Jon Bauer’s Blog

If you’ve ever been curious about the beginnings of Linux, but don’t have the patience to read Just For Fun?

The Code Linux is a great documentary on the creation of Linux and the Free Software Movement.

Note: there are some interviews in Swedish [or Finnish??], but most of it is in English, and very easy to digest, even if you’re not a techie.

Please Enjoy

Grails - an agile open source web application framework framework for Groovy/Java.

Documentation, screencasts, tutorials, a podcast, and an Apress book on the way.

Read and comment on the upcoming Apress Django book as it’s written.

http://www.djangobook.com/en/beta/

note: beautiful and useful comment / feedback system

Would love to see something like this for the upcoming Symfony book.

http://www.geogreeting.com/

Say it, with buildings.

Snap is probably the most useful addition to the web I’ve seen in a while. Seeing the destination of a link before you click. So incredibly useful. I can see myself actually being annoyed if a site did not offer this on their links.

Observations:
- It seems to render snapshots with Flash 7. A Flash 8 site like 247HH.com only renders the get flash page.
- Will this help Phishing attacks? Maybe yes because it will show users the real destination before they click, however once Phishers create a cloned landing page, it may give users a false sense of security. (read: don’t depend on it)
- I wonder how often a Snap of something like CNN.com will be cached for?

***just to clarify. I’m excited about the snapshot service that’s being displayed on my site when you mouseover the link. Snap.com is a search engine, which to me in itself, is not as interesting.

Another great Bar Camp LA this past weekend.

You can see some of it here.

And you can listen to some of it here.

Do join us for the next one won’t you?

holy crap. I passed my Zend PHP5 Certification Exam! Whew, time for a beer.

I’ll do a full recap on ZendCon when I get back home. It’s been rad.