August 2008 Archive
1591.
How I Built a Working Online Poker Bot, Part 8 (codingthewheel.com)
1592.
Crowd Funding: A Different Way to Pay for the News You Want (nytimes.com)
1593.
How to Fold Paper in Half Twelve Times: An "Impossible Challenge" Solved and Explained (abc.net.au)
1594.
Ruby best practice patterns, by Rein Henrichs (dev-logger.blogspot.com)
1595.
Maatkit: a toolkit of utilities and tools for MySQL (maatkit.org)
1596.
Using hashes to detect resized images (somethinkodd.com)
1597.
Hadoop Map/Reduce Tutorial (hadoop.apache.org)
1598.
Apple's Ambitious iPhone 3G Plans (businessweek.com)
1599.
Email recovery will outlast Bush presidency (arstechnica.com)
1600.
JRuby: Zero to Production in 15 Minutes (blog.headius.com)
1601.
What's the Best Software Market Segment to be in? (parleyit.com)
1602.
Milewski: threads don't scale, processes do (bartoszmilewski.wordpress.com)
1603.
Beej's Guide to Network Programming (beej.us)
1604.
The CAPTCHA Arms Race (wellingtongrey.net)
1605.
Arc: currying (arclanguage.org)
1606.
Greenland Ice Core Reveals History of Pollution in the Arctic (nsf.gov)
1607.
Start-Up Offers a Way to Pay Workers Abroad (bits.blogs.nytimes.com)
1608.
Using custom fonts on your web pages (ajaxian.com)
1609.
It will be harder to raise venture debt for a while (lsvp.wordpress.com)
1610.
Sold once for $100.000, what's next ? (discuss.joelonsoftware.com)
1611.
Towards Hard Real-Time Erlang (lambda-the-ultimate.org)
1612.
It's the Small Steps (patriciahandschiegel.tumblr.com)
1613.
Improving the calendar: A smarter way to visualize a year (returncontrol.com)
1614.
Behind the doors of the Free Software Foundation (linux.com)
1615.
Google's App Engine--is it too good to be true? (technologyreview.com)
1616.
"Blocks" in Clang (aka closures in C) (lists.cs.uiuc.edu)
1617.
Google reverses "absurd" Mozilla code ban (pcpro.co.uk)
1618.
Stellarium: free open source planetarium (stellarium.org)
1619.
Beyond the five-paragraph essay (swarthmore.edu)
1620.
Gut Reaction: Termites and Biofuel (theatlantic.com)