AWS Summer Startups: Peritor/Scalarium

Over the summer months, we'd like to share a few stories from startups around the world: what are they working on and how they are using the cloud to get things done. Today I’m speaking to Jonathan and Thomas, two of the creators of Scalarium, from...

Amazon RDS Updates - Oracle Improvements and a New Minor Version

We've made two important updates to Amazon RDS for Oracle Database:

A new minor version (containing some critical security fixes) is now available.
Additional access privileges are now available (via the new minor version) to applications.

New Minor ...

Daily Inspiration #932

This post is part of our daily series of posts showing the most inspiring images selected by some of the Abduzeedo's writers and users. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, just send us, via email, the image with the li...

Penguins are Jerks

Tagged: critters, gifs, jerks, penguins Submitted by: TSGIGORVia: www.youtube.com

Space Stripper Training

Tagged: babe, gifs, pole dancing, space, win Submitted by: Jonesty

Baby Koala Tries To Climb

Cute animals in my Internet?
Tagged: baby, cute, gifs, koala, squee Submitted by: TSGIGORVia: www.youtube.com

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Brew Methods

A wonderfully simple site dedicated to the art and style of creating fine coffee. Learn how to use that Chemex properly!

AWS Summer Startups: ShowNearby

 
Over the summer months, we'd like to share a few stories from startups around the world: what are they working on and how they are using the cloud to get things done. Today, we're profiling ShowNearby, from Singapore!



About ShowNearby

ShowNearb...

Use This Fucking Wallpaper

Based on this picture, as seen on Twitter by @hermoineway. If you know the original artist, please let me know so I can correctly attribute the quote.



Use This Fucking Wallpaper – 540 KB


Wallpaper is 2560×1600, so it should suit practically ev...

Disaster: MySQL 5.5 Flushing

We raised topic of problems with flushing in InnoDB several times, some links:
InnoDB Flushing theory and solutions
MySQL 5.5.8 in search of stability
This was not often recurring problem so far, however in my recent experiments, I observe it in very s...

CakeFest 2011 slides posted

In case you were not able to attend CakeFest 2011. I’ve posted my slides up on slideshare. The event was a great success. Thanks to Graham for organizing the event and to all the attendees. Its great to meet the community and put faces and names ...

Chocoladeletters drukken.

Gisteren mocht ik komen kijken hoe in de drukkerij mijn boek werd gedrukt. Vandaar de bovenstaande afbeelding van hagelsteentjes annex lijmkorrels.
Dat drukken ziet er ongeveer zo uit. Eerst het boekomslag:

In bovenstaande video zien we hoe mijn hele ...

The Beautiful Music of the Forest

Tagged: cat, Caturday, duck, gifs, Japan, wtf Submitted by: Unknown

Reprised and Remixed

Tagged: awesome, dancing, hats, party, Star Trek Submitted by: Unknown

C U 2nite

Tagged: commercial, driving, FAIL, gifs, ouch, texting Submitted by: Unknown

Stilts on a Treadmill

Tagged: FAIL, gifs, good idea, stilts, treadmill Submitted by: _C_A_T_Via: www.youtube.com

Running WordPress on Heroku + Amazon RDS

With the announcement of the Heroku and Facebook partnership yesterday, Heroku quietly confirmed support for two new languages, Python and PHP. The self-proclaimed polyglot platform, Heroku's Celadon Cedar Stack now has a considerable advantage over ne...

Mind-Blowing 3D Grass Globe Illusion

Similar to 3D chalk art, this grass globe illusion in Paris by French artist Francois Abelanet "took over 5 days to complete the installation requiring 1200 square meters of lawn, 300 square meters of the coverplant sedum, and 650 cubic meters of sand ...

Sweet Crotch Rocket Bro

Tagged: bro, crotch rocket, gifs, magic, trick Submitted by: Unknown

Pole Dance Fails

Tagged: babe, FAIL, gifs, ouch, pole dancing Submitted by: Unknown

Weg met je oude shades

ALLES is beter met snor. Kopen?

Amazing Rescue in Utah

Tagged: crash, gifs, good people, he's alive and in stable condition, utah, yikes Submitted by: UnknownVia: SlTrib

Tying The Knot

Wedding Invitation Design by Christina Moralego

Alderaan Shot First

Tagged: alderaan, canon, death star, fact, gifs, Star Wars, thanks george lucas Submitted by: Unknown

Working

Color Picker Pro for Mac

Color Picker Pro for Mac: It’s always neat to see desktop applications go open source. Oscar Del Ben has done just that with Color Picker Pro; it’s a desktop app that lets you, well, pick colors.

If you’ve ever wondered how other people structur...

User-friendly select boxes with Chosen Javascript plugin

Check out this awesome plugin that replaces standard select boxes with a search/autocomplete widget. It manages to transform long clunky select lists to something that is a breeze to use… From a quick glance the design and implementation is flawless....

Meetings Suck

Tagged: fall, gifs, meetings, Mondays, ouch, suck, work Submitted by: boonator

Testify Brother…. Man

Tagged: awesome, Big Lebowski, gifs, Jeff Bridges, man, the dude Submitted by: fareon

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Pizza Sweatshirt

via juliasegal

Better Pull Request Emails

Since the new pull requests shipped just over a year ago, we have been sending out pretty sparse emails when someone created a new pull request on one of your projects. You would get an email like this:

hey @jane look at this real quick

--
Reply to...

Hats in Art, Hombre!

Tagged: amazing, beautiful, classic art, gifs Submitted by: sixonefive72

One Talented Corgi, Hombre

Tagged: awesome, cool, corgi, dog, gifs Submitted by: UnknownVia: Youtube

File Transfer

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How GitHub Works

If you've ever wondered what it's like to work at GitHub, check out Zach Holman's (@holman) candid three-part series on how we operate:


Hours are Bullshit
Be Asynchronous
Creativity is Important

1Password

1Password:

($19.99) - 1Password is your online password and identity companion. It leaps past simple password storage because 1Password works directly with your browser, saves your user names and passwords, and effortlessly creates strong, unique pas...

Real Life Working PIP Boy, Man

Tagged: awesome, Fallout, gifs, IRL, technology Submitted by: UnknownVia: My Magic Pudding

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This Could Have Ended Badly

Tagged: cars, close call, flipping, gifs, jumping, win Submitted by: Unknown

Percona Toolkit 1.0.1 released

Daniel and I and the Percona release engineering team are proud to announce version 1.0.1 of Percona Toolkit. This toolkit is Percona’s suite of DBA and sysadmin productivity tools for MySQL. It is the successor to the popular Maatkit and Aspersa too...

Jump - cd + autosuggest, powered by Node.js

Jump - cd + autosuggest, powered by Node.js: An interesting use of Node.js and Spotlight on the mac, Jump brings autosuggest to cd.


Type a few letters, jump autosuggests 5 results, move with arrows, return to select.


Personally, I don’t know ho...

AI

CAROUSEL

Tagged: art, awesome, clowns, gifs, guns, mindwarp, robbery Submitted by: UnknownVia: YOUTUBE

Shiny new commit styles

We just rolled out some redesigned commit blocks all over the site. They look a bit like this:





There's all kinds of nice additions — notably, we'll show you the full commit message anywhere a commit is displayed (with the +… button).

But the ...

SPANK TIME

Tagged: babe, butt, gifs, humpday, ok, spanking Submitted by: meganeguard

Death by Ninja Star

Tagged: death, gifs, ninja star, ninjas, wtf Submitted by: name_not_required

Monster in the Dark

I like Cats, and I heard they like cheeseburgers.
Tagged: cats, Caturday, cute, gifs, monster, office Submitted by: _C_A_T_Via: icanhascheezburger.com

Sad Frankie

Tagged: cats, Caturday, funny, gifs, sad, why are you sitting like that? Submitted by: _C_A_T_Via: thedailywh.at

WELCOME TO THE INTERNET

Tagged: Al Di Meola, awesome, best music video ever, cybergoth, cyberworld, fighting, guitar, real life Submitted by: UnknownVia: YOUTUBE

Nevis Swing

Tagged: extreme, gifs, nevis swing, swing Submitted by: UnknownVia: Youtube

Epic Glass

Tagged: ak47, balls of steel, bullet proof, gifs, glass, guns Submitted by: Draconicish

Suddenly Catapulted

Tagged: Explosion, FAIL, fart joke, gifs, wtf Submitted by: _C_A_T_Via: www.youtube.com

Slippery Diving Board

Tagged: diving board, FAIL, fall, gifs, ouch, pool Submitted by: Unknown

It’s Gotta Kick To It

Tagged: babe, gifs, guns, kick, shotgun Submitted by: _C_A_T_Via: www.youtube.com

Counting non InnoDB with CloudWatch

With WordPress we run the risk our tables are being 'altered' to MyISAM. We suspect plugins, with plugin developers dis-respecting our choices. It appears to be innocent, harmless. But we loose the ability to 'Point in Time Restore' of RDS. So, potenti...

Tell the Truth Now…

Tagged: fap, gifs, multiple choice, test, true Submitted by: fareon

Pretty Epic Play, Bruh

Tagged: bazooka, epic, gifs, seems legit, wtf Submitted by: mak1nbak0n

Excavator Fun

Tagged: construction, excavator, fun, gifs, swing Submitted by: Unknown

New S3 Features for The AWS Management Console

We have added three new features to the Amazon S3 tab of the AWS Management Console:

Easier Access - You no longer need to install Adobe Flash or provide outbound access to port 843 on your network in order to use the S3 tab.
Folder Upload - You can n...

Personal Sprainer

Tagged: FAIL, gifs, gym, ouch, puns, work out Submitted by: maxystone

Using PHPUnit test groups?

Hi all, today we would like to show you how you can use PHPUnit test groups in NetBeans. First of all, you need to enable test groups for your PHP project:

Then, define any number of groups suitable for your unit tests:

If you are ready, you ...

Precision Sliding

Tagged: air, epic, gifs, seems legit, slip and slide Submitted by: Tobi

Thank You, Archie McPhee’s

Tagged: awesome, cigarette, gifs, horse, Seattle, surprise Submitted by: Unknown

Down in the Valley of Awesome

Tagged: awesome, epic, fire, gifs, swords Submitted by: _C_A_T_Via: cheezburger.com

Ouch My Face

Tagged: baseball, gifs, hit, in the face, ouch Submitted by: Unknown

Making auto-resetting VirtualBox machines

I don’t know if I’ve said this before, but I absolutely love VirtualBox. It makes it so easy to run Windows in the cases where I have to for a client’s silly Windows-only VPN software or something like that. Windows runs better inside VirtualBo...

I'm Sorry

Explaining Indexes with a Library Metaphor

My favorite metaphor for explaining indexes is comparing them to index cards in an old library. In an old library, you used to (or still do) have index cards at the front desk which have some brief description of the books in the library. They also use...

Skull Shot

New algorithm for calculating 95 percentile

The 95 percentile for query response times is and old concept; Peter and Roland blogged about it in 2008. Since then, MySQL tools have calculated the 95 percentile by collecting all values, either exactly or approximately, and returning all_values[int...

Treadmill Demo Fail

Tagged: FAIL, gifs, ouch, treadmill Submitted by: Unknown

Cat Games

Tagged: cats, Caturday, games, silly Submitted by: Unknown

Some New Node Projects

Superfeedr released a Node XMPP Server. “Since astro had been doing an amazing work with his node-xmpp library to build Client, Components and even Server to server modules, the logical next step was to try to build a Client to Server module so that ...

Lazy file download

Hi all, this will be a blog post about another minor feature that can mean a huge usability improvement for all of you who are using our (S)FTP support and have really big projects on your remote server. We would like to inform you that files in the Do...

Tuckered Out Corgi

Tagged: corgi, dogs, gifs, so cute, sundog Submitted by: Unknown

What a Strange Animal!

Tagged: cats, Caturday, Data, gifs, spot, Star Trek Submitted by: OryuKitty

Cat Elevator

Tagged: blue, bucket, cats, Caturday, cool, elevator, gifs Submitted by: _C_A_T_Via: icanhascheezburger.com

Parkour makes pigeons do backflips

Tagged: backflips, gifs, parkour, pigeons Submitted by: stevetherVia: www.youtube.com

Testing Out a Grenade Launcher

Tagged: army guys, awesome, gas tanker, gifs, grenade launcher Submitted by: Unknown

Clever Code Completion for try/catch

Hi all, today we would like to introduce a new little feature which improves a code completion for try/catch block matching.And what is the difference? In NetBeans 7.0.1 there are all classes suggested in a catch block matching. As you can see in the p...

All Celebrities are the Same People

Can you name them all? My mind turns to jelly when I see Iggy Pop.

Tagged: awesome, gifs, mindwarp Submitted by: Unknown

Is My Coffee Ready?

Tagged: bird, coffee, gifs, stirring Submitted by: Reinforcement

Gentleman Orangutan Cleans Himself Elegantly

Tagged: cleaning, critters, cute, gifs, orangutan Submitted by: UnknownVia: Youtube

Why Are You Kicking Yourself?

Tagged: babes, cheap move, gifs, kick, ouch, w, wrestling Submitted by: Unknown

Roll Master

Tagged: fat guy, gifs, heavy, scooter, they see me rolling Submitted by: Unknown

Amazon ElastiCache - Distributed In-Memory Caching

Today we are introducing Amazon ElastiCache so that you can easily add caching logic to your application. You can now create Cache Clusters, each comprised of one or more Cache Nodes, in a matter of minutes. Each Cache Cluster is a distributed, in-memo...

Tiny Escalator

Tagged: escalator, gifs, tiny, wtf Submitted by: Unknown

Dag in, dag uit

De grote appel is mooi. Dat laat Stephen Wilkes wel zien.
 

Depth Perception

Introducing SFTP robot and new homepage

Some customers have already used it behind the scenes, but now it is officially released: our sftp robot. It makes storing files on your own servers a breeze and costs just the same as the /s3/store robot. Please check out its documentation here and fe...

OH GOD THIS BOX HAS FORSAKEN ME

Tagged: box, cats, Caturday, fall, gifs, puns Submitted by: Unknown

Episode 0.6.7 - HTML5 Boilerplate, Modernizr, and more with Paul Irish

Episode 0.6.7 - HTML5 Boilerplate, Modernizr, and more with Paul Irish: Adam and Wynn caught up with Paul Irish of Google’s Chrome developer relations team to talk about HTML5, JavaScript, CSS3, polyfills, and more.

This week’s show is sponsored b...

Run Amazon Elastic MapReduce on EC2 Spot Instances

We've combined two popular Amazon EC2 features — Spot Instances and Elastic MapReduce —to allow you to launch managed Hadoop clusters using unused EC2 capacity. You will be able to run long-running jobs, cost-driven workloads, data-critical workloa...

New Features in PHP Debugger

Hi all, we are very happy today, because we can introduce you new features which were implemented into the PHP Debugger module. From now a debugging of PHP projects with NetBeans is much more comfortable. So enough words and let us introduce them!The ...

Superhero Fail

Tagged: FAIL, fireworks, gifs, kids, ouch, superheros Submitted by: Unknown

Edit like an Ace

Ace is a code editor written in JavaScript. It powers Cloud9 IDE and, as of today, file editing on GitHub.






If you're using a recent version of Safari, Chrome, or Firefox here's how it works:

1. Hit the "Edit" button (or the e hotkey) on any blob...

Much faster upload-on-save thanks keep-alive

Hi all, today it will be just a very short blog post but about a feature which was requested by a large number of you, our NetBeans PHP users. We just implemented keep-alive for the internal (S)FTP client so the upload-on-save functionality is now much...

Creating folded ribbons edges with CSS

While working on tweaking a notification box design, I wanted to include the element’s heading in a folded ribbon element. I also wanted to avoid using any images and just use CSS. Mostly to try my hand at using generated content and some CSS that...

Under the hood of CakePHP 2.0

Thanks to excellent Mr. jrbasso for putting together this list for me.
In case one wonders, yes he does know a few things about cake ;)
So, without further ado here’s a couple of things to enjoy in CakePHP 2.0…
__() now works like sprintf()
There w...

Dance For Your Drinks

Tagged: awesome, dancing, drinking, gifs, grandma Submitted by: Unknown

TornadoGuard

They See Me Dancin’, They Hatin’…

Tagged: dancing, ricky gervais, the office, they see me rolling Submitted by: OryuKitty

This Percona patch saved me

If you use InnoDB and have long-running select statements then the InnoDB undo space can grow large because purge can't advance beyond the longest open transaction. If this is blocked for too-long then pages to be purged might leave the InnoDB buffer c...

HTML5 Boilerplate hits 2.0!

A quick 365 days after we launched the project, the community finished up 2.0 today! Briefly, what's new:

We shifted to using normalize.css instead of the bulldozer reset.css (and base) approach. This ends up being smaller, faster, and easier to devel...

Move!

Tagged: gifs, mindwarp, travelling Submitted by: _C_A_T_Via: wins.failblog.org

Announcing GitHub Issues for iPhone

GitHub Issues has gone mobile. You can download it from the App Store today!

NOTE: It might take some time for it to be available in the App Store for everyone—please be patient!

We've been using the app for a few months now and we're really excite...

Bank Shot

Tagged: clever, football, gifs, nut shot, ouch my nards Submitted by: sebenty

Boxee for iPad and more goodies

Boxee for iPad is now available for free in the App Store. Get it here.
Our new iPad app is accompanied by the Boxee Media Manager (for streaming videos from your computer to the iPad), a new Watch Later bookmarklet and new firmware for the Boxee Box (...

Forgetting How To Run

Tagged: FAIL, gifs, girls, running, whoops Submitted by: Unknown

This Pleases Me

Tagged: gifs, mariachi, music, whale Submitted by: UnknownVia: effyeahstupidgifs.tumblr.com

No Btrfs by default in Fedora 16

The Fedora project has backed off of its goal to run on Btrfs by default in
the F16 release. "Fesco outlined basic requirements that needed to
be met by Alpha for the switch to be allowed to happen and we have not met
those requirements so it won't be...

All the Ladies Checking Out My Sugar Lumps

Tagged: dancing, flight of the conchords, gifs, ladies Submitted by: _C_A_T_Via: www.youtube.com

Evil Genius

Tagged: blindfold, gifs, nards, ouch, pranks, wood Submitted by: -Ghost-

A Helpful Mom

Tagged: big wheel, kids, ouch, parenting fail Submitted by: Unknown

Mac/PC

Big Bros Suck

Tagged: big bros, FAIL, gifs, kids, sad but true, tackle Submitted by: Unknown

AWS Direct Connect

The new AWS Direct Connect service allows enterprises to create a connection to an AWS Region via a dedicated network circuit. In addition to enhancing privacy, dedicated circuits will generally result in more predictable data transfer performance and ...

Chimp Feeding a Baby Tiger

Tagged: bottle, chimp, cute, gifs, nice shorts, OMG, tiger Submitted by: Unknown

Ouch My Face

Tagged: face, FAIL, fireworks, gifs, ouch Submitted by: Unknown

hook.io 0.6.0 released

hook.io 0.6.0 released: hook.io is a node.js library which creates a distributed EventEmitter that works cross-process / cross-platform / cross-browser. Essentially, it’s a real-time event bus that works anywhere JavaScript is supported.

Since we fi...

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life is short  画

Rumor: iPhone 5 launching in October, not September

iPhone 5 knockoff
John Packowski writes for The Wall Street Journal’s blog AllThingsD that, alas, iPhone 5 will be launching in October, not in September as the rumor mill has been buzzing over the past few weeks. This information apparently comes fr...

CIA

Sysadmin Sunday 41

This is Sysadmin Sunday, a post of interesting links from throughout the previous week.

Before Python
Setup a complete Django server, deploy, rollback – all in one powerful script.
LevelDB: A Fast Persistent Key-Value Store from Google
Google Page S...

Cat Door Works For Dogs Too

Tagged: awesome, cute, dogs, gifs, sundogs Submitted by: Unknown

Watch Out For the Lava

Tagged: cats, Caturday, gifs, i play that game, jumping, tiles Submitted by: Zaar150

Octopress: A Blogging Framework for Hackers

Octopress: A Blogging Framework for Hackers:

I’m sure that you’ve heard about Jekyll, but have you heard of Octopress? Well, Octopress 2.0 just surfaced and it’s definitely something that will get the hacking blogger happy.

Octopress is a fram...

Automated Innodb Hot Backup to S3 from ec2 with a simple bash script, innobackup and jets3t

Backing up data is always necessary, especially for Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Planning (BCP). One rule of thumb for me is let the computer do the work by automating repetitive tasks. Running things by hand over and over sucks, so if I d...

js2coffee: JavaScript to CoffeeScript written in CoffeeScript

js2coffee: JavaScript to CoffeeScript written in CoffeeScript:

A few weeks back we talked with Sam Stephenson on episode 0.6.4 about JavaScript and CoffeeScript as well as many other things such as Pow, the Rails 3.1 asset pipeline and 37signals’ (...

Reasons for MySQL Replication Lag

One common theme in the questions our MySQL Support customers ask is Replication Lag. The story is typically along the lines everything is same as before and for some unknown reason the slave is started to lag and not catching up any more. I always ...

BDSM: Yes, Bash is a Real Programming Language

BDSM: Yes, Bash is a Real Programming Language: Wayne Seguin is the only Rubyist I know that’s not really known for writing Ruby. When writing RVM, Wayne built it in Bash shell scripts, and as it grew, it got big and unwieldy. Wayne, being the kind o...

50+ PSD UI Web design elements

I’m a big believer in not reinventing the wheel when it comes to web design.If someone has already created something that fits what you need and/or want, and especially if that element is available for free, then why waste your time designing some...

Lanes

Easy on the eyes: the solarized color theme

I recently set up the solarized color theme for my terminal emulator. I’ve been meaning to do this for a while, but procrastinated. However, I finally got really frustrated with the colors I get from “ls” sometimes — I use a dark terminal wit...

Acrobat Dressers

Designed by Vincent Thomas Leman

Performance check of CakePHP1.3.11 and CakePHP2beta

CakePHP1.3.11 and CakePHP2beta  released today. I appreciated great work of the CakeTeam.
CakePHP 1.3.11 and 2.0.0-beta released
CakePHP2 introduces lazy loading and some great futures. I’m interested in how CakePHP2 faster than CakePHP1.3, so I com...

Joel Leclerc: Apt-Undo, a simple way of undoing Apt actions

I have done many actions with apt-get that I later regretted, so I decided to make a script to undo those actions. This script can only work if you use this script instead of apt-get to install/upgrade/remove/purge/downgrade your packages.
To install, ...

An exciting week for InnoDB and MySQL

Congratulations and thanks to Monty Program on the release of MariaDB 5.3! This looks like a great release. (I haven’t had a chance to try it yet.) I really welcome the query optimizer improvements; the list of changes is huge. There are a lot of...

How I went to Silicon Valley and raised $55,000 for my Browserling startup

Long story short, I went to Silicon Valley and raised $55,000 seed funding for my Browserling startup that I am doing together with James Halliday (SubStack).

James Halliday, our lead investor and advisor David Weekly, Peteris Krumins

Here is how I d...

The Fridge: Unity Progress Report – Alt-Tab style

Welcome to another installment of the Unity report. This week sees the new alt-tab landing (which is currently bound to ctrl-tab), here’s what it looks like:

Unity Contributor Activity This Week

Andrea Azzarone just pushed tons of work for improvin...

Improved assembly detail page & more

Things have been nothing less than crazy for the last 2 months. We have gone from
300.000 uploads to almost 1.000.000. During peaks, we are now
fully utilizing 20 machines (160 cores), and we are still continuing to grow
quickly.

Unfortunately this al...

How to fork & patch npm modules

With now more than 3000 modules, there are huge gaps in the quality of things you find in the npm registry. But more often than not, it's easy to find a module that is really close to what you need, except if it wasn't for that one bug or missing featu...

MongoDB on AWS (RDS-style)

MongoDB is drawing crowds, lately. Some even dare to call it the new MySQL. We didn't work with it yet, although we investigated its use on GeoSpatial systems already a while ago.

Usabilla, our latest partner, and one of Amsterdam's hottest startups ...

We Listen. We Care. And We Answer.

As you may already know that the AFP & Time Machine in the latest Mac OS X 10.7 Lion does not support 3rd-party NAS with old version of Netatalk, which...

Auto Scaling - Notifications, Recurrence, and More Control

We've made some important updates to EC2's Auto Scaling feature. You now have additional control of the auto scaling process, and you can receive additional information about scaling operations.
Here's a summary:

You can now elect to receive notificat...

Andrea Veri: Backup your Gmail in a few easy steps!

I’ve actually spent a few hours searching around for a good backup solution for my mailbox until I decided to stick with getmail.  What you’ll be able to achieve after reading this HowTo and deploying the following setup is:

A full backup of your...

Scott Moser: Updated AWS tools PPA for Ubuntu

I thought I would post a quick entry to spread the word about a ppa I've been maintaining with up to date versions of some of the AWS tools. It is named simply awstools. You can find it here.Right now the ppa has the following packages:ec2-api-tools ...

Michael Lustfield: Dummies Guide to Setting Up Nginx

Nginx is one of those things that many people want to try but don't. Why? Because it's scary. Well... Nginx itself isn't scary, but all of the poor guides out there make it a nightmare. The first step in making Nginx work for you is to not follow 95% o...

Pistol Leash

Designed by Art Lebedev Studio

Announcing MySQL-MHA: "MySQL Master High Availability manager and tools"

I have published "MySQL MHA" that fully automates MySQL master failover. You can also get commercial support from SkySQL. Let's try MHA today! Today I'm happy to announce that I have released MySQL-MHA: MySQL Master High Availability manager and tools ...

HyperDock

HyperDock:
($6.99) - HyperDock adds long awaited features to your Dock: Select individual application windows & tabs just by moving the mouse on a dock item, use mouse clicks to quickly open new windows and many more.

Setup debugging for Netbeans + CakePHP

Update (7/22/2011): dogmatic69 pointed out that you can do the same with Chrome by installing the xdebug extension. See his comment for details.
For all the Netbeans users out there, if you don’t have debugging enabled, this little “how-to” shou...

Taco Emergency Vehicle

via julia segal

Dear Photograph, Grandpa loved the outdoors. But he loved us...

Dear Photograph,
Grandpa loved the outdoors. But he loved us more.Pam Dusbabek

Dustin Kirkland: Introducing rootsign!

In my last post, I introduced the new utility bootmail, which can be configured to send you an email with the boot logs of your Ubuntu server each time it reboots.  This could prove really handy for your unattended or cloud servers.While working on th...

Pixel Frames

Eyewear Design by Dzmitry Samal

Dustin Kirkland: Introducing bootmail!

I have a handful of remote Ubuntu Servers floating around the Cloud, and even a couple of co-lo's at friends' houses.  All of these machines are very much "unattended", and I really don't like it when they get rebooted (unless I pulled that trigger)!F...

Standards

Amazon S3 - More Than 449 Billion Objects

As of the end of the second quarter of 2011, Amazon S3 holds more than 449 billion objects and processes up to 290,000 requests per second for them at peak times. Here's a chart:

No matter how you look at it, that's a lot of objects! Here are a few wa...

Mondo Solitaire

Mondo Solitaire:
($9.99) - Mondo Solitaire is solitaire done right, with 300+ game variants, slick graphics, and a user interface that’s been designed especially with the Mac in mind.
Mondo Solitaire’s beautiful, crisp graphics let you easily iden...

Amazon Simple Email Service Now Supports Attachments

You can now use the Amazon Simple Email Service to send email message that include attachments such as images or documents.
There are no new "attachment" APIs. Instead, you simply use the existing SendRawEmail function to send a message that includes o...

Building a PC, Part VII: Rebooting

I've had more or less the same PC, with various updates, since 2007. I've written about most of it here:



Building a PC, Part I: Minimal boot

Building a PC, Part II: Burn in

Building a PC, Part III: Overclocking

Building a PC, Part IV: Now It's Yo...

Buscemi Dress

The Steve Dress by Black Milk Clothing

Luis de Bethencourt: How I learned to stop Architecture and love Free Software

When I was finishing high school I was destined to continue my academic life studying Architecture. I took special art classes to get prepared to study one of the fine arts I always loved, and so I did, I entered the architectural school at my hometown...

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Dear Photograph, There’s a reason we had to paint these stairs...

Dear Photograph,

There’s a reason we had to paint these stairs blue. They just weren’t as colorful without these two.

mohocreative

Jono Bacon: Thunderbird In Ubuntu 11.10

I am an Evolution user. While people seem to rag on Evo, I quite like it. In Oneiric though there has been discussion about switching to Thunderbird. I have always been a firm believer in eating your own dogfood where possible, so I decided to start us...

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Wednesday's security updates

Fedora has updated torque (F15: remote code execution),
blender (F14, F15: embedded code execution vulnerability
from 2009), and asterisk (F14, F15: denial of service, information
disclosure, memory corruption).

Red Hat has updated NetworkManager (RHE...

3D Printer

Dear Photograph, I’ll always remember my first fish. Brian...

Dear Photograph,
I’ll always remember my first fish.
Brian Thurman

Alles Ruikt Naar Chocola: laatste loodjes voor ‘t begin.

 

Ergens hier in de oba, waar ik nu zit te herschrijven, zingt een man country liedjes. Het galmt door de bibliotheek en klinkt bijna zuiver. Best behoorlijk irritant.
Even pauze, dan maar. Blog schrijven.
Onder andere over de aanbiedingsfolder.
Kij...

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Comb Bike Rack

Designed by KnowHow Shop LA

Kees Cook: aliens hat-tip

Picked up a Doctor Who comic today and saw a nice hat-tip to (or composite ship design plagiarism of) Aliens.
The Colonial Marines ship “Sulaco”, from Aliens, 1986:

The Scavengers ship, from the Doctor Who Spam Filtered story, 2011:

Such a great ...

Developers can now submit Mac App Store apps for OS X Lion

Apple has opened the door today for developers to submit OS X Lion applications for inclusion on the Mac App Store. These applications should be tested against the Golden Master seeds of both OS X Lion and Xcode 4.1. Mac OS X Lion is expected to ship l...

Spot Instances - Increased Control

Today we announced the launch of an exciting new feature that will significantly increase your control over your Amazon EC2 Spot instances. With this change, we will improve the granularity of pricing information you receive by introducing a Spot Insta...

Evolving the Node.js Brand

To echo Node’s evolutionary nature, we have refreshed the identity to help mark an exciting time for developers, businesses and users who benefit from the pioneering technology.
Building a brand
We began exploring elements to express Node.js and jet...

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AWS Import/Export Now Supports Amazon EBS

I am very excited to announce support for importing data into Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) using AWS Import/Export. Until now, AWS Import/Export allowed you to move large amounts of data into and out of Amazon S3 using portable storage devices by u...

Fight Club

Dear Photograph, Our wedding was our sweetest day, just like...

Dear Photograph,
Our wedding was our sweetest day, just like Grandma’s chocolate.Onno 

Apple Store overnight planned for July 13th, new MacBook Airs and Lion signage awaits

We’ve heard from a few overseas sources that Apple Retail stores are planning ‘overnights’ on July 13th.  Overnights are generally where Apple refreshes store displays and trains up management on new products.  Sometimes it is big stuff and som...

TIMN: iPad HD coming this Fall (and it will run Final Cut Pro?)

This is my next runs this story based on unnamed sources who claim that come this Fall tablet fans will have a choice between iPad 2 and an-all new high-end iPad aimed at creative pros, apparently dubbed ‘iPad HD’:
Our sources are saying that not...

Bourbon: A set of vanilla Sass mixins that use SCSS syntax

Bourbon: A set of vanilla Sass mixins that use SCSS syntax: The designers at Thoughtbot have thoroughly impressed me with Bourbon, a set of vanilla Sass mixins that use SCSS syntax.

This isn’t the first time we have covered a project by Thoughtbot (...

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Planned change in Maatkit & Aspersa development

I’ve just sent an email to the Maatkit discussion list to announce a planned change to how Maatkit (and Aspersa) are developed. In short, Percona plans to create a Percona Toolkit of MySQL-related utilities, as a fork of Maatkit and Aspersa. I’m ...

iTunes challenger Spotify comes to US, issues invites

Our overseas readers are aware of Spotify, a popular online music service which lets them stream over thirteen million tracks to their computers for free or upgrade to a paid account for ad-free, higher-quality music and access to Spotify on the go on ...

Ik ben meer een poezenmens

Bam.
Met je hondenkop.

Large files uploading fail with Apache + PHP + APC

We had one quite interesting problem at work.
We had a Drupal site where we couldn’t upload files larger than 32 MB, while having in php.ini :
upload_max_filesize = 200 MB
post_max_size = 200M
After disabling APC, we could upload larger files.
It tur...

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Useful sed / awk liners for MySQL

Listing some useful sed / awk liners to use with MySQL. I use these on occasion.
sed, awk & grep have many overlapping features. Some simple tasks can be performed by either. For example, stripping empty lines can be performed by either:

grep '.'
awk ...

Node v0.5.0 (Unstable)

2011.07.05, Version 0.5.0 (unstable)
New non-default libuv backend to support IOCP on Windows. Use --use-uv to enable.
deprecate http.cat
docs improved.
add child_process.fork
add fs.utimes() and fs.futimes() support (Ben Noordhuis)
add process.u...

Testing Cron on Heroku

Deploying cron to Heroku is really…pleasant. Click “Daily” or “Hourly” cron and without any tedious setup of scripts, ensuring output is logged, or referring to CronWTF. Testing it though, is a pain! No longer should this be the case.

Cron i...

Scheduled Database Maintenance

Dear customers,

in the past four weeks we have seen a stunning growth of over
400% in both encoding volume as well as revenue.

While that is generally good news, we have to do some
maintenance on our database to keep up with the increased amount
of r...

CSS1K: A demonstration of what can be accomplished with only 1k of CSS

CSS1K: A demonstration of what can be accomplished with only 1k of CSS:

CSS isn’t a subject we cover too often here on The Changelog. Most often, we are talking about Sass (drink!), Compass, Stylus, Less or some other blend of “pre-processor” w...

Design for Conversion – what we can learn from other fields

Last friday I visited the Design for Conversion (DfC) conference in Cologne, with appearances of Eric Reiss, Andy Budd, Dan Lockton and Martin Kupp. DfC is all about the noble art of persuading your website’s visitors to perform a certain action, e.g...

Ruby / Rails SDKs

Today we are happy to announce the 1.0 release of two gems for the ruby community.

The first gem is our ruby sdk, which can be used to create assembly jobs from your ruby backend applications.

The second gem is our rails sdk, which simplifies the pro...

Sysadmin Sunday 37

This is Sysadmin Sunday, a post of interesting links from throughout the previous week.

Why mobile apps suck when you’re mobile.
Frustrating Unix pitfall of the day: esoteric cron rules

Subscribe to our RSS feed and follow us on Twitter for interes...

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Offload read queries to a replica DB for better performance

In most web application, which require a lot of find()'s especially if more than a couple of models are involved, you should probably consider offloading those operations to read-only replica of your DB. This is typically achieved by having a master/sl...

Covariance by Charley Peters, electrical tape & canvas on...

Covariance by Charley Peters, electrical tape & canvas on wall

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AWS Lowers its Pricing Again! – No Inbound Data Transfer Fees and Lower Outbound Data Transfer for All Services including Amazon CloudFront

We are continuously working hard to drive down our costs and pass those savings back to our customers. And indeed, AWS has reduced pricing more than a dozen times in the last 4 years. See the list of AWS' announcements related to lowering prices:

Apr ...

Joel Leclerc: Extract fully a .deb archive with deb-extract

If you ever wanted to extract a .deb archive with it’s metadata, you would probably use file-roller. Here are 2 ways to do it.

Open up a Terminal window, and type in it:sudo apt-get install dpkg-dev
mkdir destdir
sudo dpkg-deb -x yourdeb.deb destdir...

Node v0.4.9

2011.06.29, Version 0.4.9 (stable)

Improve documentation
#1095 error handling bug in stream.pipe() (Felix Geisendörfer)
#1097 Fix a few leaks in node_crypto.cc (Ben Noordhuis)
#562 #1078 Parse file:// urls properly (Ryan Petrello)
#880 Option to...

Flexiglass

Flexiglass:
($7.99) - Among the countless number of applications that just lay out windows on your desktop Flexiglass actually offers a convenient way to move, resize, maximize, and close windows on a Mac with a mouse, trackpad and keyboard.

Building the Server Density World Map

Every 6 weeks we run a “Random week”. During this time we stop working on our current projects and instead create something different that we think will be interesting/useful/educational and, most importantly, fun! Being a design/frontend guy, I’...

Building a physical CPU load meter

I built this analog CPU load meter for my dev workstation:


All I did was drill a few holes into the CPU and probe the power supply lines...
Okay, I lied. This is actually a fun project that would make a great intro to embedded electronics, or a quick...

Improved persistence for temporary files

If you are not using a storage robot, because you have a setup where you prefer to manually fetch our result files from our temporary urls, here are some good news:

As of today, we store all temporary files on Amazon S3 for 30 days. This means even as...

Biciclette Assemblate

Bertelli in New York maakt hele mooie fietsen.

Joel Leclerc: PAM Face Authentication

Yes, you read the title correctly. PAM Face Authentication lets you login with only your webcam and your smile!
Home Page: http://www.pam-face-authentication.org/
The installation is a bit complicated, so we recommend that you copy and paste the comman...

Joel Leclerc: Easy way to remove 404 messages on apt-get update

If you have ever got 404 not found messages when running apt-get update, you know how annoying they are.
I had enough of them, so I decided to make a script to remove them. NOTE: Currently it can only remove 404 messages from PPAs. This will be fixed i...

Dear Photograph, Can you tell him to turn around? I wanna see...

Dear Photograph,

Can you tell him to turn around? I wanna see that cute little baby face again.Thanks,Nicole

Linguist

From time to time we get requests asking us to add support for new highlighting lexers, recognize additional extensions as certain languages, or ignore a directory from a repo's stats graph.

The code for these concerns was scattered around the app. I ...

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Instant Rename and Rename Refactoring

During the last weeks I have got  a few questions about rename refactoring and some users also complain to me that the refactoring in NetBeans 6.x was much faster. So I would like to explain the situation.
For some people, who don't know, Instant R...

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Walking The Great Glen Way

Over Easter, while we had all the extra days off because some chinless wonder married a model in an old church in London I went with two of my best friends and walked the 73 miles from Inverness to Fort William along the Caledonian Canal.

(picture fro...

Sysadmin Sunday 36

This is Sysadmin Sunday, a post of interesting links from throughout the previous week.

Building a Devops team
Creating Public AMIs Securely for EC2
F.B.I. Seizes Web Servers, Knocking Sites Offline
Understanding the Corporate Impact of Firefox 5
Goog...

HTML5 Visibility API & Page Pre-Rendering

Minimizing UI latency is critical for creating a positive user experience - this is true both on the desktop and on the web. A best practice for a "native app" is to decouple the UI and control threads to avoid blocking on any long-running tasks. On th...

Browsers

source

csonv.js: Fetch and transform CSV data into JSON

csonv.js: Fetch and transform CSV data into JSON: Since it’s typed, human readable, and supported darn near everywhere,
JSON is the new hotness for data transport formats.
Unfortunately, many systems don’t expose a JSON API. Relational data is
ofte...

Porting Node to Windows With Microsoft’s Help

I’m pleased to announce that Microsoft is partnering with Joyent in formally contributing resources towards porting Node to Windows. As you may have heard in a talk we gave earlier this year, we have started the undertaking of a native port to Window...

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If you use UUID’s…

Be extra careful to make sure that, according to convention, your ‘id’ column (or primary key) is:
char(36) and never varchar(36)
CakePHP will work with both definitions, however you will be sacrificing about 50% of the performance of your DB (MySQ...

Announcing GitHub for Mac

Pull requests, merge button, fork queue, issues, pages, wiki –– all awesome features that make sharing easier. But those things are only great after you've pushed your code to GitHub.

Today we're happy to announce GitHub for Mac.

What does it loo...

Connoisseur

Now Available: Amazon EC2 Running Red Hat Enterprise Linux

We continue to add options to AWS in order to give our customers the freedom and flexibility that they need to build and run applications of all different shapes and sizes.
I'm pleased to be able to tell you that you can now run Red Hat Enterprise Linu...

Performance is a Feature

We've always put a heavy emphasis on performance at Stack Overflow and Stack Exchange. Not just because we're performance wonks (guilty!), but because we think speed is a competitive advantage. There's plenty of experimental data proving that the slowe...

API v3: 190 methods to build on

The entire v3 API is finally here! From commit comments to raw Git access and everything in between, this release wraps up the major development effort around the API. We will still spend a period of time in beta, addressing issues and taking feedback,...

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Sysadmin Sunday 35

This is Sysadmin Sunday, a post of interesting links from throughout the previous week.

Google sees 15% speed boost with HTTP tweak – Google is now using its HTTP-boosting SPDY protocol to accelerate almost all SSL web traffic between Chrome browser...

Bender Barrier

Urban Art by OakoAk

Degrees

Degrees:
($0.99) - Degrees is a simple app that shows current weather conditions in the menu bar, where you can always easily see them.

Thursday's security updates

Debian has updated moodle (multiple
cross-site scripting and information disclosure flaws).


Fedora has updated tomboy (F14; F15: code
execution).


openSUSE has updated groff (insecure
tmp file usage), libvirt (arbitrary host
file access), and php5...

Thierry Carrez: Delivery channels for OpenStack on Ubuntu

There are multiple available delivery channels available to install OpenStack packages on Ubuntu.
First of all, starting with 11.04 (Natty), packages for OpenStack Nova, Swift and Glance are available directly in Ubuntu’s official universe repository...

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Learning Is Sexy

As part of an ongoing mission to making it easier to learn how Git and GitHub works, we've revamped our documentation. Not only have we redesigned how GitHub:Help looks, we've also rethought how it is structured. The new system is built around the idea...

Upstart Development Blog: Upstart 1.3 “Concordia” released

A plethora or new features and updates, including all those from Ubuntu Natty.

New upstart-socket-bridge application which allows jobs to be started when an incoming client socket connection is initiated (requires a suitably modified server daemon sin...

EventEmitter2 - Namespaced events in Node.js and the Browser

EventEmitter2 - Namespaced events in Node.js and the Browser: EventEmitter2 is a really slick and really small library ( 2.2k minified ) that creates an EventEmitter class which is backwards compatible with the Node.js native EventEmitter Class, but al...

Blueprint: Manage Debian, RPM server config, even reverse engineer to Chef and Puppet

Blueprint: Manage Debian, RPM server config, even reverse engineer to Chef and Puppet: The days of firewalling off developers from the system adminstrators are
long gone. The rise of
DevOps
has meant developers are getting more systems savvy while sys ...

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Sysadmin Sunday 34

This is Sysadmin Sunday, a post of interesting links from throughout the previous week.

DTCP – an enhancement to the TCP congestion control algorithm for data center networks
Making a Local Web Server Public with Localtunnel
Apple iCloud: Syncing An...

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Shopping Cart Prank

via reddit

The Daily Dev Log - 5

Last night, someone came into the #cakephp irc room on freenode, attempting to place static html files in the app/webroot

Bird Bell

Bird Bell:
($1.99) - Instant notifications for your Twitter stream! Find out when your followers favorite your tweet, retweet your tweet, follow you, unfollow you, or add you to a list. The app lives in your menu bar and gives you instant Growl noti...

Burger Flip Flops

Found at Everything Burger

Repo Transfers

We've just opened up access to a feature we've been brewing for some time now... transferring repos between accounts! While we've actually had this capability for a few months now, y'all had to contact support to request a repo move. Now you can do t...

wunderlist

wunderlist:
(Free) - Wunderlist Desktop will boost your productivity. Manage your to-dos and synchronize them with your free Wunderlist account. View and modify your tasks on Windows, iPad, iPhone/iPod Touch, Android and the Web. Hundreds of thousand...

Anomaly Warzone Earth

Anomaly Warzone Earth:
($6.99) – Apple Design Award 2011 Winner. Anomaly Warzone Earth is an extraordinary mixture of action and strategy in a tower offense formula. The game tasks you with saving a near-future Earth from an alien onslaught. The in...

Victor Tuson Palau: Small Improvement To The Ubuntu Certification Website

Just a small note to let you know that we have added download links from the system pages in ubuntu.com/certification to the images that correspond to the actual certificate.

 
For example the DELL Inspiron One 2205 page lists 2 images to download. T...

Read Your Book Case

Designed by Eva Alessandrini and Roberto Saporiti

Sterk wachtwoord nutteloos door videokaart

Een Amerikaan heeft een programma ontworpen dat 33 miljard wachtwoorden per seconde kan kraken. Hij gebruikt daarvoor een combinatie van vier dualcore videokaarten.

... your joy may be full!

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Rubiks Pepper Mill

Available at ThinkGeek

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Jono Bacon: Unity Quality in Ubuntu 11.10: Help Make It Rock

On Thursday 28th April 2011 we released Ubuntu 11.04, the Natty Narwhal. It was a big release for us. It was the first desktop release that shipped Unity; our new desktop interface designed to bridge the chasm to get Ubuntu and the Free Software it enc...

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Raphaël Hertzog: Official Debian/Ubuntu packages for Dropbox

Dropbox is a popular service to synchronize files between multiple computers. The service is entirely proprietary but the company is Linux friendly and provides Linux binaries ready to use. They even provide Ubuntu packages that wrap the dropbox client...

Apple may surprise with June 14 launch of Mac OS X Lion

While Apple has publicly acknowledged that they are tracking a summer release window for their upcoming Mac OS X Lion release, sources have indicated to 9to5Mac that Apple may surprise customers with a Tuesday, June 14 launch of the next-generation Mac...

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Heineken Temple

Found at All That Is Interesting

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GitHub Drinkup, Amsterdam - June 3

A few of us (@tmm1, @atmos, @sr, @defunkt) are in Amsterdam this week. We will be at the amsterdam.rb meetup at 17:00, followed by drinks at De Bekeerde Suster around 21:00. Look for the guys with the Octocat stickers. As always, the drinks are on us.

Adding a ShortCut for Generation PHP Documentation

This is a tip how to add a shortcut for generating PHP Doc for  a class or method / function. Probably every body who uses PHP editor in NetBeans knows that if you write start of PHP Documentation /** just before a class or method/function and hit ENT...

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Nooit meer snoozen

Zo, ik kom nooit meer te laat.
Of wel. Maar dan blut..

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Goldberg: Lightweight, multi-language continuous integration server

Goldberg: Lightweight, multi-language continuous integration server: We’ve covered continuous integration projects such as
Jenkins
and
Travis
before. Now Goldberg, which has just turned 1.0, jumps into the
ring with a
CruiseControl.rb-compatible
off...

Launching our new design

Hey everybody,

as some of you have noticed already - we have just launched a new design, which will hopefully enrich the browsing experience on our website!

Not only have we improved the header section, typography, colors, buttons and what not - but ...

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GitHub Drinkup, Berlin - May 29th

A few of us (@tmm1, @sr, @atmos) are in Berlin this weekend for EuRuKo and we'd like to invite our Berlin users out for drinks. Sunday evening after the conference we'll be enjoying great German beer at Prater Biergarten around 19:30. Come by and hav...

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TurnKey Linux: TurnKey Domain management & Dynamic DNS

A while ago I was chatting with Liraz and said "wouldn't it be great if when launching a cloud server the Hub would perform some magic and assign the server a friendly name? I'm tired of remembering IP addresses, and logging into our DNS management ...

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Leaflet: JavaScript library for mobile and web open mapping

Leaflet: JavaScript library for mobile and web open mapping: While Google has done much to advance the art and science of maps on
the web and mobile devices, there is still room for innovation on a
number of fronts. OpenStreetMap, for
instance brings t...

PHP Debugging in NetBeans on Google Chrome

I got link on a short tutorial Local and Remote PHP Debuging in NetBeans with Xdebug on Google Chrome (just like in Visual Studio). It can be useful for users, who use Google Chrome for development, but the most steps are browser independent.

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Moving Ahead With Amazon Route 53

As you may know from my previous post, Amazon Route 53 is a highly available and highly scalable DNS service.
Today we have some big news for users and fans of Route 53:

You can use a new alias feature to map the root or apex of your hosted zone to yo...

Elastic Load Balancing - IPv6, Zone Apex Support, Additional Security

We've added three new features to EC2's Elastic Load Balancing feature:

IPv6 Support - All Elastic Load Balancers in the US East (Northern Virginia) and EU (Ireland) regions now have publicly routable IPv6 addresses in addition to their existing IPv4 ...

More on measuring IO latency

To follow on to my earlier links to Brendan Gregg’s blog posts on measuring I/O latency, there is a third one discussing DTrace, and then a very detailed response from Mark Leith showing how to do it with the PERFORMANCE_SCHEMA in MySQL 5.5.

Related...

App store for sysadmins

Today we’re announcing the Server Density plugin directory – the App Store for Sysadmins. Use your expertise to write the ultimate plugin for anything you want to track, then sell it to our customer-base or just give it away for free.
Find out more...

Believe the Hype: Former Apple engineers release Flash-killing HTML5 authoring tool

For all the talk of HTML5, web developers nowadays are still doomed to hard-coding pretty HTML5 websites. Deciding enough is enough, two engineers left Apple to found Tumult, a Y Combinator-funded startup. Their goal: Address a chronic shortage of dece...

Now Available Amazon RDS for Oracle Database

A few months ago I told you that we were planning to support Oracle Database 11g (Release 2) via the Relational Database Service (RDS). That support is now ready to go, and you can start launching Database Instances today.
We've set this up so that you...

Wheelbarrow Racer

Found via Bert

Daily Inspiration #828

This post is part of our daily series of posts showing the most inspiring images selected by some of the Abduzeedo's writers and users. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, just send us, via email, the image with the li...

Cloud

Cloud:
(Free) – CloudApp is simple file and link sharing for the Mac.
Drag a file from your Mac to the CloudApp icon in the menubar and we take care of the rest. A link to the file will automatically be copied to your clipboard that you can give to ...

Best of the Week #172

It's time for our best news of this week. We have a lot of graphic and web design, a bit of architecture, ads, tech news, awesome reads and other crazy stuff! So take a look at the links we've selected for your inspiration and to keep you updated about...

scrollability: Native scrolling for the mobile web

scrollability: Native scrolling for the mobile web: Perhaps even more than advanced features like GPS, camera access, contacts, and
App stores, the lack of viewport-aware position:fixed is what drives
many apps to be developed as a native experience.

...

Node.js Workshop in Cologne, June 10th

We apologize for the short notice, but if you are looking to put node.js in production, this full day node.js workshop we are organizing is where it's at!

The workshop is happening on Friday June 10, one day before nodecamp.eu. Space is limited to 15 ...

Our experiences with DeployHQ

Recently I got asked by Akif Gümüssu on twitter about our experiences with deployment tools, more specific DeployHQ and I thought it was nice to share these ideas on our blog too.

Before we started using DeployHQ we deployed by cloning our repositor...

Working with git? These aliases will save you hours!

I was just watching a friend of mine work with git, and he'd always type all the git commands in full, like git status and git push. I realized that he must not be the only one to do so, so I decided to write this quick blog post and encourage everyone...

Littleworkers: Petite Python Command Runners

Littleworkers: Petite Python Command Runners: Daniel Lindsley, of
django-haystack,
django-tastypie, and
itty fame, just launched a
small but useful project.

Littleworkers.

This extremely minimal Python module allows you to set a list of command
stri...

Logitech announces new iPad products (Bluetooth Keyboard/cases and speakers)

Logitech just announced three new products for iPad (OK Zagg’s been selling the Case for a few weeks already).   We’re hoping to get some hands-on time with these products shortly.  Until then check out the descriptions and the links below:
Logit...

Highlighting of Alternative Syntax

Although NetBeans 7.0 is out, I'm still in fixing mode and I work mainly on fixes into NetBeans 7.0.1 release. I have noticed that there were a few complains that NetBeans doesn't support highlighting for alternative syntax in PHP. Last week I committe...

Dirk Deimeke: Geeky holidays ...

I am collecting some dates of "Geeky holidays". Please feel free to add dates you think should appear. Any contribution is welcome.

In case the holiday does not occur on the same date every year, please give an example for the current year and add th...

Escalator Planking

via bitsandpieces

Updated AWS Security White Paper; New Risk and Compliance White Paper

We have updated the AWS Security White Paper and we've created a new Risk and Compliance White Paper.  Both are available now.
The AWS Security White Paper describes our physical and operational security principles and practices.
It includes a descri...

Zware open source-alliantie tegen VMware

IBM, HP, Intel, Red Hat en Novell verenigen zich tegen VMware. Met de nieuwe Open Virtualization Alliance wordt een open source virtualisatiestack op de KVM hypervisor gepromoot.

On HTTP Load Testing

A lot of people seem to be talking about and performing load tests on HTTP servers, perhaps because there’s a lot more choice of servers these days.

That’s great, but I see a lot of the same mistakes being made, making the conclusions doubtful at...

Jonathan Carter: Linux kernel running in your browser

This is just awesome and surprisingly fast! A Linux kernel running under an emulator written in JavaScript:

async.js - asynchronous control flow in node.js and the browser

async.js - asynchronous control flow in node.js and the browser: async.js, written by Caolan McMahon, is a fresh take on asynchronous control flow for node.js and the browser. It offers a simple API for executing some of the more difficult asynchronous...

Using CakeAdmin to generate backend applications

CakeAdmin is a CakePHP 1.3 plugin for building web application backends quickly and easily. It is most analogous to

How to make software testable

I’m going to try to explain how to make software testable in really practical terms. I won’t use words like “dependency injection.” Those things annoy smart programmers and make them stop listening.

Here is a pseudocode snippet. There is so...

A Re-introduction to the Chrome Developer Tools

Pavel Feldman (Dev Tools engineering lead) and I just spoke at Google I/O about the Chrome Developer tools.
We covered a whole lot of enhancements to style manipulation, timeline inspection, script debugging, DOM and Event listener breakpoints.
If you...

Numword, the number to word converter

The Numword class (via Github) will rarely find a use, but its creation was primarily for fun. A friend of mine asked me if there was a PHP function that will turn a number into its word equivalent (example, 100 becomes one-hundred). As none existed, I...

Fixing Amazon S3

Amazon S3 is great, except when it isn't. When you are using it a lot (we have stored ~1 million customer objects so far), you start to see some odd things that look more like "eventual madness" than "eventual consistency".

One of the things we learne...

Switching to VIM - the first month

About a month ago, I decided that I would try and switch to Vim as my only editor. I’ve been a pretty hard core Textmate for about 5 years now, and haven’t really had any issues. So why bother switching? My first reason is I spend a ton of time ...

Running –repair on MongoDB via Upstart

One of our servers running MongoDB crashed today and we encountered the typical
old lock file: /var/lib/mongodb/mongod.lock. probably means unclean shutdown
recommend removing file and running –repair
see: http://dochub.mongodb.org/core/repair for ...

3TB Western Digital Green Hard Drive: $150

From the Toy section:Amazon has the Western Digital 3.5-inch OEM hard drive with 64MB cache for $149.99. With free shipping, that’s $0.05/GB, $23 under our March mention, and the lowest total price we’ve seen. (It’s a current low by $20.) This d...

Detecting aborted uploads

While most of our uploads successfully make their journey through the world wide web, we sometimes lose one along the way.

That's because the web is a dangerous place, and things frequently get lost in between routers and ISPs, leading to those connec...

Chain of Command

... tele-video sights!

x-ray delta one posted a photo:

Support for leaving smaller images untouched

Hey everyone,

today we are making the /image/resize robot's zoom parameter public. Up until now it was an undocumented parameter called "dont_zoom" with a default value of "false" that only few knew about. We decided it makes more sense to make it pub...

10 Skills to Become a Frontend Developer worth Millions

Yesterday we had a very enjoyable Fronteers meeting at our offices. Fronteers is the Dutch association for frontend developers. Their monthly meetups consist of pizza, drinks and presentations about frontend related stuff.
We had four 15 minute presen...

Sysadmin Sunday #29

This is Sysadmin Sunday, a post of interesting links from throughout the previous week.

Softlayer Cloud: a Scary Story of One Bad Service
Use Histograms to Visualize Response Time
Public key pinning in Chrome 13
The wheel Group

Subscribe to our RSS f...

Michael Vogt: apt-clone

In natty we got a new tool called “apt-clone”. Its a commandline application that can be used to clone the packages state of a system and restore it on another system. It will save the full state (sources.list, packages/versions installed, auto-ins...

Vader Balloon

Darth Vader Balloon

Viewing the MySQL dump import progress

A couple of years ago I wrote a patch for the MySQL command line client which shows the progress of a import as it happens (I also created a similar patch for mysqldump which later made it into Drizzle).  I don’t have the blog archives from back the...

Giant Book Bed

Book Bed by Written Afterwards Found via Moggit

Large Hadron Migrator: Update huge SQL tables without going offline

Large Hadron Migrator: Update huge SQL tables without going offline: With all the NoSQL hotness out
there, believe it or not, some people are still using relational
databases. (I know, right?).

When it comes to dealing with schema changes, the Active ...

Record Wave

What’s wrong with MMM?

I am not a fan of the MMM tool for managing MySQL replication. This is a topic of vigorous debate among different people, and even within Percona not everyone feels the same way, which is why I’m posting it here instead of on an official Percona blo...

EventMachine and Passenger

In order to fully explain this post, we first need to cover some back story. Originally, Gaug.es was hosted on Heroku. Recently, we moved Gaug.es to RailsMachine (before the great AWS outage luckily), where we are already happily hosting Harmony.
At He...

Identity and Access Management in the AWS Management Console

The AWS Management Console now includes support for Identity and Access Management (IAM). You can create and manage users, groups, and policies with a couple of mouse clicks. Read on to learn more about this new feature, or read my other post to learn ...

Everybody Has To Set Priorities

 
 
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Keeping a git fork updated

This isn’t muscle memory for me yet so I’m writing it down to refer to it later. It isn’t rocket science but it might help someone else, too.

This is for the case where you have a fork (say, croaky/dotfiles) of a main repo (say, thoughtbot/dotfi...

Improved CloudFront Support in the AWS Management Console

We have updated the AWS Management Console with support for three important CloudFront features:

The ability to set a custom origin for a CloudFront distribution (docs).
The option to make a distribution accessible solely via HTTPS (docs).
The ability...

Scoped Tweets to reduce noise for your followers

I've been using a technique for a while now to reduce twitter noise, and I suppose it deserves documenting. I like to keep my tweet volume low (specifically your regular broadcast tweets, rather than replies.
When attending a conference…
I'll oftenti...

Sysadmin Sunday #28

This is Sysadmin Sunday, a post of interesting links from throughout the previous week.

Magical Block Store: When Abstractions Fail Us
AWS Benchmarks and Best Practices
Inside Facebook Messages’ Application Server
Amazon’s outage post-mortem
Lesso...

npm 1.0: Released

npm 1.0 has been released. Here are the highlights:

Global vs local installation
ls displays a tree, instead of being a remote search
No more “activation” concept – dependencies are nested
Updates to link command
Install script cleans up any 0.x...

Sitting On Shotgun Shells

‘Fully Loaded’ Chair Designed by Alexander Reh Found at Geekologie

Learn All of Ubuntu 11.04's Keyboard Shortcuts with This Handy Wallpaper [Wallpapers]

The Unity-powered Ubuntu 11.04 is finally out, and with it comes a slew of new keyboard shortcuts for the new interface. They can seem a bit overwhelming at first, so spend a few days getting acclimated with this wallpaper-formatted shortcut list. M...

Revisiting Faster PHP Sessions

"Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability." - Edsger W. Dijkstra.
As our experience grows, we learn from past mistakes and discover what's
truely important in reliable systems.
When designing systems, simplicity is an often heard mantra, but it isn't...

Thanks to iPhone, Apple now beats Microsoft in most metrics, including profits

When Apple was chasing Microsoft last year in market capitalization, a lot of people were pointing out that the software maker would continue beating the Cupertino company in terms of profitability. Well, Microsoft just posted their quarterly earnings ...

Mark Shuttleworth: 11.04, a leap forward

Users first, on free software. That has always been our mission: we set out to bring the joys and freedoms and innovation and performance and security that have always been part of the Linux platform, to a consumer audience. And yesterday marked the bi...

Incident response for startups

A lot of people were affected by the AWS outage last week, including Platform as a Service (PaaS) provider, Heroku. However, what made their handling of the situation interesting is their incident response system. This was highlighted in a post on high...

Eric Hammond: Canonical Releases Ubuntu 11.04 Natty for Amazon EC2

As steady as clockwork, Ubuntu 11.04 Natty is released on the day scheduled at least eleven months ago; and thanks to Canonical, tested AMIs for Natty are already published for use on Amazon EC2.

The Ubuntu AMI table at the top of Alestic.com always r...

Canonical Design Team: A fresh new look for Ubuntu.com

Natty Narwhal isn’t the only thing new today in Ubuntu. Along with it, and as you may have already noticed, we have updated some areas of the Ubuntu website, including a fresh new homepage.
What’s new?
This overhaul of the website focuses on improv...

World Peas

via thewhatever

... start 'em young!

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Kees Cook: non-executable kernel memory progress

The Linux kernel attempts to protect portions of its memory from unexpected modification (through potential future exploits) by setting areas read-only where the compiler has allowed it (CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA). This, combined with marking function pointe...

Brandon Perry: Fun finding things

I found a neat way to use find today. If you want to do an inverse search (think grep -v, but in find), simply use '!'. For Example:find . '!' -name '*.zip'Find all files that don't end in .zip.

WebM support has landed

Hey everyone,

Today we're officially announcing support for Google's WebM video format.

We had to overcome some hurdles for this, so let me share a few.

Our custom FFmpeg build used to be a FFmpeg SoC fork. It was a couple of versions behind but ric...

Fring does four way video conferences on iOS

Today Fring released its four-way video conferencing call app update. The update works with all of your iPhone/iPod touch 4 friends as well as Android users who can all join in a four way chat.After trying this out with three people over 3G, we’d wa...

Stolen Camera Finder

Programmer Matt Burns has written a search engine that lets people find their stolen camera gear by searching EXIF data for their serial number.

Read more and comment »

Movie Ages

Forking with the Edit Button

You've been able to edit files in repositories you own on GitHub for years. But today, we've improved the workflow for this functionality. You can now edit files in repositories that you don't have write access to!

If you browse to a file on GitHub i...

Google knows where you’ve been using your smartphone…

Heheh…the full video, which is a sales piece for mobile ads, below (with lots of iPhones thrown in):Related articlesDeveloper interest in iOS grows even as market for Android smartphones expands (9to5mac.com)Locationgate: Lawmakers summon Apple, Goog...

Diagramly Is a Quick Online Diagram, Mind Map, and Flow Chart Creator

There are plenty of apps for creating flow charts, mind maps, and other types of diagrams, but Diagramly is ready to go the minute you visit the site. It's remarkably similar to Microsoft Visio, but it's accessible from pretty much any web browser and...

YouTube to take on iTunes, Netflix with on-demand Hollywood movies

YouTube finally goes Hollywood as Google inks deals with big movie studios to let users rent the latest releases the same day as they appear on iTunes. That’s the gist of an exclusive report by The Wrap which cites insiders claiming that Google has m...

GitHub Drinkup, Amsterdam

A bunch of us are heading over to Amsterdam for Puppet Camp EU this week. We'll be co-hosting conference drinks at Cafe The News with Optiver around 21:00 on Thursday the 28th. You do not have to attend the conference to attend the drinkup, so join ...

DOM, HTML5, & CSS3 Performance

Here are the slides. :)
In this 30min video I cover:

Reflows, what they are and how to avoid them
Hardware accelerated CSS, how to trigger it
Letting the browser optimize animation for you with requestAnimationFrame
Web Workers
Benchmarking
Build scri...

Google is really doing this WebM thing

The search giant announced today that it has partnered with 17 technology companies on a WebM Cross license.  WebM of course is the alternate to the H.264 standard that Apple, Microsoft and other members of the MPEG-LA already have in production and b...

Sass 3.1 released, now with functions, lists, and @media bubbling

Sass 3.1 released, now with functions, lists, and @media bubbling: Sass continues to provide innovative new ways to DRY up our CSS. Version
3.1 is
out and offers many new language features, compilation performance improvements, and some new command lin...

The Merge Button

With Pull Requests 2.0, it became easier than ever to review code and accept patches. We use pull requests extensively at GitHub, and I love receiving pull requests on my open source projects.

Take, for example, this pull request for a documentation f...

Working with the Chaos Monkey

Late last year, the Netflix Tech Blog wrote about five lessons they learned moving to Amazon Web Services. AWS is, of course, the preeminent provider of so-called "cloud computing", so this can essentially be read as key advice for any website consider...

rel: Arel-inspired SQL query builder for Node.js

rel: Arel-inspired SQL query builder for Node.js: Arguably, Arel was one of the biggest
new features introduced in Rails 3. Arel simplifies building complex SQL
statements using idiomatic Ruby.

With Rel, Carl Woodward brings the power of Arel to Node....

Kort Verhaal: “Circusberen”. Geschreven voor Kamermans Kermis.

Hun huis heeft geen voordeur. Ik klim via de lange, wiebelige wenteltrap omhoog en klop aan op het blauwgeverfde houten luik in hun verder glazen dak.
Terwijl ik wacht kijk ik uit over de bossen, de zandwoestijn. In de verte glinstert rijdend blik op e...

Vondel Wonder

Weekend in Vondelpark. You wonder how it’s possible, 3 weeks straight of nothing but summer-like weather. Yet another day (*gasp*) of getting together, in this case with Álvaro, his girl Tatiana & their friends from all over Europe, each bringing a ...

Node v0.4.7

2011.04.22, Version 0.4.7 (stable)

Don’t emit error on ECONNRESET from read() #670
Fix: Multiple pipes to the same stream were broken #929 (Felix Geisendörfer)
URL parsing/formatting corrections #954 (isaacs)
make it possible to do repl.start(�...

Peanut Butter Factory

Found via Joanne Casey

CakePHP-MongoDB-DboSource update

I launched new web service using CakePHP and MongoDB. I had to add some functions to CakePHP-MongoDB DboSource, such as using MongoDB update operators, Groupby, Map/Reduce.
I’ve already pushed bunch of adding code to github. Please git pull and try i...

Pulley: Easy Github Pull Request Landing

I’ve created a simple tool for landing pull requests from Github, which I’m calling “Pulley“.
Landing a pull request from Github can be annoying. You can follow the instructions provided by Github (pulling the code, doing a merge) but that’ll...

Using Git commit hooks to prevent stupid mistakes

I’m pretty prone to making stupid mistakes all the time. I think its a mixture of being busy, and being a natural scatter brain. In any case, mistakes happen, and thankfully over time developers have come up with a number of ways to combat mistakes...

Those are some big numbers

Every night, our friendly Hubot pops into one of our Campfire rooms and posts some numbers. Turns out we passed some pretty significant numbers in the past couple days. And numbers are fun, so we thought we'd share them with you.

That's a lot of git r...

Quick Review: Air Penguin, the latest fad that knocked Angry Birds and Tiny Wings

The game that knocked Angry Birds and Tiny Wings off of the top slots in the App Store games chart.What is this with the App Store and bird-themed games, huh? First Angry Birds sat atop the App Store games charts, then Tiny Wings came along and now we ...

NetBeans 7.0 is available

The final build of NetBeans 7.0 is now available. You can download it from NetBeans site. Although NetBeans IDE 7.0 introduces language support for coding to the proposed
Java SE 7 specification with the JDK 7 developer preview, it also contain few fea...

Rolling out the Redcarpet

Shared by kvz

syntax highlighted code blocks in GitHub Flavored Markdown - wanted that for a long time


Here at GitHub, we love Markdown. We use it everywhere: to render the wikis, issues, pull requests, and all user-generated comments. We even enc...

Heaven

The Fridge: Ubuntu 6.06 (Dapper Drake) reaches end-of-life on June 1 2011

Ubuntu announced its 6.06 Server release almost 5 years ago, on June 1, 2006. For the LTS Server releases, Ubuntu committed to ongoing security and critical fixes for a period of 5 years. The support period is now nearing its end and Ubuntu 6.06 LTS S...

Rolling out the Redcarpet

Here at GitHub, we love Markdown. We use it everywhere: to render the wikis, issues, pull requests, and all user-generated comments. We even encourage developers to write their READMEs in this awesome markup language. In fact, we use it so much that we...

Streamline your git workflow with aliases

My git workflow is heavily influenced by articles such as Rein’s or the topic branches workflow on the excellent ProGit book. The idea is simple:

1. Start a story with a new branch.
From the master branch, run
git checkout -b feature_x
2. Hack and ...

Why the password "this is fun" is 10 times more secure than "J4fS!2"

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Live Streaming With Amazon CloudFront and Adobe Flash Media Server

You can now stream live audio or video through AWS using the Adobe Flash Media Server using a cost-effective pay-as-you-go model that makes uses of Amazon EC2, Amazon CloudFront, and Amazon Route 53, all configured and launched via a single CloudFormat...

Mysterious Photography of Mikko Lagerstedt

Mikko Largestedt is a designer from Finland who felt in love with photography in 2008 and is still in love with it. His photos are astonishing and have many feelings to it, not to mention that they are very mysterious in a way that will keep you waitin...

Panorama 4D turns your iPhone into a 3D camera with bullet-time gyro mode

Don’t hold you breath for a glasses-free 3D screen on the next iPhone, it would be very unlike-Apple to go with the tech many folks suspect is just a fad. If you’re a fan of 3D imagery, this nifty app will have you covered.Panorama4D by OWLAB is a ...

Future Timeline

John Baer: 12 Days – 6 Wallpapers

The concept of this illustration is a ploy using stage curtains to craft the image of snow capped mountains with the sun and clouds hung from the scaffolding above. The colors are bold and the result bright and cheery.
Download from the Ubuntu Galler...

AWS Management Console Bookmarking

We've added a new bookmarking feature to the AWS Management Console. You can now construct a URL that will open the console with a specific AMI (Amazon Machine Image) or CloudFormation Template selected and ready to launch.
EC2 AMI LaunchThe URL to ope...

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Anatomy of Google Analytics Cookies

Google Analytics is the most used analytics package in the world. What information Google stores in their cookies is less known. I was researching cookie tracking when thinking of a way to implement a script that tracks conversion attribution for our a...

Source Code Symmetry and Transcendent Programming Tools

The more experienced you become as a coder, the more you look at patterns and shapes and symmetry, rather than just reading code a character or token at a time to understand a piece of code.  This is an extremely desirable programming skill, because:T...

My development setup

For the purposes of archiving how I like to develop, I'll chronicle a few things here. As far as base

Angry Birds Sync coming before summer

Angry Birds artwork by ijulDoes it bother you that you cannot continue playing a game on your iPad right where you left off on an iPhone? It always frustrated me that Game Center, Apple’s social network for games, only keeps record of your achievemen...

Episode 0.5.6 - Vim with Drew Neil, Tim Pope, and Yehuda Katz

Episode 0.5.6 - Vim with Drew Neil, Tim Pope, and Yehuda Katz: Wynn sat down with three Vim users and experts to talk about tips and tricks for using and pimping the popular text editor.



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Items mentioned in the show:

Vim seeks to provi...

My EC2 Instance - The First 1000 Days

I launched my first "production" EC2 instance almost three years ago, on July 15, 2008. For my purposes, production includes hosting my personal blog and writing code for my AWS book, as well as a host for random development projects that I putter arou...

Amsterdam Sisterly Love

As witnessed on the corner of Nieuwmarkt and Zeedijk last week.

Picnic

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Visit Amsterdamize!

Issues 2.0: The Next Generation

Issue management: the final frontier. Almost two years ago to the day, GitHub launched an issue tracker. Some people love it, some people hate it — but let's not focus on the past (we're living in the future so the present is our past). Let's talk ab...

Pain Rating

New Server Density features – regex process matches, spike analysis and Windows MongoDB monitoring

We’ve been quite busy pushing new features out to our server monitoring service, Server Density, so I’d like to take a moment to highlight what we’ve been up to!
Process not running alerts with regular expression matching

One of our oldest featu...

Seif Lotfy: Zeitgeist work towards GNOME 3.2

So with an awesome GNOME 3.0 out I already had some stuff prepared for 3.2 that can show off some of the power and awesomeness Zeitgeist could provide for GNOME 3.2
The designs are random till now and we (Federico, Siegfried and me) are waiting for dir...

If GoDaddy had a command line interface

If GoDaddy had a command line interface: Funny stuff from ernie:

$ godaddy buy wynn.fm
-- Reading CC Info from .godaddy...
-- THANK YOU FOR PURCHASING YOUR DOMAIN WITH GODADDY!
-- WHILE OUR SERVERS THINK ABOUT REGISTERING YOUR DOMAIN
-- NAME, PLEASE G...

John Baer: 22 Days – 11 Wallpapers

Although some would argue the branding on this illustration is all wrong, I felt it was very cleaver. The gray canvas let’s the animal textures of the word Ubuntu and the circle of friends logo stand out.
The title “Ubuntu” and by-line “be fre...

A Standard Readme for your CakePHP Plugins

I just noticed that a lot of people have trouble filling out a readme, so I came up with one

Eric Hammond: Alestic Git Server (alpha testing)

I’m working on making it easy to start a centralized Git server with an unlimited number of private Git repositories and unlimited users under your control running on an Amazon EC2 instance. I need people who can help test and provide feedback so I ...

Development Environment

If you’re compiling a software package because you need a particular version (e.g. the latest), then it requires a little bit more maintenance than using a package manager like dpkg. Software that you compile yourself should *not* go into /usr, it sh...

GitHub Reflog v1.4.04

Welcome to the third edition of The GitHub Reflog — the weekly chronicle of remarkable GitHub repos and community activity. For previous editions, check out The Reflog Archive.

Community Update

Last week, Apple's MacRuby project began to officially...

node v0.4.5

2011.04.01, Version 0.4.5 (stable)

Fix listener leak in stream.pipe() (Mikeal Rogers)
Retain buffers in fs.read/write() GH-814 (Jorge Chamorro Bieling)
TLS performance improvements
SlowBuffer.prototype.slice bug GH-843
process.stderr.write should...

Image rotation has landed

Hey folks,

you need to check out the new "rotation" parameter for the /image/resize robot. It allows you to specify rotation degrees for your images and by default fixes any miss-rotated images. You can see it in action on the rotation demo page.

Enj...

HTML5 Chainsaw For Destroying Lame April Fools' Jokes

In the past (see below) I've participated in April Fools' jokes, but this year I'm going the other way.
Drag the image below to your bookmarks bar and you've got yourself an HTML5 chainsaw for destroying lame April Fools' jokes. Or just click to activa...

Headache

solarized: Light and dark precision color scheme for terminal apps, editors

solarized: Light and dark precision color scheme for terminal apps, editors: We developers spend as much time finding the right color scheme for our text editors and command line tools as we do using them. Normally, you find your tool of choice and the...

Dustin Kirkland: Dosbox for the win!

My Mom is almost 100% Ubuntu.  I've given her a couple of computers running Ubuntu over the years, and she's gotten really adept at using it, but she still has one Windows XP desktop hanging around.  And it seems like it's always ailing...She's been ...

Revisiting Spaces and Tabs

This article in 50 words: I used to prefer spaces vs tabs, now I don't care
so much, think it's
more important that you can easily switch on a per-project basis. Have some
thoughts on how conventions
should be established, and I'll demonstrate bash c...

Daniel Holbach: Ubuntu Development Guide: Fixing a bug in Ubuntu

This is another article of the new Ubuntu Packaging Guide project. Please leave your comments below, or report a bug on it, or start helping out. Just branch the code and get involved.
The article below is all about fixing bugs in Ubuntu.





Fixing a...

Luis de Bethencourt: the motherf*)#^g manifesto for programming

for all those who have experienced pain by corporate management, specially middle management...



the motherf*)#^g manifesto for programming, motherf*)#^s







they claim to valuethey really valuewe doindividuals and interactionstons of billablehour...

How to fix a commit in the wrong branch using git reset

At Eduhub we use git as our VCS and when we are working on a ticket, we commit our changes to a separate (local) branch. Sometimes we forget to make a local branch and accidentally commit to the master branch (or whichever branch we were at, of course)...

Dustin Kirkland: Ubuntu Server Quick Install, No Questions Asked!

 priority=critical locale=en_US url=http://bit.ly/uquickAs you might imagine, I install the Ubuntu Server a lot, so I'm frequently asked about preseeding Ubuntu Server installations.There are some excellent resources out there.  I have learned much f...

Lamp

Jorge Castro: So this is total fun.

One of my friends has a Syma S107 Micro RC helicopter and when I heard these are about $30-$40 I decided to snag a Z008, which is similar but adds these side fan things so I can slide side to side: 


It’s a bunch of fun to fly inside, and very beg...

Vicent Marti is a GitHubber

Several months ago we blogged about how Vicent was helping us develop libgit2, a linkable Git library. Well, we're proud to announce that Vicent is now a GitHubber!




Vicent was the student in the Google Summer of Code project that I mentored and di...

NetBeans 7.0 Release Candidate 1 is published

Today there was published the first release candidate for Netbeans 7.0.
From the PHP point of view it contains fixes of issue #188107,  issue #194294 and issue #196985. The first two issues fixed problem with code completion and navigation, the la...

Peek-A-Boo [Flickr]

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Node v0.4.4

2011.03.26, Version 0.4.4 (stable)

CryptoStream.end shouldn’t throw if not writable GH-820
Drop out if connection destroyed before connect() GH-819
expose https.Agent
Correctly setsid in tty.open GH-815
Bug fix for failed buffer construction
A...

The art of user experience at the Tweakers.net Dev Summit

At the Developers Summit of Dutch tech site Tweakers.net British interaction designer Aral Balkan captured the gist of the evening with his slide on what UX is: it’s not one of the features one ticks off during the initial design phase of a project, ...

Luis de Bethencourt: what the cap?

some people have been asking me why i don't use capital letters in my blog.



so here is the explanation. back in 1925, the bauhaus abolished capital letters in all their printed materials.



inside its difficult social/political time the bauhaus rev...

npm 1.0: Global vs Local installation

npm 1.0 is in release candidate mode. Go get it!
More than anything else, the driving force behind the npm 1.0 rearchitecture was the desire to simplify what a package installation directory structure looks like.
In npm 0.x, there was a command called...

MySQL Analytics: updated query for table engine data statistics

This is a follow up to my previous post titled “MySQL analytics: information_schema polling for table engine percentages”. Here’s an updated query with more output and quicker execution time. What you get: innodb table space utilization percentag...

Scott Moser: Upgrading an EBS Instance

Update 20110323: If you are reading this article, you almost certainly should be reading my Migrating to pv-grub kernels for kernel upgrades. The process described here will still work for 10.04 images, but the process described there is ultimately mu...

Mention @somebody. They're notified.

Ever wish you could summon a particular someone to take a look at an issue or
pull request? Now you can:



When you @mention a GitHub username anywhere
in the context of an issue or pull request, that person is notified and
subscribed to future update...

Trapped

Full screen server monitoring dashboard

Now you have even more of an excuse to get a big TV or 2nd monitor for your Server Density server monitoring full screen dashboard.

Just click the icon in the top right of your dashboard. Thanks to the Lockheed Martin Space Fence for inspiration.

Nizar Kerkeni: Firefox 4 Party

I’m in the party with thousands of Firefox lover, what about you ? Join us to the party.
Firefox Tweeter Party.
Firefox 4 Party is a post from: Pourquoi pas !!

Beefier chips as Apple bolsters in-house silicon wizards

Apple’s A5 chip has debuted with iPad 2, but the company’s already hard at work designing the A6, contemplating the A7 and thinking about the A8. Apple added more chip experts to their in-house silicon team and poached veteran engineers from Samsun...

GitHub Reflog v1.3.21

Welcome to the first edition of The GitHub Reflog. This is a new weekly installment chronicling awesome GitHub repos, brought to you by Kenneth Reitz, one of the classy gentlemen behind The Changelog and a ton of open source projects.

Featured Repo of...

Behold: Image view modes

Now when you view commits that include images you'll be presented with four ways to view them: 2-up, Swipe, Onion Skin, and Difference.






2-Up is the default mode, which lets you get a quick glimpse of both images. In addition, if the image has cha...

HTML5 Boilerplate went 1.0

The project went 1.0 today. o/

A custom builder to customize your download. (It's by the same guy behind initializr)
An Ant Build Script that handles all the optimization to make YSlow and PageSpeed happy.
Rich and beautiful documentation
Lots of vi...

rack-pagespeed: Rack middleware for page speed optimization

rack-pagespeed: Rack middleware for page speed optimization: Thanks to work by Google and Yahoo, we’re all better informed about how to speed up our web pages. For those on Apache, Google has made it easier to implement these ideas at the Apache Modu...

Google’s silent updating in action: Chrome squashes nasty Flash Player bug ahead of Adobe

When a critical Flash Player vulnerability was discovered being used in the wild last week, Adobe posted an advisory and promised an update within a week. The exploitable software flaw lets attackers take control of your system after opening an Excel s...

Validate the uniqueness of a combination of fields in CakePHP

Sometimes you have a situation where you need to enforce the uniqueness of a combination of fields, instead of just one. You can enforce this at the database level by creating a unique index over the columns. However, sometimes you might need to enforc...

2009 Called

Nick Ali: FireSSH – SSH in a Browser

Basically, a Firefox plugin that lets you ssh in a browser with Javascript.FireSSH.Photo credit.

Hello Singapore (CDN Experiment)

Earlier this week we began experimenting with using Amazon CloudFront as
a CDN for serving static assets. We've also rolled out some general asset
delivery optimizations. Depending on how far away you are from our main
Washington D.C. datacenters, you ...

Apt-Fast Speeds Up Package Downloads in Ubuntu [Downloads]

Linux: Apt-Get is a great command line tool for downloading apps in Linux, but if you're looking for even faster downloads, Apt-Fast can nearly double your download speeds in Ubuntu.Apt-Fast isn't an application, just a shell script that uses the Axel ...

Transloadit now on Route 53

As you probably know, Transloadit has been running its production infra
on Amazon's cloud since day 1 - our block stores, encoding servers, loadbalancers, the full monty.
Except for 1 often forgotten, yet essential part of infra: our name servers.

Yes...

Daniel Holbach: Ubuntu Development Guide: Introduction

To get the new Ubuntu Packaging Guide project some more exposure, I thought I would blog the first few articles, so if you’re interested in helping out or sharing your feedback, that’d be awesome.
The guide below is an introduction to Ubuntu Develo...

Salman Khan: Let's use video to reinvent education

I liked a YouTube video: http://www.ted.com Salman Khan talks about how and why he created the remarkable Khan Academy, a carefully structured series of educational videos offering complete curricula in math and, now, other subjects. He shows the power...

Calendario

Calendario:
($5.99) – Easily view what events you have going on for today and the future.

Time Management

JavaScript Trie Performance Analysis

After my last post discussing dictionary lookups in JavaScript the unanimous consensus seemed to be that utilizing Trie would result in additional space savings and yield performance benefits.
A Trie is a relatively simple data structure. At its simple...

disown, zombie children, and the uninterruptible sleep

PID 1 RidingAlbrecht Dürer, 1505


It's the end of the day on Friday. On your laptop, in an ssh session on a work machine, you check on long.sh, which has been running all day and has another 8 or 9 hours to go. You start to close your laptop.

You fr...

SmartCover doubles as a iPad fridge magnet

I doubt Applecare covers this but SmartCover magnets are strong enough to hold the new lighter iPad 2s on a refrigerator.  Us?  We’re more the velcro types.

Thierry Carrez: Coming up in OpenStack Cactus

Shared by kvz

We should also have the long-awaited live migration feature (for KVM)
In a bit more than a week, we will hit FeatureFreeze for OpenStack “Cactus” cycle, so we start to have a good idea of what new features will make it. The Cactus ...

Thierry Carrez: Coming up in OpenStack Cactus

Shared by kvz

We should also have the long-awaited live migration feature (for KVM)
In a bit more than a week, we will hit FeatureFreeze for OpenStack “Cactus” cycle, so we start to have a good idea of what new features will make it. The Cactus ...

Thierry Carrez: Coming up in OpenStack Cactus

In a bit more than a week, we will hit FeatureFreeze for OpenStack “Cactus” cycle, so we start to have a good idea of what new features will make it. The Cactus cycle focus was on stability, so there are fewer new features compared to Bexar, but th...

ColorSnapper

ColorSnapper:
($4.99) – ColorSnapper is an easy-to-use tool for quickly finding out the color of any pixel on the screen. It is activated via a system-wide hotkey (configurable), giving you a magnifying loupe to easily pick the pixel you need. The ...

A New Approach to Amazon EC2 Networking

You've been able to use the Amazon Virtual Private Cloud to construct a secure bridge between your existing IT infrastructure and the AWS cloud using an encrypted VPN connection. All communication between Amazon EC2 instances running within a par...

... "Exercise for the Revolution! " PRC

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Want an open source Dropbox alternative that you can host on your server? Try Sparkleshare, now very easy to set up in Ubuntu thanks to a PPA: [www.webupd8.org] #tips #ubuntu #openthread alinandrei

The Copycopter logo process

My process for designing logos isn’t much different than the process that I use to design for the web. It starts with a bit of research and sketching and then a whole lot of refinement. The Copycopter logo will serve as a case study as I travel throu...

Spring. It’s Official.

Aside from the obvious rise in temperature, you know something’s up when…
…the bicycle postman is wearing his summer gear

…you see bare arms and legs


…kids come out to play in full force



…the gloves can come off

..people who ride a...

Upstart Development Blog: Override files in Ubuntu Natty

This is the first in a series of posts outlining some of the new functionality which will be available in the version of Upstart in Ubuntu Natty.
Upstart stores its job configuration files (“.conf” files) within the “/etc/init/” directory. Thes...

Daily Inspiration #767

This post is part of our daily series of posts showing the most inspiring images selected by some of the Abduzeedo's writers and users. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, just send us, via email, the image with the li...

Museum Anatomy by Chadwick & Spector

Classic art seems to be a bit forgotten nowadays, after the discovery of photoshop and other softwares, art seems to be more on the computer than in a canvas. For my surprise, Fábio introduced me this recent project that try to recreate some classic p...

Beautiful Houses: Lake LBJ Retreat in Texas

The idea in this series is to show beautiful and inspiring houses. Houses that are remarkable for its design, elegance, elements, concept or simply because they are beautiful. So if you like architecture, interior design and beautifully designed houses...

1956 ... 'Earth vs. the flying Saucers'

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Astonishing Illustrations by Danil Shunkov

There's an style of illustration that I really like, but actually don't know what to call it. It reminds me of indie games such as "Machinarium" and "Yet It Moves" and it has that witty feel to it.

It as a pleasant surprise for me when I ran into the ...

When will Android people pay for quality?

Based on historic milestones concerning the App Store and rival Android Market, a publication has guestimated that Google’s app bazaar will overtake Apple’s mobile application market “in the next few months,” at least when it comes to the numb...

Aaron Toponce: Various Ways To Shred A Drive

I’ve been tasked at work with shredding drives. Not physically, mind you, but digitally. Usually, I grab a copy of the latest version of Knoppix, boot up, pull up a terminal, and grab GNU Shred. Something like:
shred -n 3 -v /dev/sda
It works well en...

Flipboard gains Instagram integration, is now twice as fast

The popular social magazine application for iPad called Flipboard received a pretty substantial update tonight. The update includes full Instagram integration with photos displayed just like your Facebook, Twitter, and RSS content is displayed.Flipboar...

Xcode

Xcode:
($4.99) – Xcode 4 provides everything developers need to create great applications for Mac, iPhone, and iPad. Xcode 4 is also available to members of the Mac and iOS Developer Programs from the Apple Developer website. 
Xcode 4 has been stre...

Reply to Comments from Email

You should notice a small change to the From address on your email notifications now: they're no longer from no-reply@github.com.



We're now accepting replies from most email notifications that you'll receive:


Issue comments
Commit comments
Pull Re...

Xcode 4 released with git integration

Today Apple released Xcode 4. We're pretty excited over here because Xcode 4 is the first Xcode release to support git natively. What's even more, new projects default to git repos!




As you work on your project, you can see the git status of the f...

Apple posts iPad 2 guided video tours

Apple has posted video guided tours for the iPad 2 Garageband, iMovie, and iBooks applications. The walkthroughs range from about 2-6 minutes, depending on the video, and showcase how the applications work on Apple’s iPad 2.Both the white and black i...

Even More EC2 Goodies in the AWS Management Console

We've added some new features to the EC2 tab of the AWS Management Console to make it even more powerful and even easier to use.
You can now change the instance type of a stopped, EBS-backed EC2 instance. This means that you can scale up or scale down ...

Fabien Tassin: Chromium: new logo

A few hours ago in Chromium Trunk, a new logo appeared:



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htracr in Two Minutes

I made a quick and dirty screencast to show off some of the newer features in htracr.


htracr demo from mnot on Vimeo.

It’s still a work in progress (you can see at least one visible bug if you’re looking!).

New and Improved Service Hook Payloads

The service hook payloads now have the following new fields:



distinct=true for commits that are new to the repository

created=true for new branches

deleted=true for branch deletions

base=NAME for the base ref associated with a new branch
The camp...

A Sunday Photo Walk

At some point I got a call from my friend Gabemac: “This weather is nuts. Whaddaya up to?” “I’m hitting the city, playing catch up with the blog.” “Wanna walk around together? I’m bringing my camera, too.” “Of course, dude, come on ov...

Sysadmin Sunday #21

This is Sysadmin Sunday, a post of interesting links from throughout the previous week.

Hybrid Incremental MySQL Backups
DNS Complexity
Stack Overflow Architecture Update – Now At 95 Million Page Views A Month

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David Tomaschik: Memo to Self when Moving Databases

As a memo to myself, and in case others aren't aware of this:
If you move the entirety of a mysql server (e.g., all databases, especially the "mysql" database) to a new Debian-based (Debian, Ubuntu, etc.) server, you need to make sure the debian-sys-ma...

iOS 4.3 now recognizes previously purchased apps that haven’t yet been installed

Update: Woops! this was a store update 2 weeks ago, not 4.3. Sorry about that A cool new feature that is now in 4.3 is the ability for the App Store to check your account for applications that aren’t yet installed, but have been bought in the past. ...

git clone http://github.com/tpw/endo

Thanks to rodjek and technoweenie the trailing ".git" is now optional when cloning GitHub repos using SmartHTTP:

$ git clone http://github.com/tpw/endo
Cloning into endo...
remote: Counting objects: 6, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (3/3), do...

EC2 VM Import Connector

The new Amazon EC2 VM Import Connector is a virtual appliance (vApp) plug-in for VMware vCenter. Once installed, you can import virtual machines from your VMware vSphere infrastructure into Amazon EC2 using the GUI that you are already familiar with. T...

Amazon RDS Backup and Maintenance Windows Shortened

When you create an Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) DB Instance you need to specify the desired times for the daily backup window and the weekly maintenance window:

If you have enabled backups for a particular DB Instance (by setting the Backu...

iPad 2 is almost all battery

Just like the iPhone 4, the iPad 2 is more than half battery.  It is interesting that these incredibly small devices are almost completely battery by size and weight.  Every generation the batteries get bigger and the electronics get smaller – like...

Ahmed Kamal: FAST Win7 KVM VirtIO{Disk-Net} Install

Everyone who has to use Windows, please let's at least keep it contained inside a virtual machine! In this article I'll demo how to "Install Windows7 over Ubuntu 11.04 Natty, using KVM with System Disk over VirtIO". Quoting the libvirt wiki "Virtio is ...

FaceTime

FaceTime:
($0.99) – FaceTime for Mac makes it easy to talk, smile and laugh with friends and family on their iPhone 4, iPod touch or Mac. Getting started is quick and easy — simply enter your Apple ID and you’re ready to go. Whether you’re tal...

A Little Hand Holding Goes A Long Way

Git is pretty awesome, right? Of course I'm right. If you didn't think so, you wouldn't be here. The trick is, Git is pretty damn confusing if you've never used it before. It's even more confusing if you've never used a command prompt before.

That's w...

Faster x264 encoding

After a few recent complaints from our customers, it became clear that our x264 encoding configuration was way too slow. We had missed some critical optimizations when configuring the library, as well as not using optimal parameters for the encoding it...

8 core machines

Last night we switched our default machine type from Amazon's c1.medium (2 core) instances, to x1.large.

The new machines are featuring 8 cores, 7 GB memory, better I/O performance and 64 bit architecture.

If you are performing assemblies that are he...

snorby: Beautiful Rails network security monitoring app for Snort, Suricata, and Sagan

snorby: Beautiful Rails network security monitoring app for Snort, Suricata, and Sagan: Last week we brought you Graylog2 which takes the otherwise boring job of log monitoring and provides some pretty slick searching, filtering, and visualization. Dus...

Time Machine can be used without an external hard drive in Lion, via new ‘Local Snapshots’ feature

Apple has really touched every aspect of of the operating system for the Lion update and we’ve discovered a major new feature for Time Machine: ‘Local Snapshots’. Local Snapshots allows you to use the helpful Time Machine backup feature without a...

Creating multi-language documentation with sphinx

In a previous article I covered how CakePHP would potentially be moving to using sphinx for the 2.0 documentation. Myself and some of the other CakePHP developers have been working on this option, and seeing if it has any legs. Turns out that sphinx ...

10.7 Lion lets you login to other Macs with an Apple ID. MobileMe’s Back to my Mac going free?

Apple has long had a feature in MobileMe called Back to my Mac, which allows you to remotely access all your internet-connected computers’ files. Additionally, you could ever screenshare with your own computers over the internet. This feature has bee...

John Baer: What do you see when you think of Natty?

The greater artwork community reached out to Ubuntu and answered the question above with their illustrations.
Words of inspiration included metaphors like “Entertaining, Simple, Carefree, Steady, Handy, and Quick”.
Far too much love to show in a s...

Decaf for iPhone

Decaf for iPhoneI am very proud to announce Decaf for iPhone. It took us much longer than anticipated, but quality of the app was most important. You'll use it to manage your EC2 account, which is not something taken lightly.
With this app you can mana...

Lion supports TRIM. Why do you want TRIM?

TRIM? Oui!
Another Lion discovery making the rounds today is its support of TRIM on SSDs. In short, TRIM allows the machine to write faster to the SSD.
TRIM was introduced soon after SSDs started to become an affordable alternative for traditional ha...

AWS CloudFormation - Create Your AWS Stack From a Recipe

My wife's "famous" Greek Easter Bread!
My family does a lot of cooking and baking. Sometimes we start out with a goal, a menu, and some recipes. Other times we get a bit more creative and do something interesting with whatever we have on hand. As the l...

AWS CloudFormation in the AWS Management Console

The AWS Management Console now includes full support for AWS CloudFormation. You can create stacks from templates, monitor the creation process, access the parameters and the outputs, and terminate the stack when you are done with it. As is my custom, ...

Nanobots

Custom MySQL config files to ensure maximum performance

The config files that come with MySQL server are generally not that good. They almost never work well for enterprise server loads and will leave most people wondering why the database needs someone to come fix it. In fact that might be why they roll th...

Lion includes all new Mail.app: looks like iPad mail, has new “Conversations” feature

Apple has announced that their upcoming Mac OS X 10.7 Lion will include an all new Mail application and it looks just like the one you can find on an iPad. A new mail bar is also present with easier access to some new tools. The new Mail.app also works...

Part 2 – Simple lessons in improving scalability

Given the popular response from my first lesson in improving scalability where I detailed simple ways to eliminate unnecessary SQL, let me share another common bottleneck with MySQL scalability that can be instantly overcome.
Analyzing the writes that ...

inception - The movie, explained through C code

inception - The movie, explained through C code: I’ll be honest: this is one of the cooler things I’ve seen recently:

/*
* Create separate threads for the main protagonists involved in the inception
*/
static void *inception(void *unused)
{
...

Amber Graner: Over 50 Ubuntu Based Distributions – Wow!

Ok so I wanted to know more about the distributions that were based on Ubuntu and the Wikipedia list is pretty long.
Wikipedia breaks the Ubuntu based Linux distributions into three categories:
Official Distributions
* Ubuntu Server Edition
* Kubuntu ...

Mapping your network with nmap

If you run a computer network, be it home WiFi or a global enterprise system, you need a way to investigate the machines connected to your network. When ping and traceroute won't cut it, you need a port scanner.nmap is the port scanner. It's a powerful...

Threaded Email Notifications

Over the weekend we rolled out a few changes to email notifications to better
take advantage of your mail reader's ability to group messages into
conversations and threads:



Here's what's changed:


Messages appear from the user that performed the ac...

Give Yourself Constraints

Recently, I had a hernia and surgery to fix it. This knocked me out of the game and onto the couch for a couple weeks. During my recovery, I had a lot of time to think. I also had a lot of time to miss what I do every day.
This was the longest period i...

New AWS Console Features: Forced Detach, Termination Protection

We've added two new features to the AWS Management Console: forced detach of EBS volumes and termination protection.
Forced DetachFrom time to time an Elastic Block Storage (EBS) volume will refuse to cleanly detach itself from an EC2 instance. This ca...

Talks, talks, talks

I've been in Atlanta for the past two weeks, and thanks to the kind help of a few folks, I was able to present at 2 meetups, as well as Startup Riot 2011.

First up was a new talk at the Atlanta Ruby Meetup:

Nodejs - Should Ruby Developers Care?


The...

Measuring Disk Usage In Linux (%iowait vs IOPS)

This occurred to me when looking at our Hadoop servers today, lots of our devs use IOWait as an indicator of IO performance but there are better measures. IOWait is a CPU metric, measuring the percent of time the CPU is idle, but waiting for an I/O to ...

Eric Hammond: Fixing Files on the Root EBS Volume of an EC2 Instance

You can examine and edit files on the root EBS volume on an EC2 instance even if you are in what you considered a disastrous situation like:


You lost your ssh key or forgot your password
You made a mistake editing the /etc/sudoers file and can no lon...

Host Your Static Website on Amazon S3

We've added some new features to Amazon S3 to make it even better at hosting static websites.
Customers have been hosting their images and video for their websites on Amazon S3 for a long time. However, it was not that easy to host your entire website ...

Poor man’s mytop

I often need to watch a server that’s very minimally configured, e.g. has no Perl DBI libraries installed, and I shouldn’t install anything. The following snippet is a quick way to do that:

watch 'mysqladmin proc | grep -v Sleep | cut -b0-130'

R...

NetBeans IDE 7.0 Beta 2 Available for Download

A few minutes ago we have just published NetBeans IDE 7.0 Beta 2. You can download it here.
From PHP point of view the Beta 2 build provides improved performance and quality with bug fixes. Also preview of Git support is available on the Update Cent...

DRBD on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

This is a rough guide and really for future personal references so I can rebuild a DRBD cluster in 3 minutes, without having to dig into DRBD docs again.
Please correct me if something is wrong (I’m thinking about DRBD gurus, Arrfab coming to mind )...

10% off Tower for Mac

Today Tower, the most powerful Git client for Mac, was officially released.

The best part? Use coupon code GITHUB10 to get 10% off until March 15th, 2011.

Or, just click this link.







Not sold? Tower has a 30 day free trial.

Congrats to the four...

Happy Birthday Ksplice Uptrack!

One year ago, we announced the general availability of Ksplice Uptrack, a subscription service for rebootless kernel updates on Linux. Since then, a lot has happened!
Adoption
Over 600 companies have deployed Ksplice Uptrack on more than 100,000 produc...

MongoDB Monitoring Dashboard

We’re pleased to announce the initial release of our MongoDB monitoring dashboard addon for our server monitoring service, Server Density.

This allows you monitor the real time status of your entire cluster, particularly which servers are master an...

Bryan Quigley: Leaving Facebook

How I left Facebook… (inspired from here – if nothing else check out the picture at the bottom of the link)

Exported Birthdays to Google Calendar (Go to Events -> Birthdays | Then go to bottom.  Click Export. Change webcal to http. Download ical ...

compass-magick: Extend Sass with power of ImageMagick

compass-magick: Extend Sass with power of ImageMagick: Compass delivers powerful features on top of Sass including support for CSS3 and image sprites. With Compass-Magick, Stan Angeloff pushes the envelope a bit and adds the power of ImageMagick (via R...

Just a pretty picture

How useful is the new ?: operator?

As with everyone else excited about PHP 5.3, I was extremely looking forward to developing in it. I was especially excited to use the new shorthand ternary operator (?:). This would remove the redundant middle expression of returning the variable, and ...

John Baer: Natty Wallpaper Illustrations – So far!

As announced, Natty will include at least three (3) illustrations as a part of the wallpaper pack.
I could not be more delighted with the quality and diversity of the designs submitted. Please view the complete set here as the following examples are ju...

transloadit | RubyGems.org | your community gem host

transloadit. 0.1.2. The transloadit gem allows you to automate uploading files through the Transloadit REST API. installgem install transloadit ...rubygems.org/gems/transloadit

node-semver: The semver parser for Node that powers npm

node-semver: The semver parser for Node that powers npm: Isaac Z. Schlueter, who is not looking for work, btw, has released a Semver library for Node.js. An extraction from his popular npm package manager for Node.js, node-semver parses version numbers...

super-nginx: nginix on steroids serves up async Lua apps

super-nginx: nginix on steroids serves up async Lua apps: Ezra Zygmuntowicz, Engine Yard founder now at VMWare, has released a “killer build of nginx” that bundles seventeen popular nginx modules as well as Luajit, a just-in-time compiler for Lua.
...

Tater is a GitHubber

To finish off this epic week of hiring, we're announcing that Tater is now a GitHubber.







Tater is coming on as our new Chief Happiness Officer (sorry PJ). Look at that face! All Tater wants to do is make everyone happy. His main task will be t...

Pochade

Pochade:
($9.99) – Pochade easily allows you to select any color from your screen, save your collection of colors, and get the color value the way you want.

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HP webOS event roundup.

It’s not a big secret that I’m a big fan of webOS’ design and premise. While my primary phone for daily use is an iPhone, I’ve used Android and webOS phones alike for extended periods of time and I always miss some of webOS’ interface polish....

Introducing the File Finder

Back when I started using TextMate, its cmd-T file finder completely changed the way I browse and read code. When I switched to Janus last year, it was only because I found the excellent Command-T plugin for vim.

These days, though, I find myself read...

Better grids: Lessons learned from Design for Developers

After our first Design for Developers workshop in December, we shared a few examples of student work we especially liked.

The next Design for Developers workshop is just a few weeks away, and I thought it would be interesting to highlight some common...

Hyperspaces

Hyperspaces:
($9.99) – Hyperspaces brings color & context to Apple’s Spaces.
Hyperspaces works with Apple’s Spaces to let you customize each Space so that it is recognisably different from the others. It does this through a set of great visual d...

Eric Hammond: New Release of ec2-consistent-snapshot and Screencast by Ahmed Kamal

ec2-consistent-snapshot is a tool that uses the Amazon EC2 API to initiate a snapshot of an EBS volume with some additional work to help ensure that an XFS file system and/or MySQL database are in a consistent state on that snapshot.

Ahmed Kamal point...

Sparrow

Sparrow:
($9.99) – Sparrow is a minimalist mail application designed to keep things simple and efficient. Features threads, labels, quick reply, multiple accounts, Quick Look, inline attachments, notifications, and more.

Mislav Marohnić is a GitHubber

Today marks Mislav Marohnić's first day as a GitHubber. As a JavaScript and Ruby expert, Mislav is going to help us bring some serious awesome to your github.com experience.







Whether it's his beautiful Instagram web frontend, his innovative appr...

BitNami Cloud Hosting

I had a very pleasant phone call with Erica and Daniel of BitNami just yesterday. They gave me a complete briefing on their new BitNami Cloud Hosting product, which they just announced a few minutes ago.
BitNami Cloud Hosting is designed to make life e...

David Tomaschik: apc.stat=0 and Updating Software

When you're running APC on PHP and you have apc.stat=0, it's sometimes easy to forget that when you update software (WordPress) the code running on your server remains unchanged until you flush the APC cache. So, when you go to update WordPress to 3.0....

New Location for Route 53 and CloudFront + Route 53 Tool Roundup + Jobs

We've just opened a new Amazon CloudFront and Amazon Route 53 location. The new location in Paris is our fifth in Europe and should result in even better performance and response time for users in that part of the world. You don't have to make any chan...

Pull Request Diff Comments

That's right. They're here. Now you can comment directly on individual lines in the Diff attached to any Pull Request.



These things are smart. They keep their proper position, even after pushing additional changes to the same file.

Diff comment thr...

Dustin Kirkland: Introducing: run-one and run-this-one

I love cronjobs!  They wake me up in the morning, fetch my mail, backup my data, sync my mirrors, update my systems, check the health of my hardware and RAIDs, transcode my MythTV recordings, and so many other things...The robotic precision of cron en...

Name Mangler

Name Mangler:
($9.99) – Name Mangler is a batch file renaming tool. A simple and intuitive interface makes it easy for you to rename hundreds or thousands of files at a time.
Basic use requires nothing more than choosing the files to rename, and the...

Cropping by coordinates has landed

Today the Transloadit team is happy to announce the arrival of a new feature: image cropping based on coordinates.

This allows your users to upload an image, pick a cropping frame using javascript and then have the originally uploaded image cropped ap...

Githood: A minimal GitHub client for iOS

Githood: A minimal GitHub client for iOS: Jonathan Sterling couldn’t find an iPhone client for GitHub that he liked, so he built his own. Githood is a minimalist GitHub client for iOS that lets you track changes to projects you watch.



Available in...

applitude: Elegant DSL to create iPhone apps in Eclipse

applitude: Elegant DSL to create iPhone apps in Eclipse: While language purists might balk at the growing popularity of projects that compile to Objective-C, the verbosity of the Cocoa framework has many developers looking for a faster way to create iP...

Yum

Yum:
($19.99) – Yum is the cooking companion for your Mac. Organize your recipe collections, manage shopping lists, copy recipes to your iPhone, and enjoy recipes in full screen mode.

MongoDB 1.7.5 released: Single Server Durability!

MongoDB 1.7.5 released: Single Server Durability!: Today brings a new release of MongoDB. Normally I wouldn’t make a fuss about a point release, but this one has a big feature: Single server durability.

For those of you not in the know, many NoSQL d...

Divvy

Divvy:
($13.99) – Managing windows can be frustrating, requiring precision control of your mouse or trackpad for clicking, dragging, pushing and pulling your windows to the size and position you desire. Even with all this work, it’s very difficult...

Apple.com gets a redesign

Apple has taken down the online store and now they are updating their official site to reflect an updated design. The navigation bar when black, and the search bar is more feature filled. The new iPod + iTunes page is already live… we’ll keep updat...

jsondns: DNS JSON API

jsondns: DNS JSON API: If you’re building a cool domain name service or DNS-related mashup, be sure and check out JSON DNS from Joël Franusic. JSON DNS aims to create a standard for DNS info in JSON, and the project includes a small Rack app for ser...

Amazon CloudWatch Console Support

The AWS Management Console now includes support for the new Amazon CloudWatch features described in my other posts.
The new CloudWatch tab on the console gives you complete access to all of the metrics collected for your EC2 instances, EBS volumes, RDS...

8 gdb tricks you should know

Despite its age, gdb remains an amazingly versatile and flexible tool, and
mastering it can save you huge amounts of time when trying to debug problems in
your code. In this post, I'll share 10 tips and tricks for using GDB to debug
most efficiently.

...

Subclassing View in CakePHP for easier internationalization of elements

In the past months I’ve been involved in making a multi-lingual version of the Eduhub codebase. This presented several difficulties that we had to solve. In this post I’ll discuss a solution for one of the simpler challenges: internationalization o...

vain: Check GitHub user stats from the command line

vain: Check GitHub user stats from the command line: With a name reminiscent of Ego, the at-a-glance traffic/followers/subscribers checker for iPad and iPhone, comes vain, the GitHub followers/watchers/forks checker for the command line from John Crepe...

Hacker News | My app: http://helpshelf.comBuilt in about 3 days ...

It uses the amazing tool transloadit.com for uploading, and resque for managing the parsing of the pdfs. It then posts each page to indextank as a document ...apps.ycombinator.com/item?id=2090111

transloadit/ruby-sdk - GitHub

Work in progress, using it might cause a robot rebellion at this point.https://github.com/transloadit/ruby-sdk

Time Sink

Time Sink:
($18.99) – Time Sink helps you track how you spend your time on your Mac. It...

Slides: Node.js in production

Last night I was giving a talk about node.js in production at the Berlinjs user group.

In the talk I shared some of our experiences at Transloadit, but also tried to cover the topic from a general angle.

I concluded that running node apps in producti...

railsready: Setup script to get Ruby and Rails running on Ubuntu with one command

railsready: Setup script to get Ruby and Rails running on Ubuntu with one command: How would you like to get a full Ruby on Rails stack up on Ubuntu with one command?

Now you can by running Rails Ready. Rails Ready is a setup script that gets Ruby and...

OmniGraffle

OmniGraffle:
($99.99) – Need a diagram, process chart, quick page-layout, website wireframe or graphic design? OmniGraffle can help you make eye-popping graphic documents quickly by keeping lines connected to shapes even when they’re moved, provid...

Soulver

Soulver:
($24.99) – Soulver helps you do quick calculations and work things out. It’s quicker to use than a spreadsheet, and smarter and clearer than a traditional calculator. 
You type out your problems as you would on paper, and Soulver calcula...

Cracking The Credit Card Code

There’s hardly a more prominent financial product in America today than the almighty credit card. Nearly everybody has at least one — almost 80% of consumers in 2008, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston – and many use it on a daily ...

Braid

Braid:
($4.99) – Braid is a platform game in a painterly style where you manipulate the flow of time to solve puzzles. Every puzzle in Braid is unique. There is no filler. Braid does everything it can to give you a mind-expanding experience. Journey...

Black box cloud pricing

Pricing servers used to be fairly simple, and still is in many cases. There are a number of variables – memory, storage, CPU, data transfer – which are combined to provide a price. Initially you might have to guess and future capacity planning is u...

sight: The Syntax Highlighter for Chrome

sight: The Syntax Highlighter for Chrome: As an API junkie who uses Chrome as his everyday browser, the Pretty JSON Chrome extension has made viewing JSON files much easier on the eyes.

Thanks to Tomás Senart, I’ve regained my Sight when looking at...

Git-powered wikis improved

Many of you already know about Gollum, the git-powered wiki system that we use for every GitHub Wiki. While the Wikis have been proven great for those that know git well, we want to involve everybody that may want to contribute to an open source projec...

Episode 0.4.5 - Redis with Salvatore Sanfilippo

Episode 0.4.5 - Redis with Salvatore Sanfilippo: Wynn caught up with Salvatore Sanfilippo aka @antirez to talk about Redis, the super hot key value store.

This week’s show is sponsored by GitHub Jobs and LessConf:

Caring.com is looking for a Senior...

Solving problems with proc

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Best sysadmin article I've read in months

The Linux kernel exposes a wealth of information through the proc special filesystem. It's not hard to find an encyclopedic reference about proc. In this article I'll take a different approach...

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120 DB BASS MUSIC
I dare you to play it now.
Submitted by: CamazotzPicture by: Unknown

Now you can access Spotify from Shazam

Spotify and Shazam have teamed-up to offer a combined service for the iPhone and other mobile devices, with new apps which allow Shazam users to access Spotify directly using a new ‘Play in Spotify’ feature.
As a result, Shazamers will be able to a...

Everything you need to know about iOS 4.3

We covered many of the new features in iOS 4.3 today and above is a video walkthrough. Here’s everything we’ve covered on iOS 4.3 so far:
-iOS 4.3 beta 1 for iOS mobile devices and Apple TV seeded to developers.
-iOS 4.3 brings new Multi-Touch ges...

Codebox

Codebox:
($4.99) – If you’re looking for a fully-featured code snippet manager then CodeBox is exactly what you need!

3D GitHub Badge with Pure HTML/CSS

Nico Hagenburger released a nifty bit of HTML/CSS today that allows you to get the famous "Fork me on GitHub" banner on the corner of your site. But this time, with a twist. Literally. If you hover over the banner in Safari, the banner will flip around...

Gitbox

Gitbox:
($39.99) – Gitbox is an elegant version control app powered by Git. No configuration or server required: download the app, open a folder and make a commit immediately. Gitbox stores the whole compressed history inside that folder and you can...

Solving problems with proc

The Linux kernel exposes a wealth of information through the proc special filesystem. It's not hard to find an encyclopedic reference about proc. In this article I'll take a different approach: we'll see how proc tricks can solve a number of real-world...

Apptivate

Apptivate:
($2.99) – A simple, beautiful hotkey manager. Launch applications, execute scripts, run automator workflows and open files or folders. All of this at the press of a key combination.

No more restocking fees at Apple Stores starting January 11

Typically, when you return an opened product to an Apple Store you will be charged a 10% restocking fee. Well, come Tuesday, this will all be in the past as Apple is cutting restocking fees from their retail chain. We’ll have to see how Apple deals w...

dom-monster: Cross-browser bookmarklet to analyze your DOM, improve performance

dom-monster: Cross-browser bookmarklet to analyze your DOM, improve performance: Thomas Fuchs, JavaScript pro featured recently on Episode 0.3.9 has teamed up with his wife Amy Hoy to bring you the DOM Monster, a cross-browser bookmarklet that analyzes...

Mattel irá lançar “Angry Birds” de tabuleiro

Lembra do tempo em que era possível viver a vida sem ter que se deparar com nada relacionado a “Angry Birds”? Eu não.
O aplicativo mais vendido que se tem noticia é quase onipresente, avançando a passos largos para estar disponível em todas as...

1e Column NL30

Ik heb mijn eerste column voor de NL30 gescand zodat je je bij de snackbar/ bij de kapper/ in de kroeg volledig kunt richten op respectievelijk je bereklauw, de beschaarde mevrouw,  je cafépraat.
Volgende columns zal deze digitalisering gespaard blij...

Good Code

Gavin Swanky

What would your own album look like if you were in a band?Follow the directions below and find out... Here are the rules: 1 - Go to Wikipedia. Hit “random” or click http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random The first random Wikipedia article yo...

Mac App Store Analytics: Mostly games, mostly not free.

TUAW ran some analytics on the 1000 apps available on day one of the Mac App Store tore and got a breakdown of what people were selling.
Games were clearly the most popular category of application (they don’t add up to 1,000 because developers can ch...

CES: Boxee team proudly demos Boxee for iPad

We’re watching a dizzying array of App announcements as new software hits the all-new Mac App Store, but here’s a special something from the team at Boxee, who are showing off their new Boxee iPad App at CES.
Here’s what Boxee (who today announce...

AWS Policy Generator

The new AWS Policy Generator simplifies the process of creating policy documents for the Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), Amazon S3, the Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS), and AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM).
You begin by selecting th...

Jeff King (Peff) is a GitHubber

We're very excited to announce that core Git member Jeff King will also be joining the team today! But don't call him Jeff, he prefers Peff. Peff is one of the most active contributors to Git and will be using his expertise and hardcore C skills to mak...

PHP Office Hours - January 12, 2011 - Register Now!

On Wednesday, January 12th we will be conducting an interactive "office hours" session at 9:00 AM PST. The topic will be PHP and how you can use it with AWS. You'll get to chat with me (Jeff Barr) and AWS Development Engineer Ryan Parman. We'll do some...

CompassApp: Compile Sass stylesheets easily without resorting to the command line

CompassApp: Compile Sass stylesheets easily without resorting to the command line:

One of the biggest adoption hurdles to reaching the designer masses for Sass and Compass has been the intimidation level presented to designers when mentioning “the ...

vimgolf: The fewest keystrokes wins - in Vim

vimgolf: The fewest keystrokes wins - in Vim: Vim geeks take pride in solving problems in the fewest possible keystrokes, regardless of how cryptic the solution might be. With VimGolf from Ilya Grigorik, they can now compete for bragging rights in a go...

A Guide to Bad Space Science In Movies [Movies]

Sorry to ruin your enjoyment of Mission to Mars—or, fine, Aliens and Star Wars—but it joins a host of sci-fi movies that just can't quite get their space science right. Here are the most common offenses and offenders. More »

Sysadmin Sunday #11

This is Sysadmin Sunday, a post of interesting links from throughout the previous week.

Using Puppet to Automatically Configure New EC2 Instances – a quick tutorial for getting started
Building blocks of a scalable webcrawler – this thesis documen...

kod: CSS3 themable, Node.js powered editor for OS X

kod: CSS3 themable, Node.js powered editor for OS X: It’s a very Merry Christmas for Mac developers. Rasmus Andersson has open sourced Kod, the “programmers’ editor for OS X.”

Built from the ground to feel like a native OS X app, Kod sports Ch...

Hackety Hack 1.0 - learn programming with Ruby

Hackety Hack 1.0 - learn programming with Ruby: Merry Christmas everybody! Full disclosure: this is my particular gift to Open Source, and future programmers everywhere.

Hackety Hack is a project that I inherited from _why. It’s the best way for peo...

Incident

Transloadit - Realtime Video Encoding on Amazon EC2

Felix Geisendörfer of Debuggable wrote in to tell me about Transloadit. He told me that they now support real-time video encoding using a number of Amazon EC2 instances.
Whereas prior transcoding solutions waited for the entire video to be uploaded, T...

Realtime encoding - over 150x faster

Play video

Today we are excited to announce a big new feature: Realtime encoding.

Realtime encoding allows you to have your videos encoded while they are still uploading. Since our servers can encode video much faster than most of your users can uplo...

A call for development help and research: Lazyweb Requests

If you'd like to contribute a bit of your time back to the benefit the larger web community, I've collected a few mini-projects that'll have high impact. They're together in an issue tracker of an otherwise empty github repo: github.com/paulirish/lazyw...

PHP SDK

When we designed the transloadit api, we tried to keep things simple.

This way people were able to integrate transloadit uploading with just a few lines of code in their favorite scripting language, no library required.

However, as soon as you try to...

Best Music of 2010

Time for my annual best music post. These are the twenty best albums I listened to 2010. There were a handful that didn’t quite make the cut that were also good (The National, Murs, Pantha du Prince, etc).
Aloe Blacc – Good Things
Arcade Fire – T...

Forward To Vegas

Well, I guess I need to say something about my company Christmas present to all of their ~150 staff, a three day trip to Vegas.
We flew out last Thursday and stayed for 3 nights at the Wynn, which is a great hotel.

Thursday: Arrive and sleep (forgive ...

Dropbox hits 1.0!

Hey everyone!
We’re super excited to announce the new hotness that we’ve been cooking up for the past few months: Dropbox 1.0! In addition to hundreds (yep, hundreds) of bug fixes, vastly reduced resource usage (think of it as the Prius model of Dr...

Demo time!

Everybody knows how dreadful it is to create an account for a new service you want to try out. So to make things easier for new transloaders, we just added a new demo section where you can try a wide range of encoding scenarios before you sign up.

Eve...

HandlerSocket mySQL's NoSQL, PHP and Webscale

HandlerSocket is a server plug-in that interfaces with InnoDB directly bypassing for the most part the core mySQL server all together. Using Handler socket you do not connect to the traditional port 3306 or use the mySQL protocol to communicate with th...

Vim Toolbox, 2010 Edition

Shared by kguest

Vim will never die ;)

I've been using Vim for close to a decade. I've often said
that "Unix is my IDE" -- because Vim is built in the Unix philosophy, allowing
me to pipe input into it, out of it, and every which way I want. It fit...

MySQL 5.5 is GA!

Today it was announced that MySQL 5.5 is GA.  This is very exciting news; we have not had a GA announcement since MySQL 5.1 two years ago.  There are tons of new features, mostly performance enhancements, that I am looking forward to.  Here is why I...

Wikileaks

DNS30 - A Visual Tool for Amazon Route 53

I became aware of DNS30 during the private beta test of Amazon Route 53.I own quite a few personal domains for use by me and my family and I was looking forward to managing all of the DNS entries from one location.

I tried it out and it worked just fi...

node-o3-canvas: HTML5 Canvas API for NodeJS

node-o3-canvas: HTML5 Canvas API for NodeJS:

This isn’t the first time we’ve featured the work of our friends over at Ajax.org. In the past we mentioned o3 and Cloud9 and even had them on the podcast, see episode 0.1.6.

Their project, node-o3-ca...

Tabaksvirus zorgt voor batterijdoorbraak

Batterijen in bijvoorbeeld laptops, tablets en smartphones hebben straks tien keer meer lading dan huidige exemplaren. Dit dankzij een virus dat zich tegoed doet aan tabaksplanten.

Convincing

Stéphane Graber: Having fun with containers

Not really having anything specific to do yesterday, I chose to have a bit of fun with sandbox.
I ended up installing a completely clean Ubuntu 10.10 in a VM with just an ssh server running.
I then installed sanbox from my PPA and appended the followin...

Hubcap - A GitHub client for Mac OS X

Hubcap - A GitHub client for Mac OS X:

We are a bit late to blog about this, but if you follow The Changelog on Twitter you would have seen tweets from us mentioning this project.

On December 3rd we chipped in to back a Kickstarter project started b...

Paul Tagliamonte: The RSA Algorithm, Humanized ( sorta )

The Rules

So, we have some ground-rules before we start off on this venture. I’ll qualify them out below.

I’m a computer scientist, not a strict mathematician. Yes, what I’m versed in is math, but I’m not a mathematician in the strict sense.
...

Elizabeth Krumbach: Computer Engineer Barbie has a penguin

I voted for it and I was pretty excited when I heard about Computer Engineer Barbie becoming a reality. I pre-ordered mine (product page here) as soon as I could and finally received it today!
Unfortunately work tore me away from my new toy and I sat i...

Love, hate, & tmux

It seems like everywhere I turn lately, I run into tmux.

Nick, Josh, Harold, and Goose are running their editor+shell combos inside of tmux on a daily basis. When I wanted to know more about remote pair programming with ssh, vim, and GNU screen, Steph...

Reclaiming memory from MongoDB indexes

As of the current version of MongoDB (1.7.3), deleting data does not compact indexes and their use of RAM. Indeed, this was the root cause of the problem Foursquare experienced several months ago. This means that once your indexes exceed memory (or the...

Jacob Peddicord: I have one!

A few days ago, I ordered a book for my classes next quarter on Amazon. Came back home today thinking that it might have arrived, and found a package on my doorstep. I quickly opened it up to make sure it was the right book, and, wait... what is that?
...

Tic-Tac-Toe

Amazon S3 - Object Size Limit Now 5 TB

A number of our customers want to store very large files in Amazon S3 -- scientific or medical data, high resolution video content, backup files, and so forth. Until now, they have had to store and reference the files as separate chunks of 5 gigabytes ...

Thierry Carrez: Bleeding edge OpenStack Nova on Maverick (updated)

Want to test the latest cloud goodness ? Thanks to the new Nova trunk PPA, it’s really easy to run the freshest code from OpenStack Compute (Nova) on Ubuntu 10.10. Here is how.
We will install everything on the same machine, one that has VT extension...

Hubcap: a Socially Aware GitHub Mac App

Erik Michaels-Ober started a Kickstarter project to fund Hubcap, a proposed native Mac client for GitHub. The plan is to bring the elegance of various Twitter clients to GitHub and increase social engagement.







If this is something you'd be inter...

Bryan Quigley: Google Checkout

Visa, Mastercard, Paypal, and more have stopped letting donations go through to Wikileaks.I would really like to see Wikileaks to start allowing donations with Google Checkout.  It would let us see if Google really is different than the rest of those ...

Scott James Remnant: Events are like Signals

In the last post we took a look at how matching of events in jobs is often misunderstood, in this and the next few posts we’ll take a look at events themselves and the different ways they can be used.
The most obvious way that one can use Events, and...

The Tree Slider

Those of you running recent versions of Safari, Chrome, or Firefox 4 may have noticed some changes to tree browsing on GitHub.

For everyone else, here's a video of our new Tree Slider:



The new HTML5 History API (which really has nothing to do with ...

Scott Moser: lvm resizing is easy

I have a local mirror of the ubuntu archive, using some scripts based on the Ubuntu Wiki. When I set up "/archive" on my local mirror, I used lvm. The reason for that was primarily so that I could use sbuild with lvm. Since then, 2 things have happe...

Ryan Kavanagh: Holiday MOTD

Since it's the holiday season, I thought I'd greet my server's users with a
colourful MOTD. Feel free to use it by appending it to your current MOTD.

You can do so with the command sudo sh -c "curl
http://ryanak.ca/files/holiday-motd >> /etc/motd"...

Let's get to know each other

It seems like way too often I run into someone who's been using GitHub for a long time but has just learned about one of our long-time features like Fork Queue or blame visualization.

So today we're launching the start of our Features section. It's ju...

Amazon Route 53 - The AWS Domain Name Service

In 1995 I registered my first domain name and put it online. Back then, registration was expensive and complex. Before you could even register a domain you had to convince at least two of your friends to host the Domain Name Service (DNS) records for i...

Lesson #821 - Santa Claus

You're welcome, parents. - - Thanks to everyone for sticking around for 900 comics. Here's to 900 more. - - There are two days left in the STW store for standard holiday shipping to Canada, and 11 days left for standard holiday shipping in the U.S. Tha...

Sysadmin Sunday #8

This is Sysadmin Sunday, a post of interesting links from throughout the previous week.

Incredibly “useful” list of awkward one-liners for Linux sysadmins
Objects in mirror… – new servers for kernel.org
Level 3 outbid Akamai on Netflix by rese...

Navigation with the “j” and “k” keys

If you are using Vim you already know the meaning of the “j” and “k” keys: they navigate one line downwards resp. upwards. Some websites like The Big Picture adopted this functionality to provide an easy way to navigate, in the case of The Big ...

Seif Lotfy: Revisiting: GNOME Shell + Zeitgeist = ?

I took more time today to play with GNOME Shell…
Now this is just a dirty dirty dirty hack, I will look into cleaning up by the next week (I have some other things I need to take care of)
So the current proposal looks like this (it is being updated s...

Comment by Kyle on: Create daemons in PHP

I found when running the /etc/init.d/$file stop, that my command was not
really being stopped.

To fix this I had to shorten the name of my appName

'appName' => 'jque1',
from
'appName' => 'jobqueue_processor1',

and then this worked. It seems that /p...

Elastic Load Balancer Health Checks

Auto Scaling can now take advantage of the instance health information collected by the associated Elastic Load Balancer.
Specifically, once a load balancer determines that an instance is unhealthy (using the health checks that were established when th...

Auto Scaling Policies

The new release of Auto Scaling gives you better control over the policies used to modify the number of EC2 instances running in one of your AutoScaling groups.
Auto Scaling now emits metrics for each AutoScalingGroup. You can use CloudWatch to monitor...

headjs - The only script in your

headjs - The only script in your : Head JS is a 2.3kb script that speeds up, simplifies and modernizes your site. Currently, Head JS is at an early alpha stage, but is promised to get more stable this week.

The HEAD section is the worst place to load ...

stillmaintained: Find a maintainer for your open source projects

stillmaintained: Find a maintainer for your open source projects: Source control systems like Git make it easier to maintain project momentum and avoid abandoned open source projects. Instead of waiting on project owners to make changes, project users ...

Tribute to our Beautiful Rio de Janeiro

During this past week we've see hope and happiness getting stronger than ever before in Rio de Janeiro. What the world might have seen as war, we've seen as the promise of a better life for the citizens of Rio taken seriously.

Believe us when we say t...

Advanced use conditions for assembly steps

A frequently requested feature is to allow more flexibility when it comes to choosing how different upload files are processed.

At this point our robots are already smart enough to not touch files they don't know how to handle, so a video robot would ...

libgit2: a Git Linkable Library

One of the long running issues with Git is that the library produced to run the binary is not re-entrant - you can't link to it from another program because it calls die() all over the place. Thus, anyone trying to write a GUI or web interface or scri...

Using the session within models

This is something that everyone wants to do, but are afraid it breaks the MVC paradigm. Theoretically, the session should be a model, seeing as how it represents data and manages adds, edits, deletes, etc. Regardless, it's a much easier approach to use...

Cyber Monday: 25% Off All Merch!

It's Cyber Monday and we've decided to do something special. For today only you can get 25% off any orders you make at The GitHub Shop! Sale ends Tuesday morning at midnight (PST).

Coupon Code: CYBERCAT

Not only do you get a HUGE discount, but GitHub...

Sysadmin Sunday #7

This is Sysadmin Sunday, a post of interesting links from throughout the previous week.

The Future of Cloud Storage (and what is wrong with the present) – time to get rid of the SAN?
The Difference Engine: Linux’s Achilles heel
HTTP Post Denial Of...

Valorie Zimmerman: GRUB2 and chroots, dammit!

Worst outcome from an install so far. Upon automatic reboot, when all is reported success:error: the symbol `grub_xputs` not foundgrub rescue:>Terror struck my heart, and hopelessness, and googling. I found that not only was I not alone, but it is a re...

Costales: Gufw Firewalls have never been easier!

Do you find firewalls difficult???? Not anymore! With Ubuntu, you can enhance your network security in a very easy way, using possibly the easiest firewall you might find out there.
How? Install Gufw:

You can install the latest version, 11.04 beta, ...

Digging Deeper with htracr

There’s a lot of current activity on the binding between HTTP and TCP; from pipelining to SPDY, the frontier of Web performance lives between these layers.

To get more visibility in exactly what’s happening down there, I decided to throw together ...

PagerDuty and Server Density

Server Density allows you to get alerts when you have server problems and we’ve been piping our notifications into PagerDuty to handle our alerting for some time. It allows us to do things like:

Receive alerts via e-mail, SMS and phone call.
Define ...

Watch Wednesday

Quick hitting list of projects to check out on GitHub:

pauldowman / gitmodel

Git Model is an ActiveModel-compatible NoSQL store based on git. Not ready for primetime but very interesting.

assaf / vanity

Vanity is declarative A/B testing for Rails.
...

Great Introductory Video on Scalability from Harvard Computer Science

Professor David Malan gives a very good lecture on scalability for dynamic websites. It's not highly technical, it's an extension course, but it's a great introduction to a wide variety of topics. I really like his teaching style. He continually asks q...

Onzichtbare rootkit nestelt zich in netwerkkaart

Een onderzoeker is er via een vernuftig staaltje reverse engineering in geslaagd om een backdoor te schrijven die in de firmware van een netwerkkaart nestelt en onzichtbaar is in het OS.

Moving from MyISAM to Innodb or XtraDB. Basics

I do not know if it is because we’re hosting a free webinar on migrating MyISAM to Innodb or some other reason but recently I see a lot of questions about migration from MyISAM to Innodb.
Webinar will cover the process in a lot more details though ...

11.23.2010

Burg Gives Your Multi-Boot Screen a Big Facelift [Downloads]

Linux/Windows: Based on GRUB but many shades beyond it in the looks department, Burg is a quick install for Linux users that lets anyone theme their multi-OS selection screen, or customize their own theme. It's becoming install-ready on Windows and Mac...

Schrödinger's cat is alive/dead

Not sure who designed this fun graphic, but I like it! Explanation. Read the comments on this post...

Sysadmin Sunday #6

This is Sysadmin Sunday, a post of interesting links from throughout the previous week.

Adding the Incredible Power of the Amazon EC2 Cluster GPU Instances – new instance type on Amazon EC2: the Cluster GPU instance adds two NVIDIA Telsa M2050 GPUs ...

Auto rotation for iphone videos

We are happy to announce our newly baked support for auto rotating iphone video uploads.

By default the iphone always records and saves videos in landscape format. This causes rotation problems if the recorded video was shot in portrait format and the...

Get Good with Git

If you have little or no experience on the command line, and no experience with Git, this might be the ebook for you: Getting Good With Git. From command line basics to using GitHub for collaboration, there's a ton of great stuff in this thing.







...

Git Support - Available on UC

In the previous post I wrote about possibility of Git support in NetBeans. The team that implements it got valuable feedback from php users and now is available a version of this support on development update center. You can install it in a development...

AWS Receives ISO 27001 Certification

We announced the successful completion of our first SAS 70 Type II audit just about a year ago. Earlier this year I talked about an application that had successfully completed the FISMA Low assessment and then received the necessary Authority to Operat...

JSLint is on GitHub

We noticed some buzz on twitter today about JSLint moving to GitHub. JSLint is a code quality tool for the Javascript language, there's a more detailed explanation available here. The main JSLint repo can be found under Douglas Crockford's account. ...

Server aggregation

If you have a cluster of servers, such as a web server or database, the metrics of individual servers become less important and it’s more interesting to see statistics across the whole cluster. So today we’ve released server aggregation as part of ...

New EC2 Instance Type - The Cluster GPU Instance

If you have a mid-range or high-end video card in your desktop PC, it probably contains a specialized processor called a GPU or Graphics Processing Unit. The instruction set and memory architecture of a GPU are designed to handle the types of operation...

Today's Outage

A few hours ago I was upgrading our continuous integration setup when a configuration error caused it to run against our production environment rather than our testing environment.

Before every run of our test suite we destroy then re-create the datab...

Sidejack Prevention Phase 3: SSL Proxied Assets

This is the third, and hopefully final, response to session hijacking on github.com. We've been safe from session hijacking for a while now but we were still serving pages with mixed-content warnings. People have complained about these warnings in th...

TextMate 1.5.10

Update 2010-11-18: r1623 is out, restoring the venerable key bindings.

Update 2010-11-14: Post about restoring ⇧⌥⇥ for shift left. Post about restoring interactive input functionality.

A long overdue maintenance update was released earlier toda...

Support for Rackspace Cloud Files

Today we're happy to announce the latest addition to our service, please welcome the /cloudfiles/store robot!

As you can see in the docs, we also handle the retrieval of your container's CDN url automatically, so integrating this robot should simply b...

Updates to the AWS SDKs

We've made some important updates to the AWS SDK for Java the AWS SDK for PHP, and the AWS SDK for .NET. The newest versions of the respective SDKs are available now.
AWS SDK for Java
The AWS SDK for Java now supports the new Amazon S3 Multipart Upload...

Kees Cook: TARPIT iptables target

Want to use a network tarpit? It’s so easy to set up! Thanks to jpds for this whole post. :)

sudo module-assistant auto-install xtables-addons-source
sudo iptables -p tcp ... -j TARPIT

Though no such thing exists for IPv6 yet.
Here it is watching ...

Helpful jQuery modals

This post is actually mostly about jQuery (with some cake sprinkles), but why not…
Let’s examine a typical situation:
We have a Product model, which belongsTo a Category model.
Now we need to add some products…
An admin interface would have a ca...

Martin Pitt: Ubuntu Natty: Where did my changelogs go?

Since last Tuesday, packages built in natty don’t come with a Debian changelog included any more. Due to the continuous demand for downsizing both our installation media, as well as the install footprint, we looked for packages which we should elimi...