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April 2010

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Using SimpleXML with HTML | drewish.com

http://drewish.com/content/2007/08/using_simplexml_with_html
"PHP 5's SimpleXML module is one of the the biggest reasons to upgrade to 5. If you're parsing RSS feeds or the results of webservice requests it works beautifully and saves a ton of time. The only problem with it is that it'll only load valid XML. I banged my head against it for way to long before coming up with the following:"
#dom #html #php #scraping #simplexml #webdev #xml
archive.org #13238

Jeff Schweitzer: Dow Hovers Near 11,000: This is Obama's Market

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeff-schweitzer/dow-hovers-near-11000-thi_b_545800.html
"With jaw-dropping, surreal, outrageous, unbelievable hypocrisy probably never before matched in scope and breadth, by the first week of March 2009, just over one month into the Obama presidency, Republicans were blaming Obama for the dire economic news. For eight years under Bush any bad news was Clinton's fault; just one month into Obama's presidency, Bush was innocent of all blame. We do not have a vocabulary that can capture the deep absurdity of this assault on reason."
#bush #crazypants #economy #obama #politics #republicans
archive.org #13237

Why Apple Could Sue Gawker Over 'Lost' iPhone Story - DailyFinance

http://www.dailyfinance.com/story/why-apple-could-sue-gawker-over-lost-iphone-story/19447570
"What he never did, however, was notify anyone who worked at the bar, according to its owner, Volcker Staudt. That would have been the simplest way to get the phone back to the Apple employee who lost it, who "called constantly trying to retrieve it" in the days afterward, recalls Volcker. "The guy was pretty hectic about it." Nor did the finder report it to the Redwood City Police Department, says Sgt. Dan Mulholland."
#apple #gizmodo #iphone #journalism #theft
archive.org #13236

Stunnel.org

http://www.stunnel.org/examples/generic_tunnel.html
"Lets say you want to use POP from your local machine to a remote machine, but don't have an SSL aware email client. What you can do is to have your machine talk to stunnel on the local machine, who then encrypts the packets and sends them another stunnel running on the remote machine, which forwards them in clear text to the POP server on that machine. "
#encryption #networking #security #ssl #stunnel
archive.org #13230

Piaw's Blog: Tips for Tech Leads

http://piaw.blogspot.com/2010/04/tips-for-tech-leads.html
"One of the unending sources of frustrations of being an experienced engineer in a company full of fresh graduates is having to deal with new tech leads---many engineers fresh out of school are great designers and engineers, but couldn't lead a team out of a paper bag. It didn't help that Google's internal leadership training was derived from team-building exercises for experienced executives, rather than leadership 101 that would have been appropriate in this situation."
#career #google #leadership #techleads
archive.org #13227

How to Have a Productive First Week in a New Job as a Remote Employee

http://webworkerdaily.com/2010/04/16/how-to-have-a-productive-first-week-in-a-new-job-as-a-remote-employee
"One of the most difficult periods in any job is the first few weeks, while you are getting to know your team, the company and your new job. It can be a difficult time for any employee, but it can be even more difficult for employees who are working in remote offices or telecommuting. Getting to know the team and understanding the company culture are much more difficult when you aren’t sitting in the corporate office with the rest of your team. However, there are plenty of things that you can do as a remote employee, or as an employer of remote employees, to make that first week a little easier on everyone."
#career #productivity #telecommuting #work
archive.org #13196

Spacetime Studios - The Front Page

http://www.spacetimestudios.com/content.php
"Pocket Legends is a Mobile Massively Multiplayer Game available for the iPod, iPhone and iPad devices. It is a 3d online role-playing game where you can join thousands of players from around the world. Play with your friends and make new friends online. Cooperate to undertake wild adventures in endless dungeon campaigns!"
#gaming #ipad #iphone #mmorpgs #mmos #rpgs
archive.org #13183

EditingHistory - Mercurial

http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/EditingHistory
"hg qimport -r BAD:tip will import the changesets into MQ. You can find newly created patches in .hg/patches. Those patches are nevertheless still applied, to strip them from the history, you need the qpop command. Issue hg qpop -a Now all changes since revision BAD are no longer available in your repository history. They are saved as patches in .hg/patches - and only there."
#hg #mercurial #tips #tutorials #vcs
archive.org #13169

Robert Love: Why the iPad and iPhone don’t Support Multitasking

http://blog.rlove.org/2010/04/why-ipad-and-iphone-dont-support.html
"So how is Apple going to enable support for multitasking? Likely similar to how Android allows it. The Android platform was designed from the ground up for use on phones and other embedded devices. Consequently, we built in a mechanism whereby applications can save their state, including their current view, with the system. In fact, through this state saving mechanism, which we call Bundles, Android applications can operate as if they are stateless."
#android #apple #bundles #google #iphone #multitasking
archive.org #13148

Tinkering: all summer at the Exploratorium

http://www.exploratorium.edu/tinkering
"Tinkering is what happens when you try something you don't quite know how to do, guided by whim, imagination, and curiosity. When you tinker, there are no instructions — but there are also no failures, no right or wrong ways of doing things. It's about figuring out how things work and reworking them. Contraptions, machines, wildly mismatched objects working in harmony—this is the stuff of tinkering."
#diy #exploratorium #makers #tinkering
archive.org #13142

cbm-hackers mailing list: Professional-1541-DOS (was: Re: Big-PET)

http://www.softwolves.com/arkiv/cbm-hackers/0/0727.html
"The "Professional-1541-DOS" from Mikrotronic System is an add-on for the 1541 and a C64 or a C128 in C64 mode, which is supposed to speedup all read- and write-operations of the drive. The Professional-DOS is an expansion for an already installed speeder with a parallel cable, like SpeedDOS, SpeedDOS Plus, Floppy Flash User System and Floppy Flash Toolkit System."
#c64 #commodore #mikrotronic #oldschool #prodos #retro
archive.org #13137

The C64 Floppy-Speeder Professional-DOS from Mikrotronic

http://d81.de/ProfessionalDOS
"The Professional-DOS Floppy-Speeder from Mikrotronic for the Commodore home computers C64, C128 and C128D and it's peripherals C1541, C1541-C and C1571 was one of the Super-Floppy-Speeders. This class of speeder systems were mostly equipped with hardware modification boards and a parallel cable of course. Well known products are Dolphin-DOS from Dolphin-Software, Prologic-DOS (Classic) from Jann Datentechnik, Turbo-Trans from Roßmöller and Professional-DOS from Mikrotronic."
#c64 #hardware #oldschool #prodos #retro
archive.org #13136

Caltrain goes broke, will likely wipe out weekend, night and midday trains - San Jose Mercury News

http://www.mercurynews.com/top-stories/ci_14803959?nclick_check=1
"Caltrain has gone broke and will likely need to wipe out half its service — including weekend, nighttime and midday trains — officials warned Thursday, bracing passengers for a major shake-up to the popular commuter line that links San Francisco to the South Bay. "This is not an April Fools' joke," Caltrain CEO Mike Scanlon told the agency's board of directors. "This is real. We're at a watershed moment where there's a possibility this railroad could go away.""
#california #caltrain #sanfrancisco #transportation
archive.org #13124