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Monthly Archives: October 2005
Geek Dinner Copenhagen: So it begins
Met up with a number of Copenhagen bloggers at a sushi bar. Geek Dinner, in the tradition of Hugh McLeod, the New York blogger and cartoonist. Hugh has put up a wiki – [The Hugh Page](http://thehughpage.com/):
> to give **bloggers** a place where they can **centrally collate** their **links** for whatever reason: Work, jobs, love, sex, [...]
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Moustache, Greek Cave Café and Grill
Moustache, Greek Cave Café and Grill
Originally uploaded by plindberg.
Stuff you miss not living in Stockholm, Sweden.
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Kiva: Loans to microbusinesses in the third world
Today I read some Seth Godin, and it turns out he is a great person.
(Who’s Seth? A marketing guru. (Read more at Wikipedia.)
He explains the service Kiva, which is a “microlending system”.
> Kiva lets you connect with and loan money to unique small businesses in the developing world.
Read more about Kiva’s concept.
A list of [...]
Cake PHP framework in alpha
Release announcement for “cake_0.10.0.1217_alpha”, which is more stable than any other release.
Most of all, this release is about making the developer experience more cohesive, and “orthogonal”. Method calls and return values look more or less the same everywhere, and when you grok how Cake hangs together, it becomes easier to make web apps.
I am [...]
The end of the world is nigh. Newspeak is rife.
I heard the news today. That’s because I get up earlier. Part of a program of working smarter.
On the news was a single Reuters story, just spoken from the telegram, no commentary or anything, this was “the news”. It was a note on that the Defense Ministry of the United States of America are developing [...]
Humour from Mr Gruber
Author of Markdown, and strange Mac funniness man: Gruber.
Daring Fireball: The iTunes 5 Announcement From the Perspective of an Anthropomorphized Brushed Metal User Interface Theme
Holy Modal Rounders’s naming, and Jeff Minter in repose
In the Wikipedia article on the geniuses of Holy Modal Rounders they have something profound on naming, a subject dear to programmers:
> As regards the name, Peter Stampfel explained in Perfect Sound Forever: “We kept changing the name. First it was the Total Quintessence Stomach Pumpers. Then the Temporal Worth High Steppers. Then The Motherfucker [...]
PEAR news: Validate_DK validates Danish numbers
Rejoice! A PEAR class for Danish numbers is now in alpha: Docs For Class Validate_DK are sparse, but you can see the four methods:
* carReg
* phoneNumber
* postalCode
* ssn
I like this. One person, in this case Jesper Veggerby Hansen, can make a significant contribution to the Open Source world. [An article](http://asay.blogspot.com/2005/09/analyst-nature-and-size-of-open-source.html) I read yesterday [...]
Olle in the wild: “Intense”