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Bookmarks for April 19th through April 26th

Brian Wahoff — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 15:04:55 +0000

These are my links for April 19th through April 26th:

Coding Horror: Working with the Chaos Monkey – "One of the first systems our engineers built in AWS is called the Chaos Monkey. The Chaos Monkey’s job is to randomly kill instances and services within our architecture. If we aren’t constantly testing our ability to succeed despite failure, then it isn’t likely to work when it matters most – in the event of an unexpected outage."
500 Internal Server Error – 500 Internal Server Error
2011 Scripting Games: All Links on One Page – Hey, Scripting Guy! Blog – Site Home – TechNet Blogs –
2011sg.poshcode.org – Contains all the user submissions from the 2011 Scripting Games by Microsoft
‘Cree.py’ Social Engineering Tool Pinpoints A Person’s Physical Location – Darkreading –

Bookmarks for August 19th through August 22nd

Brian Wahoff — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 21:03:32 +0000

These are my links for August 19th through August 22nd:

DIY Plank Desk Inventively Hides Your Desktop Cord Clutter –
Schneier on Security: A Revised Taxonomy of Social Networking Data –
Zenprise – iPhone, BlackBerry, Android Smartphone Enterprise Device Management
Turn a DVD Lens into a Cellphone Macro Lens Redux –
How to go from $25/hour to $75/hour in 2 weeks | I Will Teach You To Be Rich –

Bookmarks for March 19th through March 20th

Brian Wahoff — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 14:13:18 +0000

These are my links for March 19th through March 20th:

12 Reasons To Be Learning Graph Theory –
The Best E-Commerce Icons All In One Place | Freebies –
How To: Create Stunningly Realistic High Dynamic Range Photographs – Hdr photography guide – Gizmodo –
"Making Sense of Privacy and Publicity" – A crib of Danah Boyd's opening keynote at SxSW
CactiView – GitHub –
Coding Horror: Compiled or Bust? –
"Piracy" sounds too sexy, say rightsholders –

Bookmarks for March 18th from 09:15 to 14:52

Brian Wahoff — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 21:00:03 +0000

These are my links for March 18th:

Missouri employers face down Facebook, cramp MySpace | STL JobWatch | STLtoday –
Sync Files and Folders Outside Your My Dropbox Folder – dropbox – Lifehacker – Since there is not a built-in UI to create junctions in Windows, may people don't realize they exist. This tip includes discussions on tools to create junctions (symlinks) in Windows
Serge’s Technology View –
Distributed Version Control is here to stay, baby – Joel on Software – "I did struggle along for a while by memorizing a few key commands, imagining that they were working just like Subversion, but when something didn't go the way it would have with Subversion, I got confused, and would pretty much just have to run down the hall to get Benjamin or Jacob to help."
Why Ad Blocking is devastating to the sites you love –

Bookmarks for March 12th through March 14th

Brian Wahoff — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 13:07:22 +0000

These are my links for March 12th through March 14th:

Forms On Mobile Devices: Modern Solutions – Smashing Magazine –
Coding Horror: The Problem With Logging –
jLinq – LINQ for JSON –
Authenticate and Integrate Linux with Active Directory –
How Facebook, MySpace and YouTube Killed eBay –
People’s Choice Home Theater Speaker System – I'd love to get these for my living room

Bookmarks for February 25th through February 26th

Brian Wahoff — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 14:02:27 +0000

These are my links for February 25th through February 26th:

Bookmarks for February 23rd through February 25th

Brian Wahoff — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 15:11:44 +0000

These are my links for February 23rd through February 25th:

Tender Support — Support your product: Knowledge Base, Helpdesk, Forums –
Lighthouse – Beautifully Simple Issue Tracking –
Services Worth Paying For as a Startup | Emad Ibrahim –
How I Was Able to Ace Exams Without Studying | Zen Habits –
» Google Analytics for Facebook Fan Pages – PHP, Web and IT stuff –
Best Screencasting Tool: CamStudio – Screencast – Lifehacker – "The top two contenders were neck in neck. Both CamStudio and Camtasia Studio took in 28% of the vote, CamStudio coming out ahead by a mere 3 votes. While they might be close together when it comes to votes, they're miles apart when it comes to price—CamStudio is free and open-source and Camtasia Studio is $299."

Bookmarks for February 21st through February 22nd

Brian Wahoff — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 14:17:23 +0000

These are my links for February 21st through February 22nd:

5 great free CD and DVD burning apps for Windows –
Home Theater Build – A series of pictures of a home theater install as posted on forums.xbmc.org
DreamPie: The Python shell you’ve always dreamed about! –
One Lesson From The Twitter Grader Screw-up: OAuth Rocks –
Social Media Security – Because what you don't know about your social networking site can hurt you.

Bookmarks for February 17th through February 18th

Brian Wahoff — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 13:02:42 +0000

These are my links for February 17th through February 18th:

You Can Use CSS3 Right Now | Design Informer – An article talking about progressive enhancement and leveraging features of CSS3 now in order to make designers lives easier.
Awareness: Four Signs of an Easy Victim on Social Networks – CIO.com – Business Technology Leadership – While many scammers rely on brute force methods, a disturbing trend is cyber-criminals stalking their targets using information gathered from social media tools.
Rogue PDFs Account for 80% of All Exploits, Says Researcher – CIO.com – Business Technology Leadership – As predicted before the year began, Flash and PDF are becoming hackers favorite targets. High install rate, low patch rate combine to make a easy target.
The New Risks of Cyber-Chattiness – CIO.com – Business Technology Leadership – "Individuals are simply revealing too much about their professional lives online. It might be possible, for example, to cross reference a Facebook post about a "big project that isn't looking good" with other posts and piece together sensitive corporate information. And while a LinkedIn request for a job recommendation reveals a job seeker, two or more seekers in the same division could reveal company upheaval."
PCI Security Standards Council Readying New Payment-Card Security Standard – CIO.com – Business Technology Leadership –
60+ .NET libraries every developer should know about. –
Please Rob Me – "Listing all those empty homes out there" Friends don't let friends use foursquare.
Housing affordability is near 18-year high – Feb. 17, 2010 – "The typical American family, who makes the nation's median income of $64,000 a year, could afford to buy 70.8% of all homes sold in the United States during the last three months of 2009"

Bookmarks for February 12th through February 13th

Brian Wahoff — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 13:14:16 +0000

These are my links for February 12th through February 13th:

CSS3 Click Chart by Impressive Webs – A page with examples of various features of CSS3. Can also be used as a test if your current browser supports the new CSS3 properties accurately
MakeSomeTime – Online Time Tracking and Invoicing – MakeSomeTime helps you keep track of your time & invoices like a pro.
Social Media: Consumers Trust Their Friends Less – Advertising Age – News – Edelman Study Shows That Only 25% of People Find Peers Credible, Flying in Face of Social-Media Wisdom
Using a Pre-Launch Checklist for your Website | Webdesigner Depot -
Create Your Own Sliding Resizable Grid – “Your browser window is always the perfect size for the Zaum & Brown website. I really liked the effect so I’ve created an improved and simplified version of a sliding resizable grid and released it under the Apache License 2.0. ”
Not sure what projects I could use this on, but the algorithm is cool.
jQuery Quicksand plugin -
Google Code Blog: Announcing Google Chart Tools -
Deadline Looms for Mass. Data Protection Law – CIO.com – Business Technology Leadership – After more than a year of delay and several modifications, a contentious Massachusetts data protection regulation appears set to go into effect March 1.
Microsoft Stops Serving Window Patch Blamed for Blue Screens – CIO.com – Business Technology Leadership – Microsoft has stopped distributing a Windows patch thought to cause a Blue Screen of Death on XP machines, and said it is investigating the problem.
Google Buzz Criticized for Disclosing Gmail Contacts – CIO.com – Business Technology Leadership -
DOJ: No Need for Warrant for Cell Location Information – CIO.com – Business Technology Leadership – A bit scary if you ask me