May 2008
90 Einträge
“Google ist eine Ausnahmefirma, wie sie wohl nur alle zwanzig Jahre vorkommt. Das...”
– Web 2.0 in Geldnöten: Na, heute schon ein Businessmodell gesucht?
Into the wild: AdSense for feeds →
Once this is enabled for all Feedburner users, I suppose it’s going to be rough times for people who actually read the feeds.
10 annoyingly brilliant office interiors →
Japanese man finds woman living in his closet →
Ubisoft Officially Announces Beyond Good & Evil 2 →
Woohoo!
Interview: Why You Should Care About ForumWarz →
Includes some bits on Rails and scalability, too.
“Someone shits themselves. There’s a close up of some forty-year-old pubic hair...”
– Massawyrm on SEX AND THE CITY
Does she have six fingers or am I crazy? →
Der Fall Lars Windhorst →
Für meine Mutter, die mich vor Jahren einmal fragte, ob ich nicht “auch so etwas machen könnte wie der da.”
Twumblefeed
Picking up a thought I was twittering about earlier: Twitter, Tumblr, FriendFeed — it’s strange and interesting how similar all these services are on a technical level. Thinking about the current discussion of how FriendFeed may kill Twitter (which has been suffering from severe cases of offlinitis lately), I figured it’s not going to happen, since the two services are so...
German services seize 'eBay baby' →
The unnamed child was advertised as a “nearly-new baby” with a starting price of one euro (£0.80, $1.6).
The included currency conversion information cracked me up.
“It’s rubbish… In 1957 the communists did not run with crystal skulls...”
– Sergei Malinkovich
“What other ideas could work, carried across wholesale from the MMO model and...”
– Genetically Modified Gaming
“Why It Might Not Do Well: The Connecticut Cadre of Kate Capshaw Kibitzers are...”
– Box Office: Jonesing For Indiana - Cinematical
EPIC UK NATIONAL TV FAIL
If you happen to watch the Graham Norton Show tonight (Jackie Chan!) and see a German guy dressed up in faux traditional Bavarian clothes, claiming to be from Spain, completely FAILing to sing Germany’s Eurovision Song Contest entry from 1962, Zwei kleine Italiener, looking and sounding exactly like yours truly, well, that’s not me! Or maybe it is.
XNA Creators Club Online - welcome to community... →
mgnl:
Of course, the most significant and highly anticipated update to the site is the added capability to support community games submission, peer review, and distribution over Xbox LIVE Marketplace. We announced this new service at GDC, where it was met with great excitement around the world. Today, I am pleased to invite all our XNA Creators Club premium members to join us in a closed...
“Rails was a massive success. It changed the way the world looked at web...”
– Can’t we all just get along?
DataMapper 0.9 To Be Released on 26 May 08 →
Including a comprehensive comparison between the old DataMapper and the new version (which is not backwards compatible). DataMapper is looking really interesting, even though some of the changes in the new version seem to be solely motivated by making a point about being different from ActiveRecord (“validates_is_unique” instead of “validates_uniqueness_of”, etc.)
zweinull.cc zieht zu netzwertig.com →
Perfection does not exist →
(via rmoriz)
Phone calls database considered →
Ministers are to consider plans for a database of electronic information holding details of every phone call and e-mail sent in the UK, it has emerged.
LOL?
Tumblelog: love the format, not the name →
via tuneage
Thought of the nanosecond: if Kongregate.com wants me to sign up and log in so much, why doesn’t it save my Monsters’ Den savegames server-side? :(
The game is great, though.
“When everybody is out digging for gold, the business to be in is selling...”
– Mark Twain
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I’m considering giving Django another go, mostly because I’m getting somewhat burnt out by building Rails-based sites, but also because I’m interested in seeing how Django handles the few areas where Rails still sucks. These are:
Localization: I’m very happy about the Unicode stuff that was added to Rails (or rather, ActiveSupport) a while ago, but once you actually...
Facebook Chat to work on Jabber IM clients →
Engineer David Reiss announced Tuesday evening on the Facebook Developer Blog that Facebook Chat will soon have an Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) interface—that’s better known as Jabber. This will mean that external clients will be able to incorporate Facebook Chat, currently restricted in most cases to the browser.
Cubescape - Your own digital landscape →
Ever wanted to create your own isometric pixel picture, but didn’t know what the word isometric meant? Well, now you can fulfil your wildest dreams with Cubescape!
New feature: Tag filtering | (The official) Tumblr... →
And Tumblr tags suddenly become useful.
“Rails 2.1 RC1 has been tagged, the gems are on the beta server, official...”
– DHH via Twitter