Links published on April 15, 2007

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The Two Things about Computer Programming

Every problem can be solved by breaking it up into a series of smaller problems.

This is why a lot of really good programmers come from liberal-arts backgrounds: critical thinking is one of the necessary skills.

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Rails, Twitter and the 800lb Gorilla in the Room…

Why shouldn’t we extend the concept of “no premature optimisation” to language and platform selection? If Twitter had chosen an “enterprise” class platform and tried to architect for 11k reqs/sec, chances are they would still be building…

Amen.

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Sprint Users - Focus - Upload Content to your PCS Phone

Finally figured out how to turn an mp3 into a ring tone for my A900:

  1. Open up GarageBand, start a new podcast episode.
  2. Import the audio file.
  3. Trim it down to under 30 seconds.
  4. Share -> Export Song to Disk (default podcast setting is 64kb AAC, which is perfect for this).
  5. Head over to the Sprint Users page and message the file to my phone.

How handy.

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