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Spreedly seems like a potential option as well.

That would be awesome . If only those with the dough felt the same way... Granted, there are hurdles -- concern for theft, infrastructure for loss/repair/upgrades, etc. But it woul…

Yes, more comment influence would be more useful than the orange.

Awful lot of markup for something that could arguably be better-accomplished with standard techniques (a tiny image and/or javascript progressive enhancement).

With DoubleCommand, you can bind the right "Enter" key to be Control. (On my MBP at least... I assume macbooks are the same)

I'm slowly getting up to speed with Emacs, switching from TextMate. There are a lot of ways to use emacs on Mac, from Aquamacs to Carbon Emacs to the Cocoa port of GNU Emacs. I've …

No, you can win e-mail tetris without cheating. You must decide for yourself which action your e-mails require: Trash, Defer, or Action. GTD gets this right. If you don't make thos…

That's true; Ruby and Python would both be worth learning. I'd push you toward Python, though, mainly because it has more traction outside of web development too (e.g. system admin…

Posts are ordered by a function of both time and points, so they won't always be in point-based order.

What would you like to see in that quantum leap?

I enjoy ragging on Windows as much as the next guy, but this post reminded me how much of an accomplishment Windows really is. Few software projects need to deal with such a huge r…

4) Decent font weight: yes.

Counterargument: Obtaining the usually-excellent reliability and stability that Google usually offers would be time-consuming, difficult, and a distraction. Sure I could set up a s…

The nut of it: Ten months, seven trips to MSU, six blown fuses and about $60,000 later, I'm proud to introduce you all to Snakebite: The Open Network! A network of around 37-ish se…

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The general idea is worthwhile, but not to the extreme the author suggests: > Maintainability isn't a factor. Best practices don't > matter. Design patterns don't matter. All that …

What would it take to create a free codec rivaling H.264? Is it a patent issue or a technological one?

Sounds grim, of course, but without downs we couldn't experience ups.

YouTube uses a Flash embed to stream videos from their servers. It's their own proprietary player SWF, but anyone could theoretically create something similar. Flash (the software)…

I once used Spirit successfully, even though at the time I was not as well-versed in C++ as I should have been. I tend to like boost, because it makes a lot of things easy that wou…

The website proclaims this loudly: > This is a quick hack. Never use this in the wild. Would be nice to know why, and what the alternative would be.

Have you talked to them about what's causing their performance issues? Are they unfamiliar with the technology? Is the framework itself cumbersome or poorly put together?

Pylons. http://pylonshq.com/