2011 Apr 8, 2:32"Since writing lock-free code is issuch a headache-inducer,you're probably best off making some other people suffer the headachesfor you. And those other people are the kernel folks, who have
developedquite a few lock-free building blocks so you don't have to. For example, there's a collection of functions for manipulatinginterlocked lists.But today we're going to look at theone-time
initialization functions."technicalwindowsprogrammingraymond-chenlockthread-safety
2011 Mar 28, 4:06"ILSpy is the open-source .NET assembly browser and decompiler. Development started after Red Gate announced that the free version of .NET Reflector would cease to exist by end of February 2011.".nettoolsreflectorc#developmentcsharpdotnettechnicaltool
2010 Dec 6, 12:17Ye olde DoS: "The Berners Street Hoax was perpetrated by Theodore Hook in the City of Westminster, London, in 1809. Hook had made a bet with his friend, Samuel Beazley, that he could transform any
house in London into the most talked-about address in a week, which he achieved by sending out thousands of letters in the name of Mrs Tottenham, who lived at 54 Berners Street, requesting
deliveries, visitors, and assistance."humorhistoryprank
2010 Sep 4, 8:10"Reminiscent of the Beastie Boys "Awesome; I Fuckin'Shot That", more than 50 Radiohead fans captured the band's Aug. 23 show in Prague on Flip cameras, with the resulting footage later assembled into
the new Live In Praha DVD." radioheadmusicvideoyoutube
Chris Hardwick as half of Hard'n Phrim does Rodeohead -- its a bluegrass medley of Radiohead songs sort of in the style of Weird Al's polka medleys. And "it’s not on iTunes for licensing reasons so
please take it for free if you don’t already have it."
2010 May 7, 6:29UMP instead of CORS for cross-domain access control: "...a developer can read only UMP and ignore CORS, yet still create safe code. This code can successfully message with CORS resources that do not
require credentials. UMP is therefore a way of messaging with the credential-free subset of CORS resources."w3csecuritywebbrowsertechnical
2010 Apr 5, 4:08Kevin MacLeod licenses all his music under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license and available for free on his site. Seems like lots of good instrumentals for background video game music or
podcast intros etc.musiccreativecommonscccreative-commonsfreedownloadarchivekevin-macleodmp3
2010 Mar 21, 3:22Google Calendar Sync is an Outlook plugin that syncs your Google and Outlook calendars (you get to pick 1way and direction or 2way sync'ing). This almost looks like what I want but perhaps my feature
requests are too obscure for someone to have already implemented them:
Events marked personal added on my Outlook calendar should get full 2-way sync'ing with my Google calendar.
All other events added on my Outlook calendar should be assumed to have private company information and should get 1-way sync'ing with just the time and location - no attendees or subject or
desceiption.
All events added on my Google calendar should get full 2-way sync'ing with Outlook and there should be marked personal.
I doubt I'm going to find a pre-made app to do this so I guess I should get coding. Otoh, if they ever bring the updated Android OS that has Exchange support to my G1 maybe none of this would be
necessary...googlecalendaroutlookmicrosofttoolfreetechnical
2010 Mar 12, 11:11"All of the sculpted noses on the planet Viltvodle VI were fashioned after Douglas Adams' own. The creators used a 3D model he had created for the game Starship Titanic." The noses mentioned in the
previous sentence were depicted in the movie in a church. The religion of this church maintains that the universe was created by their god sneezing out the universe and so they have statues of their
god's nose throughout the church. Of course this is intended to seem absurd, however based on the previous sentence -- that the nose belonged to Douglas Adams -- then they really were worshping the
nose of their creator.douglas-adamsbookhhgttgmoviereligionnose
2010 Mar 9, 12:09Simon Pegg and Nick Frost (I know them from Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz) were in this british comedy in the late 90s Spaced. A decade later its still pretty funny. spacedbritishhumortvhulusimon-pegg
I've just put up an update for Encode-O-Matic with the following improvements:
Hex editor: the output and input views can now be switched between a UTF8 textbox view and a hex editor view. This is built using the free Be.HexEditor.
Compression: I've added the .NET GZip, deflate, and inflate streams to the list of supported encodings.
Quick Show Output: There are now 'Show Output' radio buttons next to each encoding in the encoding stack. Clicking on them changes the output view to show the output from that encoding in the
stack. This lets you easily jump between different parts of your encoding process. Adding or removing an encoding to the stack resets the view.
Minor visuals improvement: added app icon, changed buttons with one word symbols to command names.
2010 Mar 4, 3:05Intro to Google App Engine plus get a somewhat more trustworthy web proxy than you'd normally find on the Internet...apiproxywebgooglefreetechnical
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