bufferapp.com – schedule social media posts
I learned about bufferapp.com this week – finally a way to not overload Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, etc with posts – and put them in relevant venues easily. Thanks, Passive Panda.
Category: technical
haiku mirror
I am now running an official Haiku mirror: haiku.datente.com. Alpha 4.1 has been released, and you can get a copy from any of the mirrors.
establishing a data haven cloud
In Neal Stephenson’s seminal book, Cryptonomicon, he describes the creation of a “data haven” in the fictional Sultanate of Kinakuta. Why has no-one started building such a service (or, at least not in a public way) on existing cloud services (eg AWS or Rackspace) and/or create their own global network? Data backup and replication is not…
next bglug meeting – 25 oct at 1900 (7p) – @collexion hackerspace
Topic is yet TBD – but the time and place are set: 25 Oct 1900 Collexion hackerspace Come join us!
mirror status – m0n0wall
The locale needs to be updated (from Philadelphia to Germany), but I have been reinstated as a m0n0wall mirror. I noticed that downloads had dropped-off over the past few months, and after contacting Manuel Kasper (the creator/maintainer of m0n0wall), found out that the mirror script he runs to maintain an active list had dropped me…
thoughts on vilt
Over the years, I have taken (and given) a lot of training. I’ve had self-paced tutorials (printed and electronic), in-person lectures, hand-on labs, small groups, formal classes, one-on-one tutoring, and virtual instructor led training (VILT). I’ve seen two distinct types of VILT – good and bad. I have yet to see any “ok” training. It’s…
restful webservices
My friend Steven recently wrote about linguistics in webservices. In it he postulates that since all “good code” should resemble speech, webservices should use linguistically-tied approaches to their APIs. In short, it’s an article on RESTful websites being used in a linguistically-understandable way. For example: http://searchengine.com/search/keyword1/keyword2/not:keyword3 should run your query against the search engine, so…