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Bookmarks for January 25th through January 27th

by Ron Bieber on Tuesday, January 27, 2009

  • Best Buy seeks to expand its reach online – "Now, Web-application developers can access product images, pricing and customer reviews, incorporating them in websites and blogs to provide a richer experience for their audience. "
  • Grainger and Mike Rowe Kick off Partnership, Reinforce Shared Commitment to Skilled Workforce of Tomorrow – "This week Grainger (NYSE: GWW), North America's leading distributor of facilities maintenance supplies, kicked off a partnership with Mike Rowe, creator, executive producer and host of Discovery Channel's "Dirty Jobs." In his role as a Grainger spokesperson, Rowe will be featured on the cover of the company's 2009 catalog and make several appearances on behalf of the company. Rowe is also partnering with Grainger in raising awareness about the importance of technical education and the growing shortage of skilled workers."
  • 37 Signals – Git Resources – "

    Git, though remarkably handy and powerful, is also remarkably hard to use sometimes. Though you can learn the basics easily enough, it can be really tough to dig yourself out of certain corners if you don’t understand what’s going on under the covers. This page provides links to documents, how-tos, cheat sheets, tips, and tricks related to learning and using git."

  • Paul Dowman » Blog Archive » How to convert from Subversion to Git – Converting from Subversion to git, and creating tags from the remote branches that signify tags in Subversion
  • Sphinx – Free open-source SQL full-text search engine – "Sphinx is a full-text search engine, distributed under GPL version 2. Commercial license is also available for embedded use. Generally, it's a standalone search engine, meant to provide fast, size-efficient and relevant fulltext search functions to other applications. Sphinx was specially designed to integrate well with SQL databases and scripting languages. Currently built-in data sources support fetching data either via direct connection to MySQL or PostgreSQL, or using XML pipe mechanism (a pipe to indexer in special XML-based format which Sphinx recognizes). "
  • Planet Git – "PlanetGit is a website that aggregates journal entries from several authors related to Git."

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Bookmarks for December 23rd through January 3rd

January 3, 2009

Linux in 2009: Recession vs. GNU – "The general agreement among experts is that not only is FOSS well-equipped to face the recession of 2009, but that those who adopt it will be better off when the hard times are over."
SBC-DSL + router = dropped connections – dslreports.com – Post around DSL connection drops – [...]

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Bookmarks for November 24th through November 29th

November 29, 2008

jQuery: The Write Less, Do More, JavaScript Library – Download for the jQuery javascript libraries.
To-Do’s Made Simple – Another review of CulturedCodes 'Things' To Do list manager.
iPhone Linux Demonstration Video on Vimeo – Video demonstrating Linux booting on the iPhone.
The Mac Security Blog » Post Topic » Apple Recommends Antivirus Software – "Apple has issued [...]

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Bookmarks for October 22nd through October 23rd

October 23, 2008

Internet Evolution – Andrew Keen – Economy to Give Open-Source a Good Thumping – "One of the very few positive consequences of the current financial miasma will be a sharp cultural shift in our attitude toward the economic value of our labor. Mass unemployment and a deep economic recession comprise the most effective antidote to [...]

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Bookmarks for October 20th

October 21, 2008

10 Helpful Resources for Cross Browser Testing – "In this post we’ll take a brief look at 10 of the leading resources for making your browser testing less time consuming and more productive."
Google Calendar CalDAV support – Calendar Help Center – Synchronizing iCal and Google Calendar. Looked this up after Tom The [...]

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Bookmarks for September 3rd

September 3, 2008

Shalla Secure Services – "Shalla's Blacklists is a collection of URL lists grouped into several categories intended for the usage with URL filters like SquidGuard or Dansguardian. But the usage is not limited to this. Some people use the lists to include them (that is parts of them) into their Squid installation without using a [...]

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