--- title: links for 2008-01-11 date: 2008-01-11T05:24:18Z modified: 2008-01-11T05:24:18Z permalink: "https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2008/01/10/links-for-2008-01-11/" type: post status: publish excerpt: "" wpid: 1910 categories: - Uncategorized timestamp: 2008-01-11T05:24:18Z tags: - Uncategorized --- - [KOKOGIAK – 2008 (and 40)](http://www.kokogiak.com/gedankengang/2008/01/2008-and-40.html) happy birthday to Alan, and best of luck in finding the balance. it’s a tough trick to turn. (tags: [alantaylor](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/alantaylor) [birthday](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/birthday) [balance](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/balance) [stories](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/stories)) - [Simplifying Web Framework Deployment on Shared Hosting](http://tomayko.com/weblog/2008/01/10/web-frameworks-and-shared-hosting) an important question, given the role of shared hosts as a gateway to ubiquity, although b/twn virtualization and HaaS, it may become less so over time (tags: [deployment](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/deployment) [hosting](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/hosting) [web](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/web) [frameworks](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/frameworks) [ruby](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/ruby) [rails](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/rails) [python](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/python)) - [OSAF 2.0 and Me at Ted Leung on the Air](http://www.sauria.com/blog/2008/01/10/osaf-20-and-me/) Ted’s looking. if you’re smart, you’ll look back. (tags: [tedleung](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/tedleung) [osaf](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/osaf) [hiring](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/hiring) [opensource](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/opensource) [community](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/community) [java](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/java) [python](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/python)) - [List Of The Day: Great Olan Mills photos](http://listoftheday.blogspot.com/2007/09/great-olan-mills-photos.html) one of the funnier things i’ve seen in a long, long time. absolutely hilarious. (tags: [humor](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/humor) [fashion](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/fashion) [culture](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/culture) [america](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/america) [olanmills](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/olanmills) [pictures](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/pictures) [via:sara](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/via:sara)) - [FiveRuns Blog | On Rails production performance and monitoring](http://blog.fiveruns.com/2007/12/19/ads-spawns-mantis-to-manage-ec2-deployments) interesting. managing Rails managed on EC2 instances. (tags: [fiveruns](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/fiveruns) [ec2](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/ec2) [rails](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/rails) [systemsmanagement](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/systemsmanagement) [via:cote](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/via:cote)) - [SQLite Manager :: Firefox Add-ons](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5817) eenteresting…SQLite browswer, again via Firefox. (tags: [administration](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/administration) [sqlite](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/sqlite) [firefox](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/firefox) [extensions](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/extensions) [databases](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/databases) [via:john](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/via:john)) - [google-feedserver – Google Code](http://code.google.com/p/google-feedserver/) “The Google FeedServer is an open-source Atom Publishing provider based on the Abdera Framework.” – cool (tags: [google](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/google) [abdera](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/abdera) [app](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/app) [feedserver](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/feedserver) [atom](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/atom) [via:james](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/via:james)) - [Seth’s Blog: Music lessons](http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2008/01/music-lessons.html) two words: a. men. why the music business thinks they deserve to continue business as they have previously is absolutely beyond me. as my Mom told us growing up, the “world doesn’t owe you a living.” (tags: [music](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/music) [business](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/business) [sethgodin](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/sethgodin) [riaa](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/riaa) [digital](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/digital) [economics](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/economics) [disruption](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/disruption) [via:matt](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/via:matt)) - [User denied iPhone warranty service for custom ringtone – iPhone Atlas](http://www.iphoneatlas.com/2008/01/09/user-denied-iphone-warranty-service-for-custom-ringtone/) if this is true, it’s ridiculous. if it happens to me, i’ll go absolutely beserk. this is the kind of thing that kills my impression of Apple. (tags: [apple](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/apple) [iphone](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/iphone) [warranty](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/warranty) [support](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/support) [ringtones](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/ringtones) [modifications](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/modifications)) - [GnomeDo – Ubuntu Wiki](https://wiki.ubuntu.com/GnomeDo) trying to get this to work, as Alex and other OS X advocates rave about the productivity boost that comes from Quicksilver and related apps. can’t get the key bindings to work, though. odd . (tags: [gnome](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/gnome) [keyboard](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/keyboard) [linux](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/linux) [productivity](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/productivity) [quicksilver](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/quicksilver) [tool](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/tool) [ubuntu](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/ubuntu) [launcher](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/launcher) [via:miguel](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/via:miguel)) - [Sync your iPhone with Ubuntu Linux – iPhone Atlas](http://www.iphoneatlas.com/2008/01/07/sync-your-iphone-with-ubuntu-linux/) still not sure i want to jailbreak my phone, but cool. thanks much to Raven for sending it over. (tags: [iphone](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/iphone) [linux](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/linux) [ubuntu](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/ubuntu) [jailbreak](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/jailbreak) [sync](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/sync) [via:raven](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/via:raven)) - [Cohesive Flexible Technologies – Elastic Server Info](http://www.cohesiveft.com/Elastic_Server/Main/Elastic_Server_Info/) another cloud management third party. some of these folks will eventually be snapped up. (tags: [amazon](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/amazon) [ec2](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/ec2) [hosting](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/hosting) [server](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/server) [virtualization](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/virtualization) [management](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/management)) - [:: scan.coverity.com : Accelerating Open Source Quality ::](http://scan.coverity.com/faq.html) security scanning of public open source assets (tags: [security](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/security) [scanning](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/scanning) [coverity](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/coverity) [opensource](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/opensource)) - [Damien Katz: FAQ about CouchDB and it’s new IBM overlords](http://damienkatz.net/2008/01/faq_about_couch.html) couple of interesting tidbits in here (tags: [couchdb](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/couchdb) [database](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/database) [erlang](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/erlang) [faq](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/faq) [ibm](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/ibm) [apache](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/apache)) - [Google Reveals New MapReduce Stats](http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2008/01/google-reveals-more-mapreduce-stats.html) just what it says (tags: [google](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/google) [mapreduce](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/mapreduce) [performance](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/performance) [scalability](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/scalability) [data](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/data) [volume](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/volume)) - [The problem with open source design | FactoryCity](http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2008/01/03/the-problem-with-open-source-design/) i’ve seen this, or variations of it, made for some time. and while i don’t fully buy the argument, there’s truth to it and the evidence does support the case. (tags: [collaboration](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/collaboration) [design](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/design) [development](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/development) [opensource](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/opensource) [ui](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/ui) [feedback](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/feedback))