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vim for firefox

Wed, 14 Jan 2009 09:36:15 +1300

vim key bindings for firefox: vimperator

erlang web framework

Fri, 19 Dec 2008 09:34:49 +1300

nitrogen looks like a very promising candidate for a coming small project. love the event driven way they do things.

denyhosts

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 16:33:50 +1300

a nice daemon that i found way too late. it hopefully helps me to make my security logs readable again (denyhosts). after enabling it i just wanted to check if the file is readable and had the first entry already. now after about 10 min i am up to 3 hosts ...

notes everywhere

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 17:56:13 +1300

a nice application for note taking: evernote. a really cool app that looks somehow promising. i'll test it.

jabber blog client

Sat, 31 May 2008 22:04:54 +1300

after some cleanup of the codebase we will release our jabber bot under a opensource license ... watch this space for news on this one

perl blog API

Sat, 31 May 2008 22:02:27 +1300

Net::Blogger is a nice perl interface for various blog engines

MacVim

Tue, 13 May 2008 12:05:44 +1300

i found a nive macified version of vim today: http://code.google.com/p/macvim/ really nice integration, could probably get me off the console :-)

4 day work week

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 12:14:52 +1300

this is a nice read about a really good experiment. google has its hack friday where everyone can work on his own project. 37signals killed the friday entirely. looks like productivity slowly gains over "hours worked".

iodine on Mac OS X

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 15:46:10 +1300

iodine seems to work fine on Mac OS X. i found a short intro here: http://www.brool.com/?p=94 and thanks to lev i have a working setup now. ... out for testing ...

a good friend is gone ...

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 09:26:57 +1300

i read about it today and still have a sms from him from last week. bernd luevelsmeyer, a good friend of mine, is gone. he was probably one of the most important influences in my work live and guided me on my way to UNIX and the console. he was the best sysadmin i ever had and was always a good friend.

sad to see the real geeks leaving this planet.

distributed computing setup

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 10:39:45 +1300

an interesting read about a openvpn deployment for distributed computing (http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/9915)

iphone SDK

Fri, 07 Mar 2008 10:52:25 +1300

it would be there ... but it keeps timing out. now we have two mobile platforms worth developing for: android and the iphone. link

blog

domain kiting is dead

Wed, 30 Jan 2008 13:49:50 +1300

as is NSIs front running ... everyone else blogged about it already so i'll just post the link to the icann meeting minutes: http://www.icann.org

Ragel State Machine Compiler

Thu, 24 Jan 2008 19:41:47 +1300

finite state machines are an essential part of protocol parsing and this one is exceptionally fast and is used in mongrel

sidenote

Mon, 31 Dec 2007 16:52:41 +1300

i found a long searched feature for OS X today: sidenote is a note taking application that just works the way you like it