September 2007
23 posts
7 Reasons I Switched Back to PHP After 2 Years on... →
“Back in January 2005, I announced on the O’Reilly blog that I was going to completely scrap over 100,000 lines of messy PHP code in my existing CD Baby (cdbaby.com) website, and rewrite the entire thing in Rails, from scratch.”Great article.
Star Wars Personal Theater Is Cool
Vic Wertz and Lisa Stevens, who used to run the Official Star Wars Fan Club, had this home theater made to resemble the control deck of the Death Star. It was designed by Doug Chiang who was the lead designer in Episodes I and II. All the stars are lit up via LEDs, and the massive DVD collection is hidden behind a Han Solo in Carbonite door (which could be made of turds and be better than this...
Mint.com is now live! Free online money manager. →
“I’m pleased to announce Mint.com is officially launching today at TechCrunch 40 in San Francisco. We are now open to everyone! The free, automatic, online way to manage your money is here!” Truly awesome free service.
trotzke: Game night, my house, 8PM. (via Twitter / trotzke)
Breaking: Yahoo Acquires Zimbra For $350 million...
Yahoo will announce the acquisition of open source online/offline office suite Zimbra this evening, we just heard through a very solid source. The price: $350 million, in cash, confirmed
(via Trotzke’s shared items in Google Reader)
Ain't nothing wrong with contradiction
Ryan’s lightbox post sparked a lively debate about the feature, influence, opinion, and contradiction.
After one person pointed out that Matt said he liked something that was sorta “Lightboxy” and Ryan didn’t like Lightboxes, another commenter said:
I’d honestly love to see a post on how you guys handle some of the contradictions you make in public.
I’m really glad he asked because this...
Internet People - Who Are They? →
RumorsDaily tracks down and links to every reference in Internet People.
trotzke: Trying to figure out how to update twitter and facebook at the same time from twitter. (via Twitter / trotzke)
An open letter to iPhone owners from Steve Jobs →
We have decided to offer every iPhone customer who purchased an iPhone from either Apple or AT&T, and who is not receiving a rebate or any other consideration, a $100 store credit towards the purchase of any product at an Apple Retail Store or the Apple Online Store.
AMD To Open ATI Specs
Several readers tipped us the followup of yesterday’s AMD/ATI news, the new development hinted at by Phoronix: AMD has announced they are releasing the specs for all new Radeon chipsets, and will be working with the open source community to develop a fully functional 2D and 3D graphics driver. An anonymous reader opines: “AMD appears to be following in Intel’s footsteps with...
trotzke: Back home again… Celebrating my birthday with the Bets (via Twitter / trotzke)
trotzke: Heading to Evansville (via Twitter / trotzke)