var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www."); document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E")); var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker("UA-56992-2"); pageTracker._initData(); pageTracker._trackPageview(); Tumblr (3.0; @schlink)http://schlinkify.org/<a href="http://www.infoq.com/news/2008/08/tech-debt-wkshp">A Fresh Look at 'Technical Debt'</a>: Some good links in therehttp://schlinkify.org/post/48153525http://schlinkify.org/post/48153525Sun, 31 Aug 2008 15:46:28 +0200<a href="http://tumble.toolmantim.com/post/48126947/disable-updated-at-and-created-at-in-migrations">Disable updated_at and created_at in migrations</a>: would be nice to have a save_without_updating_timestamps for these thingshttp://schlinkify.org/post/48139726http://schlinkify.org/post/48139726Sun, 31 Aug 2008 13:02:26 +0200<a href="http://yuiblog.com/blog/2008/07/22/non-blocking-scripts/">Non-blocking JavaScript Downloads</a>http://schlinkify.org/post/48138921http://schlinkify.org/post/48138921Sun, 31 Aug 2008 12:47:41 +0200<a href="http://mysqldba.blogspot.com/2008/08/capacity-planning-archetecture-scaling.html">Capacity Planning, Architecture, Scaling, Response time, Throughput</a>: some very useful commands to get system statshttp://schlinkify.org/post/48138670http://schlinkify.org/post/48138670Sun, 31 Aug 2008 12:45:09 +0200<a href="http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/everyday.html">Everyday GIT With 20 Commands Or So</a>http://schlinkify.org/post/48138522http://schlinkify.org/post/48138522Sun, 31 Aug 2008 12:43:20 +0200<a href="http://infovore.org/talks/playing-together-what-games-can-learn-from-social-software/">What Games Can Learn from Social Software</a>: this is the good stuffhttp://schlinkify.org/post/47949556http://schlinkify.org/post/47949556Fri, 29 Aug 2008 20:44:06 +0200“We’re living in the “anyone can play guitar” era of software entrepreneurship.”<br/><br/> - <em><a href="http://log.scifihifi.com/post/47592954/heres-an-idea-i-could-take-my-newly-minted">Sci-Fi Hi-Fi: Weblog</a></em>http://schlinkify.org/post/47948803http://schlinkify.org/post/47948803Fri, 29 Aug 2008 20:38:44 +0200<a href="http://www.inc.com/magazine/20080901/how-hard-could-it-be-how-i-learned-to-love-middle-managers.html?partner=fogcreek">How Hard Could It Be?: How I Learned to Love Middle Managers</a>http://schlinkify.org/post/47764453http://schlinkify.org/post/47764453Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:01:36 +0200“But for software developers, it’s moronic. Your software isn’t being released in theaters, it’s available over the Web. You don’t have to worry about the theater no longer showing after week one; you can keep pushing it for years, growing your userbase.”<br/><br/> - <em><a href="http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/howtolaunch">How To Launch Software</a></em>http://schlinkify.org/post/47185969http://schlinkify.org/post/47185969Sun, 24 Aug 2008 13:07:19 +0200<a href="http://www.timshowers.com/2008/08/visualization-strategies-text-documents/">Visualization Strategies: Text & Documents</a>: nice overviewhttp://schlinkify.org/post/47005060http://schlinkify.org/post/47005060Fri, 22 Aug 2008 21:00:57 +0200<a href="http://blog.rightscale.com/2008/08/20/amazon-ebs-explained/">Amazon’s Elastic Block Store explained</a>: This is really useful and solves a lot of the current EC2 and s3 limitationshttp://schlinkify.org/post/47005006http://schlinkify.org/post/47005006Fri, 22 Aug 2008 21:00:28 +0200“Good designers are inhibited by a myopic view of their current capability, whereas great designers recognize their capacity to produce great work extends far beyond the limits of their capability.”<br/><br/> - <em><a href="http://northtemple.com/journal/2008/08/18/beethovens-heiligenstadt">Beethoven’s Heiligenstadt Testament: A Study in Capability vs. Capacity</a></em>http://schlinkify.org/post/47004836http://schlinkify.org/post/47004836Fri, 22 Aug 2008 20:58:42 +0200<a href="http://adactio.com/journal/1502">The Framework Age</a>: “These days we’re designing frameworks for user interaction rather than static artefacts.”http://schlinkify.org/post/47004731http://schlinkify.org/post/47004731Fri, 22 Aug 2008 20:57:35 +0200<a href="http://www.rubyinside.com/whatlanguage-ruby-language-detection-library-1085.html">WhatLanguage: Ruby Library To Detect The Language Of A Text</a>http://schlinkify.org/post/47004615http://schlinkify.org/post/47004615Fri, 22 Aug 2008 20:56:30 +0200<a href="http://opensoul.org/2008/8/21/merging-active-record-models">Merging Active Record models</a>http://schlinkify.org/post/47004601http://schlinkify.org/post/47004601Fri, 22 Aug 2008 20:56:16 +0200<a href="http://jasonrudolph.com/blog/tag/testing-anti-patterns/">:jasonrudolph => :blog » Testing Anti-Patterns</a>: Good and clear writeuphttp://schlinkify.org/post/46397854http://schlinkify.org/post/46397854Mon, 18 Aug 2008 13:53:56 +0200<a href="http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/3753/the_art_of_braid_creating_a_.php">The Art Of Braid: Creating A Visual Identity For An Unusual Game</a>: With lots of great screenshotshttp://schlinkify.org/post/46282512http://schlinkify.org/post/46282512Sun, 17 Aug 2008 13:23:13 +0200<a href="http://leapfrog.nl/blog/archives/2008/08/15/the-making-of-a-travel-time-map-of-the-netherlands/">Leapfroglog - The making of a travel-time map of the Netherlands</a>http://schlinkify.org/post/46196792http://schlinkify.org/post/46196792Sat, 16 Aug 2008 16:36:05 +0200<a href="http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/08/business-requirements-are-bullshit.html">Business Requirements are Bullshit</a>: Great and as always lengthy rant from Steve Yegge, but well worth the read. This really resonates with me.http://schlinkify.org/post/45845262http://schlinkify.org/post/45845262Wed, 13 Aug 2008 21:05:06 +0200<a href="http://counternotions.com/2008/08/12/concept-products/">Why Apple doesn’t do “Concept Products”</a>http://schlinkify.org/post/45844628http://schlinkify.org/post/45844628Wed, 13 Aug 2008 20:58:05 +0200