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A Case Against the Separation of Support and Development
Posted on November 2, 2009.
Many large companies have made the decision to separate the support of software from its development - forming separate teams to focus entirely on one activity. The reasons behind this decision make a lot of sense on the surface. Developers are free to focus entirely on their projects unhindered by ...
DRY Ajax Comments
Posted on October 24, 2009.
Back in February, I posted an entry about adding Ajax functionality to the built-in comments app. I always intended to go back and improve this method, but didn't get the chance until now. Yesterday I decided to take another look, and I found a much better way of achieving this ...
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Switching from Linux to Mac
Posted on October 6, 2009.
Embracing Minimalism Over the course of the last year, I've slowly gone through a major shift in my philosophy about technology and about life in general. I've begun to see the great value of minimalism, and as a result I've begun to strive for elegant simplicity. For a long time, ...
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Easily Working With Pinax on Multiple Machines
Posted on August 11, 2009.
I've been working on a project using the excellent Pinax platform, and I wanted to share some of the tricks I use to make it easier to work with. You can find out more about Pinax by visiting their site. I'm working with their recent 0.7beta3 release, so if you're ...
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LVM-Based Virtualization with KVM and Jaunty
Posted on April 27, 2009.
A month ago, I had three tower PCs running in my home office 24x7 - a desktop PC, a web server, and a home media server. Routinely high electric bills prompted me to make the decision to combine the two servers into one, but I wanted to do everything possible ...
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DOGHOUSE | Color Wheel
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Collatz Conjecture
Shared by Brandon This cartoon inspired me to write this random Python script: http://gist.github.com/324447 Fun!
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Simon Willison: Is johnny-cache for you?
Shared by Brandon This is definitely an interesting idea. It caches everything that is read from the database, but the downside is that writes to a table blow away the entire cache for that table. For a site that has ...
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New "Light" theme for Ubuntu
Shared by Brandon I really like the new themes! I think this is a great direction for Ubuntu to go in. I can't wait for the next release. I may convert my netbook from a hackintosh back into an Ubuntu ...
