Andrew Savory: Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-09-01
It's got all the usability of Windows & all the precision control of a touchscreen. Can't wait to use Excel on this thing! #windows8 #tablet # @hauppaugeUK website keeps referring to a "cd-rom"....
View ArticleAndrew Savory: Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-09-01
It's got all the usability of Windows & all the precision control of a touchscreen. Can't wait to use Excel on this thing! #windows8 #tablet # @hauppaugeUK website keeps referring to a "cd-rom"....
View ArticleJustin Mason: Links for 2012-09-01
Striped (Guava: Google Core Libraries for Java 13.0.1 API) Nice piece of Guava concurrency infrastructure in the latest release: A striped Lock/Semaphore/ReadWriteLock. This offers the underlying lock...
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Nick Kew: Source and non-source repos
Some people engage in Holy Wars over what source control system to use. For my part I really can’t get too worked up over a choice of tools, but I am concerned about another question. What files do...
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Bryan Pendleton: VF, MS, and ranking
The cover article in the August issue of Vanity Fair is Kurt Eichenwald's detailed critique and analysis of Microsoft's problems: Microsoft's Lost Decade: How Microsoft Lost its Mojo. Eichenwald, who...
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Yoav Shapira: Presidential Traverse trip report
Yesterday (Saturday, September 1st, 2012), my friend Alissa and I completed a Presidential Traverse ("presi") in New Hampshire's White Mountains. Appalachia trailhead around 3:30am. This post contains...
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Bryan Pendleton: It's a long weekend, so ...
... so you get a double dose of reading list! In this weekend's Los Angeles Times: New high-tech airships are rising in Southern California. It turns out that, this time, they are blimps and zeppelins,...
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Jon Scott Stevens: Scrape webpages with node.js
I recently had the task of scraping data from a website so I choose to use node.js in order to get a bit more experience with it. After checking out a few different options for scraping, I finally...
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Jon Scott Stevens: The first comprehensive review of 22 online athletic event...
Before we decided to build Voost, we spent a lot of time studying the myriad registration services already available online. There are a staggeringly large number of choices with wildly differing...
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Jon Scott Stevens: Optimizing Web Application JavaScript Delivery
For my new company, I had the following design goals for my heavy use of JavaScript (JS): I'm using CoffeeScript (CS), so I need to have my IDE automatically compile CS to JS when I save. That way the...
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Yoav Shapira: The two best movies I saw this summer: Pelada and Running the...
I saw two great movies this summer, both of which inspired me in a number of ways. They are both documentary films, i.e. real, not fake stories. "Running the Sahara" chronicles the journey of three men...
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David Reid: Concrete 5 & Its Cache
Yesterday I ran into an odd bug where I couldn’t get a function I defined in a controller to be run. The actions are how you can get various function be called from a controller and they area...
View ArticleJustin Mason: Links for 2012-09-03
River Poddle underneath the city of Dublin’s streets Rarely-seen pictures of Dublin’s underground river which runs beneath Dublin Castle. I wonder if these are what those blokes spotted entering the...
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David Reid: Adding a Block
For the package I’m developing I have a single_page that I’m adding as one of the key pages for displaying and managing the information. The information is stored as pages and pages attributes, so this...
View ArticleJ Aaron Farr: Nim: Light Table Minimum Viable Snippet
What minimum viable snippet would be good for trying out Light Table? Short, simple, instantly understandable, but not trivial. Suited for Clojure’s functional paradigm yet slightly atypical. How about...
View ArticleJames Duncan: Naoya Hatakeyama’s photographs of limestone blasting in Japan
Alison Zavos for Feature Shoot: “Hatakeyama, whose work revolves around the relationship between nature and cities, has been recording the detonation side of the mining process since 1994 as well as...
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Isabel Drost: FrOSCon - Robust Linux embedded platform
The second talk I went to at FrOSCon was given by Thilo Fromm on Building a robust embedded Linux platform. For more information on the underlying project see also projec HidaV on github. Slides of the...
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Bryan Pendleton: Journey: a very short review
One of my distractions over the Labor Day weekend was the Playstation game Journey. It's an interesting experience, quite mesmerizing, and it's easy to lose several hours when you're in it. It's quite...
View ArticleSam Ruby: The Flowing Standard
Robin Berjon: Looking at it in terms of rebounds, plot twists, nurtured healing and abandonment, love and betrayal, strife, toil, stunning victories, dispersions and last minute rallies the only thing...
View ArticleJoe Brockmeier: Build a Cloud Day in Chicago this Sunday
We're going to be holding a Build a Cloud Day (BACD) ahead of CloudConnect in Chicago this coming Sunday. It will run from 10 a.m. until 5-ish, and we've got a lot of speakers that are worth coming out...
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