links for 2009-05-10
Posted at 11:01pm on Sunday, May 10th, 2009 by Andy-
Worked for me
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There's no escaping the fact that I do love a bit of quantitative self-analysis
Archive for May, 2009
links for 2009-05-08
Posted at 11:01pm on Friday, May 8th, 2009 by Andy-
Latest version of Tower Defense. Not sure I actually wanted to find this… There goes my weekend.
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Having recently seen the flipside to this story, a tech startup with badly designed fraud mitigation building up huge losses very quickly (not one of ours, I hasten to add) it's no surprise that the payment providers are taking efforts to protect themselves from potential losses. Not giving you the money until the customer has had time to refute their purchase is the only way to safely do it, I guess.
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Rather lovely strangely retro feeling prints/posters
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OEM hits Brand Republic.
links for 2009-05-07
Posted at 11:00pm on Thursday, May 7th, 2009 by Andy-
Forkd gets a very nice mention in this review of the state of play in food online.
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Online conversion from bitmap to SVG. Reputedly better results than doing it in Inkscape
links for 2009-05-06
Posted at 11:01pm on Wednesday, May 6th, 2009 by Andy-
Nagios has been forked, ostensibly due to slow uptake of user patches and poor support of the developer community. First stable release in October.
links for 2009-05-05
Posted at 11:00pm on Tuesday, May 5th, 2009 by Andy-
Howies are launching www.teepay.com. Upload your design and market it as you see fit. If orders reach 50 Howies will print it out and ship it on your behalf, paying a royalty to you. Nice idea, if in an already cluttered space. The overall quality of their product may well enable them to win out, but their shirts are expensive too.
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Consistent hashing in Python. Adding or removing slots does not significantly change the mapping of keys to slots. Which is nice
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ReSTful toolkit for Django. Given Django's inherently weak traversal mechanism this might well take away the pain of implementing ReST services from scratch.
links for 2009-05-03
Posted at 11:00pm on Sunday, May 3rd, 2009 by Andy-
Use arduino to automate such things as watering your plants
links for 2009-05-01
Posted at 11:00pm on Friday, May 1st, 2009 by Andy-
I hate PHP almost as much as I hate National Express and Open Office combined, but this looks really very cool. Social network platform built on top of WordPress MU.
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