My latest little project, GeekChow.
I’m getting tired of the politics and doomsday predictions that have started to dominated the “popular vote” type sites like Digg and Reddit so I’ve come up with what I hope is a good alternative.
Geek Chow is based on the open source Pligg (a Digg clone) and gets it’s news from [...]
Contest: Blog about my new download site and win 0 | Steve’s Tech Blog
“Steve is launching his brand new site: 1 Cool File. It is a directory of cool files(shareware, freeware, plugins). For example, you can try a new media player after you have just finished a music download. You can add your ebook about [...]
Josiah Cole » Blog Archive » 19 Things NOT To Do When Building a Website
1. DO NOT resize the user’s browser window, EVER. I know you can, I know you feel really cool when you put that little Javacrap on your page and like a little miracle the browser window resizes to your wishes, but [...]
40+ Ways to Make Money on the Internet – by Dumb Little Man
I did a little bookmark scrub this morning and thought I would share the remaining content of my “Online Money” folder. While some people are going to view this simply as a big list of ways to make money online, that’s good – [...]
Alexa Sucks!
Strange but True.
Stevey’s Home Page – A Quick Tour of Ruby
Ruby used to annoy me simply by existing. I first heard about Ruby years ago, in maybe 1997 or 1998, and folks said it was kind of like Perl, but “cleaner”, whatever that meant. Ruby fans back then seemed like a tiny minority of rebels and [...]
Gamer cracks code, finds jewel | Chicago Tribune
With clean-cut looks, a steely-eyed stare and 25,000 lines of computer code, the Chicagoan has been catapulted from his humble roots as a computer gamer to the forefront of the geek-o-sphere, earning the title of “Hottest Hacker on Earth” and landing on the cover of Linux Journal.
Among the [...]
Maluke Co. → Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
Amazon EC2 enables you to increase or decrease capacity within minutes, not hours or days. You can commission one, hundreds or even thousands of server instances simultaneously. Of course, because this is all controlled with web service APIs, your application can automatically scale itself [...]
Of snakes and rubies; Or why I chose Python over Ruby (jp’s domain)
You look around the web today and Ruby and its offspring Rails are the talk of everyone. You see former Java advocates moving over to Ruby. You see former Python developers checking it out. You see people who have never coded checking it [...]
A New Way of Tracking Users’ Browsing Habits – techfoolery
Jeremiah Grossman came up with a really clever way of using Javascript to find what pages you’ve visited recently. It goes like this: when a link has been visited, you can use the :visited pseudo-class to style it. Using Javascript, you can walk through all of [...]
