May 2011
64 posts
10 Resources for Design-Challenged Programmers →
Realtime Search: Solr vs Elasticsearch |... →
Elasticsearch is REST based, distributed search engine powered by the excellent Lucene library. JSON+HTTP API
The search for a minimum viable record - O'Reilly... →
no mention of MPLP (more produce less product)
Calipso: A CMS Built with Node.js and MongoDB →
tumbledry.org: Screw Hashbangs: Building the... →
“When you are solving a difficult problem re-ask the problem so that your...”
– You Are Solving The Wrong Problem « Aza on Design /via hackernews
“Brooks calls it the “conservation of mysteries,” where you have two...”
– Does Quantum Theory Explain Consciousness? : Discovery News
same thing happens when trying to explain computer bugs
Advanced Google Analytics for Startups | Think... →
“Recently in the tech world we’ve come up with the concept of the...”
– Hangger: Blogging With Friends / Why is it so hard to define what it means to be a ‘product guy’?
OAC Webinar: Social Networks and Archival Context... →
recording and slides
LOD-LAM →
need to catch up on reading this blog
Code for Oakland: A one day bar camp event - Gov... →
Saturday, June 04, 2011 from 8:30 AM - 6:00 PM (PT)
Oakland, CA
Domain-driven design - Wikipedia, the free... →
Talis Linked Data Open Day - USA - Semantic Web-... →
Free Talis Linked Data Open Day - USA
Wednesday, June 01, 2011 from 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM (PT)
San Francisco, CA
Research Hub: About [UC Berkeley] →
The Research Hub provides an easy way for campus scholars to gather, organize and share their digital files, such as office documents, images, audio, video, and PDFs. The Research Hub helps you work with colleagues, co-authors, lab-mates and project team members by providing powerful collaborative tools, including blogs, wikis, document libraries, discussion forums and more.
“First, they often dramatically underestimate the amount of work it’ll take. This...”
– Bubble Foundry » Idea Guy Looking for Developer
“There is no data like more data.”
– (but when will enough be enough) Moore, R. (2001)
dns - CNAME for top level domain? - Stack Overflow →
This comes up again and again and people don’t believe it.
Digital Public Library of America – Beta Sprint →
A Point-Counterpoint on the Digital Public Library... →
JSONSelect →
JSONSelect is an experimental selector language for JSON.
It makes it easy to access data in complex JSON documents.
“Opal is a Ruby runtime and standard library designed to run directly on top of...”
– adambeynon/opal - GitHub
BruteZip - A brute force ZIP file unzipper for... →
Cool, but obscure unix tools :: KKovacs →
Bolinfest Changeblog: jquery.com uses only 34% of... →
I created a Firefox extension, JsBloat, to help determine what fraction of the jQuery library a web page uses. It leverages JSCoverage to instrument jQuery and keep track of which lines of the library are executed (and how often).
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Note that three of the four sites exercise new code paths as a result of mousing around the page, so they do not appear to be using pure CSS for their hover...
32 Javascript Alternatives with Pure CSS – Updated →
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“Basically, we are outsourcing our brains to the cloud. The upside is that this...”
– The Twitter Trap - NYTimes.com
“It also helps to assure that your load generation hardware is better than the...”
– mnot’s blog: On HTTP Load Testing /via hackernews
“There’s so much good that can be accomplished using open datasets, it...”
– Why you can’t really anonymize your data - O’Reilly Radar /via hackernews
University of California - UC Newsroom | UC... →
eaditor - EADitor is an XForms framework for the... →
Home - AnnotateIt - Annotating the Web →
Now you can Annotate any web page simply by incorporating two lines of javascript into your site or running our bookmarklet.
* Annotate any webpage with the bookmarklet
* Add the Annotator to your own site in just two lines of code
Scraping, cleaning, and selling big data -... →
Infochimps execs discuss the challenges of data scraping.
Digital Infrastructure | Yale Office of Digital... →
ODAI seeks to leverage University investments in digital content initiatives and to minimize redundant effort through coordination and selective centralization of digital infrastructure resources.
“A project where you decide before you start a product cycle the features that...”
– Process kills developer passion - O’Reilly Radar
Morse.js Demo →
a jQuery plugin that annotates text with Morse Code
Archives Hub Linked Data Release « LOCAH Project →
CC0
“As works in these collections become digitized, the museums and libraries will...”
– Digital Images of Yale’s Vast Cultural Collections Now Available for Free
Hacker News | MySQL TEXT vs. VARCHAR Performance →
Web Security - Google Code University - Google... →
WatchAsynchronous vs. Threaded Python /via hackernews
Classification of HTTP APIs →
/via hackernews
10 Skills to Become a Frontend Developer worth... →
“Everything starts with the story. If you don’t have an interesting story,...”
– What’s the best launch strategy for a web startup? - Quora /via hackernews
LaunchRock - Create a viral “Launching Soon” page... →
“The basic idea seems to be a call to arms to make design of a language by...”
– JavaScript creator talks about the future
“The fundamental problem is that the skills required to pass today’s...”
– Why The New Guy Can’t Code /via hackernews
Watch/via @IEA_com_au
demo of Al Gore’s new book Our Choice that is an e-book on the iPhone using technology from Push Pop Press
“Lowenthal’s bill would require the state’s Attorney General to...”
– Google, Facebook: “do not track” bill a threat to California economy 