Author: fozbaca

Over many years, the leaders of SAS Institute have distilled a set of principles for getting peak performance from creative people. Among them: Value the work over the tools, reward excellence with challenges, and minimize hassles.

This is a ruby script I (sloppily) cooked up to post daily del.icio.us links to my blog. It requires the Rubilicious library, and (because I’m lazy) is hardcoded to point at my blog.

Nice photo sharing site. Could make for competition with Flickr.

In computer programming, a magic number is a special constant used for some specific purpose. It is called magic because its value or presence is inexplicable without some additional knowledge.

There’s nothing worse than having to go to work for a boss that you don’t get along with, but it can’t be worse than this. Bosses can be a real pain in the ass and sometimes you wonder how you can continue to work with a boss you can’t get along with. Her

blogs.hula-project.org has been set up to host blogs for Hula developers.

Give us your PDF and a couple days later, you’ll have a black and white, printed and comb bound book on your door step.

PHPlist is a web application that implements a personalised mailing list manager or customer relationship management (CRM) system. It is written in PHP and uses an SQL database for storing the information.

Traveller Deckplans

The Azureus Dashboard Widget provides a compact, friendly interface for monitoring and managing BitTorrent downloads. It’s especially useful for remote torrent management — for instance, if you use a machine other than your main workstation for BitTorre

For those of you who are actually looking for an iPod car connection kit, here’s a listing of available products. None of these products are FM transmitter or tape adaptors like the Griffin’s iTrip or Monster iCarPlay.

build your own machine shop

The answer, evidently, is to have shit jump out of the dark at you.

Searchable Documentation for Ruby on Rails

With the abundance and diversity of RSS News feeds out in the wild now thanks to sites like Moreover.com, the attraction of getting free syndicated news onto my site was getting too hard to resist. Unfortunately like most other small sites out on the net

Bayesian RSS. A multi-user RSS aggregator with multi-category Bayesian filtering capabilities.

A single GUI tool, DVD::Rip, for ripping DVDs on Linux

The evolution of Batman

Using locked DBM files with CGI-driven forms saves client data without DBMS overkill