Erlang in Practice Screencast
I highly recommend this series of screencasts on erlang basics in the Pragmatic library. Kevin Smith does the screencasts and also writes on his excellent erlang-centric blog – hypothetical labs.
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Cuil’s Challenge
All the tech blogs are aflame with news of Cuil’s launch (pronounced cool), so I thought I would give the new search engine a try. Cuil’s brick wall immediately becomes apparent before I ever even hit the site. Instinctively, I tabbed over to my google search bar embedded in FireFox and typed in ‘cuil.’That’s right – I’m a url searcher (someone who knows the url for a given site but still types it into a google search bar), and by all accounts I’m not alone. So, I’m an engaged user actively looking to try out a new search engine and I am typing that search engine’s name into google? I don’t envy the position Cuil is in.
On a more optimistic note, I really like Cuil’s interface. It’s refreshing and new, which seems to stimulate the brain, and their categorization of searches really helps. I’ll definitely use it more if I think about it, but again I search instinctively and right now that means I use the google search box in firefox.
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Randy Pausch Last Lecture
Have to share this. Life changing.
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Beyond REST – XMPP
I’m really into XMPP right now, and this awesome presentation says why a lot better than I ever could. Be sure to view it on SlideShare and make it fullscreen.
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Test from wordpress iphone app
This is a test of the new wordpress iPhone application.
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Blog du Jour – High Scalability
High Scalability.com is an interesting read if you’re interested at all in cloud-based technology and news. Author Todd Hoff puts an appropriately nerdy twist on talking about all things cloud related. Heck, his blog avatar is Gandalf. Nerd +1.
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Git
Stumbled accross this very entertaining video from about a year ago. Linus Torvalds gives a good talk about his git SCM. I’m itching to try it out but unfortunately MacPorts install of git-core fails for me… grrr.
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The Best iPhone App So Far – Pandora
Pandora takes the cake for the best iPhone app so far. If you’re unfamiliar with Pandora, it’s a site where you enter in artists you like and it autmatically creates a ‘radio station’ for you of similar artists. Their iphone app is basically the same functionality.
I’ve always hated creating playlists and managing my library… I want a smart as computer to just tell me what to listen to at all times. Pandora is the solution on my iPhone.
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Raph Koster on Lively
Raph Koster, of EQ fame, posted his thoughts on Lively. Worth a read and I ditto his thoughts on the lack of features and how maybe this isn’t a play against Second Life-esque games.
