http://www.frogcake.net/blog the green ones are best Thu, 26 Jun 2008 06:45:34 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Our good dog Bluey died today, aged sixteen years. He was a gentle, good natured dog with a deep interest in black socks. Like most dogs he also loved to eat, although when his sister was around he would only get what she allowed him. His most favourite food of ... http://www.frogcake.net/blog/2008/06/26/blue We all know about The Book of Mozilla but Firefox 3, which was released today, has a cute easter egg when you type about robots into the address bar with all sorts of robot references. http://www.frogcake.net/blog/2008/06/17/firefox-3-easter-egg I always thought Alistair Darling looked like a Thunderbird, but today realised who those eyebrows really reminded me of: Sam the Eagle from the Muppets. http://www.frogcake.net/blog/2008/06/03/alistair-the-eagle Paul Graham has written an interesting essay on great cities and the messages they give out and why it is that a city should have such an effect on a person and their ambitions. No matter how determined you are, it's hard not to be influenced by the people around you. ... http://www.frogcake.net/blog/2008/05/28/the-messages-of-cities I just received a notification that my first Kiva loan has been repaid! Kiva is a micro-lending website where you can make loans directly to entrepreneurs in the developing world. You can see who I am lending to on my Lender Page. It's a great way to help people improve life ... http://www.frogcake.net/blog/2008/05/25/gafurjons-sportswear-tajikistan Where's the best place at SFO to kill an hour? Not the Northwest WorldClub where I'm typing this (although it is a fairly nice lounge - mmm, chocolate chip cookies). No, the best place is the San Francisco Airport Commission Aviation Library & Louis A. Turpen Aviation Museum. Who would ... http://www.frogcake.net/blog/2008/05/12/sfo-library-museum After a very long week I could do little more than lay around in Huntington Park on Nob Hill today but tonight I caught the F Train to Davies Symphony Hall to see Michael Tilson Thomas conduct the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra in an all Brahms concert. Lief Ove Andsnes ... http://www.frogcake.net/blog/2008/05/11/san-francisco-symphony I've just been to a very interesting BOF by Ludovic Champenois at JavaOne about the new PHP support in NetBeans. The talk was in the context of the new OpenSolaris WebStack so some time was spent on this, including the unique DTrace functionality which looks neat, but I found the ... http://www.frogcake.net/blog/2008/05/09/php-gets-some-netbeans-love This was a popular session. The queue stretched down the hall, out the front door and around the block. It covered the main vulnerabilities bad guys exploit to attack websites. It was a good session given by Joe Walker who also gave the BOF on Comet. First up was cross-site request ... http://www.frogcake.net/blog/2008/05/09/advanced-web-application-security I attended a session by Bill Pugh (although sometimes it seemed more like a TB ward with all the coughing and sneezing going on) about using FindBugs on large code bases. FindBugs is a static analysis tool that analyses your class files without executing the program. Some people don't think ... http://www.frogcake.net/blog/2008/05/08/using-findbugs-in-anger