Jon Baer

United States Patent Application: 0100199180

Mon, 28 May 2012 00:32:35 -0400

United States Patent Application: 0100199180:

Methods, computer readable media, and apparatuses for providing enhanced user interface mechanics are presented. In one arrangement, a scrollable list of content items may be displayed. Input associated with a scroll command may be received. Then, based on the scroll command, a scrollable refresh trigger may be displayed. Subsequently, the scrollable list of content items may be refreshed in response to determining, based on the scroll command, that the scrollable refresh trigger has been activated. In at least one instance, it may be determined that the scrollable refresh trigger has been activated in response to determining that the scroll command was completed while the scrollable refresh trigger was fully displayed.

oEmbed

Mon, 28 May 2012 00:29:26 -0400

oEmbed:

oEmbed is a format for allowing an embedded representation of a URL on third party sites. The simple API allows a website to display embedded content (such as photos or videos) when a user posts a link to that resource, without having to parse the resource directly.

Photo

Sun, 27 May 2012 22:45:31 -0400

The Software Developer’s Guide to Fitness & Morning Productivity | Ethereal Bits

Sun, 27 May 2012 19:21:42 -0400

The Software Developer’s Guide to Fitness & Morning Productivity | Ethereal Bits:

If you’re a software developer (or frankly, if you spend a large portion of your day sitting in a chair in front of a computer) you will be more productive if you find a way to incorporate a workout into your daily routine.

German teen Shouryya Ray solves 300-year-old mathematical riddle posed by Sir Isaac Newton | Information, Gadgets, Mobile Phones News & Reviews | News.com.au

Sun, 27 May 2012 19:15:03 -0400

German teen Shouryya Ray solves 300-year-old mathematical riddle posed by Sir Isaac Newton | Information, Gadgets, Mobile Phones News & Reviews | News.com.au:

Both problems Mr Ray resolved are from the field of dynamics and his solutions are expected to contribute to greater precision in areas such as ballistics.

The Art Of The iOS Icon | Mobile Inc

Sun, 27 May 2012 19:13:48 -0400

The Art Of The iOS Icon | Mobile Inc:

I can’t say it enough – never underestimate the importance of a great app icon. It’s the first thing a user sees before downloading your app (I’ve downloaded apps in the past solely on the icon making the app seem interesting).

How Facebook Knows What You Really Like | Wired Enterprise | Wired.com

Sun, 27 May 2012 06:50:05 -0400

How Facebook Knows What You Really Like | Wired Enterprise | Wired.com:

Aoun sees the Open Graph as a natural extension of this setup. “Facebook gave your data some underlying representation, and it realized the power you can give to a computer interface if you have this sort of underlying data,” he says. “Open Graph is dead on. It’s the exact same vision.”

Flask Nginx Gunicorn(on a Vagrant box) // Samrat Man Singh

Sun, 27 May 2012 06:37:02 -0400

Flask Nginx Gunicorn(on a Vagrant box) // Samrat Man Singh:

We’ll be using Nginx + Gunicorn to host a simple Flask app. Many of you may not have access to a server but don’t worry, we’ll useVagrant, which makes use of a VirtualBox VM to emulate a server.

Ansible

Sun, 27 May 2012 05:37:29 -0400

Ansible:

An ansible is a hypothetical machine capable of instantaneous or superluminal communication. Ansibles occur as plot devices in science fiction literature.

TestFrameworkIntegration - phantomjs - Using PhantomJS with QUnit, Jasmine, FuncUnit, etc - headless WebKit with JavaScript API - Google Project Hosting

Sun, 27 May 2012 02:10:02 -0400

TestFrameworkIntegration - phantomjs - Using PhantomJS with QUnit, Jasmine, FuncUnit, etc - headless WebKit with JavaScript API - Google Project Hosting:

PhantomJS include a very simple example to drive Jasmine-based unit tests. However, for real-world use, it is highly recommended to use other full-featured PhantomJS and Jasmine integration, e.g Guard::Jasmine. For more tutorials and examples on how to leverage PhantomJS with Jasmine, check out some external articles.

InfoQ: Amazon.com’s Journey to the Cloud

Sun, 27 May 2012 00:48:00 -0400

InfoQ: Amazon.com’s Journey to the Cloud:

John Rauser has been extracting value from large datasets for over 15 years at companies ranging from hedge funds to small data-driven startups to amazon.com. He has deep experience in machine learning, data visualization, website performance and real-time fault analysis. An empiricist at heart, John’s optimism and can-do attitude make “Just do the experiment!” his favorite call to arms.

Migrating a Server to Your Linode – Linode Library

Sun, 27 May 2012 00:39:03 -0400

Migrating a Server to Your Linode – Linode Library:

You can migrate an existing server to your Linode from another hosting provider or a local machine. This is a great option if you’re moving to Linode from another hosting provider or if you’ve built a custom server on your local machine. You can even migrate virtualized servers created with products like VirtualBox or VMware. This guide shows you how to prepare the Linode to receive the files, copy the files from the existing server to the Linode, and then make the disk images bootable.

Pry - an IRB alternative and runtime developer console

Sun, 27 May 2012 00:23:48 -0400

Pry - an IRB alternative and runtime developer console:

Pry is a powerful alternative to the standard IRB shell for Ruby. It features syntax highlighting, a flexible plugin architecture, runtime invocation and source and documentation browsing.

Mustafa's Space Drive: An Egyptian Student's Quantum Physics Invention | Fast Company

Sat, 26 May 2012 22:53:17 -0400

Mustafa's Space Drive: An Egyptian Student's Quantum Physics Invention | Fast Company:

Remember the name, because you might see it again: Aisha Mustafa, a 19-year-old Egyptian physics student, patented a new type of propulsion system for spacecraft that uses cutting edge quantum physics instead of thrusters.

Face detection using HTML5, javascript, webrtc, websockets, Jetty and OpenCV | Smartjava.org

Sat, 26 May 2012 22:33:40 -0400

Face detection using HTML5, javascript, webrtc, websockets, Jetty and OpenCV | Smartjava.org:

Through HTML5 and the corresponding standards, modern browsers get more standarized features with every release. Most people have heard of websockets that allows you to easily setup a two way communication channel with a server, but one of the specifications that hasn’t been getting much coverage is the webrtc specificiation.

Now 0-for-3, SpaceX's Elon Musk Vows to Make Orbit

Sat, 26 May 2012 22:32:49 -0400

Now 0-for-3, SpaceX's Elon Musk Vows to Make Orbit:

Musk: Optimism, pessimism, fuck that; we’re going to make it happen. As God is my bloody witness, I’m hell-bent on making it work.

Wired.com: So what have you learned so far?

Musk: Patience is a virtue, and I’m learning patience. It’s a tough lesson.

Elon Musk's determination by Dustin Curtis

Sat, 26 May 2012 22:31:47 -0400

Elon Musk's determination by Dustin Curtis:

Musk: Optimism, pessimism, fuck that; we’re going to make it happen. As God is my bloody witness, I’m hell-bent on making it work.

10 tips for moving from programmer to entrepreneur :: Ian Landsman

Sat, 26 May 2012 22:31:10 -0400

10 tips for moving from programmer to entrepreneur :: Ian Landsman:

Your product has to be nicely designed. Standard programmer square boxes with gray backgrounds don’t cut it! Remember though that your design only needs to be nicer than the competition. So if you’re building a back office IT system there’s no need to bring your design all the way up to the level of a 37 Signals type app. Of course it’s great if you do, but the goal here is simply to make it clear for your customers that you have the nicer design when they compare your product to the competition. People DO judge books by their covers.

objective c - Disable Automatic Reference Counting for Some Files - Stack Overflow

Sat, 26 May 2012 18:03:45 -0400

objective c - Disable Automatic Reference Counting for Some Files - Stack Overflow:

I have downloaded the iOS 5 SDK and found that ARC is a great feature of the new Apple compiler. For the time being, many third party frameworks don’t support ARC. Could I use ARC for my new code and keep the current retain/release code unchanged? The ARC converter doesn’t work here, because some frameworks, such as JSONKit, cannot be converted to ARC by using the converter.

Safer event handling with jQuery namespaced events | 456 Berea Street

Sat, 26 May 2012 17:20:02 -0400

Safer event handling with jQuery namespaced events | 456 Berea Street:

You’ve heard it many times before: make sure your JavaScript plays nice with other code, especially if you package it up as a plugin and share with other developers. Perhaps the most obvious thing to think about is global variables, which you want to avoid creating since they can easily clash with other global variables.