Getting Real by 37signals — now free online

Posted by Wilco on October 27, 2006

So far we
’ve sold over 23,000 copies of Getting Real in PDF format. We introduced it on March 1 of this year, so we’re pretty thrilled with the results.

But 23,000 readers isn’t enough. We want millions of people to read the book. So today we introduce two new flavors that make the content even more accessible. And, in one case, completely free.

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Firefox 3.0 & 4.0 on the way

Posted by Wilco on October 27, 2006

Mozilla is pushing ahead on work and planning for its next two major browser releases, Firefox 3.0 and 4.0. Firefox 2.0 was just released yesterday.

Firefox 3.0 is currently being developed under the code name Gran Paradiso and the current alpha release is code-named Minefield.

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Passed: Sun Java Programmer 1.4 exam! 2

Posted by Wilco on October 26, 2006

Today I passed the Sun Certified Programmer exam!!

I’m really happy I passed, although the results were a little bit overkill: I only had 9 of the 61 incorrect, and the maximum amount of wrong questions was 28…

So now you can call me a Sun Certified Java programmer!

Maybe in the future I’m going to take the developer exam also, but first I need to study again!

The guys from 37 signals on Apple.com

Posted by Wilco on October 20, 2006

37signals are the guys behind Ruby on Rails, Basecamp, and many other Web 2.0 innovations. They’re die-hard Mac users. Apple has posted a video profiling their Mac usage.

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Inside of a Hard Drive

Posted by Wilco on October 09, 2006

A video of what a Hard Drive looks like inside while doing various tasks.

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CheatSheet: Regular Expressions

Posted by Wilco on October 09, 2006

Great one for quick reference. Take a printout or save this jpg in your desktop.

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Huge Lego Star Wars Ship 1

Posted by Wilco on October 09, 2006

Freaking awesome.

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Nokia’s “full surface touchscreen” concept

Posted by Wilco on October 09, 2006

The most prominent design feature of aeon is a touchscreen that stretches over the full surface area of the phone, similar to BenQ-Siemens’s Black box concept phone we saw recently.

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HOWTO: MySQL Master Master Replication…

Posted by Wilco on October 09, 2006

This tutorial describes how to set up MySQL master-master replication. We need to replicate MySQL servers to achieve high-availability (HA). In my case I need two masters that are synchronized with each other so that if one of them drops down, other could take over and no data is lost….

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