Flash charts for Ruby. I like these charts, but they don't work on mobile devices :(
Joe Gregorio's latest Restful Web column implements the Atom Publishing Protocol as a Python web service using WSGI.
(This will be helpful to move jaxn.org over to Google App Engine. Instead of the Blogger or MetaWebLog API, I think I will implement the Atom API).
"These two days give you a photogenic view with half the Sun above and half the Sun below the horizon—on the grid. The day after May 29th (Friday, May 30th), and the day before July 12 (Friday, July 11) will also give you Manhattanhenge moments, but instead you will see the entire ball of the Sun on the horizon—on the grid. My personal preference is the half-Sun."
Pentaho has released a web based iPhone app. I will check it out, but it is too bad it is not an installed app; iPhone notifications are going to be THE killer feature for BI on the iPhone.
Data sharding in Rails. I have some custom code that does this, but I might rather use this.
Federation at Flickr: Doing
Billions of Queries Per Day mysql flickr Federation
"...insulting the Gates foundation’s work is equivalent to tossing paint at people wearing fur coats, except not hilarious"
Seth Godin has a list of ways he would like to be able to sort data on the Kindle.
Wire framing app that I am going to try.
An interesting article about drugs and higher education.
One of the things that is nice about using a Mac (and is more true for Linux) is that there isn't crapware installed.
"Intel and AMD alike have been saying for several years that the days of "free" performance scaling from faster processors are behind us, and that future performance improvements will require software changes to take advantage of the abundance of cores. This clear message that software will need to be able to scale even onto huge numbers of cores isn't unexpected. But it is nonetheless unwelcome. Painful times are undoubtedly ahead."
Why use Evite when you can use something better?
It looks like Ruby on Rails is considerably faster than the Zend Framework. Interesting.
Note: Jon Wage has looked at this before and says it is not a very good comparison.