Tuesday, 8th May 2007
VirtualBox. GPL licensed virtualization software; they recently released an OS X version. # 9:35 pm
Just because Java was once aimed at a set-top box OS that didn’t support multiple address spaces, and just because process creation in Windows used to be slow as a dog, doesn’t mean that multiple processes (with judicious use of IPC) aren’t a much better approach to writing apps for multi-CPU boxes than threads.
— Guido van Rossum # 9:21 pm
A whole new experience for Google Analytics. I absolutely cannot wait to get my hands on the new interface. Maybe I’ll finally be able to find the search referrals page! # 9:09 pm
=drummond XRDS. Bookmarked so I can remember how to easily resolve someone’s i-name. # 8:27 pm
Using YUI with the Yahoo! Maps AJAX API. I got bitten by this today—if you’re using both YUI and a Yahoo! map on the same page you need to take a few precautions to avoid library version conflicts. # 4:07 pm