Sam’s random musings

Google Account Authentication:

Here at Google, we welcome the development of applications that rely on and communicate with Google services. However, many of these services require that users log into their Google Accounts, and authentication by outside applications has been–until now–somewhat cumbersome. To improve this experience, we are pleased to offer alternatives for Google Account authentication.

notes for side project

sitemaps.org - Home:

Sitemaps are an easy way for webmasters to inform search engines about pages on their sites that are available for crawling. In its simplest form, a Sitemap is an XML file that lists URLs for a site along with additional metadata about each URL (when it was last updated, how often it usually changes, and how important it is, relative to other URLs in the site) so that search engines can more intelligently crawl the site.

Need to kick this into the Lightweight CMS that I built and am using for a few clients… Lance you think we should add it?

Deusty Designs: Open Source HTTP Embedded Server:

Sometimes Cocoa developers need an HTTP server in their code. Perhaps they’re writing a file-sharing app, or maybe they want to allow website links to communicate with built-in software similar to iTMS links. Obviously the built-in apache server is not an option. Thus the need for a small, lightweight, embedded HTTP server.

Looks cool and I have some ideas of what I would use it for, but I just don’t have the time for my own stuff yet…

A Subversion User Looks at Git:

Fraser Speirs: “From an architectural perspective, Git is gloriously simple. There are four essential objects: blobs, trees, commits and tags.”

Frasier looks at Git and there are some cool sounding things in there, but hey I only just got my butt saved by subversion why would I change now…. Because I am a ADHD poster child that’s why… (I’m not really changing, yet)

(Via Ranchero.)

Hazel:

Hazel is a great app, works so well you don’t even know it’s running. There’s a new version on the horizon and let me tell you the beta is really good!

See http://blog.samdevore.com/archives/2007/06/26/a-kinkless-desktop/ for more insight into what it can do for you

(Via Noodlings.)

Got to love those dumb spammers

Mike Davidson: A Low-Fi Solution to E-Mail Overload: Sentenc.es:

I’ve been inching closer to this without making it an outright policy.

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(Via Daring Fireball.)

You Should See the Post-Mortems:

(Via Bug Bash.)