Technical

iPhone app developer Ngmoco explains some of the server architecture for their game Eliminate

March 12, 2010

The next big hurdles were player management and matchmaking. After considering a few different options, they went with an open-source messaging server called ejabberd — while it’s written in Erlang, a language that they said had some “crazy syntax” (they showed an inexplicable piece of code on the projection screen to make their point), it [...]

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WordPress post revisions are your friend.

March 4, 2010

WordPress has this nifty feature where it keep copies off all the revisions to your posts. It’s handy becuase if you update an post, or have more than one person working on a post, you can go back to a previously saved version. Sounds awesome. So, after a little mishap this morning, I went looking [...]

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Fraudulent Anti-Terrorist Software Led US To Ground Planes

December 26, 2009

“… but not, says the article, before the fabricated information, chalked up to “credible sources,” was used as justification to ground some international flights, and even evacuate New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art.” via Slashdot

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Using TypeKit with the Thesis Theme for WordPress to use custom fonts on your web site

December 24, 2009

(via) Aldosoft.

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