Zef Hemel.com

• Published:June 30th, 2008
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• Category:Links

Today’s interesting links:

• Sales Guy vs. Web Dude [TechCrunch]
• Classic geek video [Scripting News]
• Shel Israel Gets Schooled [1938 Media]
• What’s 6 Million Between Friends [1938 Media]
• App Engine Community Update [Google App Engine Blog]
• Simpsons map for Quake III Arena [Boing Boing]

• Published:June 23rd, 2008
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• Category:Links

Today’s interesting links:

• Evolution of Gmail chat [Official Gmail Blog]
• Our favorite homeschooled Facebook user [Clips] [Valleywag]
• Introducing TechNews, Based On Reddit’s Open Source Project [TechCrunch]
• Build Your Own Reddit With Reddit [ReadWriteWeb]
• Announcing MonitManager [Jeffrey Gelens' blog feed]
• Reddit social news site goes transparent, open source [Ars Technica]
• Google App Engine Goes Down and Stays Down [TechCrunch]
• Google I/O session videos posted with slides [Google App Engine Blog]

• Published:June 16th, 2008
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• Category:Links

Today’s interesting links:

• How it Happened [xkcd.com]
• Purity [xkcd.com]
• iPhone 3G’s true cost is $1,237 [Apple] [Valleywag]
• Geoducks: the world’s weirdest clams [Boing Boing]
• The New York Times API: All the News That’s Fit to Mix [ProgrammableWeb]
• Game Over. Hulu Wins. They Have The Daily Show. And Colbert. [TechCrunch]
• We Made It! [Twitter Blog]

• Published:June 11th, 2008
• Comments:1 Comment
• Category:General

Damien Katz (of CouchDB fame):

Static typing is like giving a drunk a bunch of breath mints and saying “Don’t drive drunk. But if you must, use these breath mints in case you get pulled over.”

• Published:June 9th, 2008
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• Category:Links

Today’s interesting links:

• An interview with 280 North on Objective-J and Cappuccino [Ajaxian]
• William Vambenepe’s blog » Blog Archive » Emulating a long-running process (and a scheduler) in Google App Engine [stage.vambenepe.com]
• The Evolution of Pre-Launch Gmail In Screenshots [TechCrunch]
• Introducing Gmail Labs [Official Gmail Blog]
• Gmail Labs: A Public Stage for Googlers’ 20% Time [TechCrunch]
• Cookies are for Closers » LinkedIn Architecture [cookiesareforclosers.com]
• 280 Slides: Like Apple Keynote, But Online [TechCrunch]
• More Translation Bots! [Google Talkabout]
• YouTube Annotations [Google Operating System]
• Reia Programming Language [wiki.reia-lang.org]
• Wikia Search launches the hackable search engine | Webware : Cool Web apps for everyone [www.webware.com]
• Jimmy Wales: Wikia Search Finally Doesn’t Suck [TechCrunch]
• Jimmy Wales: Wikia Search Finally Doesn’t Suck [TechCrunch]
• Announcing SquirrelFish [Surfin' Safari]
• Dubious Conferences: How do they threat people? [Subject to Meta Programming]
• Duncan’s Thoughts: Migrating models [kupuguy.blogspot.com]

• Published:June 6th, 2008
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• Category:General

I’m playing with Gmail Labs, a new playground for Google employees to build and test new Gmail features. It’s being rolled out to all users who either use the US or UK english version of Gmail (contrary to what TechCrunch reports, that means also Dutch, German, Polish and Ukranians can get this feature).

Right now I have only one new feature enabled: superstars

I find it very useful, because it makes it a lot easier to instantly see not only that an email discussion needs attention, but also the kind of attention that it needs. To enable it, make sure your language is set to US or UK english, log out, log back in to Gmail and go check the Settings, there should be a “Labs” tab there now.

Update: OMG, I just discovered the snake game, awesome!

• Published:June 2nd, 2008
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• Category:Links

Today’s interesting links:

• Hey Twitter I Have A Few Questions Too [TechCrunch]
• Wikipedia 3.0: You can now edit any page on Mahalo [The Jason Calacanis Weblog]
• #98 The Ivy League [Stuff White People Like]
• FeedBurner Finally Rolls Out AdSense [TechCrunch]
• ★ Spaces in 10.5.3 [Daring Fireball]