Jon Baer

004 JSJ Backbone.js with Jeremy Ashkenas

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 02:17:23 -0500

004 JSJ Backbone.js with Jeremy Ashkenas:

004 JSJ Backbone.js with Jeremy Ashkenas

Build a house for less than $5000 | Cira Car

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 02:16:41 -0500

Build a house for less than $5000 | Cira Car:

You are looking at pictures of a house that Simon Dale built for his family in Wales. It was built by him and his father in law with help from passers by and visiting friends. 4 months after starting they were moved in and cosy. He estimate 1000-1500 man hours and $5000 put in to this point. Not really so much in house buying terms (roughly £60/sq m excluding labour).

Protips for Aspiring Developers | MeltingIce Blog

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 02:15:11 -0500

Protips for Aspiring Developers | MeltingIce Blog:

Hack on some side projects in your spare time, and host them at GitHub. If anything, this is the most important thing you can do. At least 80% of the emails I get from recruiters start with, “I saw your [X] project on Github, and…”

ccoenraets/backbone-directory - GitHub

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 02:14:44 -0500

ccoenraets/backbone-directory - GitHub:

“Backbone Directory” is a sample application built using Backbone.js and Twitter Bootstrap. The application is an Employee Directory that allows you to look for employees by name, view the details of an employee, and navigate up and down the Org Chart by clicking the employee’s manager or any of his/her direct reports.

High Scalability - High Scalability - Tumblr Architecture - 15 Billion Page Views a Month and Harder to Scale than Twitter

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 02:14:26 -0500

High Scalability - High Scalability - Tumblr Architecture - 15 Billion Page Views a Month and Harder to Scale than Twitter:

With over 15 billion page views a month Tumblr has become an insanely popular blogging platform. Users may like Tumblr for its simplicity, its beauty, its strong focus on user experience, or its friendly and engaged community, but like it they do.

Hope from Athens found in Cold Fusion

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 22:41:55 -0500

Hope from Athens found in Cold Fusion:

Here are some miscellaneous other things I learned during my visit today:

Defkalion has 27 people presently involved in their headquarters (where I visited) and their lab.
Their lab is located elsewhere.
Their primary product is “heat”. Their business model is arranged around that. Others can figure out how to put that heat to good use.
The reaction chambers are able to go as high as 900 degrees Celcius stably.
The reaction begins at around 450 ºC.
Nickel melts at 1453 ºC.
They will used oil to transfer the heat from the reaction chamber to where it can be used.

MIT's Error Correcting Codes Will Fix Your Crappy Wireless Reception

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 22:27:36 -0500

MIT's Error Correcting Codes Will Fix Your Crappy Wireless Reception:

The transmission strategy is that we send the first part of the codeword. If it doesn’t succeed, we send the second part, and so on. We don’t repeat transmissions: We always send the next part rather than resending the same part again. Because when you marry the first part, which was too noisy to decode, with the second and any subsequent parts, they together constitute a new, good encoding of the message for a higher level of noise.

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Mon, 13 Feb 2012 22:12:22 -0500

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Mon, 13 Feb 2012 22:11:02 -0500

Missing dark matter located: Intergalactic space is filled with dark matter

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 22:10:45 -0500

Missing dark matter located: Intergalactic space is filled with dark matter:

Researchers at the University of Tokyo’s Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (IPMU) and Nagoya University used large-scale computer simulations and recent observational data of gravitational lensing to reveal how dark matter is distributed around galaxies.

Enabling SmartAlerts™ Notifications — Socialize iOS SDK 1.3.2 documentation

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 18:15:04 -0500

Enabling SmartAlerts™ Notifications — Socialize iOS SDK 1.3.2 documentation:

The notifications button will only appear if a valid push token has been registered with Socialize using [Socialize registerDeviceToken:]. This means the buttons will never show on the iOS simulator.

Socialize Action Bar — Socialize iOS SDK 1.3.2 documentation

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 18:13:34 -0500

Socialize Action Bar — Socialize iOS SDK 1.3.2 documentation:

If you find you have problems with the Action Bar Automatic Layout, and you would like to disable the auto layout feature completely, you can do so. The following example disables autolayout and manually places the Action Bar at (0,400).

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Mon, 13 Feb 2012 15:09:48 -0500

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Mon, 13 Feb 2012 14:31:38 -0500

The Quantum Universe: Why Anything That Can Happen Does Happen | Brain Pickings

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 14:31:18 -0500

The Quantum Universe: Why Anything That Can Happen Does Happen | Brain Pickings:

Quantum theory is perhaps the prime example of the infinitely esoteric becoming the profoundly useful. Esoteric, because it describes a world in which a particle really can be in several places at once and moves from one place to another by exploring the entire Universe simultaneously. Useful, because understanding the behaviour of the smallest building blocks of the universe underpins our understanding of everything else.

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Mon, 13 Feb 2012 13:16:11 -0500

Electronic Security a Worry in an Age of Digital Espionage - NYTimes.com

Sun, 12 Feb 2012 16:48:23 -0500

Electronic Security a Worry in an Age of Digital Espionage - NYTimes.com:

The implication, said Jacob Olcott, a cybersecurity expert at Good Harbor Consulting, was that devices brought into China were hacked. “Everybody knows that if you are doing business in China, in the 21st century, you don’t bring anything with you. That’s ‘Business 101’ — at least it should be.”

Are You a Zen Coder or Distraction-Junkie?

Sun, 12 Feb 2012 16:42:52 -0500

Are You a Zen Coder or Distraction-Junkie?:

Zen coder prefers long-term happiness and productivity. He is capable of focusing deeply. He trains focus. Distraction junkie coder prefers instant gratification for the price of not reaching his full potential and hurting himself both physically and mentally in the long run. He is too lazy to focus.

Food Fight: Episode #3, #!/usr/bin/ruby # for sysadmins with John E. Vincent

Sun, 12 Feb 2012 16:41:16 -0500

Food Fight: Episode #3, #!/usr/bin/ruby # for sysadmins with John E. Vincent:

Episode #3, #!/usr/bin/ruby # for sysadmins with John E. Vincent

Server and Site Architecture: Object Model Overview

Sun, 12 Feb 2012 12:01:29 -0500

Server and Site Architecture: Object Model Overview:

Microsoft SharePoint Foundation offers a highly structured server-side object model that makes it easy to access objects that represent the various aspects of a SharePoint Web site. From higher-level objects, you can drill down through the object hierarchy to obtain the object that contains the members you need to use in your code.