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This is an old page from Rod Begbie's blog.

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Entries for week beginning February 28, 2010

March 6, 2010

FireCheckIn

Through the medium of OAuth and APIs, safely links your FourSquare checkins to your FireEagle account.

Now if only there was anything that actually *used* FireEagle’s data. (Beyond the little box on the right hand side of my blog frontpage)

Outtamyway!

Outtamyway!

Bacon, playing America's fastest-growing home game sensation: "Hide the tasty hambone"

March 4, 2010

“Consider the following”

“Consider the following”

Attached to the sixth-floor kitchen microwave by persons unknown.

(Though from the typography, I'm guessing engineers, not designers!)

March 3, 2010

I'm a Barbie Girl in a CS World

Fantastic slide deck from Ignite Sydney. Good food for thought on the need for diversity in computer circles, and what effect the “Computer Engineer Barbie” might/should have.

2010 CWE/SANS Top 25 Most Dangerous Programming Errors

Every programmer should read this list now. If you don’t have a high-level understanding of all of these (and a deep understanding of the ones that affect the platform you build on), you’re dangerous.

March 2, 2010

Nose Achievements

Fabulous! Xbox-style achievements for your Python unit tests. “Heisenbug: Make a passing suite fail without changing anything.”

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March 1, 2010

Programming as an objective art

“Not to say older engineers aren’t emotionally invested in their work, in my experience they typically are, it’s just a matter of being better at picking battles.”

ChatRoulette : Web Ecology Project

Great paper covering the make-up of the users of ChatRoulette.


About This Site

This is an archive of groovmother.com, the old blog run by Rod Begbie — A Scottish geek who lives in San Francisco, CA.

I'm the co-founder of Sōsh, your handy-dandy guide for things to do in San Francisco this weekend.