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Jon Scott Stevens: Social buttons
Today, I finally got around to implementing those social Like buttons that you see on all of the websites. Personally, I never click them, but it is clear lots of other people do so I'm going with the...
View ArticleCeki Gulcu: Confusing intent and outcome
Mikeal Rogers recently published a blog entry entitled "Apache considered harmful". He writes: The open source section of my brain was seeded and curated by Ted Leung, long time ASF member, and it is...
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Rich Bowen: Advent Calendar
I've always loved advent calendars. They help kids deal with the seemingly endless stretch to Christmas. And I love seeing what's behind the next door every morning.This year, I made one. In part, it...
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Howard M. Lewis Ship: Tapestry 5 Laptop Stickers
I'm the kind of guy who does a lot of self-expression on my laptop: Hey, what's that at the bottom? A Tapestry 5 laptop sticker? Cool! Want one? Drop me a line at hlship at gmail dot com with the...
View ArticleMatt Raible: PhoneGap for Hybrid App Development
This afternoon, I attended Brian LeRoux's talk on PhoneGap for Hybrid App Development at Devoxx. You might remember that I tried PhoneGap last week and really enjoyed my experience. Below are my notes...
View ArticleMatt Raible: Deploying Java and Play Framework Apps to the Cloud with James Ward
Yesterday, I attended James Ward's presentation on Deploying Java & Play Framework Apps to the Cloud at Devoxx. I arrived a bit late, but still managed to get there in time to see a lot of demos...
View ArticleJames Duncan: The built-in cable release for your iPhone
Along with all the other goodies, iOS 5 brought with it the ability to trigger your iPhone camera’s shutter with your standard pair of headphones. Nifty. I’ll have to give it a try as the white...
View ArticleJames Duncan: Robert Plotkin on the Fuji X100
The message across all the writeups I’ve seen remains the same: If you can put it up it’s mannerisms, the Fuji X100 will pay back rich dividends. Linked by James Duncan Davidson.
View ArticleJames Duncan: Visual cortex neuron as art
A beautiful image of a neuron that seems like an impressionistic charcoal drawing even though it’s really part of an ongoing research project by Bryan Jones. Linked by James Duncan Davidson.
View ArticleJames Duncan: A time-lapse journey through Oregon
Hundreds of hours of work over six months for four minutes of video showcasing Oregon. Beautiful. Linked by James Duncan Davidson.
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Christian Grobmeier: New Dart Editor Version 1910
Google just announced a new Dart Editor version. You can get if from here: http://gsdview.appspot.com/dart-editor-archive-integration/latest/ These are the improvements: Moved bundled libraries out of...
View ArticleJ Aaron Farr: SVN Ignore
Ever been dumbfounded by how hard it is to get Subversion to ignore files? I like a clean svn status and the following script makes ignoring the right things easy as pie:
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Dave Johnson: Fork it all
I just forked Roller on Github. The new project is called Rollarcus and is mostly just an experiment and, I hope, a learning experience. I've got some ideas about stripping Roller down to it's core and...
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Bryan Pendleton: Three papers on Bloom filters
If you should find yourself noticing that:You're interested in these mysterious things called Bloom filters, that seem to be popping up over and over,and you'd like to learn more about how Bloom...
View ArticlePaul Querna: Technology enables better Support Experiences
My MacBook Air is my favorite laptop ever. The combination of size and enough power for most development tasks, makes it perfect for my job right now. For the last week though, whenever I’d peg the...
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Yoav Shapira: Movie review: Tower Heist
I expected Tower Heist to be mediocre, just a way to mindlessly laugh at some stupid jokes. And it provided that, but it ended up being smarter, funnier, and trickier than expected. At points, it...
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Yoav Shapira: 2 more good TED talks
Dan Ariely, who was my marketing professor back at Sloan, and has since moved to another school (a big loss for MIT), was always notable for both his style, and for conveying more meaningful stuff in 5...
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Nick Kew: Bunkering down
This is unquestionably the worst time of year. It’s dark most of the day, and to make it worse people are burning coal, wood, and other things turning the air foul. This year remains thoroughly mild,...
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Matt Raible: Our Engaging Trip to Paris and Antwerp
If you're a technologist, you should attend the Devoxx conference at least once in your life. It's one of the finest conferences on the planet. If you're a fan of Belgian beer, you owe it to yourself...
View ArticleJustin Mason: Links for 2011-12-04
Script used by Instagram to duplicate the paged-in VM pages to another host : as seen in their “Instagram Engineering” post (tags: vmtouch vm linux unix tools instagram) vmtouch – the Virtual Memory...
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