THE ABC'S OF UNIX /usr/share/games/fortune/songspoems

A is for awk, which runs like a snail, and
B is for biff, which reads all your mail.
C is for cc, as hackers recall, while
D is for dd, the command that does all.
E is for emacs, which rebinds your keys, and F is for fsck, which rebuilds your trees.
G is for grep, a clever detective, while
H is for halt, which may seem defective.
I is for indent, which rarely amuses, and
J is for join, which nobody uses.
K is for kill, which makes you the boss, while
L is for lex, which is missing from DOS.
M is for more, from which less was begot, and
N is for nice, which it really is not.
O is for od, which prints out things nice, while
P is for passwd, which reads in strings twice.
Q is for quota, a Berkeleytype fable, and
R is for ranlib, for sorting ar table.
S is for spell, which attempts to belittle, while
T is for true, which does very little.
U is for uniq, which is used after sort, and
V is for vi, which is hard to abort.
W is for whoami, which tells you your name, while X is, well, X, of dubious fame.
Y is for yes, which makes an impression, and
Z is for zcat, which handles compression.

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Report: Samsung Passes Apple to Become Top Smartphone Maker
Apple's reign at the top of the smartphone heap lasted just one quarter as Samsung moved past the iPhone maker to claim the top spot in smartphone...
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Are you a mobile developer?

What does your testing space look like?
.

The HUAWEI E5331 works really well with Cell C Data SIM.
I am surprised that it is as fast as the Cell C high speed modem (black).
The bonus is that it does not drain your laptop battery while on the move. 

I’d pick a passionate amateur over an uninterested professional any day
The secret sauce to any interesting story is passion. A story told without it is just boring...
http://pulse.me/s/1BT2M

Your browser can do this without Flash :-)

JavaScipt animation in your browser.
http://paperjs.org/examples/tadpoles/ <<<<= CLICK HERE

Thanks to +Seb Lee-Delisle and +Jay Moretti for sharing and re-sharing.

Today's celebrities and their lookalike historical figures.

Top 10 Best Pie Recipes | Brown Eyed Baker

If popularity is what you like to follow, try this site.

This makes Google+ feel like email. It collapses the centre column of posts into one liners or expanded depending on your settings.

If you hover over a post it shows you the content in a pop-up
You can also expand and collapse single lines to show the post.
.

These guys understand and support API creation workflow.
They have abstracted it to the simplest possible steps and built amazing tools to support it.

Well done http://apiary.io/

Finally - Thank the Gods (at oracle?)

What a lovely OpenSource alternative to StackOverflow.

I like it for in-house teams :-)
http://bitnami.org/stack/osqa

If you use a MacBook Pro 2011 for web browsing and want the battery to last longer, this may help: Use Safari!

There are 2 graphics options for a Macbook Pro 2011:
1. Integrated Mode (internal graphics capability of the intel i7 processor)
2. Discrete Mode (high performance AMD Radeon HD 6750M graphics card)

The Discrete Mode uses more power and will give you less battery life. (See Energy Saver - Automatic Graphics Switching)

So far so good.

I use Safari, Chrome and Firefox, but only one of them will leave the graphics mode in (1) Integrated mode. The other two browsers trigger mode (2) and thus will give you less time to do your light web surfing.

You guessed it, only Safari allows web surfing in mode (1).

Chrome and Firefox switch to mode (2) as you open them.

A note on Flash. Flash does not force Mode (2) anymore. It's last update leaves Safari in mode (1). That is a surprise. Using Safari and Flash 10.3 is more power efficient than using Chrome or Firefox with plain HTML.

Your internet connection type influences battery time too. Cable, Wifi or USB Broadband modem. Keep that in mind.

Many thanks to +Sav Szymura for sharing. I particularly like this future vision of Google.

A new and growing resource for finding people with similar interests.
http://www.group.as/

Can't wait for these guys to ship :)

This is the world's first open source HTML5 SIP client entirely written in javascript for integration in social networks (FaceBook, Twitter, Google+), online games, e-commerce websites... No extension, plugin or gateway is needed. The media stack rely on WebRTC.
The client can be used to connect to any SIP or IMS network from your preferred browser to make and receive audio/video calls and instant messages.

"Write client and server components in the same language (JavaScript), using the same framework."

Now that is a promise many would like to see fulfilled :-)

Nice - automation, examples, docs, guides ... enough to get started :-) Thanks Yahoo !

http://developer.yahoo.com/blogs/ydn/posts/2012/04/yahoo’s-mojito-is-now-open-source/

Nothing is more dangerous than an idea if it's the only one you have.

Emil-Auguste Chartier, Propos sur la religion, 1938

IN SEARH OF THE PERFECT CLIENT STACK
It's interesting to see some of the RIA thinkers attempts to recover what they had with Flex.
There is a pattern emerging:
1. Let's NOT get stuck with a single supplier again
2. How do we make a MVC client with UI components - answer Sencha
3. But because of (1) Ignore Sencha in case it becomes another Adobe
4. Realizing no one else combines all the Fat Client features they were used to in Flex
5. Combining frameworks that do not fit or have strange overlaps
6. Please god - let's not compile anything ever again

Example:
Combining Backbone.js with JQuery Mobile to get MVC and visual components with a strange features overlap (who will do persistence and data management)

The Issues they are trying to find a "STACK" solution for:
1. Templates (extra bonus borrowed from back end web frameworks)
2. MVC in the client (Backbone.js is ahead in the race for MVC)
3. Re-useable UI components (Bootstrap is ahead for desktop but weak for mobile)
4. API standard for the backend (RESTful is emerging ahead of JSON-RPC and XML-RPC)

What is your favorite combination and Why?

:-)

We get really intense electric storms in Johannesburg.
One just passed over. It's exhilarating and fresh when it's passed :-)

"GREAT :-)

"We are excited to announce a reduction in Amazon EC2, Amazon RDS, and Amazon ElastiCache prices. Reserved Instance prices will decrease by up to 37% for Amazon EC2 and by up to 42% for Amazon RDS across all regions. On-Demand prices for Amazon EC2, Amazon RDS, and Amazon ElastiCache will drop by up to 10%. We are also introducing volume discount tiers for Amazon EC2, so customers who purchase a large number of Reserved Instances will benefit from additional discounts. Today’s price drop represents the 19th price drop for AWS, and we are delighted to continue to pass along savings to you as we innovate and drive down our costs."

If you want an API for mobile data access to your "mojomotor" web site - we can do it for you in an hour.

http://soapbox.io
http://mojomotor.com/

Talk JSON to your MySQL database - would that be cool?

What if all you needed to do is upload your schema to a web site and you would get a tested RESTful server back in return - would that be useful to you?

RESTful database access.
Have you ever wished you can call any database using RESTful access? You know JSON in JSON out.... wouldn't that be lovely?

The soapbox.io team have asked me to do research in their target market (Advertising Agencies and Digital Design Businesses)

They hope to offer systems to help digital agencies or digital departments in the following areas:
Digital Asset Management
Product Development Workflow
Quality Management
Individual Performance Management
Group Performance Management
Business Automation
Finance

In order to establish the needs of the potential target market we are having meetings and sending out the following questionnaire.

These are the kind of questions I ask. If you want to let the team know of any other needs businesses like yours have, please feel free to do so.

The questions below are also here in a Q&A forum

Questions:
• What would make your business really fly?
• What hurts?
• What is impossible right now - but if it were possible - it would change everything?
• How do you know your products are effective?
• Do you maintain the products you build?
• What development services do you offer in-house?
• How are you managing version control?
• How are you doing deployment?
• Do your products easily integrate and expand?
• Are your front and back ends interwoven?
• What do you do for mobile?
• What do you do for desktop/laptop?
• What would the ideal backend look like for you?
• Do you have metrics in your systems or do you rely on extenal party?
• Where do you host your solutions?
• Do you provide API's
• How do you do project documentation?
• Are your best practices automated or policy driven?

Please share your ideas?

Regards,

Andre Venter

"Lean Startup" - If you are trying to follow the Lean Startup principles - http://theleanstartup.com/principles in your business development, we have a lot in common.

I have just seen a new startup make all the mistakes the Lean Startup approach warns against.

I would really like to exchange "lessons learned"

Let's chat :-)

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Sencha Touch 2 Developer Preview Rocks!

Let's meet up and "show and tell" Sencha (Touch and ExtJS)

If you are using Sencha Tools and Frameworks or are interested in what they can do for you, this meet up is for you.

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JetBrains introduces Astella — a new IDE for ActionScript, Flex, AIR and HTML5 depelopment! | JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA Blog
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Programmers' Day (196 points)
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I am changing my Cell Phone for the first time in years.
I still use iPhone 3G - quite dated now ( pre - iPhone 3GS and iPhone 4).

Samsung Galaxy S II is my current favorite prospect.

This weekend is the decisive moment.

If you can advise me from your experience, I would really appreciate it.

As Coca-Cola Marketing adds "Expressions" to their brand strategy. They share some of the lessons learned so far. JOE TRIPODI (Coca-Cola).

1. Accept that consumers can generate more messages than you ever could.
2. Develop content that is "Liquid and Linked."
3. Accept that you don't own your brands; your consumers do.
4. Build a process that shares successes and failures quickly throughout your company.
5. Be a facilitator who manages communities, not a director who tries to control them.
6. Speak up to set the record straight, but give your fans a chance to do so first.

The google+ experience!

Make it bigger... I dare you!

.

If you use DotCloud please let me know what your experience is.

If you run Node.Js and MongoDB on DotCloud please share your thoughts!

Thanks to +Danny Kopping for the referral. Danny finds the most useful internet resources!

An interesting analysis on the state of Adobe and its products.

OS X Lion disables Flash hardware acceleration, breaks some Adobe apps

CellC WIIIIIIIIIISSHH - Rosebank today - We all WHISH it actually did what they promised us.

Google Code no longer SVN only - Subversion and Mercurial code hosting with 2 gigabyte of storage space and download hosting support with 2 gigabytes of storage space.
http://code.google.com/projecthosting/
source

I am really glad I did not buy one.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4034848?start=0&tstart=0

Free Speech in the Era of Its Technological Amplification

@canjs http://goo.gl/MznLo  Updated "Cellar-CanJS-Bootstrapped" - CRUD with Slim REST server hooked up :-)

@canjs I love your library. http://goo.gl/MznLo  my first complete CRUD with REST server hooked up :-) "Cellar-CanJS-Bootstrapped"

CanJS way vs the JS way:

I like the declarative style of making constructor objects
It brings back some OOP qualities to JS without loosing the functional benefits
:)

// CanJS way

var MyObject = can.Construct(
    {
        init: function() {this.value = 0},
        increment: function(inc) {this.value += typeof inc === 'number' ? inc : 1},
        getValue: function() {console.log(this.value)}
    }
);

myInstance = new MyObject();   

myInstance.increment();
console.log(myInstance.getValue()); // 1 
myInstance.increment(2);
console.log(myInstance.getValue()); // 3

// ------------------------------------------------------------------------

// Javascript Way

// Create myObject. It has a value and an increment
// method. The increment method takes an optional
// parameter. If the argument is not a number, then 1
// is used as the default.

var myObject = {
    value: 0,
    increment: function (inc) {
     this.value += typeof inc === 'number' ? inc : 1;   
    }
};

myObject.increment( );
console.log(myObject.value); // 1 
myObject.increment(2);
console.log(myObject.value); // 3

// Create the same myObject but hide "value"
// Initialize myObject by calling a function that returns an object literal
// This is called a closure

var myObject = (function () {
    var value = 0;
    return {
            increment: function (inc) {
                value += typeof inc === 'number' ? inc : 1;
            },
            getValue: function () { 
                return value;
            }
        };
}( ));

myObject.increment( );
console.log(myObject.getValue()); // 1 
myObject.increment(2);
console.log(myObject.getValue()); // 3


// ------------------------------------------------------------------------

I like Stypi for Code Q&A and collab.

Stypi makes it easy to collaborate on documents online. Here are three ways for you to get the most out of it:

1. Share Your Documents
Make a document available to anyone by sharing its URL. You can also make a document private and only provide access to your collaborators.
2. Stay Organized
Use the filetree to create folders, access recently viewed documents, and see what's been shared with you.
3. Never Lose Your Work
Play back the history of your document like a movie to see how it evolved or to retrieve a previous version.

I recently started using Ubuntu 12.04 on my Macbook Air.

I love the development experience, but it has its "rabbit holes" - as you probably know, if you have tried it.

Here is one:

I am using PieCrust to render documentation.
http://bolt80.com/piecrust/doc/5-min/
At the end of the "5min" setup there is a lovely ubuntu "rabbit hole".
"Got the hang of it? Add chef to your PATH and start fresh:"

Don't follow the thousands of outdated blog posts that will tell you to edit:
1. ~/.profile
2. ~/.bash_profile
3. ~/.bashrc
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EnvironmentVariables

It will leave your Ubuntu 12.04 looping in the login screen - even if you type in the correct password.

Create a file ".pam_environment" in your home folder.
Add your path to "chef" in this file - as a single line.

PATH DEFAULT=${PATH}:var/www/PieCrust/bin
OR - if you have a simlink in your "home" folder for "www" 
PATH DEFAULT=${PATH}:~/www/PieCrust/bin

This way your machine won't need TLC for hours and you can happily do:

$ chef

and see:

The PieCrust chef manages your website.

Usage:
  chef [options]
  chef [options] <command> [options] [args]

Options:
  -h, --help  show this help message and exit
  --version   show the program version and exit

Commands:
  bake        Bakes your PieCrust website into a bunch of static HTML
              files.
  categories  Gets the list of categories used in the website.
  find        Find all pages, posts and templates in the website, with
              optional filtering features.
  help        Gets help on chef.
  import      Imports content from another CMS into PieCrust.
  init        Creates a new empty PieCrust website.
  plugins     Gets the list of plugins currently loaded, or install new
              ones.
  prepare     Helps with the creation of pages and posts.
  purge       Purges the website's cache directory.
  root        Gets the root directory of the current website.
  serve       Serves your PieCrust website using a tiny development web
              server.
  showconfig  Prints part of, or the entirety of, the website's
              configuration.
  stats       Gets some information about the current website.
  tags        Gets the list of tags used in the website.
  themes      Manages themes for your PieCrust website.
  upload      Uploads your PieCrust website to a given FTP server.

Additional help topics:
  about-import

Ubuntu 12.04 on MacBook Air is really a pleasure :-)
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MacBookAir4-2

So far the best Ubuntu install I have experienced on a laptop.

I am selling my
17" MacBook Pro (SandyBridge) 4Gb RAM and 750Gb HDD
Perfect condition :-)
R18,000

Here is a great Bootstrap theming app and at the same time an excellent JS MVC example.

A Google Samsung - ChromeBook for Christmas ;-)

Check this out if you work with HTTP

http://whatisthatstat.us/

Lovely

@CellC

Your data service Cr Sloane and Ebury - Bryanston is very erratic and slow

Day 1
http://www.speedtest.net/result/2227333609.png

Day 2
http://www.speedtest.net/result/2229120705.png

Day 3
http://www.speedtest.net/result/2230128842.png

See the difference?

Hi @CellC- the last time the internet was this useless was 20 years ago on an analog modem.

Cmon guys - sort out this service - cr Sloane and Ebury

http://www.speedtest.net/result/2227333609.png

http://fortrabbit.com - I LOVE IT :-)

I like the combination of PHP Application exposing RESTful services and Dojo managing presentation and interaction.

Do you use Dojo? What is your favorite backend for a green fields project?

I am partial to Play Framework and the TypeSafe stack for the application and services layer too, but I am not sure how version 2 fares in production.

Calling Dojo ninjas... what is your preference and experience?

Bootstrap Breakup?

http://blog.getbootstrap.com/2012/09/29/onward/

@CellC FAILS to render GMAIL in Bryanston.

http://cl.ly/JnxC

CellC data service is broken in Bryanston.

http://www.speedtest.net/result/2209170460.png

While this is what it looks like in Sandton

http://www.speedtest.net/result/2208025851.png

And that is way below the "promised" quality of service.

What can we do?

Well done CellC - your service in Bryanston is now slower and less reliable than the internet 20 years ago.

CellC please help!

After a working day CellC is still in trouble

CellC had a big weekend. I am not sure what their problems are but it is serious. Soon we will be at kb/s like in the analog modem days :-(

Thank you Addy :-)

CellC Data - 1000% variance in performance this weekend

Date                          Download      Upload      Latency       ServerName
2012-09-16 17:36       1334              159                 63         Sandton
2012-09-16 17:35       1001              129               592         Sandton
2012-09-16 15:49       441                138               514         Sandton
2012-09-16 15:48       1638               307                78         Sandton
2012-09-16 15:47       421                 51                 90          Sandton
2012-09-16 13:16       608                136                98          Sandton
2012-09-16 11:34       729                                     79          Rosebank
2012-09-16 11:33       1114               1196            151         Rosebank

I really appreciate elegant solutions :-)

Portal 2 Crashing Remedy - (Steam Support Reply) It Works :-)

In order to correct the crashing in Portal 2 please do the following:

1. Exit Steam.

2. Navigate to your Portal 2 bin folder (~Users\[username]\Library\Application Support\Steam\SteamApps\common\Portal 2\bin\)

Note: If you are using Lion please do the following to access your Steam folder:

- Click "Go" in the menu bar
- Click "Go to Folder..."
- Type "~/Library/Application Support/Steam"
- Click "Go"

This will take you directly to the folder.

3. Locate the libsteam.dylib file and drag it to your Trash Can.

4. Start up Steam, launch Portal 2, and try to begin a level.

The game should load without crashing. 

Can't wait for this to go mainstream :-)

Thank you "Steam" for breaking Portal 2 on OS X.

NOW PLEASE FIX IT!

I don't use Automator on OS X often, but today it really helped.

Convert large PDF file (many pages) into individual images (PNG 300DPI).

Here is how:

Drag 3 Automator actions into a Workflow and start it up: MAGIC!

Google Chrome on Ubuntu Linux really sucks :-(

IT CRASHES AFTER ENTERING YOUR GITHUB CREDENTIALS ON IPAD 1.

HOW DO YOU GET A REFUND?

The Handover of Java (Mac) to Oracle

"Apple dropped Java from the default installation of OS X 10.7 Lion after the company announced in 2010 that it would deprecate the software's release for the Mac platform."

Thank you "Universal Mind" http://www.universalmind.com/

One Depenedency injection approach for Ext JS or Sencha Touch. That makes sense!

People tend to interpret Scrum within the context of their current project management methodologies.
They apply Scrum rules and practices without fully understanding the underlying principles of self-organization, emergence, and visibility and the inspection/adaptation cycle.
They don’t understand that Scrum involves a paradigm shift from control to empowerment, from contracts to collaboration, and from documentation to code.

http://cl.ly/FW8n

I am trying to find Szymon Wrozynski in Polland - can anyone help?

Search API in action :-)

Do you have an existing web application and want a Mobile App for it?

We make APIs to help you do that. http://soapbox.io

We can also help you with the Mobile Apps.
http://cl.ly/AYnj
http://cl.ly/AZ6b
http://cl.ly/AZqe
http://cl.ly/AZQe
http://cl.ly/AYwi
http://cl.ly/Aa0P
http://cl.ly/AZSS

Download an example app here:
http://cl.ly/AZID

If you want an API for mobile data access to your "expression engine" web site - we can do it for you in an hour.

http://soapbox.io
http://expressionengine.com/

Completed an initial integration of iScaffold and REST server http://goo.gl/qVa2c will put it in soapbox.io repo when more refined :-) See what it does - http://cl.ly/EarM/o

Thanks Google+

You delete your own post to a thread - you still get notifications and email from it
You block the person who started the thread - you still get notifications and mail
You mute the post - it says it no longer exists - you still get notifications and mail

What the FUCK ????

If you ever used iScaffold to generate a CodeIgniter project, have you considered adding a RESTful API to it?

The link below shows you the result of using soapbox.io to do it for you.

@ JOZI JUG

WOW what a wild week @#%&*

If you are a great HTML5 CSS3 designer who understands "Responsive Design", let's chat :-)

Please be in Johannesburg.

Are you a "play framework" expert?

Demo "Delete" example for http://soapboxio.for-better.biz/

http://cl.ly/EVLl
http://cl.ly/ETYb

.

You send us the schema. We do the REST :-)

We have a "lab" with a demo!

Check it out - http://labs.soapbox.io/

I love everything about early mornings - except getting up.

"Our first product and service is: Adding RESTful API's to any existing MySQL DB. You send us the Schema and we send you a REST app in return"


http://twitter.com/soapboxio

Vote please!

Does this tag line work for you?


"You send us the Schema. We do the REST"

:-)

What is the best payoff line?

"You send us the Schema and we do the REST"
or
"Send us the Schema and be RESTful"

Any other suggestions?