November 30, 2009

How I Hire Programmers

http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/hiring good ideas
Posted by jzawodn at 09:46 AM

Unicode Code Charts

http://unicode.org/charts/ very handy when you start dealing with character issues
Posted by jzawodn at 08:46 AM

The state of SSD storage for a database server

http://blog.fastmail.fm/2009/10/27/the-state-of-ssd-storage-for-a-database-server/ a decent overview of what's available today
Posted by jzawodn at 08:23 AM

November 29, 2009

A slightly unfortunate Twitter billboard

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-10405894-71.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20 that is awesome
Posted by jzawodn at 10:46 PM

WinSplit Revolution

http://www.winsplit-revolution.com/ looks sort of like xmonad for windows but without virtual desktop support
Posted by jzawodn at 10:23 AM

ASCII Codes - Table of ascii characters and symbols

http://www.ascii.cl/ handy when I find myself looking for a good ASCII table in both hex and decimal
Posted by jzawodn at 10:00 AM

Undisputed High ASCII table

http://www.siber-sonic.com/mac/charsetstuff/undisputedHiASCII.html the "high-ASCII" character reference that proved to be quite useful too
Posted by jzawodn at 10:00 AM

MySQL questions or queries?

http://code.openark.org/blog/mysql/questions-or-queries ahh, interesting
Posted by jzawodn at 10:00 AM

November 24, 2009

Paul McCullagh answers your questions about PBXT

http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2009/11/20/paul-mccullagh-answers-your-questions-about-pbxt/ good reading on pbxt
Posted by jzawodn at 08:23 AM

November 22, 2009

web-shell - web-based ssh interface

http://code.google.com/p/web-shell/ designed for iphone but works in normal browsers too... very cool
Posted by jzawodn at 10:46 AM

November 19, 2009

Katie Stanton on the Internet and the Shanghai Town Hall [video]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MmwwqIvEdE it's so cool to see the stuff that Katie an team are working on at the whitehouse
Posted by jzawodn at 09:46 AM

November 18, 2009

catsforgold.com

http://www.catsforgold.com/ screw cash4gold, this is what you really want!
Posted by jzawodn at 01:23 PM

Facebook | Sarah Palin

http://www.facebook.com/sarahpalin this shit totally cracks me up!
Posted by jzawodn at 10:46 AM

November 16, 2009

Inconsolata

http://www.levien.com/type/myfonts/inconsolata.html a great coding font, it seems
Posted by jzawodn at 06:23 PM

node.js

http://nodejs.org/ that is sort of nuts but also kind of awesome
Posted by jzawodn at 04:00 PM

November 15, 2009

Cactus Flight 1549 Accident Reconstruction (US Airways)

http://www.exosphere3d.com/pubwww/pages/project_gallery/cactus_1549_hudson_river.html very well done!
Posted by jzawodn at 09:46 AM

November 12, 2009

Cook the Book: Salt-Seared Swordfish with Garlic and Mint

http://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2009/10/cook-the-book-salt-seared-swordfish-with-garl.html this sounds good
Posted by jzawodn at 07:23 AM

Support Question Summit FW Upgrade? - OCZ Forum

http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=61515 long thread on the lack of a firmware update for the OCZ Summit SSD. sadly, I own two of these...
Posted by jzawodn at 07:00 AM

November 10, 2009

AviatorApps.com - A directory of aviation related applications and web sites for the iPhone and iPod Touch

http://www.aviatorapps.com/ if I had an iPhone, this would be cool. well, it's cool anyway, but you know what I mean
Posted by jzawodn at 07:23 AM

November 07, 2009

InnoDB plugin gets better again

http://mysqlha.blogspot.com/2009/11/innodb-plugin-gets-better-again.html ooh... control over how much a big table scan can blow out your buffer pool. awesome
Posted by jzawodn at 08:23 AM

InnoDB: look after fragmentation

http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2009/11/05/innodb-look-after-fragmentation/ fragmentation slows things down, yo
Posted by jzawodn at 08:23 AM

November 05, 2009

Avro 1.2.0 Specification

http://hadoop.apache.org/avro/docs/current/spec.html efficient store for large data streams
Posted by jzawodn at 09:23 AM

Grilling: Pumpkin Ravioli with Brown Butter and Sage Sauce

http://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2009/10/grilling-pumpkin-ravioli-with-brown-butter-and-sage-sauce-recipe.html this sounds kinda yummie
Posted by jzawodn at 08:23 AM

Introducing Resque

http://github.com/blog/542-introducing-resque uses Redis under the hood
Posted by jzawodn at 08:23 AM

November 02, 2009

WebSequenceDiagrams.com - Create sequence diagrams in seconds

http://www.websequencediagrams.com/ that's a really handy tool!
Posted by jzawodn at 08:23 AM

MariaDB versus MySQL - Askmonty.org

http://askmonty.org/wiki/index.php/MariaDB_versus_MySQL MariaDB is really shaping up nicely
Posted by jzawodn at 07:46 AM

Cook the Book: Perfect Pot Roast

http://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2009/10/perfect-pot-roast-recipe-pioneer-woman.html simple but yum sounding
Posted by jzawodn at 07:46 AM

November 01, 2009

memcache-top - Project Hosting on Google Code

http://code.google.com/p/memcache-top/ this looks pretty handy
Posted by jzawodn at 11:23 AM

Google Redefines Disruption: The “Less Than Free” Business Model

http://abovethecrowd.com/2009/10/29/google-redefines-disruption-the-%E2%80%9Cless-than-free%E2%80%9D-business-model/ less than free is better than free... whee....
Posted by jzawodn at 09:46 AM