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<p>Zed Shaw shares his reasoning for not doing tech startup in NYC.</p> <p>He is currently <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/about" target="_blank">working for Dropbox</a> as Python programmer. He is famous for building <a href="http://mongrel.rubyforge.org/" target="_blank">Mongrel</a> web server and even more famous for his blog posts.</p>

<p>Aerial view of unsold cars</p> <p><img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kxPG6y8Qctk/S0t6Ie8SCZI/AAAAAAAATuU/jo5YpxZx9lI/s800/corbycars.jpg" alt="" /></p> <p><img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_kxPG6y8Qctk/S0t56huXk9I/AAAAAAAATtk/zc4X64MxyiM/s800/peugeotcars.jpg" alt="" /></p> <p>&nbsp;<img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kxPG6y8Qctk/S0t5rFPjHZI/AAAAAAAATtM/uftzCxz64N4/s800/toyotacars.jpg" alt="" /></p>

<p>Google finally had enough. They no longer want to continue censoring google.cn</p> <p>Furthermore, they are tired of cyber attacks targeting human right activists.</p>

<p>Here is a list of high quality open source games you can play on OS X:</p> <ul> <li><a href="http://assault.cubers.net/" target="_blank">AssaultCube</a></li> <li><a href="http://glest.org/en/downloads.php" target="_blank">Glest</a> (OS X version is <a href="http://ciderhouse.opal.ne.jp/wp/english/glest" target="_blank">here</a>)</li> <li><a href="http://source.bungie.org/get/" target="_blank">Marathon</a>, by Bungie</li> </ul> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>Sources:</strong></p> <ul> <li><a href="http://apcmag.com/top_5_best_free_open_source_games.htm" target="_blank">http://apcmag.com/top_5_best_free_open_source_games.htm</a></li> <li><a href="http://open-tube.com/12-free-open-source-games-that-you-do-not-want-to-miss" target="_blank">http://open-tube.com/12-free-open-source-games-that-you-do-not-want-to-miss</a></li> <li><a href="http://open-tube.com/30-open-source-games-great-game-play-graphics-and-more-for-free" target="_blank">http://open-tube.com/30-open-source-games-great-game-play-graphics-and-more-for-free</a></li> <li><a href="http://open-tube.com/six-open-source-city-building-simulation-games-that-you-must-know" target="_blank">http://open-tube.com/six-open-source-city-building-simulation-games-that-you-must-know</a></li> </ul> <p>&nbsp;</p>

<p><a href="http://www.myphpetc.com/2009/11/jquery-weather-widget.html" target="_blank">This site</a> describes how to roll your own weather widget.</p> <p>The first part of the script is making RPC call to obtains longitude and latitude coordinates.</p> <p>While the last part of the script is making RPC calls to acquire weather information.</p> <p><strong>Web Services used:</strong></p> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.geoplugin.com/" target="_blank">geoPlugin</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.geonames.org/export/JSON-webservices.html#weatherJSON" target="_blank">geonames</a></li> </ul>

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<p><a href="http://browsermob.com/performance-testing" target="_blank">browsermob.com</a> is Portland, OR web startup that offers website measurement and load testing for FREE.</p> <p>They also provide premium plans for much more thorough load and monitoring tasks.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Visit this <a href="http://browsermob.com/instant-website-test" target="_blank">link</a> (http://browsermob.com/instant-website-test) to test the performance of your website for free.</p>

<p>Top 10 monospace fonts. I agree with the number 1 choice: <a href="http://www.levien.com/type/myfonts/inconsolata.html" target="_blank">Inconsolata</a>.</p>

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<p>Underscore.js gives you a lot of functional construct one expects from programming languages such as Python or Ruby.</p>

<p>First of, Dropbox is AWESOME! I'm using it for personal backup. Their product is simple and to the point.</p> <p>For my educational purpose, I wonder if I could create a clone of dropbox. From simplistic perspective, dropbox is rsync + file monitor with web GUI (of course that's over simplification).</p> <p>Quick google search is always wise to do and indeed <a href="http://fak3r.com/2009/09/14/howto-build-your-own-open-source-dropbox-clone/" target="_blank">someone</a> has already attempted.</p> <p>Let's see if I can learn from it and test it myself. I'll continue to publish my finding in this post.</p> <p><strong>Needed components are:</strong></p> <ul> <li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inotify" target="_blank">inotify</a> and <a href="http://trac.dbzteam.org/pyinotify" target="_blank">pyinotify</a></li> <li><a href="http://code.google.com/p/lsyncd/" target="_blank">lsyncd</a></li> <li>kqueue (OS X) <a href="http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man2/kqueue.2.html" target="_blank">[1]</a><a href="http://www.madison-gurkha.com/publications/kqueue/" target="_blank">[2]</a><a href="http://www.freebsdsoftware.org/devel/py-kqueue.html" target="_blank">[3]</a></li> </ul> <p><strong>DVCS Alternative:</strong></p> <p>Obviously, this problem is solvable using Git or Mercurial.</p> <p>One big drawback is, user have to perform add/commit/push commands because lsyncd won't perform those commands. This is not a big deal because I can have a daemon that use <a href="http://pyinotify.sourceforge.net/" target="_blank">pyinotify</a>.</p> <p>Should I use git for large binary files such as video clips or large images? I don't think so.</p> <p><strong>Resources:</strong></p> <ul> <li><a href="http://fak3r.com/2009/09/14/howto-build-your-own-open-source-dropbox-clone/">http://fak3r.com/2009/09/14/howto-build-your-own-open-source-dropbox-clone/</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/9ol1j/howto_create_your_own_dropbox_clone/" target="_blank">http://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/9ol1j/howto_create_your_own_dropbox_clone/</a></li> <li>How to <a href="http://code.activestate.com/recipes/156178/" target="_blank">watch directory in win32</a></li> <li><a href="http://pyinotify.sourceforge.net/" target="_blank">pyinotify</a> (there or <a href="http://trac.dbzteam.org/pyinotify" target="_blank">here</a>)</li> </ul>

<p>Here are list of blogs that gave tutorial on how to setup remote backups:</p> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.howtoforge.com/linux_rdiff_backup" target="_blank">http://www.howtoforge.com/linux_rdiff_backup</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.ubuntugeek.com/backup-ubuntu-using-rdiff-backup.html" target="_blank">http://www.ubuntugeek.com/backup-ubuntu-using-rdiff-backup.html</a></li> <li><a href="http://vegard.hammerseth.com/2009/02/backup-your-data-with-cron-rsync-and-lftp/" target="_blank">http://vegard.hammerseth.com/2009/02/backup-your-data-with-cron-rsync-and-lftp/</a></li> <li><a href="http://howtoforge.org/rsync_incremental_snapshot_backups" target="_blank">http://howtoforge.org/rsync_incremental_snapshot_backups</a></li> <li><a href="http://howtoforge.org/automated-backups-using-dhcpd-on-ubuntu" target="_blank">http://howtoforge.org/automated-backups-using-dhcpd-on-ubuntu</a></li> </ul> <p><strong>Resources:</strong></p> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.nongnu.org/rdiff-backup/" target="_blank">http://www.nongnu.org/rdiff-backup/</a></li> <li><a href="http://rsnapshot.org/" target="_blank">http://rsnapshot.org/</a></li> </ul>

<p>Fantastic write up about how to write NGINX modules.</p>

<p>Dropbox uses a number of open source technology, known ones are:</p> <p><em>rsync, zlib, the bz2-lib, SDL, libfreetype, openssl, sqllite</em></p> <p><strong>References:</strong></p> <ul> <li><a href="http://blog.hacker.dk/2008/10/dropbox-is-not-open-source/?reffed=1">http://blog.hacker.dk/2008/10/dropbox-is-not-open-source/?reffed=1</a></li> </ul> <p><strong>Side note:</strong></p> <p><a href="http://tdrusk.blogspot.com/2009/03/dropbox-with-rsync-my-simple-script-to.html">This blog</a> describe how to use rsync to keep files up to date on dropbox folder.</p>

<p>99designs is website that connect clients and designers.</p> <p>Even though I'm not shopping for designs, I like browsing on their popular designs, many of them are great!</p> <p>Take a look at these for example:</p> <ul> <li>http://99designs.com/contests/27576/designers/247728#design-2595069</li> <li>http://99designs.com/contests/28293/designers/223147#design-2668150</li> <li>http://99designs.com/contests/28182</li> </ul>