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Open-source, cross-platform music player that can play music from a variety of sources, including Spotify, YouTube, etc.

music player audio mp3 linux software
7 weeks ago by threedaymonk

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Service Oriented Agony

Don’t partition into services unless you absolutely need to; partition according to business services if you do.

programming software
february 2012 by threedaymonk

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The Twelve-Factor App

‘Our motivation is to raise awareness of some systemic problems we’ve seen in modern application development, to provide a shared vocabulary for discussing those problems, and to offer a set of broad conceptual solutions to those problems with accompanying terminology.’

software webdev programming
january 2012 by threedaymonk

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Destroy All Software Screencasts

‘Screencasts for serious developers’.

software education video screencast
september 2011 by threedaymonk

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Small Memory Software

‘Patterns for systems with limited memory’. Free online version of book.

programming software reference books ebooks
september 2011 by threedaymonk

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Why CRUD might be what they want, but may not be what they need

‘We need to drop the focus on CRUD and move to a focus on tasks: what is it that the user wants to accomplish, and how can we help them accomplish that?’

ux software crud interface
july 2011 by threedaymonk

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Don’t listen to Le Corbusier—or Jakob Nielsen

Scientific analysis is useful as long as you don’t take it too seriously: people hated living in Le Corbusier’s buildings.

usability design architecture software
february 2011 by threedaymonk

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Points to consider when purchasing an Android phone in Japan

‘Given two handsets of roughly the same generation, by far the most important consideration is access to forthcoming system updates, whether it be through an OTA update from the carrier or through rooting and installing custom ROMs on your own.’ Actually, I think this is true of buying any phone anywhere.

mobile android software
january 2011 by threedaymonk

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Ninite

Unattended installer for a range of common Windows programs. Looks useful if you’re unfortunate enough to be stuck setting up Windows.

windows software installation
august 2010 by threedaymonk

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Growing Object-Oriented Software Guided by Tests

I’ve heard some good reviews of this book.

programming software books oop tdd
july 2010 by threedaymonk

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How Not To Tender For e-Consultation Software

How government procurement tends to favour overcomplicated, expensive, inappropriate solutions.

government procurement software
march 2010 by threedaymonk

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Why the Windows Registry sucks … technically
windows microsoft software
february 2010 by threedaymonk

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Why I use the MIT license

‘The internet probably is the closest thing to working anarchy mankind ever had. I don’t want to, and I don’t see any point in restricting other peoples’ freedom.’

programming law licence software
august 2009 by threedaymonk

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26 GIMP Plugins to get Photoshop’s best features
linux graphics software design photoshop gimp
july 2009 by threedaymonk

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Rails 3: The Great Decoupling

‘[T]he key to making this work well is to keep the interfaces between components as small as possible’.

ruby rails webdev software
july 2009 by threedaymonk

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Don’t offer $50 for your favorite feature

So true. ‘The developers I know would rather rip up $50 bills, long sequences of them, than do something that, in their best judgment, is against the best interests of the software and its users.’

software business development
july 2009 by threedaymonk

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The perils of estimation

‘The business started out by defining success as solving the problem, but now we have redefined success as delivering this list of stories.’

software agile estimation
july 2009 by threedaymonk

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Fritzing

An open-source, cross-platform software tool that ‘allows users to document their Arduino and other electronic-based prototypes, and to create a PCB layout for manufacturing.’

electronics diy hardware software microcontroller opensource linux windows osx arduino pcb
may 2009 by threedaymonk

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Apple is creating an ecosystem of the kind of customers I don’t want

How Apple’s ‘ridiculously slow and convoluted’ process for approving updates to applications in its walled garden App Store is affecting developers.

software apple business iphone
april 2009 by threedaymonk

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Pounding A Nail: Old Shoe or Glass Bottle?
programming design software
april 2009 by threedaymonk

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Voluntary Technical Debt

‘If we hadn't taken on the technical debt, we would have missed our demo opportunity.’

programming software testing tdd
march 2009 by threedaymonk

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Engineering Windows 7

Interesting.

microsoft windows software development
march 2009 by threedaymonk

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Continuous Deployment at IMVU: Doing the impossible fifty times a day.

This is an awesome idea and execution.

webdev programming software automation deployment
february 2009 by threedaymonk

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my w3m

Fork on GitHub.

w3m software browser linux
february 2009 by threedaymonk

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Microsoft SharePoint Uses Hand Crafted GUIDs

I can’t work out if this is an abuse of the very concept, or a clever hack.

guid microsoft software
february 2009 by threedaymonk

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GetIt - Installing Windows Applications just got Simpler!

Not quite apt-get, but it makes installing all that essential software on Windows a lot easier.

windows software automation install
january 2009 by threedaymonk

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7 Free Open Source Video Editors For Linux
linux video software
december 2008 by threedaymonk

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REST APIs must be hypertext-driven

I’m pretty sure that no-one understands exactly what REST means except Fielding himself, and he can’t explain it to others adequately.

rest api software
october 2008 by threedaymonk

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Project from Hell « Project Failures

‘Editing files is not permitted without authorization from middle management.’ ‘Build takes 48 hours on 32 parallel machines.’ ‘Complexity is about the same as Windows Paint with a few twists. Not kidding.’

management project software
july 2008 by threedaymonk

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No Best Practices

Calling shenanigans on a bullshit phrase.

software development philosophy management jargon
march 2008 by threedaymonk

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dfo

Flickr photo organiser for Gnome.

linux gnome photos flickr software
february 2008 by threedaymonk

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Meme Agora: Rental Car IT

The dangers of Enterprise Architecture.