2008-09-19
Dropbox: Cross-platform file auto-syncing
Dropbox is coming out of beta and will allow paid 50GB plans within the next week or two. I'm testing out the 50GB plan and am generally happy with the service.
Dropbox auto-syncs files in a specified local folder across Amazon S3 and your other designated computers. The clients are good on both Mac and Windows platforms. Versioning comes for free.
For small program and configuration file ...
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2007-10-28
MacOS X 10.5: Leopard Time Machine Problem
The new MacOS X upgrade, Leopard, adds many useful features. Some upgraders who try the new backup system, Time Machine, may experience an excessively long initial backup time. For example, 90 GB on my MacBook Pro laptop could take 2+ days for the initial backup to a USB 2.0 Western Digital Passport drive. I disabled the Norton AntiVirus "Auto Protect" feature, and the backup speeds increased quite ...
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2007-08-27
Intelligent photo resizing and alteration
Here's some astounding work on photo manipulation by Shai Avidan and Ariel Shamir: Seam Carving for Content-Aware Image Resizing
2007-06-06
Backing up DokuWiki to Amazon S3
I've been using the PHP DokuWiki in a couple of places. It's small, skinnable, simple, and database-free. If I had the time, I'd clone it in Ruby. (Ruby needs a nice little wiki system.) Integration and backup is easy since all the content lives in files. I made a quick Ruby hack that backs up a DokuWiki to an Amazon S3 account. You can view ...
2006-07-02
Back from RailsConf
RailsConf 2006 was one concentrated dose of Ruby and Rails goodness. I went through my talk a bit faster than expected. If you are looking for the slides, they are posted over at Writertopia. I plan on writing a lengthy article based on the talk to flesh in many points I skipped or glossed over.
The Authorization plugin has been getting a lot of love for the last ...
