Noah Sussman

Paul Graham on the misadventure that is the iPhone App store. Interestingly he ties the frustration of app developers, to the way Apple's "approval process" breaks the release-early-and-often development cycle. "Programmers don't use launch-fast-and-iterate out of laziness. They use it because it yields the best results.... By breaking software development, Apple gets the opposite of what they intended: the version of an app currently available in the App Store tends to be an old and buggy one." - Noah Sussman

3 rules for coding: 1) use one-and-only-one indentation style, 2) "Good programs do not contain spelling errors or have grammatical mistakes. I think this is probably a result of fractal attention to detail; in great programs things are correct at all levels, down to the periods at the ends of sentences in comments." and 3) always immediately delete any superfluous code. - Noah Sussman

So simple I missed it the first time: to start migrating, change "class FooTest < Test::Unit::TestCase" to "describe Foo do" - Noah Sussman

automatically watch a filesystem and take action when you notice changes - Noah Sussman

Weather-Util is a cli for retrieving weather conditions and forecasts. - Noah Sussman

Plot maps. - Noah Sussman

Example code for sending an attachment with Net::SMTP - Noah Sussman

Examples of using telnet to talk to the IIS SMTP service. - Noah Sussman

Examples of telnet sessions with smtp servers. - Noah Sussman

I did the same thing with netcat and it does not work. Not sure yet what config I'm missing on the netcat side, but at least I can get the server to talk to me with telnet. - Noah Sussman

Use the Safely Remove Hardware wizard to stop all USB drives and card readers. - Noah Sussman

Turn a Windows box into a dual-boot Ubuntu system. - Noah Sussman

Netcat SMTP example. Shows stype-by-step how to send an email via an SMTP server using netcat. - Noah Sussman

"unpatchable" vulnerability in flash. The only safe solution is to use Flashblock, or just uninstall Flash completely. - Noah Sussman

New (2009) Flash exploit discovered. Affects any browser with Flash installed. Adobe says no known fix. - Noah Sussman