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• A Day in the Life of 3G "Reliability was an issue in our experience of the AT&T system: Our testers were able to make a connection at a reasonable, uninterrupted speed in only 68 percent of their tests."
• sc - Flickr "10+ Deploys Per Day" @ Velocity 2009 Video from a presentation from Paul Hammond and John Allspaw from Flickr, who are doing real lowercase-a agile
• ReMate ReMate is a TextMate plugin which can be used to disable the automatic project tree refresh when the application regains focus.
• Ruby Denial of Service patch breaks BigDecimal to_f method BigDecimal#to_f in 1.8.7-p173 doesn't segfault, but it does returns invalid results. BigDecimal("10.03").to_f != 10.3
• Op-Ed Columnist - Drugs Won the War - NYTimes.com This year marks the 40th anniversary of President Richard Nixon’s start of the war on drugs, and it now appears that drugs have won.
• How Not To Fix A Security Bug | codahale.com Regarding the handling of CVE-2009-1904: "This is not a coordinated disclosure. This is a clusterfuck. If you are responsible for running a secure MRI/Ruby installation, your only hope is to pay attention to all changes made to Ruby’s trunk and backport any fixes yourself."
• Ruby at ThoughtWorks ThoughtWorks started using Ruby for production projects in 2006, from then till the end of 2008 we had done 41 ruby projects. In preparation for a talk at QCon I surveyed these projects to examine what lessons we can draw from the experience.
• Fix deep Inbox hierarchy problem in Mail Several times in the past couple of years, I experienced an annoying mailbug: the Inbox becomes a deep hierarchy of Inbox » Inbox » Inbox » ...repeat... » xxxx, where xxxx is the name of one of the special mailboxes (Trash, Drafts, or Outbox). Every simple fix I tried would only make things worse. I finally traced the issue to a bad interaction between Mail, the IMAP server, and the iPhone. I'm not sure which of these is ultimately responsible, but somehow, one of the three would use a different location for one of the special mailboxes.
• MySQL protocol support and SphinxQL Starting with version 0.9.9-rc2, Sphinx searchd daemon supports MySQL binary network protocol and can be accessed with regular MySQL API. For instance, 'mysql' CLI client program works well.
• An easy way to run many tasks in parallel seq 10 20 | xargs -n 1 -P 5 sleep
• Code Watch iPhone app for GitHub. Free for public repos, $2.99 for private.
• Rosetta Stone for Unix A Sysadmin's Unixersal Translator - or - What do they call that in this world?
• scraplab : clarke - an os x fire eagle updater a toolbar thing that sits there, quietly, using Skyhook’s API to triangulate your location from nearby wifi points, pushing it to Fire Eagle
• pv monitor and/or limit the progress of data through a pipe
• Critical Mac OS X Java Vulnerabilities If you visit the [proof of concept demonstration], "/usr/bin/say" will be executed on your system by a Java applet, with your current user permissions. This link will execute code on your system with your current user permissions. The proof of concept runs on fully-patched PowerPC and Intel Mac OS X systems. Mac OS X users should disable Java applets in their browsers and disable 'Open "safe" files after downloading' in Safari.

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