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Deploying at GitHub

nobody@domain.com (Cal Henderson) — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 21:25:00 +0000

I've been meaning to link to this for a while: Deploying at GitHub explains the develop/stage/deploy cycle at github, which can rougly be described as "Like Flickr, but with personal dev environments and using Git". It's light on technical details, but says a lot of the right things.

The silver searcher

nobody@domain.com (Cal Henderson) — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 00:01:00 +0000

The silver searcher is basically ack, rewritten in C to be crazy fast. If you're regularly using grep to search a codebase, this is probably a much better idea.

reveal.js

nobody@domain.com (Cal Henderson) — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 20:43:00 +0000

Perhaps next time I'm writing a presentation, I'll give reveal.js a try. Some of the examples looks pretty good.

15th July, 7:00 pm

nobody@domain.com (Cal Henderson) — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 19:00:00 +0000

cronwtf is pretty awesome [via asc]

21st May, 7:39 pm

nobody@domain.com (Cal Henderson) — Sat, 21 May 2011 19:39:00 +0000

world time buddy is an excellent timezone tool [via swillison]

13th September, 6:20 am

nobody@domain.com (Cal Henderson) — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 06:20:00 +0000

i can never find the dnslint tool that i really liked, but the opendns cache tool is a bit useful

18th November, 7:17 am

nobody@domain.com (Cal Henderson) — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 07:17:00 +0000

schiller pointed to a very detailed profiler for IE6+ that can trace execution between javascript and native code and profile it. very data rich

24th October, 4:18 pm

nobody@domain.com (Cal Henderson) — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 16:18:00 +0000

a couple of interesting alternatives to phpMyAdmin, both simpler: sqlbuddy looks like a really well done minimalist effort, while phpMiniAdmin like like PMA from 10 years ago.

24th August, 1:59 am

nobody@domain.com (Cal Henderson) — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 01:59:00 +0000

oauth-proxy is a neat solution to the trickery involved with debugging oauth apis

9th April, 9:39 pm

nobody@domain.com (Cal Henderson) — Thu, 9 Apr 2009 21:39:00 +0000

audiotool is an amazing piece of work - reason redone in flash. very very slick. seems to be the work of andre michelle, whose demo work is also excellent