Blue Sky On Mars

• Code Simplicity » Complexity and the Wrong Solution
  “If somebody comes up to you and says something like, “How do I make this pony fly to the moon?”, the question you need to ask is, “What problem are you trying to solve?” You’ll find out that they really need to collect gray rocks. Why they thou
  (tags: programming design)

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• SitePen Blog » Unit Testing Custom Code with the Dojo Objective Harness
  Dustin talks about using DOH to test code, even code that doesn’t use Dojo.
  (tags: javascript test)

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• Random Defense - the game @ itch.com
  neat little game where you set up towers to defend some area from weird little random graphics.
  (tags: entertainment games)
• Photo Matt » SecurityFocus SQL Injection Bogus
  A bunch of great tips for running WordPress securely. (Main tip: stay up to date.) Spotted via daringfireball.net
  (tags: security wordpress)
• Download YouTube Videos as MP4 Files
  (tags: video youtube howto)
• Exclusive: Google App Engine ported to Amazon’s EC2 - Waxy.org
  Not surprising. I noted a few days ago that you could make the datastore API work with ZODB pretty readily.
  (tags: appengine google)

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• Google App Engine for developers
  The best high level overview (with some details thrown in) of App Engine that I’ve seen.
  (tags: google appengine)
• From Al Gore’s Chief Speechwriter: Simple Tips for a Damn Good Presentation (Plus: Breakdancing) | The Blog of Author Tim Ferriss
  good tips on giving presentations. Covers the words and ideas of a talk.
  (tags: presentation tips writing)

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• Battle at Kruger
  Lions, buffalo and crocodile in an amazing amateur video.
  (tags: animals youtube video)

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• Brendan’s Roadmap Updates: Popularity
  Brendan Eich talks about where JavaScript came from.
  (tags: javascript history)
• TED | Talks | Larry Lessig: How creativity is being strangled by the law (video)
  (tags: copyright culture kids presentation ted)

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• COBOL ON COGS
  greenscreen in your browser, even
  (tags: geek humor programming funny)
• lift developers abandon Scala in favor of Cobol -
  new name: Heavy Lifting
  (tags: scala programming humor funny)
• Helvetica Serif
  Some things were never meant to be together.
  (tags: funny humor typography)

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• PC World - Ten Great (but Fake) Tech and Science Videos
  (tags: humor video)
• Review Board
  Nice looking code review tool open sourced by VMware
  (tags: coding programming review software tools development)
• Chip Collis: Top 10 Myths Keeping Hillary in the Race - Off The Bus on The Huffington Post
  (tags: politics obama)

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• Internet Radio, Citizen Broadcasting, Social Media Podcasts - Blog Talk Radio
  This service lets you create a live audio blog show and take up to 5 callers at a time to talk about a subject. It’s free (they get ad revenue, apparently).
  (tags: audio blogging blog marketing free mobile podcasting phone)

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• Overview — Sphinx Documentation
  Nice looking documentation tool that generates HTML and PDF. Used to generate the Python docs. Keep text in ReStructured Text.
  (tags: documentation OpenSource python software)

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