Link list for today

1. DeLong: The Current Situation (as of April 24, 2009)
2. China's Google Maps (zoom out for best effect) (edushi.com): 3D map site developed by Aladdin
3. How to build an iPhone application in 20 minutes
   

Ontime HK on newsstands

Feel kind of funny to see my Ontime HK iPhone App (link to iTunes AppStore) got mentioned on an iPhone free software application guide, commonly available on newsstands.





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Link list for today

1. When Offshoring Your Development Team Means Buying a Boat
2. Code Project: Build an Ncurses UI with Python: very very cool!!! ncurse in python!
3. Simple Python ctypes Example
4. Python Google Analytics Client: How to use it and how to help make it better
5. Corporate Blogs: It's The PageRank, Stupid
6. The Stock Market Story
7. Do It Yourself Biohacking
8. The Five Deadly Sins of Project Management
9. Tapestry for Nonbelievers
10. How to build an iPhone application in 20 minutes
11. PySmell: textmate/vim bundle for Python
    

Link list for today

1. Google Analytics API Launched!
2. Google O3D
3. jsPDF: client/server _Javascript_ PDF library
4. Open Font Library
5. Discovery Is The New Cocaine - Going Beyond Engagement
6. What I Wish I Had Known About Developing C/C++ From Linux Before I Started
7. Solidworks Student Design Kit
8. Wolfenstein 3D for iPhone
9. CouchDB: Perform like a pr0n star
10. PBS Launches Video Portal with Full-Length Programming
11. IceTV wins landmark case against Nine Network in High Court
12. GM DEFAULTS (GM)
13. BBC: Simulated brain closer to thought
14. Big Entertainment Wants to Party Like It's 1996
15. What San Francisco/Silicon Valley can learn from the Twittering company: Zappos
    

Link list for today

1. BoingBoing: Elizabeth Warren is frank and funny about the TARP trainwreck
2. The Bank Crisis is Over
3. Mashable: How To Log In with Applications that Use FB Connect or Twitter Sign In
4. SMTP Injection: one more thing to worry on rogue/badly written PHP scripts
5. Neat Vi Tricks: have been using vi for 10 years, still don't know man of these tricks
6. Flash Face Recogniton Drawer or DIY Flash Mask
7. Youtube Symphony: the video streaming quality is exceedingly good
   

Cool Forklift

From Y Combinator

Blondie girl on spammy sites

This girl seems to be everywhere on those dormant websites (which have expired or setup by spammers?). I think she's super cute, and she is everywhere.

Link list for today

1. Seth Godin: How to make money with SEO
2. IBM The rsync family: rsync tutorial. Good comparison with the GUIs.
   
3. Wired: PIN Crackers Nab Holy Grail of Bank Card Security
4. Potrace
5. ForeignPolicy: 10 easy steps to writing the scariest cyberwarfare article ever
6. Inside the precision hack
7. How to Spot Quality within Web Design: Examples & Tips
   
8. Paul Graham's The 10 Secrets of Selling Online
9. Autodesk to build AutoCAD for Mac
10. CNN Money: Warren Buffett takes charge: on BYD
    
11. Avoiding iPhone App Rejection From Apple: a tech support person from Apple advised me to not exceed 4.5 meg of data per 5 minutes of activities
12. Biggest porn site on the web YouPorn powered by Perl/Catalyst (top 50 in alexa) : via Reddit
    
    

PHP on App Engine

This is seriously crazy: PHP on App Engine, deployment using Caucho Resin.

To Nokia: your Symbian stuff sucks

Agree with Mike Rowehl on iPhone devotion blinds Silicon Valley app developers (not!).

Link list for today

1. Facebook Char Architecture: We chose to simulate the impact of many real users hitting many machines by means of a “dark launch” period in which Facebook pages would make connections to the chat servers, query for presence information and simulate message sends without a single UI element drawn on the page.
2. MIRAI株式会社
3. The Next Revolution and Alternate Storage Propositions
   

Busted! The sneaky moves of anti-social smartphone users: Renny Gleeson on TED.com

Link list for today

1. file2.ws: interesting one click content poster
   
2. NYTimes: Keeping up with being kept: interesting dating site business model
3. SDTimes: Someone Figured Out How to Step Up in VMware: scary stuff
4. Times: Get Rich Slow: Paul Graham's stuff is now mainstream. Good to see cheap startup idea beats out finding VC money.
5. How to recognise a good programmer
6. 42 Questions Every Freelancer Should Ask Their Clients
7. Sort Algorithm Animations: saw a similiar one back in Turbo Pascal 7.0!! Good to see a Flash version.
8. Sex, Lies, and Software Development
9. Django Best Practices
10. concept device: gps fitted inhalers
11. Rough Type: Google in the middle
12. 工聯會開班授facebook溝通技巧
13. Wired: Secret Law of Flying Could Inspire Better Robots
14. Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Tips
15. The Incredibly Shrinking Market Liquidity, Or The Upcoming Black Swan Of Black Swans : from Venture Chronicles and Phatdat
    

Ten principles for a Black Swan-proof world

Nassim Nicholas Taleb on Ten principles for a Black Swan-proof world.

Link list for today

1. The dark side of Dubai
2. How the Internet Got Its Rules: RFC story
3. Digibarn: Xerox Star 8010 Interfaces, high quality polaroids (1981)
4. Video: Django’s Adrian Holovaty Shows Off EveryBlock’s Guts

Discounted Visual Studio 2008 + MSDN Professional with a catch

Saw Microsoft Hong Kong's offer of VS2008 with MSDN Professional. The big catch is "Offer available through Microsoft Open Licensing Program only". One Google search away reveals that means "5 Microsoft Product licenses or a server license".

Link list for today

1. New da Vinci Robot Displays Your Internal Organs in 3D HD!
2. Man Burnt to Death by Exploding PC (direct link to the Times of India)
3. Nine Inch Nails made an iPhone app
4. Google Voice for iPhone and iPod Touch Coming Soon
5. A faint sound of applause
6. From Bubble to Depression?

Secured delete

尼位哥仔 mou 完監之後記住 dd 係最容易做 "secured delete"。

The Great Zero Challenge

Sun Microsystem's new corporate Strategy

From http://media.arstechnica.com/journals/microsoft.media/sunstrategy.gif

Link list for today

1. William K Black - Systematic Ponzi Scheme - "The best way to rob a bank is to run one" (pbs.org)
2. Dubai: How not to build a city
3. Chinese Social Networks ‘Virtually’ Out-Earn Facebook And MySpace: A Market Analysis
   
4. THE WAR NERD: THIS IS HOW THE CARRIERS WILL DIE (UPDATED VERSION): maybe that's why there's the giant Boeing 747 with laser
5. Sleep May Prepare You for Tomorrow by Dissolving Today’s Neural Connections
6. Web Site Makes Millions by Connecting Cheaters

Link list for today

1. Palm Pre at Web 2.0 Expo
2. Amazon Elastic MapReduce
3. Stanford Course On How To Build iPhone Apps Will Soon Be Available On The iPhone
4. GalleryView - A jQuery Content Gallery Plugin
5. Why Small Companies Will Win in This Economy
6. Reversing Tooth Decay
7. Design to Sell
8. Python on Tiny Embedded Wireless Devices with Synapse SNAP: upload script over the air?!

Link list for today

1. The Right Way to Make a Dropdown Menu
2. Sliding Boxes and Captions with jQuery
3. Dr. Rodgers' Testimony: High Technology Innovation: Free Markets or Government Subsidies?
4. Carpal Tunnel Syndrome exercises that really work
5. Google uncloaks once-secret server
6. Subprime millionaire
7. Frocessing
   

Silicon Graphics Declares Bankruptcy and Sells Itself For $25 Million

Quite a sad day to see SGI got sold.

Watch Starwars on Telnet

From Commandfu:

telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl

Link list for today

1. 黎三萬自白書: 人怕出名豬怕肥...
   
2. Can design save the newspaper? Jacek Utko on TED.com
3. The Oil Drum: Electric cars are coming to Europe
4. Engadget: China Unicom still not confirmed as Chinese iPhone provider: Chinese law banning WiFi use in mobile phones; and Unicom's insistence on installing its own software on the iPhone, including some sort of *gasp* non-iTunes media player
5. iPhone Pirating App Attacks Rival Pirate App Store: if my next iPhone app gets pirated, it would be a badge of honor...
6. Dell 24-inch monitor for $209
7. AirCoaster iPhone App Turns The Stock Market Into A Scary Ride