What I’ve Been Reading
Just some of the articles and links I’ve been keeping myself busy with — reference, review, and discovery.
2011
July
May
- Copyfight: EFF co-founder enters e-G8 “lion’s den,” rips into lions
- Case Study – Jobless Discrimination? When Firms Won’t Even Consider Hiring Anyone Unemployed
- Twitter’s Shit Sandwich
- Diaspora: Moving Forward
- Google plays the yield curve
- Why you can’t really anonymize your data
- Cash-Rich Google Sells First Bonds
- Raising the Bar on Data Sharing: Introducing Open Analytics
- An Introduction to the Art of Unit Testing in PHP
- AdWords: Yet Another Problem With Google’s Panda Update
- Scraping, cleaning, and selling big data
- It’s Time to Drop the “F” Bomb – or “Lies, Damn Lies, and NoSQL.”
- An open letter to those who want to start programming
- Do I dare call bullshit aloud? Do you?
- The Unwritten Laws of Engineering
- The 10 commandments of good source control management
Relocation + New Job =D
March
- Stupid EU cookie law will hand the advantage to the US.
- The Mother Of All Android Malware Has Arrived: Stolen Apps Released To The Market That Root Your Phone, Steal Your Data, And Open Backdoor
- How to Make Money in 6 Easy Steps
- Why Why Functional Programming Matters Matters
- JavaScript and URLs
- Redis Manifesto
February
- Developers, you are the last line of defense
- Jerry Seinfeld’s Productivity Secret
- A Real-Time API for Next-Generation Apps
- Google Forecloses On Content Farms With “Farmer” Algorithm Update
- Why we stick to PHP
- Node.js: A Beginner’s Perspective
- Recruiter Dos and Don’ts
- What I Wish Someone Had Told Me 4 Years Ago
- WordPress 3.1, lots of fun
- Bait & Switch: Groupon Must Avoid Becoming Just Another Useless Coupon Site
- How did WordPress win?
- Firebug 1.6.2
- News Corp. exec: “The right time” to sell Myspace
- Microsoft’s Bing uses Google search results – and denies it
- Why StackOverflow sucks and participating there is impossible
- Railscasts.com – Super Simple Authentication
- Railscasts.com – Restricting Access
January
- Node.js Interview: 4 Questions with Creator Ryan Dahl
- jQuery 1.5 Released
- Meetup feels the wrath of the crowd after radical changes
- Never Use a Warning When you Mean Undo
- Making AJAX Applications Crawlable
- Railscasts – Active Record Queries in Rails 3
- 37S: We’ll be retiring our support of OpenID on May 1
- JavaScript Arguments
- Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) (beta)
- Ext Js Dom Navigation
- “OK, but there are two rules…”
- On not hiring
- Hudson’s future
- Akin’s Laws of Spacecraft Design
- The Front End Engineering Spectrum – The Three Generic Types of Front End Engineers
- Why is Dropbox more popular than other tools with similar functionality?
- The Python Paradox
- Mac app store hacked, how developers can better protect themselves
- Selling to small businesses is damn hard. Here’s How.
- 5 Things You Might Not Know about jQuery
- A Visual Explanation of SQL Joins
- PHP Remote Exploit — Information and Hotfix
- Russian Physicists Solve Radio Black-Out Problem for Re-Entering Spacecraft
- Technical job post tips for the desperate
- I Eliminated the Free Plan from my Web App for a Month: Here’s What Happened.
2010
December
- Cassandra vs MongoDB vs CouchDB vs Redis vs Riak vs HBase comparison
- Where Pair Programming Fails For Me
- Former Crotchety Old Power Users (Facebook Messaging)
- Former Yahoo Engineers Shed Light On Why Delicious And Other Acquisitions Failed
- Amazon Route 53 (Beta)
- Salesforce Debuts Database.com For The Enterprise
- Phusion Passenger 3.0.1 released
- Introducing App Engine for Business
- Pointers — Cower In Fear!
- After A Four Year Run, Firefox Is No Longer The Top Browser On TechCrunch
November
- Ruby On Rails Security Guide
- 10 mistakes every programmer makes
- Ruby is beautiful (but I’m moving to Python)
- SQL injection with raw MD5 hashes
- Google and Microsoft Cheat on Slow-Start. Should You?
- Ruby Stdlib is a Ghetto, Pt. 2
- Ruby Exceptions And Exception Handling
- Netflix’s Advice on Moving to Amazon Web Services
- The Ruby Stdlib is a Ghetto
- Why you absolutely MUST write an API when you write your next app
- Why It’s So Hard For NYC Startups To Hire Developers
- Goodbye Google App Engine (GAE)
- What Happened to Downtime? The Extinction of Deep Thinking & Sacred Space
- Deprecating XML
- Top 10 MySQL Mistakes Made by PHP Developers
- Signups increased by 60% after actually removing the signup form
- Open ID Is A Nightmare
- Node Isn’t…
- jQuery 1.4.4 Released
- Schneier on Security – Changing Passwords
- We’re moving. Goodbye Rackspace.
- Google points finger at Facebook hypocrisy, blocks Gmail import
- Notes about Developers Shame Day
- Facebook at 13 Million Queries Per Second Recommends: Minimize Request Variance
- Sidejack Prevention Phase 2: SSL Everywhere
- Make your websites run faster, automatically — try mod_pagespeed for Apache
- GitHub moves to SSL, but remains Firesheepable
- What Can I Say? Another Amazon S3 Price Reduction!
- Stackoverflow.com: Windows Azure vs Amazon EC2 vs Google App Engine
October
- Github has won
- Installing memcache on Windows for PHP
- Ewww, You Use PHP?
- AWS Free Usage Tier
- Why Apple saddled the MacBook Air with “gimped” CPUs
- Computing at scale, or, how Google has warped my brain
- Side projects are like children
- Google Engineer Builds Facebook Disconnect
- Slabs, Pages, Chunks and Memcached
- The Never-ending Awesomeness of Bash
- Programming is for Stupid People
- Phusion Passenger 3.0.0 final released
- 99 Out Of 100 Programmers Can’t Program – I Call Bullshit!
- Every day I learn something new… and stupid.
- Should You Close PHP Tags? The Debate Continues…
- Is the Valley Falling out of Love with Options?
- AWS Elastic Load Balancing: Support for SSL Termination
- Zend Framework 1.11.0BETA1 Released
- Rollover image on your website? That will be $80,000 (please)
- How many users have JavaScript disabled?
- 8 Bad Habits that Crush Your Creativity and Stifle Your Success
- Too Young to Know It Can’t be Done
- This is not the Freehackers Union…
- Web Design is 95% Typography
- Wikipedia: Memcached
- Anatomy of a PHP Request
- Understanding APC
- Developers should know How, What and Why
- 10 Common Mistakes Made by API Providers
- Objects, property visibility, and trade-offs
- Installing Ruby, RubyGems, and Rails on Snow Leopard
- PHP SDK for Amazon Web Services
- Fast Multiple String Replacement in PHP