YASDW – yet another software developer weblog

• Why Does Simplicity Escape Programmers?
  Signed. And I love the ‘Cosmic rays’ story.
• I’ve found my software as cracked download on Internet, what to do?
  A recently closed stackoverflow question with lots of comments and answers. Interesting and entertaining!
• ShiceWM – “Shiki-Colors” für/for IceWM
  Gibt’s das auch in khaki? SCNR

• Wikileaks To Leak 5000 Open Source Java Projects With All That Private/Final Bullshit Removed
  Steve Yegge is back. Great!!!
• Should Java methods be static by default?
  “In general, Java methods should not be static by default”
• JSON in Javascript
  covering basics

• jQuery Plugin Roundup 14
  news from the plugin front
• Several jQuery versions within Liferay
  also in 5.x (!)
• Software In Real Life #1: Digging Yourself Deeper
  



• Procrastination ….
  a comic
• Liferay Builds New Standard UI Framework
  named Alloy UI
• IT Certification Alternatives: Cost Benefit Analysis
  80 hours for the SCJP….

• Lego Hello World
  A printer built with Lego bricks.
• My experience creating a Google Chrome extension
  “First off, writing an extension is easy.”
• Translating my Git workflow with local branches to Mercurial
  Good post!

• Cowboy coding
  via DDD
• Rotate Elements with CSS Transformations
  and here for IE: Introduction to Filters and Transitions
• Simply Explained

• The Toughest Developer Puzzle Ever
  Not easy!
• Groovy, Grails and GWT (G3WT) Tutorial
  Easier than the puzzle!
• Cool Text
  Online Logo, Button creator. I found some nice fonts there.

Twohundred. I didn’t expect this would happen

• Zombies are open source; humans are proprietary
  And how does this fit into that analogy?
• Rethinking Cron
  Or Norc for/in python
• On Version Control
  git plus dropbox
• Paper Browser
  Simple but effective?

• On Working Remotely
  Will this be the future of work? I think so.
• CPU 11/83
  Original or fake? Anyway, nice pic.
• Der wahre Preis billiger Hardware
  Full ack.

• Cleaning up with Vim
  The last April fools joke for this year. I promise.
• Best Online Collaboration Tools 2009
  Nice MindMeister Mindmap
• Things you wished you’d known when you started learning vim?
  Vim tips, again
• 12 Insanely Awesome Javascript Effects
  Simply awesome, each one