March 2010
jQuery Plugin: Tokenizing Autocomplete Text Entry... →
jQuery Plugin: Tokenizing Autocomplete Text Entry
jQuery DivCorners | Producto de roydukkey →
This plugin aims to created an easy way to add border layouts to screen content.
Nanotech May Tap Into Your Mind : Discovery News →
Telecommunications researchers in Japan are attempting to create electronic sensors that can not only receive information from the brain, but could manipulate our neural pathways. While the concept might conjure science-fiction images of half-human, half-machine cyborgs, Dr Keiichi Torimitsu of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT), says the research is more likely to provide relief for people with...
Lessons Learned: How to conduct a Five Whys root... →
In the lean startup workshops, we’ve spent a lot of time discussing the technique of Five Whys. It allows teams to diagnose sources of waste in their development process and continuously improve, reversing the usual trend of teams getting slower over time. With Five Whys, teams can accelerate, even as they scale.
February 2010
Class sessions — Open Yale Courses →
Click session titles below to access audio, video, and course materials.
Free Web UI Wireframe Kit | Fuel Your Interface →
Sometimes you don’t need to build interactive wireframes, or may not feel all that comfortable in Visio or OmniGraffle. I know here are times I just want to open up Photoshop and start laying things out.
Google Launches User-Generated Street View –... →
Although it continues to face criticism from European privacy authorities about Street View, that hasn’t stopped Google from adding features to the service. The latest to launch is a kind of user-generated layer to Street View that uses photos uploaded by individuals to create a pseudo-3D panorama of a specific spot. Although there aren’t going to be enough user photos to do this for every site or...
The unary ampersand in Ruby →
A marshmallow toasting dragon slayer from Montréal asked about the unary &. I like this question, because when I saw it, I realized immediately that although I’ve figured out how to use it to accomplish certain things, writing an answer serves the excellent purpose of forcing myself to learn more.
Weekend Snack: Milk and Honey Peanut Butter Balls... →
Do you have any recipes that take you straight back to childhood? These peanut butter balls are one of those for us. But they’re not just an exercise in nostalgia: these quick, easy little snacks are nearly irresistible, so sweet with honey and crispy with coconut and malted milk.
Bjarne Stroustrup on Educating Software Developers... →
Bjarne Stroustrup is a leading figure in modern software development. As the designer of the C++ language – used in everything from the Google search engine to the iPhone – his contribution has impacted countless development projects.
PiCloud | Cloud Computing. Simplified. →
Leverage the power of the cloud with only 3 lines of code. Leave the load balancing, auto scaling, and server management to us.
The Dam Just Broke: Facebook Opens Up to OpenID →
In a few minutes Facebook will become the biggest example of a social network that allows users to log-in with OpenID credentials granted to them by other companies’ websites. Major networks have said for months that their ID could be used as OpenID, but becoming “relying parties” that accepted OpenID from elsewhere was the step everyone was waiting for. The dam has broken.
10 Essential Chrome Extensions for Web Developers →
As a web developer, you’re probably among the earliest adopters of new browser technologies. Google’sGoogleGoogle relatively new ChromeChromeChrome browser is one of those products that developers jumped all over as soon as it became available, but its initial lack of extensions was a dealbreaker for many.
The Great Slump of 1930, by John Maynard Keynes →
The world has been slow to realize that we are living this year in the shadow of one of the greatest economic catastrophes of modern history. But now that the man in the street has become aware of what is happening, he, not knowing the why and wherefore, is as full to-day of what may prove excessive fears as, previously, when the trouble was first coming on, he was lacking in what would have been...
flycode - Project Hosting on Google Code →
Random bits of code from Flying Meat. Project Home Downloads Wiki Issues Source Summary | Updates | People Star this project Code license: New BSD License Labels: macosx, mac, objc, objective-c, cocoa Feeds: * Project feeds People details Project owners: gusmueller This is where a bunch of random code that should probably be public resides. I’m your host, gus@flyingmeat.com . Enjoy.
inessential.com: On switching away from Core Data →
A lot of the work I’ve been doing the last several months is optimizing performance for NetNewsWire for iPhone. The changes haven’t shipped yet, because I’m not quite finished. But one part of this might be interesting to other developers, so I figured I’d write it up.
Jaeger →
Cloud computing — the creation of large data centers that can be dynamically provisioned, configured, and reconfigured to deliver services in a scalable manner — places enormous capacity and power in the hands of users. As an emerging new technology, however, cloud computing also raises significant questions about resources, economics, the environment, and the law. Many of these questions relate...
Hi-ReS! Feed: Hana OSX Screensaver →
The idea is that no aspect of creating the flowers is hidden from the computers, everything is created in code and no bitmaps are used that the computer has not seen to the creation of itself, letting the computer “think” through every step.
Brown University - Data Management Group » A... →
The following information is meant to provide documentation on how others can recreate the benchmark trials used in our SIGMOD 2009 paper. Our experiments were conducted on a 100-node cluster at the University of Wisconsin-Madison; each node had a single 2.40 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor running 64-bit Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (kernel version 2.6.18) with 4GB RAM and two 250GB SATA-I hard...
10 Apps for Developers on a Shoestring | Nettuts+ →
There are many many different areas web developers need to cover. First you need to find the perfect text editor, set up a local environment, find a database management tool and then find a great FTP application. And for many of us out there freelancing, we have less of a budget to work with. So here’s 10 cheap or free web development tools for Windows and OS X.
Ajaxian » Meer Meer: Cross browser testing all... →
The most exciting part of Adobe MAX last week was a service that was announced by Paul Gubbay at the “Sneaks” session that shows cool tech that Adobe folk are working on. His (very early stage) service is called Meer Meer and it is genuinely useful. You can plugin a URL and the system will render that page on a server farm (many browsers, cross OS) and show you the results. It can visually layer...
A List Apart: Articles: Accent Folding for... →
Another generation of technology has passed and Unicode support is almost everywhere. The next step is to write software that is not just “internationalized” but truly multilingual. In this article we will skip through a bit of history and theory, then illustrate a neat hack called accent-folding. Accent-folding has its limitations but it can help make some important yet overlooked user...
Some Stuff - Screaming Duck Software →
Roger Alsing started something when he made a program to evolve an image out of polygons. His original blog entry is here. but read the followup entries as well. There’s some good stuff there. Several people remarked upon the small data size of 50 polygons and this raised the question of image compression. Could this system be a good way to compress images?
Type Tips—short, quick tips on all things web... →
This is the ideal alignment for type on the web—left aligned and unjustified—due the the inability to viably control individual letters and words. Justified type is often a poor choice, because rivers are easily created in the text.
Inspirational Poster Designs – DesignM.ag →
Posters are an excellent source of design inspiration. The large canvas size gives plenty of options for creative designers, and there are plenty of examples of excellent design all of different styles. In this post we’ll feature more than 25 posters for your design inspiration.
Series 51 : MySQLAtFacebook →
Branch of MySQL 5.1 with Facebook patches. Currently based on 5.1.44
How to get better at UI design →
In the quest of becoming a good UI designer, you can come a long way by reading books, attending conferences, formally educating yourself, trying out tutorials, or just experimenting on your own. However, if you want to go into hyper-speed in bettering your UI design skills, the best way to learn is to work with other designers. Find them at your workplace, hire them, or spend time online in the...
Sinatra Book →
Sinatra is a Domain Specific Language (DSL) for quickly creating web-applications in Ruby.
Inbox2 - One stream for all your accounts →
One stream for all your accounts
TextboxList « Devthought →
TextboxList turns normal textboxes into a widget which can be navigated with the keyboard, effectively turning your input into a “list” of items that can be easily deleted. It comes with an Autocomplete plugin.
NYCJAVA-Wiki: NYC Java.net →
Featuring the monthly NYC Java Meetup and the NYC Java Study Groups. We are an independent vendor neutral professional association of Java developers, collaborating on Java technologies for all levels of expertise. We feature expert speakers, study groups and networking. We are the Java SIG (Special Interest Group) of the NYPC Users Group one of the oldest computer users group, a 501(C)3...
The Principles of Great Design →
As a designer or lover of design you might find yourself asking not what is design, but what makes a design great? How often have you gone through a gallery and looked at some great designs and told yourself that you are going to open up Photoshop or a browser and do the same thing right now only to find that when you are done the end result simply doesn’t match what you were expecting?
16 Free Must-Read eBooks About Social Media |... →
Whether you’re keeping up with family members or growing your company’s brand, social media has become integral to many aspects of our lives. And it’s getting harder to keep up. Here are some ebooks that can get you started on your path towards social media success or help you kick things up a notch if you’re already active on the social Web.
Qhub - a simple way to create a Q&A website →
Qhub is a system to allow anybody to build a Q&A website in minutes. Simply choose a Qhub name and address to build your very own Q&A site.
iPhone Development: Implementing a Wait "Alert"… →
At the risk of being hit by the Fist of Matt Gemmell, I’m going to show how to throw up a Tweetie 2-style “wait a second” alert. Tweetie uses this when it is uploading a picture to go in a tweet being composed, or when it does other things where it needs to stop you from using the controls for a moment.
Amazon Virtual Private Cloud →
Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) is a secure and seamless bridge between a company’s existing IT infrastructure and the AWS cloud. Amazon VPC enables enterprises to connect their existing infrastructure to a set of isolated AWS compute resources via a Virtual Private Network (VPN) connection, and to extend their existing management capabilities such as security services, firewalls, and...
Peacock Suit » Zend framework: Logging Database... →
Logging database queries to FireBug is sinfully simple with the new component Zend_Db_Profiler_Firebug in ZF 1.6, now available, you can download it here Zend Framework Download Page.
Christoph Dorn - All around the PHP Toolchain »... →
This means that if you use Zend Framework (ZF) you can now log to your Firebug Console via FirePHP without needing to download any other PHP files such as the FirePHPCore library.
Facebook Granted News Feed Patent – GigaOM →
Facebook was on Tuesday granted a U.S. patent for aspects of its news feed, as was first reported by AllFacebook. The patent, which covers methods for dynamically parsing and distributing information about what users have done on a social network to other users of that social network, names CEO Mark Zuckerberg as inventor along with other Facebook engineers and product people. It was originally...
Automated tests of programming skills. Assessment... →
Automated recruitment test reduces the cost of screening of a programmer. Recruitment testing decreases the amount of interview work by up to 90% by requesting the candidate to write a snippet of a code in an online assessment tool. It also allows the recruiter to test employee in a natural working environment.
jqFancyTransitions: jQuery Image Rotator Plugin →
jqFancyTransitions is easy-to-use jQuery plugin for displaying your photos as slideshow with fancy transition effects. jqFancyTransitions is compatible and fully tested with Safari 2+, Internet Explorer 6+, Firefox 2+, Google Chrome 3+, Opera 9+.
The Hidden Art of Achieving Creative Flow | Zen... →
The novel Ray finished was classic sci-fi novel Fahrenheit 451. He created this novel in record amount of time, and recalled feeling as if the flow of time had accelerated. The novel wrote itself, effortlessly.
DICE 2010: "Design Outside the Box" Presentation... →
Video Description: Carnegie Mellon University Professor, Jesse Schell, dives into a world of game development which will emerge from the popular “Facebook Games” era.
Zootool →
The most awesome way to bookmark Collect, organize and share your favourite images, videos, documents and links from all over the web. next › Join now › Rhino Install our glorious bookmarklet and start collecting your favourite stuff in seconds. It’s super easy and incredibly fast!
Diary Of An x264 Developer » Flash, Google, VP8,... →
The internet has been filled for quite some time with an enormous number of blog posts complaining about how Flash sucks–so much that it’s sounding as if the entire internet is crying wolf. But, of course, despite the incessant complaining, they’re right: Flash has terrible performance on anything other than Windows x86 and Adobe doesn’t seem to care at all. But rather than repeat this ad nauseum,...
AppFlight - Build Your Own iPhone App →
Customize your app to showcase photos, videos, events, music, merchandise and much more. Use our DIY (Do It Yourself) ordering and management platform to get you or your business easily formatted for most pockets.
Expectation-maximization algorithm →
In statistics, an expectation-maximization (EM) algorithm is used for finding maximum likelihood estimates of parameters in probabilistic models, where the model depends on unobserved latent variables. EM is an iterative method which alternates between performing an expectation (E) step, which computes an expectation of the log likelihood with respect to the current estimate of the distribution...
Apache Lucene - Index File Formats →
This document defines the index file formats used in Lucene version 2.9. If you are using a different version of Lucene, please consult the copy of docs/fileformats.html that was distributed with the version you are using. Apache Lucene is written in Java, but several efforts are underway to write versions of Lucene in other programming languages. If these versions are to remain compatible with...