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Here's a quick tip if you've ever wanted to publish your blog entries on Twitter automagically. There's always been services like TwitterFeed but they are slow to update and requires that you share login credentials with yet another 3rd party site. Enter FriendFeed. With the launch of their new feed publishing feature, you can post to Twitter any or all services that are linked to your account. Here are ...

At my day job at Yahoo! Research, I get to interview my fair share of engineers. Almost always, the candidates seem to fall into one of two types - the specialists and the generalists. The specialists are those who come from a strong background of fundamentals. Over years, they have honed and assimilated the details of their language or technology of choice. The generalists are the hungry scavengers. ...

I go through a lot of music through the day - my ipod through commutes, workstations at work and home, etc. Keeping my music organized is not only necessarily but also lets me look up the right song for the right moment. So I got to thinking, why not use the social tagging concept for my mp3's. Luckily, iTunes already has support for a mp3 tag called "Grouping". Searching ...

I started using the minimal but feature-rich todo.txt by Gina Trapani today. Its got a great set of features (lists, priorities, projects, contexts, etc). Its minimal and coupled with the AIM client, you don't necessarily have to always have a Terminal window open to interact with it. Adium does just fine. A few tweaks you may want to use to further enhance. I found myself typing "ls" for "list" ...

I finally got tired of getting timed out of my server while using Terminal and/or iTerm. Luckily, the fix was easier and less complicated than I imagined. It was a system-wide ssh config fix. Try the following: 1. sudo emacs /etc/ssh_config 2. add a new line "ServerAliveInterval 60" 3. save and exit That should do it. The next time you ssh (using either Terminal or iTerm), you'll be sending 'Keep Alive' packets ...