July 2009
“We didn’t know where to put it,” Fignon says. “Feeling desperate, we sniffed it...”
– Fignon: Herrera bought ‘87 Vuelta - VeloNews
[Music] Frightened Rabbit - Last Tango In Brooklyn
[Ruby] Binding#map (#asskicking)
http://s3.amazonaws.com/drawohara.com.snippets/binding_map_rb.html
[Ruby] Symbol.to_hash
http://s3.amazonaws.com/drawohara.com.snippets/symbol_to_hash_rb.html
jQuery Text Overflow plugin - bramstein.com →
Killing Email: How and Why I Ditched My Inbox →
Google Geo Developers Blog: MarkerClusterer in an... →
“If it is important enough to define your grid layout in the markup, then you...”
– Blueprint CSS Framework vs YUI Grids
“Bordry, who is one of the most consistent voices in the fight to clean up sport,...”
– Lab official still wary of Tour - VeloNews
Alistair.Cockburn.us | Neurons with legs - How... →
easyXSS, cross-site scripting made easy! →
“They didn’t care if it had 10,000 or 300,000 lines of code, if it was open...”
– Marcelo Calbucci
Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule →
One reason programmers dislike meetings so much is that they’re on a different type of schedule from other people. Meetings cost them more…
“Alberto Contador established a speed record: he went up the 8.5 km climb in...”
– Lemond questions Tour performances
Give Up and Use Tables →
“If you watched Sarah Palin’s resignation speech, you know one thing: her...”
– Palin’s Resignation: The Edited Version | vanityfair.com
[Music] Porest - Let's Roll
“I felt tired, in the end, it’s the legs that talk.”
– Frank Schleck wins stage 17 - VeloNews
[Ruby] Enumerable#uniq_by
http://s3.amazonaws.com/drawohara.com.snippets/enumerable_uniq_by_rb.html
“In cycling, it is said there are no favors. This is rubbish. Life is full of...”
– Michael Barry on Hincapie’s five seconds - VeloNews
Twitter Music Chart: Hot Songs Tracks MP3 on... →
The most popular Hype Machine songs on Twitter in the past 3 days
“Now you can learn how your plants are doing with a DIY kit that lets them...”
– Botanicalls Twitter DIY | r-echos
10 Reasons to Politely Decline a Web Design Gig -... →
djb2 -- hash function →
this algorithm (k=33) was first reported by dan bernstein many years ago in comp.lang.c. another version of this algorithm (now favored by bernstein) uses xor: hash(i) = hash(i - 1) * 33 ^ str[i]; the magic of number 33 (why it works better than many other constants, prime or not) has never been adequately explained.
How and Why Glue is Using Amazon SimpleDB instead... →
The scalability issues that exist with Relational Databases are not accidental. The problem is not just that of scale, but the way of thinking about the data. Relational Databases are designed to think about data in terms of entities and relationships, but for our problem we need a database that scales by focusing on how to partition the data into independent chunks. This is exactly what new...
“Theory of Constraints (TOC) is an overall management philosophy introduced by...”
– Theory of Constraints - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“In a recent exchange with Ken Schwaber in the Scrum Development Yahoo! group,...”
– My Approach at Corbis
492px-Goyaale.jpg (JPEG Image, 492x599 pixels) →
[0907.1317] Effective leadership in competition →
“How then can a smaller number of left-moving leaders take control of the swarm?...”
– Technology Review: Blogs: arXiv blog: How to stage a revolution
Philltopia » Subtle features are good features →
“I have a simple suggestion for these aggrieved publishers: Take your stuff off...”
– OnTheCommons.org » New Attacks on the Web Commons
arc90 lab : experiments : HashMask - Another (More... →
Internet Radio Saved for Now, But is the Deal... →
[Music] Tom Jones - Sex Bomb
“Semco’s 3,000 employees set their own work hours and pay levels. Subordinates...”
– Ricardo Semler Won’t Take Control
ahoward's growltdf at master - GitHub →
growltdf is the greatest program evar. it let’s you scrape http://cyclingnews.com for TDF updates and dump them into growl to you can keep up with the race while working.