Now before you think “Pfft, another surf clip…”, stop. Yes, I’m mad about surfing, but this interview with Kelly Slater actually has a lot to do with all of us. It’s all about attitude and motivation. Kelly has won the World Title 10 times, so surely he must be doing something right. Although this is [...]
This is such an inspirational movie by Relentless energy. This explains it best: Lives of The Artists features freeride snowboarder Xavier de Le Rue in the incredible, untamed wilderness of Greenland before moving on to the World’s ‘most perfect’ wave, a simply awesome force of nature; Teahupoo in Tahiti with big wave surfers Tom Lowe [...]
This is brilliant! In an interview physicist Richard Feynman was asked why do two magnets repel each other and when you turn it around, it attracts each other. He ends up explaining not why it does it, but he explains why a “why?” or “how?” question is so difficult to explain. It is absolutely brilliant. [...]
Mweb is running an ad campaign to introduce their dedicated server hosting. I had a look and while the landing page is a bit confusing, I downloaded the product information sheet to have a closer look and the offering is actually the best I’ve seen to date by far. So I decided to measure it [...]
My friends always get nervous when I say, “dude, you should totally check out OCaml” or “Erland concurrency is the bomb!” or “Next project we do is in Django/Rails/Scala/Haskell/Putthelanguagenamehere”. I’m sure Justin can concur that I’ve put a grey hair or two on his head. The thing is, I love learning new ways of doing [...]
Net tuts+ is running a very cool promo for the month of October. You can download the ebook Getting good with Git for free. I would highly recommend that you do so while you can. I just skimmed over it quickly last night and I think it is great. Specially for the not-so-technical and designers [...]
I’ve been developing with Code Igniter for years. One thing that irritated me endlessly is the fact that they destroy the $_GET variable since it does not utilize GET strings, there is no reason to allow it. Never mind that we as developers might want to use it. :P There is a way to access [...]
Over the last few years I’ve been pretty much out of touch with the business side of business. When I was freelancing, I pretty much did things my own way, not caring about much more than keeping the bank ticking. Until about 2 weeks ago, I was still in that comfort zone, caring about little [...]
It is nothing new really. We’ve had niche or exclusive social networks for a long time. Lately though we’ve seen a new kind of exclusive social network emerging. I’m talking about sites like Dribbble, Forrst and Lovedsgn. They’re very niche and very exclusive. While I don’t really have an opinion about Dribbble and Lovedsgn, I [...]
What is paper.li? Paper.li is a service which allows you to create newspaper-like daily editions of selected twitter followers and the links they tweet. Depending on how you use this, it could be very valuable. Not only is it pretty useful, it is extremely simple to use and set up. You authorise/login with your existing [...]