http://www.iamcal.com/ All the links rom iamcal.com 2018-09-04T17:42:36Z http://www.iamcal.com/images/logo.gif http://www.iamcal.com/ http://www.iamcal.com/2018-09/chasing-waterfalls/ <p>It's long been known that waterfall is the superior model for developing software, and we finally (~12 years ago, but probably didn't hit its schedule) have a <a href="http://waterfall2006.com/">conference</a> to discuss these important techniques.</p> 2018-09-04T17:42:36Z Cal Henderson (http://www.iamcal.com/) http://www.iamcal.com/2017-06/avoiding-scale/ <p>A <a href="https://blog.bradfieldcs.com/you-are-not-google-84912cf44afb">great post</a> from Ozan Onay on choosing the right solutions for the problem at hand. Distributed systems always seems like an exciting solution to any size of problem.</p> 2017-06-20T19:46:02Z Cal Henderson (http://www.iamcal.com/) http://www.iamcal.com/2012-04/facebook-engineering-process/ <p>A <a href="http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2012/04/exclusive-a-behind-the-scenes-look-at-facebook-release-engineering.ars/1">nice read</a> about facebook's release engineering approach. This should all sound very familiar to Flickr alumni.</p> 2012-04-19T02:22:00Z Cal Henderson (http://www.iamcal.com/) http://www.iamcal.com/2012-03/2765/ <p>the <a href="http://www.computerhistory.org/highlights/macpaint/">macpaint and quickdraw source</a> is available on the computer history museum site</p> 2012-03-29T21:41:00Z Cal Henderson (http://www.iamcal.com/) http://www.iamcal.com/2011-07/2700/ <p>bookmarking for the future: <a href="http://echoprint.me/">echoprint</a> is a free open-source music fingerprinting system</p> 2011-07-08T21:05:00Z Cal Henderson (http://www.iamcal.com/) http://www.iamcal.com/2009-08/2285/ <p>after effects can be a little <a href="http://futurestack.com/jump/aebugs/">unstable</a></p> 2009-08-12T17:05:00Z Cal Henderson (http://www.iamcal.com/) http://www.iamcal.com/2009-06/2226/ <p><a href="http://postbox-inc.com/">postbox</a> seems interesting. a thunderbird fork with some gmail-like features. anyone using it? [update] it insists on downloading my entire (IMAP) inbox before it lets me look at any mail. my inbox is huge. not going to wait. fail</p> 2009-06-06T06:39:00Z Cal Henderson (http://www.iamcal.com/) http://www.iamcal.com/2009-05/2195/ <p>a little project from last week - <a href="http://code.iamcal.com/php/iTunesRemote/">iTunesRemote</a>. control iTunes over the web</p> 2009-05-17T05:54:00Z Cal Henderson (http://www.iamcal.com/) http://www.iamcal.com/2009-05/2188/ <p>trying out <a href="http://www.plexapp.com/">plex</a> in place of boxee for managing media on my tv-mac-mini. looks pretty nice, especially the media server bridge for itunes (no need to reindex 25k mp3s this time). just wish the media server would allow your indexed catalog to be a source for another machine, so that my media server can index everything and my tv-box and laptops just act as thin clients</p> 2009-05-14T07:14:00Z Cal Henderson (http://www.iamcal.com/) http://www.iamcal.com/2009-05/2186/ <p>wrote a little web-based itunes interface for remote controlling my media-server mac from my pc. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bees/3530479572/">screenshot</a> on flickr and source code in <a href="https://svn.iamcal.com/public/php/iTunesRemote/">svn</a></p> 2009-05-14T05:19:00Z Cal Henderson (http://www.iamcal.com/)