Monthly Archives: September 2008

I Love This Video

Posted on 2008/09/20 by Mark Doliner

“Oh no, no thank you, this sounds like fun, but I’ll just have a lemonade please.” “Ooh! This is good, because winter is coming. I could use these long johns ok.” “Joo know, this ‘hush puppy’ is like a quiet … Continue reading →

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The Startup Ambience

Posted on 2008/09/18 by Mark Doliner

This whole “computer startup company” thing really is different than what I was used to on the east coast. I mean, I had heard about Google and Yahoo! and PayPal and eBay and Amazon and Netscape, but it’s hard to … Continue reading →

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Asynchronous MySQL client library

Posted on 2008/09/17 by Mark Doliner

Our de facto method for asynchronous programming at Meebo is to use a single thread with non-blocking sockets and some sort of socket watching/readiness notification (poll, select, epoll, libevent, glib’s mainloop, etc). This is what Pidgin does, too. It is … Continue reading →

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readdir(), strtol(), errno and you!

Posted on 2008/09/17 by Mark Doliner

Usually when you call a function you can determine if there was an error based solely on the return code. But the functions readdir() strtol() and strtoll() are different. For these functions, if you want to know if there was … Continue reading →

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Airline Rant

Posted on 2008/09/15 by Mark Doliner

I flew to Raleigh over the weekend for a sweet wedding of some sweet people. My flights were booked on Continental Airlines, and I guess their main hub is in Houston, Texas. Unfortunately Huston was being inundated with Hurricane What’s-his-face, … Continue reading →

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Getting my Groove On

Posted on 2008/09/07 by Mark Doliner

Emily and I hosted a sleepover-with-alcohol party yesterday. I almost called it an adult sleepover, but I think ‘adult’ anything generally implies something… else. Anyway, it was fun! We got rid of a good amount of the liquor from our … Continue reading →

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