A few weeks ago, I introduced the Coderlog. It was an attempt at having a generic programming link blog running here on the official coder.io blog. There was no shortage of stuff to post and some nice posts came out of it.

I decided to kill the Coderlog early in its life because it was trying to solve the same problem as coder.io itself. The Coderlog was a way to keep up to date with interesting new things in the world of programming and computer science but.. that's coder.io's entire mission. It seems crazy, then, for me to spend time manually curating links here when I should be improving coder.io to do the same job semi-automatically.

I want to integrate some more human-driven curation options into coder.io itself, but in terms of running a separate blog just about programming stuff, it makes no sense. Sign up at coder.io and subscribe to the tags and queries that interest you instead.

Since coder.io had its soft-ultra beta-"not telling many people yet" type launch less than a month ago, 403 users have somehow discovered the site and decided to sign up - thanks!

The user numbers will explode soon because I have a mailing list of 1700 interested developers I still haven't mailed yet. Oops.

It's of importance I keep pushing forward with new developments each and every week, so here's a public To Do list to show you what I'm working on and to act as a form of social pressure. Feel free to post a comment with ideas of your own.

• Write a series of blog posts about "how coder.io works" covering how content is found, how the system is structured, what technologies it uses, etc.
• Starring and saving of items - for personal recollection (this is a biggie..)
• API documentation
• OpenID support for logins and signups
• Twitter OAuth support for logins and signups
• Add UI for people to submit "leads" to the coder.io system/add items
• Add UI for people to submit sources coder.io should crawl
• Multiviews - view types that can be chosen by users/readers at will (e.g. list, "newspaper style", links only)
• "Official" links against tags so that key resources can be prominently featured
• Avatars and metadata for tags (such as descriptions - helps people choose tags better)
• Advanced query/subscription builder
• Stack Overflow integration
• GitHub integration
• Notices/news box so key improvements can be easier seen
• Remove the box nagging people to leave a message
• E-mail subscription support - so you can have a weekly/monthly/whatever e-mail with content from your subscriptions
• Image extraction from pages - to show relevant pics on items instead of just avatars Canceling this idea, it's frivolous and not necessary for the sort of content coder.io covers.
• Add many more sources (a permanent item)
• Add more tags and refine those existing (a permanent item)
• I will extend this list over time..

Hacker Monthly is a new magazine in PDF and print formats that's based around content that makes it onto Hacker News, a popular social news site for developers and startups.

After seeing the quality of issue 1, I decided to get in touch with them about advertising in issue 2. They cut me a good "first time" deal - it's basically half the published rate - so I thought it'd be silly not to both support them and do a very passive bit of promotion to HN (which, considering coder.io is still in beta, I have not pushed yet).

I'll be doing an analysis post of how the ad performs in a week or two, because I know a lot of you will dig that, but for now, go check out issue 2 of Hacker Monthly. The PDF version is FREE but you can pay to get the print version if you like.

GCCSense is a standalone program that uses GCC's code analyzers to provide code completion features to any editor of your choice (though Vim and emacs are shown as examples). Beyond knowing that, this demo screencast illustrates how it works beautifully:

Microsoft has unveiled the latest "platform preview" for Internet Explorer 9 and.. long-awaited support for the CANVAS tag has been included! This is a major step forward for IE and one that will, eventually, bring an almost full adoption of HTML 5 standards to the majority of Web users.

The CANVAS element was originally created by Apple to make it possible to build advanced graphic-driven "widgets" in OS X and has become a part of the HTML 5 standard. Safari, Chrome, Opera and Firefox all support CANVAS in their latest versions, but Internet Explorer has held out with its alternative VML system till now. Projects like explorercanvas have emulated CANVAS support in IE but, as of IE 9, should no longer be required.

TechCrunch has a post about today's IE 9 preview and its support of other HTML 5 technologies such as the VIDEO and AUDIO tags.