LWN.net
Rusty Russell has some suggestions for C library implementers on his blog. Among various other hacking efforts, Russell is behind the Comprehensive C Archive Network (CCAN). "3. Context creation and destruction are common patterns, so stick with…
14 October 2010Ars Technica » Infinite Loop
Mac OS X users are about to have a new option for a native Cocoa e-mail client—as long as they use the IMAP protocol and prefer a very spartan user interface. Called Sparrow, the app's developers recently launched a public beta to get some feedback on the…
11 October 2010Apple Developer News
11 October 2010MySQL Performance Blog
I recently worked on upgrading MySQL from one of very early MySQL 5.0 versions to Percona Server 5.1. This was a classical upgrade scenario which can cause surprises. Master and few slaves need to be upgraded. It is a shared database used by tons of…
9 October 2010MacOSXHints.com
This is a simple bash script I made that will prevent iTunes from updating any device. To update after you use this script you just manually download the firmware and do option restore. I made it because I was hearing about a lot of people who…
8 October 2010Macworld
QuoteFix is a plug-in for Mac OS X's Mail that "fixes" replies and forwarded message by placing replies below quoted text, stripping previous signatures, and removing quotes above a certain level,
7 October 2010TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog
The last time I spoke with the folks at OpenFeint, we were all waiting for the arrival of Apple's official Game Center app and wondering what effect it would have on third-party social networking platforms for App Store apps. Now, of course, Game Center is…
7 October 2010Planet Debian
What's the best way to run PHP in Debian in a shared environment? Years ago May First/People Link switched from the old reliable mod_php to suPHP because mod_php ran all php scripts as the same user, meaning (among other things) that any site could access…
6 October 2010Ars Technica » Infinite Loop
The iPhone 4 just begs for some good video content to be played on its high-resolution display—which, contrary to popular belief, isn't made of retinas. The easiest way to get video is through Apple's iTunes Store, but there are many reasons why you might…
6 October 2010MySQL Performance Blog
We now have hardware in our test lab that represents the next generation of commodity servers for databases. It’s a Cisco UCS C250 server, powered by two Intel Westmere CPUs (X5670 @ 2.93GHz). Each CPU has 6 cores and 12 threads. The most amazing part is…
30 September 2010