With fears of del.icio.us going away and a little inspiration from @sampowers I’ve decided to go a step farther and blog about the links that I run across on a weekly basis. Enjoy!
Infrastructure/Sysadmin
http://banksimple.com/engineering/2011/01/03/engineering-at-banksimple/ (link via @al3x)
This was a nice overview from Alex Payne of Bank Simple providing some insight into how BankSimple is being built.
http://gondor.io/blog/2011/01/03/hello-gondor/
Cloud based django hosting, similar to heroku for Rails apps. These services are interesting, but traditional hosting can still be significantly cheaper.
http://glarizza.posterous.com/using-crankd-to-react-to-network-events (via @0xEFF)
Looks like it could be really useful for both dealing with certain problems in Mac administration.
https://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/2010-December/thread.html and https://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/2011-January/thread.html (via @kgasso)
There’s a good dicussion on what serial console servers people are using and why they suck and/or rock. Near the bottom of the December thread list and the beginning of the January thread list
Computer History
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Z6wfzKswUg – Wang “freestyle” Computer Demo (via @b6n).
A reminder that market adoption is king…
http://research.swtch.com/2011/01/mos-6502-and-best-layout-guy-in-world.html
Interesing article about old school CPU design
Web Development/Programming/Database
http://mootools.net/
Appears to be an interesting JavaScript framework. I haven’t use this one yet.
http://www.basho.com/riakos.html
Yet another Dynamo inspired “internet scale” distributed database thing. Possibly interesting since it’s backend storage is pluggable. It feels pretty similar to Cassandra from what I’ve read on the wiki.
http://ringce.com/hyde
Static content generator using Django and Python. Could be interesting if you’re building something like Digg or Slashdot…
http://numpy.scipy.org/
Scientific Computing module for Python. I’ve not used it yet but it seems like it should be very helpful for number crunching/statistics munging.
http://code.google.com/p/colorjizz/ (via @evilchili)
Interesting JavaScript color library with a terrible name.
https://github.com/montylounge/django-mingus and http://blog.montylounge.com/2009/sep/24/apps-that-power-django-mingus/
Mingus looks to be a strong jumping off point if you’re writing your own blog app in django.
http://www.doughellmann.com/projects/virtualenvwrapper/
Wrapper for virtualenv, a very useful tool for containing your python projects and their associated eggs.
http://joeloughton.com/blog/web-applications/sparklines-using-flot/
Sparklines are probably one of the coolest ways you’re not using to present data.
http://omnipotent.net/jquery.sparkline
Sparkline specific jquery graphing library. Not sure I’d use it over flot at this point, but I may adopt it in the future.