New PUTTY!

After 4 years there's a new release of the infamous SSH-client: Putty 0.61 is out

Grab your copy here: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/

Lazy SVN commits

You're a programmer and therefor lazy. You also hate the mandatory commit messages for SVN. Well lucky for you there are a lot of people who feel the same way.
So let's make live a little less boring by automating the commit messages. Let me know after how many commits somebody caught you with this automated commit messages generator.

svn ci -m "`curl -s 'http://whatthecommit.com/' grep '<p>' cut -c4-`"

Shoo flash

I found this excellent article from a decade ago about not using flash _at all_. While we are anticipating on the standard of html in which, hopefully, flash is banned forever, flash designers keep making the same mistakes still.

Link: http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20001029.html

Kill Comic Sans

One of the worst inventions ever is Comic Sans. Lucky I don't stand alone, a lot of websites are dedicated to erase Comic Sans from existence, here's at least one: http://www.agencyfusion.com/intro/index2.html

Source: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/01/31/verity_stob_comic_sans/

When something seriously goes wrong

Source: http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=140992

PHP Sockets

You want to create a server and a client that live and thrive in a networked environment. With PHP you can make that happen with sockets. Checkout: http://www.devshed.com/c/a/PHP/Socket-Programming-With-PHP/ for the basics.

From: Roy T. Fielding

I am getting frustrated by the number of people calling any HTTP-based interface a REST API. Today’s example is the SocialSite REST API. That is RPC. It screams RPC. There is so much coupling on display that it should be given an X rating.

Source: http://roy.gbiv.com/untangled/2008/rest-apis-must-be-hypertext-driven
More: http://www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/pubs/dissertation/top.htm