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mhoofman··on Salman Khan on SOPA and PIPA [Video]
Enlightening video as always. The most interesting bit was the analysis of how the bills are worded. Grouping in sites that enable or facilitate so called theft of U.S. property clearly shows how dangerous this bill could be to the internet.
mhoofman··on Khan Academy: Computer Science
John goes over how and why the new CS videos will be taught using JavaScript+HTML5 in these youtube videos:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0Fi8EnSInE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_EU6w8iIGQ

mhoofman··on Ryan Bates launches RailsCasts Pro
I would guess Ryan used https://stripe.com to set up reoccurring billing for Pro.

So will we be seeing an episode or maybe an advanced episode on how Ryan set up reoccurring billing for Railscasts?

mhoofman··on Python and Django on Heroku
Heroku's cedar stack can now detect apps using:

  * Ruby
  * Node.js
  * Clojure
  * Python
  * Go ??
  * Scala
  * PHP
  * Java
  * Perl ??
Anything missing here? That covers a lot of whats out there.
mhoofman··on Hey Google, I want my cache links back
Google is starting to become a lot less minimal. I like their current design direction but as the OP stated in the article the cruft is starting to build up.
mhoofman··on Google Drive: Is the Dropbox Party Over?
Google needs to provide very simple native syncing apps that are equivalent to or better then Dropbox's and at the same time support several different platforms out of the gate to draw people away from Dropbox.
mhoofman··on Steve Jobs explains branding
Wouldn't this just be a company's logo or slogan? (ie Nike: Just Do It).