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I put up on bitbucket NGMoviePlayer — it uses AVFoundation to play movies. It does some of what MPMoviePlayerControllerView does. (I had to write a custom movie player because of a bug in iOS 4 where after you play a movie that’s embedded in a UIWebView,…
19 August 2010Planet GNOME
I found today the API documentation to use http://www.google.com/loc/json in order to get a location from the seen wifi APs or GSM/CDMA cells. It is very easy to use: $ curl -X POST -d '{ "version": "1.1.0", "host": "perdu.com", …
13 August 2010Slashdot
jamie spotted this eye-opening presentation (here's a longer explanation) about how easy it is to access sensitive data on many sites using memcached, writing "If you already know what memcached is, skim to slide #17. The jaw-drop will happen around slide…
7 August 2010Planet Debian
As a Debian maintainer, I often work with patches (files listing changes to text files), for example when tracking the modification I make to some software before I upload the package to Debian. To manage these patches, quilt is a nice tool: It helps you…
3 August 2010MySQL Performance Blog
I recently had a run-in with a very popular PHP ecommerce package which makes me want to voice a recurring mistake I see in how many web applications are architected. What is that mistake? The ecommerce package I was working with depended on caching. …
24 July 2010TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog
Filed under: Software We've covered a surprising number of innovative Mac utilities for easily positioning windows, from MercuryMover to SizeUp and, most recently, Divvy. Well, a new one, Breeze, is taking yet another look at the task of window management.…
24 July 2010MySQL Performance Blog
It is easy for MySQL replication to become bottleneck when Master server is not seriously loaded and the more cores and hard drives the get the larger the difference becomes, as long as replication remains single thread process. At the same time it is a…
21 July 2010MacOSXHints.com
It is both inconvenient and less safe to keep backup volumes mounted when not in use. A mounted volume is more prone to corruption, and open file dialogs needlessly spin up mounted volumes, contributing to a user experience latency that is most apparent if…
21 July 2010The Official Google Blog
Hey—we've moved. Visit The Keyword for all the latest news and stories from Google Insights from Googlers into our products, technology, and the Google culture Over time we’ve improved search by deepening our understanding of queries and web pages. The…
16 July 2010MacOSXHints.com
Another valuable free utility has gained Snow Leopard support, with the release of DasBoot 2.0. This is a tool for making custom boot devices from a USB flash drive or other USB or FireWire media, including an iPod. It can import a variety of diagnostic…
15 July 2010