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Catholicism Computes & 8 reasons why I prefer FriendFeed over Twitter

Tue, 19 May 2009 16:01:29 -0700

From the article: "If you just want a basic short message service with almost no frills, then sure, Twitter fits the bill. But if you're going to be using your communications service a lot, I think you might be pleasantly surprised, like I am, by all the great things FriendFeed is and does. The following points may not provide enough justification for you to join FriendFeed (or completely switch over), but it is for me."

Roses In Advance

Sat, 31 Jan 2009 22:15:25 -0800

Oh my gosh, that is SO sweet! :) Made me tear up at the end.

Musings at 85

Fri, 30 Jan 2009 06:16:31 -0800

An 85(+) year old blogger. Good, interesting, well-written content. Gives good perspective, coming from someone in a previous generation.

Advogato: GitTorrent, The Movie

Thu, 04 Dec 2008 13:04:19 -0800

From the site: "GitTorrent makes Git truly distributed. The initial plans are for reducing mirror loading, however the full plans include totally distributed development: no central mirrors whatsoever. PGP signing and other web-of-trust-based mechanisms will take over from protocols on ports (e.g. ssh) as the access control "clearing house"."

"The implications of a truly distributed revision control system are truly staggering: unrestricted software freedom; the playing field is levelled in so many ways, as "the web site" no longer becomes the central choke-point of control. This article will explain more fully some of these implications, not only from a technical perspective but also including the political implications for Software Freedom."

Catholicism Computes & Ramaze by Example

Tue, 02 Dec 2008 06:12:04 -0800

Ramaze is a framework that lets you create web applications in Ruby with a minimum of code. This page begins a blog post series which walks through the creation of a small but functional app from start to finish, describing many Ramaze features along the way.

http://blog.haxe.org/entry/33

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 05:34:41 -0700

Cool little 2-d physics engine implemented in Flash. Fun to play with for a few minutes.

Catholicism Computes & Faster applications by using SQL over ORM

Thu, 14 Feb 2008 20:24:55 -0800

"If you only ever interact with your database through your ORM's interface and syntax, you may be slowing your application down."

http://www.mapsofwar.com/images/EMPIRE17.swf

Fri, 07 Dec 2007 10:18:34 -0800

Awesome! Though, the author should have put the years of occurrence in text, as well (as the events happened).

RubyForge: LiveConsole: Project Info

Wed, 28 Nov 2007 08:51:12 -0800

From the page: "LiveConsole is a library for providing IRB over a TCP connection. You can connect with netcat or telnet, and eval code on a running application."

phat catholic apologetics: Symbolism in Jn 6

Mon, 20 Aug 2007 12:03:38 -0700

Good examination of various points to keep in mind when reading the Bread of Life discourse in John 6.