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Why link shorteners hurt the user experience and destroy the Web
Why link shorteners hurt the user experience and destroy the Web I wish Twitter would just allow URLs to be added without being included in the 140 character limit. See Dave Winer’s Proposed New Twitter convention.
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How To Report A Bug
From Hacker News to the Greatest Bug I Never Fixed to a wonderful comment in the Perl doc forums: I submitted a proposal to OSCON called “How To Report A Bug” about the social issues involved in reporting and accepting bug reports. Its still pending, but its caused me to do a little writing for…
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Installing Tortoise Git for Windows
I’ve used Tortoise SVN for years and it makes things really easy for getting started with Subversion and integrating smoothly with Windows. However Git is a more confusing world. There’s two installations and neither one clearly refers to the other. However it boils down to the following (you can accept all the defaults in the…
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ntwdblib download
For years I have had problems running the mssql driver. Its getting phased out – i.e. it doesn’t work with PHP 5.3 but if you have to support older applications then you need to use the mssql driver. The problem is, is that the default installation of PHP 5.2 (currently PHP 5.2.17) which you can…
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Hooray for O’Reilly ebook pricing
Its always good to see a major retailer having similar ideas as you. I was looking at the Integrating PHP Projects with Jenkins book by Sebastian Bergmann. I always check out the pricing structures first because I’m always interested. They have the pricing structure as follows: Print: $19.99 eBook: $9.99 (so 50% of the price)…
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Twitter API v1.1 RSS feeds
Twitter have killed of RSS feeds completely in API v1.1. I used to use this nice little website (http://roomj.com/twitter/connect.php) to pull out RSS from Twitter, but that alas is broken. Edit: @tylercal has now updated http://roomj.com/twitter to handle the new v1.1 API – so if you want to avoid the hassle of installing your own…
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The Money Parable
From the faraway land of reddit This is not my work – I just love the story and want an easy place to read it. By otherwiseyep http://www.reddit.com/r/finance/comments/utf5u/where_has_all_the_money_in_the_world_gone/ Chapter 1 (relix already hit on some of this) It’s hard to explain this to a five-year-old, because there are some fairly abstract concepts involved, but here…
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Installing Ubuntu on Windows
It really is getting quite easy to install Ubuntu onto a computer from Windows now – especially if you’re not trying to Dual-boot. But if you do want to Dual boot, you’d still do the following but you have to partition your hard-drive first (which is remarkably tricky). Installall Ubuntu onto a USB stick UNetbootin…
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Creative and common sense from Nerdy authors
There’s an truly stellar discussion group from Charlie Stross who’s authored ‘The Rapture of the Nerds‘ with Cory Doctorow. Charlie Stross has answered one of my major questions about the price differences between eBooks and hardcovers on Amazon: > Except: Dear Macmillan, why would I pay $11.99 for a digital copy when the hardcover’s $13.70…
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Ian Channing 