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Monthly Archives: October 2007

Links for 2007-10-28 [del.icio.us]

Tread Lightly | Environment | Guardian Unlimited“Pledge weekly and start living a low-carbon lifestyle.”(tags: environment activism energy weblog )

Links for 2007-10-25 [del.icio.us]

IBM Poopheads say LAMP Users Need to “grow up”“Nope. We call bullshit. After wasting years of our lives trying to implement physical three tier architectures that “scale” and failing miserably time after time, we’re going with something that actually works.” Right on!(tags: lamp architecture scalability php java web REST weblog )

Links for 2007-10-24 [del.icio.us]

Coding Horror: Let’s Play Planning Poker!Planning Poker looks fun. The brief look at the latest FogBugz estimation feature reminded me that I need to sign-up for the hosted version. Supposedly free for ISVs of up to two people.(tags: programming estimation agile weblog )

Links for 2007-10-10 [del.icio.us]

Talking Points Memo(tags: politics news liberal blog )

Links for 2007-10-04 [del.icio.us]

Digital Web Magazine – Client Side Load Balancing for Web 2.0 ApplicationsA very cool use of Amazon EC2, S3, and client-side scripting to load balance a Web application. This kind of distributed architecture really is the future of Web-scale application development.(tags: programming scalability web2.0 ajax amazon architecture weblog ) blog.pmarca.com: The three kinds of platforms [...]

Links for 2007-10-03 [del.icio.us]

Sam Harris: OnFaith on washingtonpost.com“We should not call ourselves anything. We should go under the radar?for the rest of our lives. And while there, we should be decent, responsible people who destroy bad ideas wherever we find them.”(tags: religion atheism philosophy samharris weblog ) Coding Horror: Software Branching and Parallel UniversesI don’t do much branching [...]

Links for 2007-10-02 [del.icio.us]

How to Change the World: Financial Models for Underachievers: Two Years of the Real Numbers of a StartupReal numbers on what it costs to run a startup from Redfin’s first two years in operation.(tags: business startup finance money weblog )

More Stupid TSA Antics

First it was shoes, then the War on Moisture, now even children’s toys are a threat to our national security: Citing “credible specific information” about terror tactics, Transportation Security Administration officers nationwide on Monday stepped up their scrutiny of passengers carrying remote-control toys aboard airplanes. The move was not motivated by a specific terror plot, [...]