Cross Dominant

#“nide, a browser-based IDE for Node.JS is just what I need” via coreh.github.com I like the Cloud 9 IDE but it isn't integrated into my workflow. nide, OTOH, is installed on my servers. On first try, I love it already. Editing code in the browser is so much easier than using console Emacs/VIM or SFTP remotely. It looks like they have tied Git support in too. They need to add some sort of simple access control soon and I'll be a complete convert. »

#“We Need a Shrine to Tomorrow’s World in The Grafton Arcade” Ask many people of a certain age (around 40) where they first encountered a computer and you will invariably hear "Tomorrow's World in the Grafton Arcade". Yet strangely if you google it, most of the mentions online are by me since 2005. I can't overstate how important that shop was for several years in the 1980s. Just like the first McDonald's on Grafton Street was a Mecca for us muckers up for our Christmas shopping in the 80s, so too was Tomorrow's World for anyone who knew what a home computer was. »

#“Se\u00e1n Sherlock Needs to Watch and Listen To This” I listened to last night's TWiT podcast in the car this morning on the way from Cork to Dublin. The bulk of it is a brilliant debate between host Leo Laporte and guest Nilay Patel about online piracy, SOPA and intellectual property rights.  What's marvellous about it is that both of them seem to initially be in opposition to each other but both have extremely relevant points to make and refine their arguments. »

#“MongoPress - A MongoDB-based CMS inspired by WordPress” These guys started out building a plugin for WordPress to make it use MongoDB instead of MySQL but found it was almost impossible. So they decided to build an alternative called MongoPress based on many of the good things about WordPress and hopefully none of the bad things (Die-WordPress-Editor-Die-Die-Die).It's early days but it looks interesting so far. I'll play around over Christmas and see how it scales. »

#“Android 4.0 (ICS/Ice Cream Sandwich) is Pretty Lovely” I've got to hand it to Google, ICS is an absolute pleasure to use. Everything feels integrated and consistent and beautiful. It's really interesting how much of a difference even a font change can make. I just played around with an early community Alpha firmware of it for the HTC Sensation and even at this buggy stage, I want to switch. The iPad2 I've been using for the past 10 days feels like a clunky locked-down VTech toy in comparison. »

#“Jesus Christ Facebook, Now You Decide to Fuck-Up Python Users?” Earlier in the week I got annoyed at Facebook for changing yet another API for no good reason (oh let's change blah_blah to blahBlah from now on, just for kicks). I've come to the realisation that they are breaking the web bit by bit. A site you built in 1997 willprobablybe 100% functional in 2011. A site you built in 2010 with deep Facebook integration, will probably be 90% broken in 2012 if you are notmaintainingit daily. »

#“What do you young hipsters use to protect your iPads from the rain?” I'm thinking some sort of European Man Purse? I went with this in the end, from the North Face Outlet in Kildare. »

#“iGo Stowaway Keyboard and iPad 2 = Awesome” Wayyyy back in Feb 2008, the iGo Stowaway keyboard was being end-of-lined due to its non-HID compatibility and I managed to snare one for £18 in the UK. It had previously been north of £100. It's one of the best purchases I've ever made. Over the years I have used it with a Nokia N770 tablet, an N95-8GB phone, a HTC Desire, Boxee/XBMC on our TV PC and now, drum-roll, hurrah, it works on the iPad2 too! »

#“Facebook is removing App Profile Pages - This affects a lot of Devs” Today, we are announcing that we will remove all App Profile Pages on February 1st, 2012. Though similar in appearance, the automatically generated App Profile Pages differ in features from traditional Facebook Pages, and over time the inconsistencies between the two, such as different Insights, APIs, and distribution channels, have become more apparent. via developers.facebook.com If you have an App that you add to Pages as a Tab by sending Page Owners to the App's own Profile Page, then you need to change how you do things. »

#“Ireland Finally Gets Its Own Oyster Card - LeapCard” via leapcard.ie I could be crabby and point out we should have had this for a decade, considering it's all CIE. But at least we have it now. Yay! Buying one now. »