I have a ton of websites I need to keep my eye on, in case the server dies or mysql dies or apache dies or any of the other millions things that can go wrong.
I tried pingdom and it’s certainly the business but the free accounts only allow for one domain and I didn’t really [...]
3 of the web-apps I covered on top ten webapps for programmers are available in a bundle on https://www.appsumo.com/ (a Macheist for webapps it seems).
As I already have pro accounts for Evernote, RTM and Mindmeister I asked if I could pay and have them renewed for a year on top of my existing subscription. Seems [...]
Why bother with wikis
For a while now I’ve been using wikis to store all my quick/slow solutions to problems I’d come across throughout my day. This would range from say ‘What’s the syntax to create and grant a user all access to a specific table in mysql?” to “How can I svn add all unversioned [...]
24000 searches later and here is my top ten sites I click to on google.
Top sites
1. http://ubuntuforums.org
2. http://en.wikipedia.org
3. http://www.boards.ie
4. http://stackoverflow.com
5. http://lifehacker.com
6. http://php.net
7. http://drupal.org
8. http://www.php.net
9. http://wiki.archlinux.org
10. http://addons.mozilla.org
Yep most of them are nerdy related but I was utterly shocked that ubuntuforums.org bested wikipedia. So I have more interest in a flavour of linux than I do on…. [...]
The sooner they stop wasting bookstore shelf-space the better!
In keeping with my series of 8’s.
1 ) debug_print_backtrace() – I use this one a lot, print a debug-style list of what was called to get the the point where this function is called. Very, very useful.
2 ) __autoload() – Called when you attempt to load a class that hasn’t been defined. Example: I try [...]
For anyone wondering how to disable the autocompleter cache in jQuery(meaning you always poll the server each time a letter is entered).
Simply set cacheLength: 0, in the autocompleter’s settings. Seems obvious but my googling told me never set this value below 1 or the whole thing would explode. Tried matchSubset etc and nothing else worked.
Simple [...]
Crayon Physics Deluxe from Petri Purho on Vimeo.
Basically it’s pay what you want to get your hands on this innovative little game till Jan 15th. It’s a lot of fun for a short while. Though their servers are getting pretty hammered at the moment.
http://www.crayonphysics.com/
So for the last while I’ve been experimenting with PPP as described in Code Complete. Jeff Atwood has a great description of it on coding horror. You should read the blog post the metaphor of pseudocode as tang is a good one. I’ve been using PPP for a number of weeks now and so far [...]
I’ve been reading through Steve McConnell’s Code Complete for the last few months, in fact I’m working through mindmaps of each section to traverse through this dense book in a fairly easy manner. Basically, instead of saying “Hey I need to create a new class what should I be thinking about again, which pages are [...]