Category Archives: Links

A bunch of links with annotations

Just which decade is it?

I stumbled upon this hilarity from the PostgreSQL docs.

The first century starts at 0001-01-01 00:00:00 AD, although they did not know it at the time. This definition applies to all Gregorian calendar countries. There is no century number 0, you go from -1 century to 1 century. If you disagree with this, please write your [...]

Geany GTK based editor

After fighting with the latest version of Kate’s strange way of allowing you to configure the usage of tabs rather than spaces, I decided to give a Geany a try. Normally I steer clear of GTK applications simply because I’ve used so many poorly written ones. Fortunately, Geany does not fall into that [...]

Deliciousness

Finally created a Delicious account. My open tabs now exceed practicality. I can’t work through enough projects simultaneously to hold my active tabs under 50. It’s crazy. Posting to Delicious, I am hopeful, will allow me to immediately dump resources I am not actively using in favor of fewer open tabs.
Ultimately, [...]

Economic Crisis Reading, Money Supply and Capitalization

Steve Keen has a must read article, Steve Keen’s DebtWatch No 31 February 2009: “The Roving Cavaliers of Credit”, that turns the accepted relationship of money supply and the Fed on its head.
Eugene Fama speaks of government recapitalization of banks in Government Equity Capital for Financial Firms.

What about Opera?

I can’t believe Farhad Manjoo wrote an entire article comparing every browser but Opera. He even comments on how much he loves the Firefox mouse gestures plugin, a feature that Opera pioneered. What a shame!

I use Tab Mix Plus in conjunction with Foxmarks, which allows me to share Firefox bookmarks across computers. I [...]

Financial Crisis: Of Bailouts, Kleptocracy, and AIG

Several must read articles just from the past couple days.
No Return to Normal Why the economic crisis, and its solution, are bigger than you think. James K. Galbraith.
The Big Takeover. The global economic crisis isn’t about money - it’s about power. How Wall Street insiders are using the bailout to stage a revolution. [...]

Dynamic, lazy loading JavaScript packages

Many different solutions exist.

JSLoad is a Javascript file loader that [they] wrote for Instructables.

jspkg is a package loader for Javascript, based on pluggable loaders for locating and loading scripts into a client-side Javascript application. Orphaned?

The YUI Loader Utility is a client-side JavaScript component that allows you to load specific YUI components and their dependencies [...]

Crazy Firefox search hijack redirect

Quite recently, an exploit in the wild seems to introduce a trojan Firefox plugin. As of last week, nothing I ran picked up on it, even an updated Spybot Search & Destroy. Fortunately, someone figured out what it was. A tool called Goored will resolve it.
It’s an executable. If you aren’t [...]

Tools for cleaning an infected Windows system

Lately I have come across stuff that owns Windows sytems via Firefox in some fashion. AVG was alone has been able to clean these systems up. I have found some tools that are effective.
Dr Web CureIt is the best AV package I’ve found thus far. It was able to heal W32 Virut. [...]

ExtJS and Observable

With ExtJS, any class you create can have access to the ExtJS event model by simplying extending Ext.util.Observable. But then how do you actually use events?

High level overview of ExtJS events
Custom events in ExtJS
Observable Tutorial/Example
Singleton Observable
Subscribe to app level events demonstrates using Observable to listen to app level events
Another example of app level events.