Sam’s random musings

launchd tech talk

In case folks might have missed it : Launchd: One Program to Rule Them All Tech Talk @ Google, with Dave Zarzycki, the launchd dude.

(Via Borkware Miniblog.)

Coding Horror: Is HTML a Humane Markup Language?

One of the things we’re thinking about while building stackoverflow.com is how to let users style the questions and answers they’re entering on the site. Nothing’s decided at this point, but we definitely won’t be giving users one of those friendly-but-irritating HTML GUI browser layout controls.

I am also bothered by the gui widgets that people tend to like in pages, for one I want more control given to my designers over my ‘users’ pages. Generally people really abuse those controls and make the ugliest darn things. The worst looking emails tend to come from yahoo and other web mail products that have those darn things.

I also like the markup that markdown makes, easy to style into something that flows with the rest of the site. Not by me you know, but by my designers…

Then you spit coffee all over the place

An Abandoned Library

This is a shame

Is a Cocoa Programmer?

Answer

followed by

Building a web app the Microsoft way

Interesting near copy of http://diarised.com/

(Via Vitamin.)

Displaying errors

<?php
    $isDev  = $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] == ‘dev.phpguru.org’;
    $isLive = $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] == ‘www.phpguru.org’;

    if ($isDev) {
        error_reporting(E_ALL);
        ini_set(‘display_errors’, 1);

    } elseif ($isLive) {
        error_reporting(0);
        ini_set(‘display_errors’, 0);
    }
?>


sometimes the simple ways are the best ways. I do some very similar things build on this same approach…

(Via phpguru.org - Richard Heyes’ ramblings and code.)

Amazon S3 Copy API Ready for Testing

It is interesting to me that cost of copy is the same as PUT…

This feature is now available for beta use; you can find full documentation here (be sure to follow the links to the detailed information on the use of this feature via SOAP and REST). Copy requests are billed at the same rate as PUT requests: $.01 for 1000 in the US, and $.012 for 1000 in Europe.

Other thoughts are that

• costs for moving in a bucket
• costs for moving to a new bucket
• costs for renaming (I know a form of meta data chance)

are the same as PUT…

(Via Amazon Web Services Blog.)