Tingle's Technology Notes
The Psychologist’s View of UX Design | UX Magazine →
uxmag.com
This article is a snapshot of the psychologist’s view of the elephant.
June 2010
56 posts
“The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question, it’s to post the wrong answer.”
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Cunningham’s Law (from Stephen McGeady based on a conversation with Ward Cunningham about USENET)
(via Fritinancy)
(via roomthily)May 2010
97 posts
Modules -- Software Environment Management →
modules.sourceforge.net
The Environment Modules package provides for the dynamic modification of a user’s environment via modulefiles.
Each modulefile contains the information needed to configure the shell for an application. Once the Modules package is initialized, the environment can be modified on a per-module basis using the module command which interprets modulefiles. Typically modulefiles instruct the module command to alter or set shell environment variables such as PATH, MANPATH, etc. modulefiles may be shared by many users on a system and users may have their own collection to supplement or replace the shared modulefiles.
Modules can be loaded and unloaded dynamically and atomically, in an clean fashion. All popular shells are supported, including bash, ksh, zsh, sh, csh, tcsh, as well as some scripting languages such as perl.
Software Design, In Two Sentences | Code Simplicity →
codesimplicity.com
1 - It is more important to reduce the Effort of Maintenance than it is to reduce the Effort of Implementation.
2 - The Effort of Maintenance is proportional to the complexity of the system.
zen-coding -
Project Hosting on Google Code →
code.google.com
Zen Coding is an editor plugin for high-speed HTML, XML, XSL (or any other structured code format) coding and editing. The core of this plugin is a powerful abbreviation engine which allows you to expand expressions—similar to CSS selectors—into HTML code.
no vim support
“The mission of the Library Linked Data incubator group is to help increase global interoperability of library data on the Web, by bringing together people involved in Semantic Web activities—focusing on Linked Data—in the library community and beyond, building on existing initiatives, and identifying collaboration tracks for the future.”
—W3C Library Linked Data Incubator Group
gar [solaris software build tool]
→
sourceforge.net
inspired by BSD ports, Nick Moffitt wrote the Gmake Autobuild Runtime to automate the creation of linux distro LNX-BBC that fit on a business card sized CD-ROM. [article in linux journal]. GARNOME is a GNOME Desktop using GAR. This project has GAR packages for solaris and is used by OpenCSW.
CSW packaging home →
opencsw.org
This does not use the same packages as sunfreeware…CSW (Community SoftWare) is a free, volunteer effort, to provide quality downloadable binary packages for the currently fully supported versions of Sun Solaris (Currently, 8, 9, and 10). We provide them in the OS-native standard SVR4 package format. These packages are available to anyone who wishes to use them. We have been providing packages for Solaris since 2002!
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“The reason social media doesn’t matter is because, upon further review, it doesn’t exist beyond a label. While all the categorizing, classifying and departmentalizing was going on, that which was called social media simply settled into the center of marketing and business strategy and behavior. Everything that we called social media is irrelevant and mislabed – there’s a new way of doing business and marketing for sure, but it’s a behavior and focus on customer involvement that’s become a new norm – and that’s all there is to it.”
—Why Social Media Doesn’t Matter Anymore | Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing (via jakegrimley)
“Remember, slack is designed to distribute configuration, not content or software.”
—Subroles -
slack -
How subroles work - Project Hosting on Google Code
slack -
How subroles work - Project Hosting on Google Code
NISO RP-8-2008, Journal Article Versions (JAV): Recommendations of the NISO/ALPSP JAV Technical Working Group [PDF] →
niso.org
survey: How do you deal with versions of articles http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/PBJSPKRAbstract: These recommendations provide a simple, practical way of describing the versions of scholarly journal articles that typically appear online before, during, and after formal journal publication. The Recommended Terms and Definitions for Journal Article Versions define journal articles at seven stages: …
“One of my mottoes is that if you want to get unusual results, work fast and work cheap, because there’s more of a chance that you’ll get somewhere that nobody else did.
Nearly always, the effect of spending a lot of money is to make things more normal.” —Brian Eno (via hellofboilingoil) (via notational)
Nearly always, the effect of spending a lot of money is to make things more normal.” —Brian Eno (via hellofboilingoil) (via notational)
