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{ Monthly Archives } May 2008

The Rails Horde at RailsConf 2008

Egads… so… many… Rails… zombies

2008 05 30 hoanga geek
humor
ruby Comments Off on The Rails Horde at RailsConf 2008

Unbound, a possible OSS competitor to BIND?

A quite from this article I pulled up from Planet Sysadmin Unbound was written by NLnet Labs, VeriSign, Nominet and Kirei. Unbound will support DNSSEC, a version of DNS that uses public-key cryptography to protect DNS results, from begriming. Unbound and BIND are the only open-source recursive DNS servers that support DNSSEC. Seems interesting. If […]

2008 05 22 hoanga Open Source
tech Comments Off on Unbound, a possible OSS competitor to BIND?

Animoto riding the EC2 wave

Animoto sounds like an interesting service. Take some photos (and videos?) and some music or choose some already available and they remix it into a music video automatically. Don’t like the mix? Hit retry. Cool stuff… Here’s a juicy quote from their blog post on Jeff Bozos talking about them: This is about 50 EC2 […]

2008 05 21 hoanga geek
scaling Comments Off on Animoto riding the EC2 wave

Volcanic Eruption in Chile

Wow… thanks John

2008 05 18 hoanga geek Comments Off on Volcanic Eruption in Chile

Yapc Asia 2008 Day 1 Notes

Okay first day at YAPC… Missed most of the opening speeches and Larry Wall’s Keynote.. d’oh. Then again trying to handle the incoming rush of attendees was quite the experience. I’d say jumbled is a good word for how we handled it but at least it got handled. It’s pretty hard handling the Japanese Incoming […]

2008 05 15 hoanga geek
Open Source
programming
unix Comments Off on Yapc Asia 2008 Day 1 Notes

YAPC Asia 2008 RejectConf Notes

I’m at YAPC Asia this year working as a volunteer. It’s interesting mingling with the Perl folk especially since I’m not a Perl person but am curious to know more about the Perl community. Anyways here are my scribbling notes that I’ve taken SoozyConf This is the nickname for Perl’s RejectConf Should bother to look […]

2008 05 14 hoanga geek
Open Source
programming Comments Off on YAPC Asia 2008 RejectConf Notes

Why does RTFM with GNU manpages just suck

After looking at a seriously useful tip for cleaning out a clogged postfix queue I puzzled over the -r option in xargs. I’m not an xargs master but I figure if I need it I can always RTFM. Well man xargs on my Ubuntu box provides the typical GNU fair and I spend the next […]

2008 05 13 hoanga gripe
stupid
unix Comments Off on Why does RTFM with GNU manpages just suck

Programming languages for your WinCE device

I got this WinCE device that I’ve been trying to wrangle into a nice cozy environment to do useful things so the first thing I started looking at was the availability of development tools that I can use directly on the device. In general, I prefer Ruby however I’m not wedded to it since I’d […]

2008 05 10 hoanga geek
programming
tech
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A Deploying Scala story, “It’s just another Java library”

From Artima’s Developer Buzz feed I picked up this story on someone managing to sell to management the use of Scala in a project. There is a little bit talk about performance and ease of deployment which could be good points depending on your environment… We also had an occasion to have 2,000 simultaneous (as […]

2008 05 05 hoanga java
programming
scaling
tech Comments Off on A Deploying Scala story, “It’s just another Java library”

What the fork are you doing Pidgin devs?

After glancing at the Slashdot post on the forking of pidgin and wasting far too much time slogging through the ticket that caused a bit of strife, I’m pretty sure I will move away from Pidgin until the developers stop being dorks (highly unlikely since they seem to develop only for themselves). Quick quick summary […]

2008 05 03 hoanga gripe
Open Source
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NYTimes.com design director, Khoi Vinh, answers some questions

I’m not much of a designer type person but I find Khoi’s answers to some of the questions posed regarding the information design of the NYTimes site interesting since it is a continual battle in trying to add more but use less to say more. Here’s a quick snippet: You can think of it as […]

2008 05 03 hoanga tech
tiengviet Comments Off on NYTimes.com design director, Khoi Vinh, answers some questions
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