Hi, I was planning to prepare stuff for igoogle gadgets; but it turned out that Thursday night a bunch was changed there (and seems like they'll change it ...
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Dell is offloading tower servers again, looks like a decent deal: SC1430: Single Quad Core 1.6GHz 2*4MB L2 2GB ECC FB-DIMM @ 667MHz 80GB SATA HD Shipped and...
... I picked up a Dell server (a 400SC) on sale a few years ago, and have been reasonably happy with it. The "server" category of boxes can be bought without...
Thanks, John! Last week we postponed the Google Gadgets meeting, since Vlad found that the API had recently changed. So, we'll be doing Greasemonkey on the...
Hi all, I've been playing with the AWS Elastic Computing Cloud (EC2) and wrote up some notes on how to get started. The documentation on Amazon's site...
I see some of the command lines have been wrapped in the notes in the previous message, so here are the notes as an attachment. Carlos Notes for getting...
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We didn't cover memory fragmentation much in our recent performance track. I just ran across the following blog entry that explains why long-running instances...
Time to re-invent the garbage collector :) ... From: John Brewer <jbrewer@...> To: siliconvalleypatterns@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, November 12, 2007...
Can you add a video card easily though? I read this post (http://www.davtar.org/blog/?p=24) about Dell bending over backwards to discourage people from doing ...
Dear Patterns Group, I wasn't able to attend last night's session on Google Gadgets due to a conflict, but I would love to hear how it went and what resources ...
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Here were my talking points: * A Gadget is just some HTML/JavaScript wrapped in some XML metadata. They are typically displayed inside iFrames for security...
Martin's started posting chapters from his upcoming DSL book to his website. http://martinfowler.com/dslwip/ There's also an RSS feed you can subscribe to. -- ...
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Hi everyone, Sorry for the late notice. Russ was sick this weekend, and so didn't come up with a topic for the meeting. Let's skip this week and plan to meet...
Since we're not having a new topic today, I thought I'd ask a question relevant to last week's meeting on Greasemonkey. My experience then was that simple...
Have you looked at DOM Inspector? I seem to have installed it at some point. It gives a nice tree view of a document's DOM. The debugging section of Dive...
Another great tool (I mentioned this the other night, but will reiterate it here for the list) is XPather, another Firefox extension. Even if you aren't using...
