Ever see a quote out of context and wonder if it was twisted to manipulate the truth?
I just put up a new web site called “Rock the Quote” aimed at solving this problem. It’s a searchable collection of speeches and remarks from Presidents and other famous people in American politics, with an extra feature that lets you share quotes without losing their original context. Each speech lets you select text, highlight it, and share links with people that go directly to the quote surrounded by the original speech text. I’m hoping that people will use this to reduce confusion and disagreement about what somebody meant when discussing politics online.
The URL is http://rockthequote.com.
I recently returned from The Ajax Experience 2009, where I presented a session this year on cross-browser performance. I’ve distilled the key points of our session into six things you can start doing today to make your site perform better. Check it out on the Gomez Blog.
Ever log into a shell account as a non-root user and find it lacking a subversion client? I ran into this recently while setting up capistrano on my current hosting provider. I found the config options I wanted scattered across a few different web pages, so for posterity here are the steps I followed to get a statically compiled subversion client on my path:
- fetch the latest subversion tarball from http://subversion.tigris.org
./configure --enable-all-static --with-ssl --with-zlibmakecp subversion/clients/cmdline/svn ~/bin/svn (mkdir ~/bin if needed)- add ~/bin to your $PATH
You can tune the options to ./configure as neccessary, but my goals were to get an svn binary that would work against a subversion repository fronted by Apache, accessed via HTTPS, with support for compression.
