Richard Heyes' Blog: An epiphany...
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Richard Heyes has shared an epiphany he's come up with - a method for running scripts in a web-based environment using lynx.   OK maybe not to you, but it has just occurred to me, and things don't come to me all that fast these days. Cron jobs. [...] You can have a directory inside your webroot called "cron" (imaginative eh?) with scripts in there that are run via cron.   His method uses the cron daemon on the machine to invoke lynx and call the web page through its url. Of course, there are advantages and disadvantages of the method (including having the script open to the world - scary). Be sure to check out the comments for other suggestions from fellow developers.
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The real point of Michael Lewis' "The Blind Side."
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Sometimes it helps just to open an atlas and stare for a few moments. I did so this morning, checking out the Southwestern Asia map (#98) of the National Geographic Atlas of the World (a handsome volume, by the way).
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Now hereÂs something that just happened to catch our eye.
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It offers more than you might have thought.
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Once you ship a product you immediately start getting feedback, and if you're paying attention you can easily find the trends.  One of the big pieces of feedback about FlickrFan relates to branding. When you download the app and mount the disk image, where's FlickrFan? It isn't until after you figure out that you need to open the folder and click on the OPML app that you see FlickrFan. (I need to add a Readme file that makes this much more obvious.) I knew this would be confusing. I could have renamed everything FlickrFan, it wouldn't have taken much work, or testing, and the chance for breakage was nil, since it was a new product. I didn't do it for a simple reason, the engine that runs FlickrFan will run other apps, and I knew I would be shipping one such app within a matter of weeks. Once there's a second app running in the same engine, it may still be confusing. But there will be more after that.  Maybe there won't be millions of users, but my goal is to bootstrap a community of networked living rooms. For that I don't need more than a couple hundred households who want to play and I already have that.  I will soon tell you more about the new app, and if you're paying attention on my Twitter feed, you'll get a pretty clear idea of where this is going. It's all about communities, social features and big media. FlickrFan is about beautiful pictures on high def TV. The next one is about... Stay tuned!
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An open mind makes more money. Here's your mind opener.
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Gabe: So I am the big two nine today. I guess I have one more year of youthful indiscretion before old age is upon me. It seems like birthdays are a good time for reflection and so I hope you"ll forgive me if this is a little mushy.
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There's one way to sift through all it has to offer.
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Paolo hypothesizes a much-needed tool in a post yesterday, and a follow-up today.
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On Monday, a new application for RSS. Brilliant! As far as I know, it's never been done before. And no, I didn't invent it.
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Part two: "Concluding, among other things..." Also in this week's column:â¦
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Forget altruism. Think about yourself first.
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A few days back there was a post on the "The Codist" blog about why the author would never quite understand the appeal of PHP to the masses and some of his thoughts behind it. Well, there was such an outcry and response to his comments that he's written up another post on what he learned from comments made.   Clearly I touched a nerve. However I did learn a lot of things that you don't read in a quickly tutorial on PHP. The whole point of writing something is to get feedback, positive or negative, and hopefully learn from it.   He admits that his experience with PHP and its developers has been limited, so his perspective might have been thrown off a bit. He still holds to one thing from the previous article, though - that PHP just isn't for him.
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Today Jonathan Moore  and I headed over to LinuxWorld after lunch to see what kind of cool hardware and Linux hacks they had on the expo floor.  Only $15 to get in the door so I figure why not.  I'm a bit of a privacy freak.  When you're trading some security for liberty there are situations where it *might* be worth it.  In situations of extreme violence having the police by your side might be a good idea.    I think we can all agree that trading liberty for *nothing* isn't worth it. This country was *founded* on liberty after the British were abusing their colonial powers.  Every true American should cherish their liberty and think long and hard about just turning them over for no reason.  ...
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Last week I came across Godwin's Law. Many of you may already be familiar with it. For those of you who aren't, Godwin's Law, according to wikipedia, states:  As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one.  read more
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A simple question yields a surprising answer.