March 2011
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My new blog! →
February 2010
2 posts
Facebook releases HipHop to PHP as open source
Facebook announced that they are going to release their PHP to C++ source code transformer, called HipHop as open source. The article describes some amazing things like “With HipHop we’ve reduced the CPU usage on our Web servers on average by about fifty percent, depending on the page.”
Something strange about the part where they describe the reason behind the development of...
January 2010
2 posts
Interesting read about testing and TDD
The book Ruby best practices is going to be given away for free. A new chapter is going to be published every friday on the web site
The first chapter Driving Code Through Tests unit testing and Test-Driven Development. It has very nice examples that are very readable but not too trivial. If you don’t consider yourself a TDD-guru, I suggest reading it. Even if you’re not a Ruby...
“we did have a master password at one point where you could type in any user’s...”
– Anonymous Facebook employee
December 2009
2 posts
“While you’re busy poppin’ stacks I’ll pop a cap in your skull/...”
– Monzy - So Much Drama in the PhD
November 2009
2 posts
WatchJordan Mechners Prince of Persia journals
Spotify for Symbian, finally →
October 2009
1 post
Spotify Goes Offline
Spotifys offline mode is now available on computers. If you’re not a premium subscriber yet, cough up the 9,99€ in order to get access to 3 333 tracks while offline. Spotify Blog
September 2009
2 posts
Damn you, Kanye! →
Happy programmer day! →
Now official holiday in Russia.
August 2009
2 posts
“Death Star
An unshielded exhaust port leading directly to the central reactor?...”
– John Scalzi’s Guide to the Most Epic FAILs in Star Wars Design
July 2009
2 posts
Maemo switches to Qt →
Seems that Nokia is really pushing Qt to all of their platforms.
June 2009
4 posts
“The “uberman” method has six naps and no core sleep. Amazingly, you can function...”
– How To Hack Your Brain, Part 1: Sleep
“Unfortunately, the single delete query proved to be far more than MegaPetCo...”
– Death by Delete - The Daily WTF
“Simplicity is beautiful. Simple doesn’t mean hard-coding, it doesn’t mean...”
– Rob Conery
Twitpocalypse →
The Twitpocalypse is similar to the Y2K bug. Very soon the unique identifier associated to each tweet will exceed 2,147,483,647(the limit of a signed integer)
April 2009
7 posts
Oracle to buy Sun →
One can wonder how this will affect MySQL.
10 Reasons why PHP is Still Better than Ruby ;-) →
Supposed to be funny, but not necessarily something I’d put on company’s site. Especially if the they’re trying to sell PHP work also.
Java on App Engine →
Google launches Java support for App Engine
WatchA visit to id software, 1993
“By mid-2008, one of these Ruby message queues completely crashed and developers...”
– Twitter jilts Ruby for Scala
March 2009
3 posts
“Sometimes, when people say this:
The source code is freely available. If...”
– Jeff Atwood Coding Horror
Apple’s iPhone App Refund Policies Could Bankrupt... →
iPhone-sovelluskehittäjät saavat 70% sovelluksen myyntihinnasta, mutta joutuvat palauttamaan 100%, jos asiakas haluaa rahansa takaisin.
February 2009
1 post
Stora Enso myy Summan tehdaskiinteistön Googlelle →
“Stora Enso myy Haminassa sijaitsevan Summan tehdaskiinteistönsä Googlelle. Kaupan arvo on 40 miljoonaa euroa, paperijätti ilmoitti torstaina.”
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December 2008
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October 2008
2 posts
September 2008
2 posts
August 2008
1 post
July 2008
4 posts
Facebook's Misrepresentation of Beacon's Threat to... →
Facebook, strike two!
June 2008
2 posts
May 2008
2 posts
April 2008
4 posts
“Windows 7 takes a different approach to the componentization and backwards...”
– thebetaguy - Microsoft Windows 7 Exclusive
March 2008
12 posts
