Weekend Reader – programming, drm, api, google, copyright

This is my weekly collection of the best stuff I saw on the Internet. You can follow this list of links as I post them on Friend Feed or on Twitter. Or you can get the weekly update by subscribing to Internet Duct Tape using RSS or using email.

• [CODE] Neal Stephenson on programming, lambda-the-ultimate.org
  • What programming and writing have in common
• [CODE] Pimp My Code, Part 15: The Greatest Bug of All, wilshipley.com
  • This is what programming is like.
• [CODE] Regular Expressions: Now You Have Two Problems, codinghorror.com
  • No, not really. Some brief reasons why you should use regexs.
• [CODE] The Ultimate Code Kata, codinghorror.com
  • Practice makes perfect, and the only way to improve is to push yourself to the edge of your limits.
• [COPYRIGHT] “Canadian DMCA” brings “balanced” copyright to Canada, arstechnica.com
  • You can get sued $20,000 for posting an mp3 on the internet.
• [FIREFOX] Firefox 3: Power User’s Guide to Firefox 3, lifehacker.com
  • Lifehacker has the skinny on what’s new.
• [GADGETS] Roku: $100 gadget for watching Netflix movies on your TV, boingboing.net
  • This looks awesome.. Netflix’s movies on demand for $100 plus $8.99 a month.
• [GAMES] Get Spore, spore.com
  • Spore character creator trial is available
• [GOOGLE] Google vs Geosign, canadait.com
  • Google dismantles a 160 million venture capital deal in Canada in mere weeks
• [HUMOR] Thank you, Adobe Reader 9!, blog.micropledge.com
  • Adobe Reader, giving us all time to drink our coffee
• [IPHONE] 5 reasons to avoid iPhone 3G, fsf.org
  • The Free Software Foundation lists what’s wrong with the iPhone developer model
• [PRIVACY] Big Brother is not watching, guardian.co.uk, via:gilesbowkett.blogspot.com
  • The problem of too much data – if you collect everything, it’s hard to catch the correct things.
• [SLEEPHACKS] How to nap, boston.com, via:news.ycombinator.com
  • Awesome graphic on why napping is good for you, and when to schedule it
• [WEB2.0] Two Cardinal Sins of REST API Design: Lessons you can Learn from the NewsGator REST API, 25hoursaday.com
  • Interesting points, I realize that I usually make the mistake he’s outlining.
• [WEBDESIGN] 37Better Project: Better thinking, design and usability leads to better online experiences, 37signals.com, via:news.ycombinator.com
  • Some old school redesigns from 37signals with a focus on usability
• [WORDPRESS] posting to wordpress via ruby and atompub, jmettraux.wordpress.com
  • small script for piping text into wordpress blog posts

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Tags: api, drm, programming