Links from 2011

Non-free terminal tutorial.

Salary Benchmarking for London 2011.

MSC-certified tinned fish.

Food occasions coming up

Well, this bodes well for the PlayBook app ecosystem. NB: it doesn't.

Do not want. "Increase customer spend by 10%-30% through optimized up-selling and cross-selling".

rsync -av source/ target

"Can you work in advertising and be a moral person? Philosopher AC Grayling answers the big questions". Swill.

Pimp your git workflow. Stop using command-combo-hell and just type pull, branch, merge, push

This suggests that success in manufacturing will depend less on scale and more on the quality of ideas. Brilliance alone, though, will not be enough. Good ideas can be copied even more rapidly with 3D printing, so battles over intellectual property may become even more intense. It will be easier for imitators as well as innovators to get goods to market fast. Competitive advantages may thus be shorter-lived than ever before. As with past industrial revolutions, the greatest beneficiaries may not be companies but their customers.

"Global shipments of smartphones and tablets surpassed shipments of desktop PCs and notebooks in Q42010. This gap is expected to increase over the next few years." Blimey.

Be nice if everyone could agree on a standard for doing device emulation, wouldn't it.

Notes on BlackBerry's Webkit-based PlayBook browser called, er, "Browser".

Built on WebPagetest, provides "HTTP waterfall chart, a Page Speed report, connection info, and screenshots" for iOS and Android devices.

"A blog-aware, static site generator in Ruby". Also powers GitHub Pages.

A simple tool to help you getting started with an HTML5 project. It is built on HTML5 Boilerplate

"In a nutshell, to get the Microsoft User Data folder out of your Documents folder, just move it to your user's Library/Preferences folder. Do this while Office isn't running, and the next time you launch an Office app, the folder will stay right where you put it." Thank Jobs for that.

The most brittle part of the [front-end] stack is JavaScript [...]<br /> That’s why I’m so surprised that any front-end engineer would knowingly choose to swap out a solid declarative foundation like HTML for a more brittle scripting language.

Head -> desk. "Gawker/Lifehacker have violated the principle of progressive enhancement, and they paid for it immediately with an extended outage on day one of their new site launch. Every JavaScript hiccup will cause an outage, and directly affect Gawker’s revenue stream and the trust of their audience."

I can see a use for this.

Ever wondered what's the difference between ~/.bashrc, ~/.bash_profile, ~/.profile, /etc/profile, /etc/bash.bashrc (and maybe others) and what their purposes are?

"I forked the excellent (open source!) Notational Velocity app, and hacked in a third pane that shows you the note you’re viewing as rendered by Markdown." Binaries on the github downloads page. Hope this gets put into the master.

"An exquisite jQuery plugin for magical layouts". Always a risk that I'll need something like this.

"The BBC is employing a slash-and-burn policy regarding online content. 172 websites are going to disappear down the memory hole. Just to be clear, these sites aren’t going to be archived. They are going to be deleted from the web. Server space is the new magnetic tape." Nnng.

Handmade leather camera straps.

They're net-savvy, small-scale producers, creating ice cream at home, smoking salmon in sheds – and making great food.

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