Favorite startup books on Audible

I'm a big fan of Audible.com, here are my favorites and my wish list.


The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses.
by Eric Ries



Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind
by Al Ries , Jack Trout



Differentiate or Die
by Jack Trout , Steve Rivkin




The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing
by Al Ries , Jack Trout




A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future
by Daniel Pink




Drive: The Surprising Truth about What Motivates Us
by Daniel Pink




Rework
by Jason Fried , David Heinemeier Hansson




Dot.Bomb
by J. David Kuo





The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story
by Michael Lewis





The Anatomy of Buzz
by Emanuel Rosen





The Search: How Google & Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business & Transformed Our Culture
by John Battelle





How to Win Friends & Influence People
by Dale Carnegie





The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
by Malcolm Gladwell





The Innovator's Solution: Creating and Sustaining Successful Growth
by Clayton M. Christensen , Michael E. Raynor



If you need more books you can follow Joel Spolsky's list.

Bash script can tell its location

You can get the path of the directory in which a bash script is located FROM that bash script.


Read more about this problem on stackoverflow.

Loading an agent on OSX

Print out more than 20 items in mongodb shell

When you're listing a large dataset in the shell you'll only see 20 items by default and a 'has more' text indicating that there are more.
If you want to change this limit you can use

DBQuery.shellBatchSize = 300

in the shell.

Loading CDN hosted jQuery with local fallback

I found this piece of art in html5boilerplate.
It tries to load jQuery from a CDN and if it fails for whatever reason it tries a local one.

Replace line break with comma in bash

Creating a custom google maps marker with canvas

Generating a custom marker with canvas is handy when you want to change the marker size/color dynamically.

The following code snippet contains a 'createMarker' function that creates a canvas, draws the marker graphics and returns back the Data URL encoded version of that canvas which can be used as an input at the marker creation.

See the example below.