--- title: links for 2009-01-07 date: 2009-01-08T01:05:11Z modified: 2009-01-08T01:05:11Z permalink: "https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2009/01/07/links-for-2009-01-07/" type: post status: publish excerpt: "" wpid: 2645 categories: - Links timestamp: 2009-01-08T01:05:11Z tags: - Links --- - [First Mono-game hits the Apple AppStore – Miguel de Icaza](http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2009/Jan-06-1.html) Mono on the iPhone? very cool. congrats to Migel and crew. (tags: [iphone](http://delicious.com/sogrady/iphone) [blurst](http://delicious.com/sogrady/blurst) [raptorcopter](http://delicious.com/sogrady/raptorcopter) [mono](http://delicious.com/sogrady/mono)) - [Elijah’s Blog » Blog Archive » GNOME DVCS Survey results](http://blogs.gnome.org/newren/2009/01/03/gnome-dvcs-survey-results/) interesting results from looking at DVCS preferences w/in the GNOME community. git looks like the clear winner from here. (tags: [opensource](http://delicious.com/sogrady/opensource) [community](http://delicious.com/sogrady/community) [gnome](http://delicious.com/sogrady/gnome) [blog](http://delicious.com/sogrady/blog) [statistics](http://delicious.com/sogrady/statistics) [dscm](http://delicious.com/sogrady/dscm) [dvcs](http://delicious.com/sogrady/dvcs) [svn](http://delicious.com/sogrady/svn) [hg](http://delicious.com/sogrady/hg) [git](http://delicious.com/sogrady/git) [bzr](http://delicious.com/sogrady/bzr)) - [rc3.org — Blu-Ray versus downloads](http://rc3.org/2009/01/06/blu-ray-versus-downloads/) my comment from Rafe's blog: " i find the implicit assumption that quality – whether that’s defined as high-def or blu-ray – will inevitably trump convenience at least somewhat suspect. perhaps not incorrect, but at least worth questioning." (tags: [rafecolburn](http://delicious.com/sogrady/rafecolburn) [blu-ray](http://delicious.com/sogrady/blu-ray) [quality](http://delicious.com/sogrady/quality) [high-def](http://delicious.com/sogrady/high-def) [convenience](http://delicious.com/sogrady/convenience) [downloads](http://delicious.com/sogrady/downloads) [video](http://delicious.com/sogrady/video) [consumer](http://delicious.com/sogrady/consumer)) - [Q&A: Amazon CTO Werner Vogels — Chief of the Year — InformationWeek](http://www.informationweek.com/news/management/interviews/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=EQDO0IFI11XKYQSNDLPCKH0CJUNN2JVN?articleID=212501404&subSection=All+Stories&_requestid=15422) note in particular the very dispassionate and pragmatic response to the question of open source usage within Amazon (tags: [amazon](http://delicious.com/sogrady/amazon) [cto](http://delicious.com/sogrady/cto) [wernervogels](http://delicious.com/sogrady/wernervogels) [interview](http://delicious.com/sogrady/interview) [opensource](http://delicious.com/sogrady/opensource) [ec2](http://delicious.com/sogrady/ec2)) - [SmugBlog: Don MacAskill » Blog Archive » Great things afoot in the MySQL community](http://blogs.smugmug.com/don/2008/12/23/great-things-afoot-in-the-mysql-community/) more from those pushing the boundaries of MySQL (tags: [donmacaskill](http://delicious.com/sogrady/donmacaskill) [mysql](http://delicious.com/sogrady/mysql) [community](http://delicious.com/sogrady/community) [percona](http://delicious.com/sogrady/percona) [google](http://delicious.com/sogrady/google) [drizzle](http://delicious.com/sogrady/drizzle)) - [Safe as Milk » Blog Archive » Increasing Ecosystem Co-operation](http://blogs.gnome.org/bolsh/2008/12/20/increasing-ecosystem-co-operation/) i'm late with this, but a great piece by dneary (tags: [opensource](http://delicious.com/sogrady/opensource) [collaboration](http://delicious.com/sogrady/collaboration) [freesofware](http://delicious.com/sogrady/freesofware) [community](http://delicious.com/sogrady/community) [dneary](http://delicious.com/sogrady/dneary)) - [Law & Life: Silicon Valley » Top Ten Open Source Legal Developments: 2008](http://lawandlifesiliconvalley.com/blog/?p=134) very useful list from Mark (tags: [2008](http://delicious.com/sogrady/2008) [opensource](http://delicious.com/sogrady/opensource) [legal](http://delicious.com/sogrady/legal) [developments](http://delicious.com/sogrady/developments) [foss](http://delicious.com/sogrady/foss) [sco](http://delicious.com/sogrady/sco) [gpl](http://delicious.com/sogrady/gpl) [patents](http://delicious.com/sogrady/patents)) - [Flickr: Discussing Nikon d40x HDR in HDR](http://www.flickr.com/groups/hdr/discuss/72157604000271962/) good HDR instructions from this discussion (tags: [hdr](http://delicious.com/sogrady/hdr) [nikon](http://delicious.com/sogrady/nikon) [d40x](http://delicious.com/sogrady/d40x) [flickr](http://delicious.com/sogrady/flickr) [howto](http://delicious.com/sogrady/howto)) - [Roku Netflix box to stream Amazon content](http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/01/05/roku-netflix-box-to-stream-amazon-content/) this is awesome. i really need to get myself a Roku one of these days. anyone know how they are on 768 DSL? (tags: [amazon](http://delicious.com/sogrady/amazon) [tv](http://delicious.com/sogrady/tv) [streaming](http://delicious.com/sogrady/streaming) [netflix](http://delicious.com/sogrady/netflix) [roku](http://delicious.com/sogrady/roku)) - [Questions and Answers](http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.handhelds.openmoko.community/33625) an interesting look at the current state of OpenMoko, thanks to @segphault for the pointer. i applaud the ideals, but i can't say that i'm optimistic. (tags: [openmoko](http://delicious.com/sogrady/openmoko) [freerunner](http://delicious.com/sogrady/freerunner) [open](http://delicious.com/sogrady/open) [phone](http://delicious.com/sogrady/phone) [mobile](http://delicious.com/sogrady/mobile)) - [pmuellr: gpx and exif](http://pmuellr.blogspot.com/2009/01/gpx-and-exif.html) very cool. also, funny. (tags: [gps](http://delicious.com/sogrady/gps) [gpx](http://delicious.com/sogrady/gpx) [exif](http://delicious.com/sogrady/exif) [hacking](http://delicious.com/sogrady/hacking) [pmuellr](http://delicious.com/sogrady/pmuellr)) - [Don't Bet on Moore Saving Your Ass (by Jeremy Zawodny)](http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/010841.html) "no it won't" (tags: [jeremyzawodny](http://delicious.com/sogrady/jeremyzawodny) [dhh](http://delicious.com/sogrady/dhh) [performance](http://delicious.com/sogrady/performance) [scaling](http://delicious.com/sogrady/scaling) [sharding](http://delicious.com/sogrady/sharding) [moore'slaw](http://delicious.com/sogrady/moore%27slaw)) - [Mr. Moore gets to punt on sharding – (37signals)](http://www.37signals.com/svn/posts/1509-mr-moore-gets-to-punt-on-sharding) "don't shard – hardware will take care of it" (tags: [moore'slaw](http://delicious.com/sogrady/moore%27slaw) [dhh](http://delicious.com/sogrady/dhh) [performance](http://delicious.com/sogrady/performance) [scale](http://delicious.com/sogrady/scale) [sharding](http://delicious.com/sogrady/sharding))