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Introducing Stackoverflow.com

Link bookmarked via Ma.gnolia on Thursday, April 17, 2008 @ 11:41 CDT by Daniel Andrlik

This is Jeff Atwood’s post announcing the new venture that he is starting up with Joel Spolsky. There’s nothing at the actual site yet besides a podcast of a conference call. He sums up the direction of this new site as:

Stackoverflow is sort of like the anti-experts-exchange (minus the nausea-inducing sleaze and quasi-legal search engine gaming) meets wikipedia meets programming reddit. It is by programmers, for programmers, with the ultimate intent of collectively increasing the sum total of good programming knowledge in the world. No matter what programming language you use, or what operating system you call home. Better programming is our goal.”

I’ll be excited to see where this goes.

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Mibbit

Link bookmarked via Ma.gnolia on Sunday, April 13, 2008 @ 22:14 CDT by Daniel Andrlik

This is awesome. Mibbit is a web-based IRC client, with one of the better interfaces for chat I’ve seen.

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Digg Viddler Tags

Photo posted on Wednesday, April 9, 2008 @ 23:36 CDT by Daniel Andrlik

Digg Viddler Tags

My Tweetcloud

Photo posted on Wednesday, April 9, 2008 @ 10:36 CDT by Daniel Andrlik

My Tweetcloud

Crooked Little Vein Numbered Edition

Photo posted on Friday, March 14, 2008 @ 18:08 CDT by Daniel Andrlik

Crooked Little Vein Numbered Edition

Crooked Little Vein Signatures

Photo posted on Friday, March 14, 2008 @ 18:08 CDT by Daniel Andrlik

Crooked Little Vein Signatures

Crooked Little Vein Cover

Photo posted on Friday, March 14, 2008 @ 18:08 CDT by Daniel Andrlik

Crooked Little Vein Cover

Quick Post: My Pownces, Let Me Show You Them

Blog Entry posted on Wednesday, March 5, 2008 @ 17:12 CST by Daniel Andrlik

Heh, I had a little fun this afternoon writing a little Django app for my site that will regularly import my public Pownce notes and allow me to display them in the sidebar. It’s really just a modified version of the app I’m using for my Twitter statuses, except that it has some additional logic for handling the different types of Pownce notes.

The thing I’m most happy about is that if I post a public Pownce event, it will display the event with the appropriate microformat markup. Events also include a link to a Google Map of the location, as well as a link to an iCal file for the event. Those last two are provided for free by the Pownce API, so it just seemed to make sense to use them.

Eventually, the look will get redesigned as I redo this site’s design, but for now I’m pleased with it.

Happy Powncing!

Quick Post: Pownce API 2.0 Now Available

Blog Entry posted on Friday, February 29, 2008 @ 18:25 CST by Daniel Andrlik

In case you missed it, Pownce announced the release of the second revision of its public API today. The new API is much more elaborate than the previous version (which was honestly kind of a joke), and promises to be robust enough that interested parties could use it to rewrite the Pownce desktop app from scratch without losing any functionality. This will really encourage a lot of third-party apps to be developed for Pownce, and will probably be the thing to get the adoption of the service to really take off. I hope they have a nice caching solution for the API, because I suspect a lot of folks will be hitting it up soon.

You can find the API documentation here. I haven’t had a chance to give it a thorough review, but my first approximation is that it is just dripping with awesome-sauce. If prompted, I might even go so far as to say, “w00t!” :-D

Hack away, folks!

Command Line Warriors : Encrypt Your Home Directory

Link bookmarked via Ma.gnolia on Saturday, December 8, 2007 @ 20:25 CST by Daniel Andrlik

This is a really great guide for setting up your /home directory as an encrypted partition in Linux. Since I’m always a bit data paranoid, and am a sucker for any kind of software tinkering, I think I’ll give this a try on my laptop when I get it back from being repaired.

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