I am collecting brilliant and insightful quotes, remarkable point of views and near-perfect references:
Reid Hoffman (founder of LinkedIn) was speaking at a Churchill event and said something that really resonated with me: ‘If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you’ve launched too late.’
This project hosts the source code and PyDoc for the Wave Robot Python Client Library
An extremely simple Message Queue application built as a learning exercise and building block for Google App Engine.
a web testing tool designed to let you automate and debug your web application thoroughly and efficiently
a message-passing framework for Java that provides ultra-lightweight threads and facilities for fast, safe, zero-copy messaging between these threads. It consists of a bytecode postprocessor (a "weaver"), a run time library with buffered mailboxes (multi-producer, single consumer queues) and a user-level scheduler and a type system that puts certain constraints on pointer aliasing within messages to ensure interference-freedom between threads.
Summary * RPC is a convenient but flawed accident of history * It’s almost 2010, folks — we can do WAY better
How do you scale CSS for millions of visitors or thousands of pages? Object Oriented CSS allows you to write fast, maintainable, standards-based front end code. It adds much needed predictability to CSS so that even beginners can participate in writing beautiful websites.
The language is not without promise or potential, but in its current state there is no reason to choose it over a mature, robust language like Python.
Mette sitzt an ihrem Schreibtisch in einem Kopenhagener Büro-Viertel. Am Computer berechnet sie, wo unter der dänischen Metropole Kabel verlaufen, damit diese bei Bauarbeiten nicht getroffen werden. Eine Arbeit, die enorme Konzentration und Präzision verlangt. Jeder Rechenfehler könnte zur Beschädigung einer Leitung führen - und für die Auftraggeber aus der Telekommunikationsbranche richtig teuer werden. Doch Mette macht keine Fehler. Jedenfalls nicht bei dieser Arbeit. "Ich kann mich gut konzentrieren, wohl besser als andere. Ich achte auf jedes Detail. Das bedeutet, meine ganze Konzentration ist die gesamte Zeit auf meine Arbeit gerichtet", erklärt Mette.
Personally, I love the "please fork my stuff" mindset. I write open source stuff to solve my problem, and hey, if it solves yours too, bonus, have fun, don't sue me..
Mood, recent thoughts, small rants:
Some free software stuff.
A git extension for having certain changesets in your working dir, but not in your tree. Think .gitignore, but for changesets, instead of files.
A thin layer to django.core.files.storage.Storage that rewrites filenames, so they depend (read: SHA1-hash) on the file's content
Serve your django webapp's static media by it's hashsum.
A django application that makes it easy to organize your component source (JavaScript, CSS) right in your django templates to make your website much faster. (Beerware)
A django application that allows editing django templates by the secretary and/or the designer.
A more detailed cv is available by email on request.
Skills I think I have, in no particular order:
Bash, CSS, DOM, Gentoo, HTTP, IMPS, Java, JavaScript, Linux, MySQL, Python, SQL, Vim, XHTML, XML, XMPPI'm available for contract work!
Filip Noetzel
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