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Debian 6.0 Squeeze released. My server platform of choice for the next year and half (until the next Debian or Ubuntu LTS are released)

Attacha running tty process into screen with reptyr. Something I wish I have earlier. Very useful if you are working on remote servers all the time.

Google Offers is coming to compete with Groupon, and huge number of group buy sites that appear on the market like mushrooms after the rain.

Amazon WS is introducing Elastic Beanstalk. Just upload the code and see it scale, targeting Google AppEngine and Heroku users.

W3C has just released their HTML5 logo, which was designed by Ocupop a Hawaii-based team. Looks very nice and can’t wait to write more code for that!

Via Delimiter.com.au, Larry Bloach of Netregistry backs Gerry Harvey’s campaign on applying GST to imported goods/services. I personally don’t care if Harvey Norman’s or Myer’s profitability is adversely affected but the uneven playing field does affect hundreds of thousands of Small Businesses, and for the families and employees of these, it’s another matter all together. [...]

“The key to performance is elegance, not battalions of special cases.” Jon Bentley and Douglas McIlroy Such a simple idea! Used to read a blog called lesscode — using less code to get more done. Too bad that blog looks as dead as my old programming blog. Came across this quote via Paul Graham, and [...]

Released early this morning (AEST time) — Google Nexus S, made by Samsung. Official page here. A few highlights: 1GHz Cortex A8 (Hummingbird) processor 512MB RAM and 16GB internal storage 4 inch WVGA contour display (yes it’s not flat) Android 2.3 “Gingerbread” Android 2.3 platform was also announced, with SIP stack, Near Field Communications, more [...]

Just received an email about an upcoming meeting. Then I noticed that date of the meeting is… Monday 22nd of November, which was yesterday. So I thought it must have been a typo. It should have been 29th, which is next Monday! Then I looked at the email more carefully, and noted that it was [...]

Via Hacker News, Chad Austin: 10 Pitfalls of Dirty Code. Dirty code does not scale to larger teams. Dirty code reduces team morale. Dirty code makes programmers slower. Dirty code inhibits the formation of an ownership culture. If product concepts are not reflected in the code, programmers might implement features in ways that don’t make [...]

Google’s probably the last update on Google Wave. It’s a bit sad, because Wave is primary a Sydney product, sad I have spent the last Google partners day looking at it. We even used it for one of the collaboration at work. I guess a technically superior product might still not be popular, if no [...]

Hacker News Poll — what is your religion? I actually found the religion-related threads on HN usually quite good comparing to sites like Whirlpool, where people would ridicule first before any discussion. Still, atheism/agnosticism are still the majority in the tech world/startup scene.

Python 2.7 has just been released, on Anna’s birthday :) it’s going to be the last 2.x release. Time to start picking on 3.x?

This blog is brought to you by WordPress App running on my Nexus one just updated to Android 2.2 “FroYo” FRF91. Everything runs great so far, except Swype needs to be reinstalled.

Over the last week I have moved FOCUSER.net (yes the good ol site that does not seem to be used by anyone any more) and all my personal sites from VPSLink to Jumba‘s Virtuozzo VPS. Because It is Australian (servers in Sydney in my case), whereas VPSLink is in US Believe it or not, Jumba [...]