Today I got a nice surprise when I got home, my Ubuntu 7.04 CDs requested from Canonical using the Shipit service where in the mail
Why does this deserve a post? because I like to measure the time things spend in the twiligth zone before arriving at my home from other countries (Like this post). This time I requested the CD’s on May 08, and arrived on May 30, so the envelope were 3 weeks in transit from the Europe to Mexico city.
Recently a trend about enabling web apps to be used offline started to emerge and a few companies announced their solutions: Dojo Offline Toolkit, Joyent Slingshot, Zimbra desktop and even Firefox 3.
Today Google released the beta of Google Gears. A browser plugin (700K) and API that enables developers to create web applications that can be used offline and provides 3 components to do this
The plugin is available for Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari and Opera on Windows, Mac and Linux.
Wow, I want to try this, the only concern is how to avoid a broken neck.
I found this meme in 120% Linux
Basically this is to see which commands are used most by Linux users
This is my top 10:
112 cd
96 ls
48 sudo
43 ssh
21 ping
16 scp
16 mkdir
13 nano
13 mongrel_rails
10 svn
The code to get this is:
history | awk ‘{print $2}’ | awk ‘BEGIN {FS=”|”} {print $1}’ | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn | head -10
Just a couple of links I found interesting:
When to start a Start-up – Article comparing the age of the founders of different web companies when they started.
How to measure a blog network – In quantity of blogs or the quality of the blogs?
Recently I was talking (well, it was a chat) with a friend about the content of my blog which is primarily in Spanish and he was asking if there is a plugin or something to translate the content to English. I got interested in finding a way to implement a multilanguage blog, the easiest way in the technical side would have been to create another blog in a subdomain or other domain and start doing it in English but that implied maintaining 2 separate sites and I want a single database and upload images or files just to one location.
Since this blog is powered by Mephisto the solution had to be written in ruby and one of the benefits or the Ruby language is that is really easy to implement solutions to most of the things you want or need and if you add to that the community of Rails developers you get the equivalent of the support that WordPress has, in the sense that almost everything you need in a blog is already done or is being developed by someone who has the same need as you.
I read on Kirai about this competition for clicks from diferent countries.
I found a few surprises in the ranking and obviously the last places are the less developed countries.
Looking for a way to spend 10 minutes before leaving the office I found on Digg this game called VR Defender Y3k, which is a variation of the Tower defense game type.
You are a sysadmin with low resources and have to defend your servers against attacks, for each virus or whatever destroyed before reaching your firewall ou get the points needed to improve your defenses, and so on.
Smashing Magazine has another of their interesting articles, this time is about CSS Float Theory: Things You Should Know
Besides this article, you can find in that site font recommendations, designs galleries, guides and tutorials of many techniques (tabs, grids, etc…), logos and icons galleries usefull to find inspiration, etc…
Analizing statistical data to get trends, projections, relations, etc… is interesting and most of the time is better to see a visual representation to comprehend the relationships and get relevant data.
In Visualcomplexity.com I found this image from a study called Data visualisation of a social network made by Felix Heinen as a final project in Information design.
This image shows a perspective of the users geographic location to provide another way to see information instead of a plain database listing.