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vertice··on Think Twice Before Installing Any Chrome Extension
use the source, luke.
vertice··on Boxee Blog » Boxee for iPad and more goodies
The boxee software itself hasn't been updated in a year at this point.

I honestly don't care for all these extraneous bits and pieces if they can't even ship the base system in any real timeframe.

vertice··on Aloha Editor - HTML5 WYSIWYG Editor
After many years, the sad truth is that wysywig editors are only as useful as the output generated when users copy and paste from word documents, which is what I have found the vast majority of input from actual end users to be.

Not supporting wysywig is a tactical advantage in my book.

vertice··on Sqlite and couchdb creators announce unQL. SQL for NoSQL
We've had great success with using ElasticSearch to index our couch db databases in near realtime into it's lucene indexes, and then querying those.

It allows each tool to focus on what it does well.

vertice··on The CMS Is Broken.
This is definitely the direction i see things going.

Node.js is also perfectly suited for it, and I recall hearing that it's also on the core team's mind.

vertice··on Who knew cereal was so bad for you?
i always thought scruples sounded like a breakfast cereal loaded with sugar and wasted sentiment.
vertice··on ORM is an anti-pattern
god. thank you.

I have never met an ORM that didnt eventually rub me the wrong way.

vertice··on PHP Hacking aka trying to push PHP internals forwards
or just moving on.

php itself does break backwards compatibility, and it doesnt really help.

vertice··on Sony Confirms PlayStation Network Outage Caused By ‘External Intrusion’
I feel that there is something in the ps3 scene that might have triggered this, that nobody is actually mentioning.

Recently a custom firmware (rebug) was released that allowed PS3's with hacked firmware to connect to the developer only version of the PSN used for testing and development.

Even more so, they have figured out how to trick the dev PSN to allow them to 'buy' PSN games. They also figured out how to break out of the sandbox with certain games like the call of duty series, to allow patched games to play with regular players.

I personally suspect that this is the intrusion that they are referring to, and they are busy retooling the network to stop this from being possible.