Author: Marc

links for 2006-11-17

BoardFirst - Tired of waiting in line? You no longer have to wait at your computer exactly 24 hours before your flight to beat the crowd for an "A" group boarding pass. Instead for just $5 you can relax, knowing you will be the...

General

PS3 can be hazardous to your health

Listen up, kiddies. I'm sure the PS3 is pretty cool, but it's not worth a trip to the hospital: PlayStation 3 hopeful buyer injured trying to buy console in Wisconsin...

Programming

So many web frameworks

So many web frameworks these days: Ruby on Rails (Ruby) Django (Python) TurboGears (Python) Zope (Python) CakePHP (PHP) Struts (Java) Seaside (Smalltalk) UnCommon Web Framework (Common Lisp) ErlyWeb (Erlang) Ocsigen (OCaml) A...

ProgrammingPythonRuby

Django vs. Rails

I just finished going through a Django tutorial. My first impression is that Django is perhaps a little trickier to get going than Ruby on Rails (though this probably becomes immaterial once you get accustomed to it). The thing...

MusicProgrammingWindows

Released Export2Excel 1.0.1 for Yahoo! Music Jukebox

I released a new version of my Export2Excel plugin for the Yahoo! Music Jukebox. Here are the changes: Screenshots Release notes 1.0.1 Fixed swapped column headings and rearranged columns. Added ability to dump the...

LinuxProgramming

SGI Open Source Project List

Chris pointed out to me that SGI has a lot of interesting Linux-related open-source projects. Check it out at: SGI Open Source Project List

General

SMART (Smart Monitoring And Rebooting Tool)

I just read about SMART (Smart Monitoring And Rebooting Tool) in a Linux magazine recently so I tinkered with it a bit. It's a system monitoring tool, kind of like Nagios, but much, much simpler (no Web UI, no flap detection,...