Archive for August, 2007



God… A Programmer

God
I got a kick out of that.

Flash Sucks
Honestly, I applaud the author of that article.  It had me laughing through all of it and you know what the best part is?  It’s all true.
Flash is one of the leading proprietary technologies today.  Yet, it’s that very word, “proprietary”, that makes it shitty and brings it downhill.
One of the issues that article [...]

Perl is Dead. Long live Perl.
If you’re a web developer who believes Perl is a thing of the past: read that essay.  If you’re a systems developer who doesn’t use Perl because you think it’s dying or dead: read that essay.
That essay puts into perspective just how thriving Perl still is and explains why [...]

Blueprint
“The wheel is invented. Gunpowder is plentiful.
Spend your time innovating, not replicating.
Presenting Blueprint, a CSS framework.”
Haha, I love that quote.
Blueprint is a CSS framework designed to help fasten your CSS development. It appears to be very easy to use and extremely comprehensive and complete. Upon looking through the quick tutorial it’s obvious this framework [...]

Top 5 Black Hat Hackers

Top 5 Black Hats
It’s funny how I found this just after I found Mitnick’s business card and made the post claiming him as one of the most famous hackers. This article happens to list him as number one.
I’m not really a fan of the term “black hat”; nor “grey hat” and “white hat”. [...]

Red Hat Global Desktop Linux - Delayed
So evidentially Red Hat believes it’s in the midst of creating an OS that will compete with Microsoft and perhaps put a new hand in the OS industry.
Red Hat is already a leading Linux flavor; one of the sole downsides in my opinion is it’s commercial. That’s what [...]

Mitnick’s Business Card
I got a kick out of this.  Mitnick’s business card is a punch-out lock picking kit.
For those that don’t know, Kevin Mitnick is one of the most famous hackers and a genious in social engineering.

Google Phone

Google Phone
Seems that Google is developing a cell phone. Linux software will be used (typical of Google, one of the reasons I love them haha). Should be interesting to see how this phone does on the market.