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About Benjamin Stein
Hi, my name is Ben and I'm the co-founder and CTO of Mobile Commons in New York City. This is my professional tumblelog. Expect to find lots of writing about open source, Ruby, mobile technology, and the like.
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Here’s what I heard: puppet, chef, moonshine, cap, cloud, fog, plover, rake, cat. It sounds like you were talking about the Muppet Show.
My wife, after watching my talk on Server Configuration Management with Ruby
A UDP packet walks into a bar.
The bartender doesn’t acknowledge him.
(Source: fuckyeahcomputerscience, via ted-is-a-nerd)
Web developers: Chrome’s Speed Tracer is the shizzle. It’s like Firebug but lets you record and tells you things like how long each request spends with SSL handshake and DNS lookup, and Javascript interpreter blocking.
Requires a developer build of Chrome, but you should probably be using that anyway, if you’re reading this blog.
Google Search: android hotspot simultaneous
For those of you who thought claims of Google being overrun with spam were overstated: 7 of the top 10 results for “android hotspot simultaneous” are splogs about Verizon iPhone.
The Significant Decline of Spam - Slashdot
According to Commtouch, the world saw an 18% drop in spam in October, most likely due to the closure of Spamit, an organization behind a huge percentage of the world’s spam.
The article doesn’t have too much more to say about it, but I was shocked that spam was actually decreasing, and by a huge percentage.
Mobile Commons is Hiring!
Mobile Commons is hiring Rails Application Developers (all skill levels) and a Senior Dev/Ops Systems Engineer in Brooklyn, New York (DUMBO).
ABOUT YOU: You’re an awesome programmer & technologist. You know what ORM is, how to use it, and have strong opinions about it. If I told you that I just finished a side project using data.gov, node.js, and Arduino you’d be really interested to see it. You’ve made something scale. You’ve clustered something. You’ve consumed a web service. You have a favorite distro. And a favorite data structure.
ABOUT US: Mobile Commons work with some of the largest non-profit organizations in the world, helping them to spread information and mobilize their bases – as well as providing enormous brands the tech muscle to connect with consumers.
Want to work with the finest technology, awesome customers, and a great team? Read our delightfully cheesy jobs descriptions and drop me a note at ben@mcom.ms.
Are you clicking more ads with Google Instant?
SearchEngineLand has a post noting that clicks on sponsored links have gone up dramatically (5%) since Google launched Instant Search.
I know I’ve been clicking SIGNIFICANTLY more ads since Instant Seach was released. According to my Google Web History, I have clicked 5 ads since Sept 8, but just 4 ads for the previous 9 months in 2010.
Why the increase, you may ask? More impressions? More relevant ad content?
Nope. It’s because the Google Instant search results jump around the screen and I keep accidentally clicking the wrong links.
Boo-urns.
In a shocking move today, TextMate released its first update in 50 weeks.
I was obviously super excited at first, but as far as I can tell, the only change was to break a keyboard shortcut I rely on heavily: cmd-option-left and cmd-option-right for previous and next file tab.
Fortunately, as Allan point out in his blog post, it’s easily remedied. Just got to OS X System Preferences -> Keyboard -> Application Shortcuts. Click the + and add 2 shortcuts for TextMate. In the dialog box, enter the commands exactly, “Next File Tab” and “Previous File Tab”, as shown above.
Redirect ALL Output to a File
Every good little hacker knows you can redirect STDOUT to a file like so:
blah > out.log
And you can redirect STDERR to STDOUT to a file like so:
blah 2>&1 > out.log
But what I didn’t know and just learned, is that you can redirect EVERY output stream to a file at the same time like so:
blah &> out.log
Useful.
Euphemisms for Pair Programming
- Couples Computing
- Doubles Debugging
- Brogramming
Did I miss any?
