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Chip Childers: DMTF's CIMI v1 Released - How should CloudStack support it?
Now that CIMI has been released as an official DMTF specification, it's time for implementations to start being finalized. Wearing my CloudStack "hat", I've been thinking about how to best integrate...
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Yoav Shapira: #rtw2012 - Foursquare
This is one of a series of posts about my recent round-the-world trip, all labelled #rtw2012. You may wish to start at the beginning to get the full context and background. Before starting my trip, I...
View ArticleChristian Grobmeier: Show a Twitter Bootstrap Modal with Angular.js Directives
My use case: I have a modal which has a controller A. I want to call it from outside this controller. As I found out this is not so trivial because you need to understand how Angular.js Directives [1]...
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Isabel Drost: FrOSCon 2012 - REST
Together with Thilo I went to FrOSCon last weekend. Despite a few minor glitches and the “traditional” long BBQ line the conference was very well organised and again brought together a very diverse...
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Bryan Pendleton: No obligations, no gestures, no smiles, and no insults.
I confess to not ever having read an article from the Boston Review before. But, chasing a pointer from Bruce Schneier's blog, I plowed through Oded Na'aman's fascinating article in the summer issue of...
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Ian Boston: Jackrabbit, Oak, Sling, maybe even OAE
Back in January 2010 the Jackrabbit team starting asking its community what did it want to see in the next version of Jackrabbit. There were some themes in the responses. High(er) levels of write...
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Steve Loughran: RE: Hello from Twitter!
Yet another LI approach, this one that didn't know who at Twitter was a Hadoop committer and therefore someone I knew/had consumed beer at the Highbury with.What I will flag up here is Twitter's...
View ArticleJames Duncan: G-Tech’s mobile drives now have USB 3.0
I’ve been quite happy with G-Technology drives, so I was pleased when Mike Clark spotted their latest portable drives now have USB 3.0. Perfect for the new Retina MacBook Pro and Air.
View ArticleJames Duncan: Was Vincent Van Gogh a protanope?
Bryan Jones digs into the conjecture that Vincent Van Gogh was color blind: “When Van Gogh’s works are viewed with Asada’s colorspace transformation, the works gain additional depth and clarity....
View ArticleJustin Mason: Links for 2012-08-30
The urban SUVs of bicycles Great (Dublin-focused) writeup on cargo bikes (tags: cargo-bikes cycling commute kids dutch-bikes bikes)
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Nick Kew: Damned if you do, damned if you don’t
Today’s news: London Metropolitan University loses its license to sponsor foreign students to enter the country. It seems they’ve been found guilty of substantial abuse of the system, with the...
View ArticleJames Duncan: W3C published first draft of the HTML Responsive Images Extension
The W3C Responsive Images Community Group has published their first draft of the Responsive Images Extension, aka the <picture> element. Now, the browsers need to get on board. (via David Magda)
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David Reid: Installing Concrete 5.6.0
Yesterday I downloaded the latest installer for Concrete5 and tried to install it. After creating the database and users, entering the information it all looked as though it was going to be a breeze –...
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Nick Kew: Open source, closed process
I just tried to report a bug to Ubuntu. Nothing major, just a missing package dependency: aptitude installed libnids-dev for me without installing libpcap-dev. My configure script then insists that...
View ArticleJames Duncan: HiDPI support for Photoshop CS6 this fall
Tom Hogarty posts Adobe’s timeline for support for Retina displays by Photoshop CS6 and Lightroom 4 on the Photshop.com blog. Also, another Adobe blog post indicates that support is in the works this...
View ArticleChristian Grobmeier: Angular.js: The “Show on mouseenter, hide on mouseleave”...
Because of my recent posts on Angular.js one asked me if I could help him out with a directive which would show some buttons if he hovers a line of a list. In fact it is not a list actually but some...
View ArticleDavid Reid: Country Attribute Type in C5
For a project I want to be able to add the country to a page. The obvious way to do this seemed to be use an attribute, but ideally with the user choosing from a list. There is already a country list...
View ArticleJustin Mason: Links for 2012-08-31
What Happens to Stolen Bicycles? ‘Bike thievery is essentially a risk-free crime. If you were a criminal, that might just strike your fancy. If Goldman Sachs didn’t have more profitable market...
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Bryan Pendleton: Stuff I'm reading this weekend
Labor Day weekend, traditionally the last weekend of summer ... It's a real grab-bag of stuff on my weekend reading list; grab a lawn chair and your favorite beverage and dig in ... My good friend...
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J Aaron Farr: Light Table Instarepl
Light Table aims to embody Bret Victor’s notion of pervasively direct-manipulation in an IDE. So far Kodowa has released a little playground to run around in. Let’s take a look at their Instarepl. The...
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