Polymorph: Code

November 30th, 2005

Firefox 1.5 Released

Firefox 1.5 has been released! If you've been using Firefox 1.5 Release Candidate 3, congratulations: you already have Firefox 1.5.
Power users upgrading from Firefox 1.0.7 will appreciate draggable tabs, a much faster Back button, and the replacement of many error dialogs with error pages. Web developers and can now take advantage of SVG, Canvas, [...]

November 30th, 2005

GTD tickler functionality in Mail.app

I just wrote a bit of Applescript to handle simple tickler functionality in the OS X Mail.app. Grab a copy: GTD-like tickler functionality for Mail.app
If the script does not work properly, grab the source here, open up Script Editor, paste in the text and save the file as a .app.
Thanks to Andy Warwick for his [...]

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March 5th, 2004

why's poignant guide to ruby / style as a filter

all the work on licensing has begun to atrophy the fun part of my brain. so, i wandered over to Dan Sugalski's blog in search of something that would get the neurons firing again in both my fun center and my code center.
this is where i ran across a link to why's (poignant) guide to [...]

December 11th, 2003

MySQL User Conference 2004 Call For Papers

MySQL AB is please to announce that the Call for Papers for the 2004 MySQL User Conference is now officially open.
We encourage every MySQL user with something to say - from grey-bearded hackers and peach-fuzzed power users to corporate code wranglers and veteran DBAs - to drop by http://mysql.com/events/uc2004/speakers.html and write up your proposals [...]

August 30th, 2003

PHP Con West

This year's PHP Con West is happening from October 21st to 24th in Santa Clara, California. The usual suspects will be speaking - with the exception of Rasmus. I have a session on the first day of the conference (after the code sprint and tutorial days) titled Opening the Toybox: A Hands-on Overview of MySQL's [...]

August 29th, 2003

Clothing Cooperative Idea

Clothes-shopping in a fashion that is both economical and ethical is a challenge. Most of the producers of inexpensive clothing that has any value use sweatshop labor. Additionally, I find that I want both more and less out of garments than manufacturers put into them. I spent part of a night twisting bedsheets and thinking [...]

July 6th, 2003

OSCON 2003

Another year, another OSCON! :) This year's iteration is being held in Portland, Oregon from July 7-11.

David is going to be presenting a tutorial on the new features that we have added to MySQL in the last year or so, and Peter Gulutzan will be doing a session on "MySQL and Progress Towards the SQL [...]

June 3rd, 2003

Session at OSCON 2003

I will be co-presenting a session at OSCON 2003 with MySQL AB Founder and CTO Michael "Monty" Widenius.

Details on the session are below:

A Guided Tour of the MySQL Source Code

The major systems and sub-systems of MySQL will be reviewed. Key sections of code for each system that is covered will be shown and discussed. [...]

April 9th, 2003

MySQL User Conference 2003

I will be presenting and co-presenting a couple of presentations at the first annual MySQL User Conference from April 10th to 12th

* A Guided Tour of the MySQL Source Code
* Who Watches the Watchers: Developing Translucent Applications that Protect Sensitive Data

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MySQL User Conference 2004 Call For Papers (0)
For Geeks, [...]

February 22nd, 2003

Spanky! :)

My OSCON proposal was accepted. Also, I am lucky to have a session that I will co-present with Monty on grokking the MySQL source code.

My own session is a three-hour tutorial on building applications that protect sensitive data. A good part of this tutorial is based on ideas from Peter Wayner's rather excellent Translucent Databases [...]

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