Facebook has finally caught up with MySpace, at least in terms of monthly visitors.
Category Archives: etcetera
Adium adds Facebook Support
Facebook recently added onsite chat capabilities with a really decent ajax client. Adium, the popular instant messenger client, has just added Facebook as one of the supported services. Check the change log and download a beta.
Wii vs. The Weak Dollar
“The shortage demonstrates one consequence of the weak dollar. We’re seeing companies ignore their largest market simply because they can make a greater profit elsewhere”.
Michael Pachter, an analyst with Wedbush Morgan Securities, referring to the difficulty of finding a stateside store with Wii Fit in stock. More coverage on the LA Times.
Leopard Security In-Depth
PDF from Apple on Leopard Security. Its pretty meaty.
Versions Subversion Client for Mac OS X
The only Subversion GUI for OS X that does justice to the platform is out in beta form. Get you some.
Agile Competence Levels
“A ladder of generic descriptions comprising five competence levels that you can easily apply to different kinds of jobs in the development process.”
This is an interesting way to describe a developer’s mastery of any skill set.
xentek on Twitter
So I finally joined twitter to see what all the fuss was about. And in the time it took me to upload an avatar and fill out my profile (with form posts approaching a minute), I’ve read a blog post about a recent DB crash, and got a ‘too many tweets’error when loading the home page. Mind you, its 1 am EST.
Oh this is going to be good.
Look out: Here comes PHP 6
Okay, this is old, but I recently dug through a list of the big changes coming for PHP 6.
Pownce opens to public
Pownce opens to public and just got a whole lot cooler.