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Google Public DNS

britg — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 17:29:44 +0000

Google announces their DNS initiative: Google Public DNS.

I always thought it was kinda inconvenient that there’s a “DNS propagation” downtime. Looks like one of the things Google is doing is making DNS propagation fast and asynchronous to requests.

Google Public DNS independently resolves domain names and keeps the resolutions in the cache until their time-to-live (TTL) expires, at which point they are automatically refreshed. The cycle of caching and refreshing is performed offline, asynchronously with user requests, so that responses are almost always available directly from cache.

Weekly Digest for June 4th

britg — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 05:00:01 +0000

	Shared 2 links. — 2:25pm via Google Reader CSS Gradient Tool; Build the Apple Navigation Bar Erlang Trick O’ The Day
	Interesting that Github:FI is a compiled JRuby app, does that mean no tweaking the source? – http://fi.github.com [#] — 3:14pm via Twitter
	also would be nice to have the gist.github app inside a private network – I’m assuming github:fi does not include gist? [#] — 3:16pm via Twitter
	Shared Lightr – Area51 – Trac — 5:38pm via Delicious
	Shared Trying Out Facebook Connect – Facebook Developers Wiki — 6:45pm via Delicious
	Published Pan Seared Salmon with Mushroom Risotto and Baby Spinach Salad — 10:35pm via britg.com
	Pan Seared Salmon with Mushroom Risotto and Baby Spinach Salad http://britg.com/?p=942 [#] — 10:37pm via Twitter
	Shared Hivelogic – Deploying ExpressionEngine from GitHub with Capistrano — 10:46pm via Delicious
	HAML in CakePHP – http://bit.ly/155oDX [#] — 3:02am via Twitter
	Shared Free WordPress Themes and WordPress Tutorials at Theme Lab — 6:15pm via Delicious
	I absolutely love the wordpress theme http://mixcss.com is using. Need to find a project to use it on. Theme is: http://bit.ly/vpQJ9 [#] — 6:19pm via Twitter
	Shared APE (Ajax Push Engine) :: Real time data streaming — 8:22pm via Delicious
	APE Project looks like Comet-made-easy – Ajax Push pluggable into Apache http://www.ape-project.org/en/about.html [#] — 8:53pm via Twitter

Erlang Supervisor Behavior Gotcha – Worker Init Params

britg — Sat, 23 May 2009 14:26:10 +0000

When starting up a behavior like supervisor, the start_link func looks something like:

start_link() ->
  supervisor:start_link({local, ?MODULE}, ?MODULE, []).

Which in turn calls the initialization callback:

init(_Args) ->
  %% do some stuff.

Notice that the initialization callback takes 1 argument event though the params list (the third parameter) is empty in your start_link func.

So, naturally (am I alone in this?) I assumed that when defining a Child Spec for a Supervisor, the {M, F, A} definition would follow the same pattern:

Childspec = {child1,
            {child1, start, []},
            permanent, brutal_kill, worker, dynamic},
%% ...

But the above definition does not call child1:start/1, where the one parameter is the emtpy list. Instead, the list items are extracted as individual parameters. So {child1, start, [p1, p2, p3]} would call child1:start/3, and {child1, start, []} calls child1:start/0. Just something to look out for if you’re new to erlang and the supervisor behavior like me.

britg — Sat, 23 May 2009 10:56:00 +0000

“When a man runs from fatherhood, he’s not really running from responsibility, he’s running from the guilt of a mediocre life”http://bit.ly/ #
last tweet’s link: http://bit.ly/gU6y4 #

britg — Fri, 22 May 2009 10:56:00 +0000

Voxtrot: Blood Red Blood http://dora.fm/Xu #dora #
when my commit messages turn into grunts, it’s time to take a break. latest commit message: “blah” #

britg — Thu, 21 May 2009 10:56:00 +0000

Why do I resort to caveman vernacular in my git commit messages? “users controller add extra thing” – that’s a real life commit message. #
Muse: Map Of Your Head http://dora.fm/Ry #dora #
roflcopter… taking caption suggestions for this image: http://bit.ly/r9TZv #
javascript awesomegasm: “Earn 12 points of awesome or more by marrying #Bespin to #CouchDB: http://short.ie/ugds80” via @davisp #
Iron & Wine: Waitin’ For A Superman (Live) http://dora.fm/rJ #dora #

britg — Wed, 20 May 2009 10:56:00 +0000

The twitter plugin for adium makes twitter feel like a giant global IRC channel. this is a good thing #
The Shins: So Says I http://dora.fm/XU #dora #
spending some quality time with The Soft Bulletin #
Trying to find by excuse to get out and walk on this beautiful day. Lunch at pei wei #
it’s time for a major life change. I’ve decided to move from a dark vim theme to a light one #
The Magic Numbers: Love Me Like You http://dora.fm/x7 #dora #

britg — Tue, 19 May 2009 10:56:00 +0000

This Sammy project is piquing my interest – lightweight, stateful ajax, plus more. http://bit.ly/5BXFk @sammy_js #
trying out the official twitter support in Adium 1.4b #
giving @sammy_js a run, going to see if it works well in my workflow #
two thumbs up for Twitter in Adium 1.4b — anything that unifies apps wins in my book #
just told our Roomba to dock and sleep and it beeped a definitive “no” … it’s the beginning of the end for humankind #
keep fighting the good fight phonegap devs http://bit.ly/qDl9G #
@rossbates hah, awesome – yeah I swear I’m going to come home one day and see a “KILL ALL HUMANS” pattern in the floor in reply to rossbates #

britg — Mon, 18 May 2009 10:56:00 +0000

@damanlovett also, ActiveRecords are self contained. i.e. you create an Author and that Author can save and update itself in reply to damanlovett #
@damanlovett ActiveRecord can be used as a standalone lib, whereas CakePHP models are tightly integrated with CakePHP, plus syntactic diffs in reply to damanlovett #
@rossbates The app got presented at Microsoft’s Tech.Ed conference and was well received but we have been told not open floodgates yet in reply to rossbates #
I think #cakephp models are great, but I have to admit I’m excited about ActiveRecord for PHP http://bit.ly/C4hjA #
just made the switch from Monaco to Inconsolata after reading this article http://bit.ly/vv5HO #
up @cohabitat all by my lonesome #
get to build my first Comet app – kinda excited #

britg — Sun, 17 May 2009 10:56:00 +0000

using a Chrono Trigger poster as my bookmark… that’s how I roll #
everyone is talking about #wolframalpha but I can’t get the damn site to load a result page #
I use Mint.com everyday and I still find cool new useful stuff on it. mint.com++ #