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Yesterday
Sony Answers Our Questions About The New PlayStation 3
Do we need to stop yapping about backwards compatibility? "It's not coming back, so let me put that on the table"
The Making of Prince of Persia
Some highlights include: the day my kid brother modeled the prince's moves; the day Prince of Persia got its title; and the first rotoscoped animation test.
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19 November 2009
Better, Stronger, Safer jQuerify Bookmarklet
by 1 otherThe idea was to allow me to play around with any page on the web, using jQuery in the Firebug (and now Safari or IE8) console.
Apple's Mistake
The App Store is an ongoing karma leak.
18 November 2009
An Early Look At IE9 for Developers
Toujours un train de retard mais on ne revient pas comme ça de 10 ans de glande. Mais ils sont sur la bonne voie.
17 November 2009
15 November 2009
14 November 2009
Amazon RDS, MySQL, Hmm?
BTW if you follow their "use mysqldump" model for pushing data into the service, remember that --single-transaction will allow you to do a hot backup. There is no need to lock up your current database. I am still appalled at how few people know that. Years ago we should have renamed "mysqldump" to "mysqlbackup" and defaulted the settings for Innodb.
Expanding the Cloud: The Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)
En tout cas, leur discours marketing fait rêver :)
Python, Unicode and UnicodeDecodeError
Unicode ---- encode ----> ASCII
ASCII ---- decode ----> Unicode
Interview with Adam Saltsman of Semi Secret Software
"In no particular order, Canabalt was inspired by District 9, Banlieue 13, Half Life 2, War of the Worlds (the book, not Spielberg's ridiculous movie), Super Mario Bros., Sonic the Hedgehog, and in a kind of counter-inspirational way Mirror's Edge."
12 November 2009
10 November 2009
Sondage : l'opinion publique mondiale rejette le capitalisme dérégulé et réclame une redistribution des richesses
Un sondage réalisé dans 27 pays pour la BBC fait apparaître un très large rejet du capitalisme de marchés dérégulés.
09 November 2009
Où sont cachés les secrets de la finance ?
Le Tax Justice Network vient de publier une nouvelle étude passionnante qui propose un classement des centres financiers offshore en fonction de leur offre d’opacité.
05 November 2009
Introducing Closure Tools
Today, each Closure Tool has grown to be a key part of the JavaScript infrastructure behind web apps at Google.
La grande panne DNS de Chine de mai 2009
Conclusion : si quelqu'un réussit à planter tous les serveurs DNS de google.com ou ebay.com, il peut théoriquement planter tout le DNS et donc tout l'Internet.
