Control Structure

Andrew Bailey and Matthew Petschl talk about the New Year, progressive JPEGs, user interfaces, Postgres, Guild Wars, Fonts, and more.

Things:

• It’s official: U.S. hits debt ceiling – Dec. 31, 2012
• Performance Calendar » Progressive jpegs: a new best practice
• The Perception of Speed | High Performance Web Sites
• Max Themes Blog – ✎ If you see a UI walkthrough, they blew it
• The Technology Problem – notes.unwieldy
• Solve your first-world problem
• How multi-disk failures happen – SysAdmin1138 Expounds
• MicroSD card FAQ « bunnie’s blog
• Ost — Rethinking the value of Scrabble tiles
• Summary of the December 24, 2012 Amazon ELB Service Event in the US-East Region
• This Mom Gave her Teenage Son an 18-point Contract with his iPhone.
• How the Queen of England Beat Everyone to the Internet | Wired Enterprise | Wired.com
• The comet of the century in 2013 | TIME.com
• VP-Elect Joe Biden is Responsible for Open Sourcing Email Encryption? « :-Dustin
• The Long Strange Trip to Java
• A Tale of Two Bridges – Unprotocols
• Scaling Guild Wars for massive concurrency – Code Of Honor
• Whose bug is this anyway?!? – Code Of Honor
• How 3.6 nearly broke PostgreSQL [LWN.net]
• Scaling PostgreSQL at Braintree: Four Years of Evolution
• Lanyrd’s Big Move | The Lanyrd Blog
• Rob Conery – Five Things You Didn’t Know About PostGresSQL on Vimeo
• Is JavaScript the Future of Programming?
• PostgreSQL: The world’s most advanced open source database
• GAMEFACE : Developing Typefaces for the Xbox 360 and Other Devices – YouTube
• Google Web Fonts Open Sans
• Google Web Fonts Droid Sans
• Segoe UI
• DejaVu
• Google Web Fonts Cousine
• Google Web Fonts
• New form features in HTML5 – Dev.Opera

Music:

• Younnat – Radar – His Name is Radar
• Kyle Gabler – Years of Work*
• Kyle Gabler – Just Like You*
• Dma-sc – Hail to Sunny Days*

* used with permission of the respective musicians

This episode of Control Structure has a Fringe episode. You should really listen to The Fringe #29: CS #7 — Corn Juice!

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