Matthew Aslett wrote about how the proportion of projects released under GPL-like licenses appears to be declining, at least as far as various sets of figures go. But what does that actually mean? In absolute terms, GPL use has increased - an... 続きを読む
This story, like all incredibly successful hiring stories, includes bad puns, elaborate presentation-proposals and one of the cutest kittens you’ll ever see. No, seriously, you’ve never seen a résumé like this one. The backstory: After post... 続きを読む
About Introducing the newest Techfair event! Come hear industry leaders and visionaries talk about their own perspectives on various aspects of tech and innovation. We'll be raffling a Macbook Air and a 42" television - your expected value of... 続きを読む
After Path got caught secretly uploaded the iPhone user’s entire address book without user consent, I’m sure we all began to question if many of the other apps that we use do something similar. Privacy is a huge concern, specifically with s... 続きを読む
This might just be the sweetest Valentine’s Day story I’ve ever heard. It’s definitely the sweetest Valentine’s Day story I’ve ever written. Kaitlyn Trigger is a marketing director at Rally.org. She also happens to be Instagram co-founde... 続きを読む
袋1つで簡単10分さくほろクッキーのアレンジ。厚めに焼くとザクザクホロウマ。家にある材料でとっても簡単です。話題入感謝 続きを読む
A few weeks back, I blogged about python-charlie, a python lib to get at Boston MBTA data. I’ve since re-factored the code and mashed it up with “Super MBTA World”, by Adam Summerville of Circle Cat Games, a fantastic image of Boston’s pu... 続きを読む
As a teenager, I ran a small poetry and short story magazine. It had a suitably overwrought title, was lots of fun and put me in touch with a whole load of people who’ve influenced who I am today. One such person was Geoff Stevens who ran an... 続きを読む
As I mentioned in a recent post, gedit snippets can help you write code more quickly, and with fewer errors, than writing all of your code manually. Snippets work by expanding small chunks of text into complete combinations of code boilerplat... 続きを読む
Debian Security Advisory DSA-2406-1 icedove -- several vulnerabilities Date Reported: 09 Feb 2012 Affected Packages: icedove Vulnerable: Yes Security database references: In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2011-3670, CVE-2012-0442, CVE-2012-0444,... 続きを読む
Debian Security Advisory DSA-2407-1 cvs -- heap overflow Date Reported: 09 Feb 2012 Affected Packages: cvs Vulnerable: Yes Security database references: In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2012-0804. More information: It was discovered that a mali... 続きを読む
PARIS -- Is the telecom world ready for a "New Ethernet"? Ready or not, that's what's being presented by the "Father of Ethernet" Bob Metcalfe, currently a general partner at Polaris Venture Partners and Professor of Innovation at the Univers... 続きを読む
One of the most pervasive myths of startup life is that it has to be all consuming. That unless you can give your business all your thoughts and hours, you don’t deserve success. You are unworthy of the startup call. This myth neatly identif... 続きを読む
A few weeks ago we launched a new mobile version of Airbnb that was built with Backbone.js and CoffeeScript. Over the next few weeks we'll be posting about our experience and sharing a bunch of the code we wrote. To kick things off, let's sta... 続きを読む
We do a lot of A/B testing at Socialcam. Web optimization and testing is a mature field, with many great articles (http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2991-behind-the-scenes-ab-testing-part-3-final http://20bits.com/articles/statistical-analysis-a... 続きを読む
Heroku Toolbelt The Heroku Toolbelt will give you everything you need to get started using Heroku Heroku Toolbelt for OSX What is it? The Heroku Toolbelt for OSX will give you everything you need to get started using Heroku. The installer con... 続きを読む
One of the notable aspects of Microsoft Windows has been the flexibility the architecture has shown through shifts in technology and expansion of customer usage over time. What started out as an operating system for one person working solo wi... 続きを読む