27/04/2007 @ 22:01 GMT
factoryjoe : Trey Drake : An out-of-the-box OpenID server built atop OpenDS and Java EE - I've been tinkering with public domain OpenIDs for the past few months and found the OpenID service, as it is described, to be useful indeed. I say "as described" since it is clearly not the end all be all Internet authentication service
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27/04/2007 @ 22:01 GMT
factoryjoe : Trey Drake : Mac Address Book and OpenDS - For kicks I configured my Mac's built-in address book to yank people from OpenDS. It works like a charm. Tags: Address Book, opends, macosx, ldap
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factoryjoe : How to Safe Sleep (Hibernate) Your Mac - AndrewEscobar.com - Safe Sleep ensures that data stored in main memory will not be lost should the system shut down due to a loss of power during sleep mode. Prior to your system entering sleep, Safe Sleep automatically saves the contents of main memory [
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27/04/2007 @ 22:01 GMT
factoryjoe : ServiceCapture - ServiceCapture runs on your pc and captures all HTTP traffic sent from your browser or IDE. It is designed to help Rich Internet Application(RIA) developers in the debugging, analysis, and testing of their applications. Tags: service,
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27/04/2007 @ 22:01 GMT
jcgregorio : Pragmatic Dictator » Blog Archive » Victims Of J2EE Success - "What if you are an eBay or a MySpace?" And believe me there will be more and more of them over time.
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27/04/2007 @ 22:01 GMT
joshua : The Inside-Out Web - essay by david geletner
deusx : Forbes.com - Magazine Article - The Inside-Out Web - "What will replace the Internet? Something safer, more personal, more manageable."
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27/04/2007 @ 22:00 GMT
jimray : FoxTorrent makes BitTorrent not suck - Preview/stream torrents as they download - killer feature
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27/04/2007 @ 20:02 GMT
kellan : John Allspaw: Capacity Planning for LAMP talk at MySQL Conf 2007 - John Allspaw: Capacity Planning for LAMP talk at MySQL Conf 2007. John is God at this stuff. #
Simon Willison : Capacity Planning for LAMP - Capacity Planning for LAMP. John Allspaw’s MySQL Conf 2007 talk on capacity planning (John is Operations Engineering Manager at Flickr). [via]
Jeremy Zawodny : Slides from ‘Capacity Planning for LAMP’ talk at MySQL Conf 2007 - Slides from ‘Capacity Planning for LAMP’ talk at MySQL Conf 2007: some good slides from John... I wish I had seen this talk
joshua : Slides from ‘Capacity Planning for LAMP’ talk at MySQL Conf 2007
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27/04/2007 @ 20:01 GMT
jimray : History of Swiss graphic design - [this is great!]
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27/04/2007 @ 20:00 GMT
Andy Baio : Uncensor the Internet - Greasemonkey script uncensors f**k, a**, and other bulls**t
Rod Begbie : Ironic Sans: Idea: Uncensor the Internet with Greasemonkey - Greasemonkey script to fix one of my pet peeves -- W*nk*rs wh* ast*risk sw**r-w*rds. If you're not willing to say "fuck", saying "f*ck" isn't any more genteel, you f**ker. [via] #
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27/04/2007 @ 19:01 GMT
jimray : Kottke "hacks" the New Yorker's website to start annoying you that much earlier - Of course, he uses the word "hack" in that grating way that best describes the person who uses it as opposed to the actual act. This may be the ultimate in self-parody.
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27/04/2007 @ 19:01 GMT
jimray : Creating Apollo Applications using Flash CS3 - At some point, I'm going to have to sit down and come to an understanding about Flash, Flex, Apollo and my place in that world
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27/04/2007 @ 18:01 GMT
Khoi Vinh : Flickr Photo Set: Swiss Graphic Design History - Yes!
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27/04/2007 @ 18:01 GMT
joshua : Pig - hadoop-based analysis system
Jeremy Zawodny : Pig from Yahoo! Research - Pig from Yahoo! Research: "We are creating infrastructure to support ad-hoc analysis of very large data sets. Parallel processing is the name of the game."
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27/04/2007 @ 18:00 GMT
Simon Willison : I finally get REST. Wow. - I finally get REST. Wow.. “The essence of REST is to make the states of the protocol explicit and addressible by URIs.”
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27/04/2007 @ 18:00 GMT
Simon Willison : XTech 2007 Registration - XTech 2007 Registration. Deadline for online registrations is 2nd May. It looks like it’ll be a really good conference this year (disclaimer: I’m speaking).
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27/04/2007 @ 17:01 GMT
Cameron Moll : Relaunch: Mormon.org - Team members Paul Vaughn and Kaleb Tracy unveil beta.mormon.org, a resplendent update to one of our more prominent public-facing sites. Fantastic work, guys.
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27/04/2007 @ 16:00 GMT
plasticbag : Awesome design work on the new Manhattan transport maps... - A significant improvement in an interesting balance between the London Underground maps and a street map. Very nice.
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wearehugh : Microsoft Team RSS Blog : Still Gone? Ok – got it!
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27/04/2007 @ 15:01 GMT
Khoi Vinh : Moving Your Eyes Improves Memory, Study Suggests - “ Horizontal eye movements are thought to cause the two hemispheres of the brain to interact more with one another, and communication between brain hemispheres is important for retrieving certain types of memories.”
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27/04/2007 @ 15:00 GMT
wearehugh : hAccessibility - The Web Standards Project
Simon Willison : hAccessibility - hAccessibility. The use of the abbr element in hCalendar causes screen readers to read out an incomprehensible number instead of a date.
factoryjoe : hAccessibility - The Web Standards Project - A discussion of the problems with using the ABBR date-time design pattern in hcalendar for accessibility. Misguided solutions, but something we certainly should look into. Tags: accessibility, microformats, abbr, hcalendar
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27/04/2007 @ 14:00 GMT
Richard Rutter : SUM Agency portfolio - Some really nice, clean designs here.
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27/04/2007 @ 11:00 GMT
Richard Rutter : When to use were instead of was – the subjunctive - An occurrence presupposed to be contrary to fact; ‘if’ & ‘would’.
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27/04/2007 @ 10:01 GMT
factoryjoe : Main Page - CCTWiki - CCTWiki is the Web-Site supporting a Comprehensive Cooperative Township (CCT). The purpose of CCTWiki is to allow this township a self-directed and truly democratic development and form of government. The form of government, laws and pri
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27/04/2007 @ 10:00 GMT
jimray : Why does Rob Curley's summer internship program piss me off so much? - Could it be that he uses the word "cool" 7 times? That he openly acknowledges they won't pay you what your worth? Or that he waited until now get this together and expects kids to quit the internships they've already accepted to work with him an
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27/04/2007 @ 09:00 GMT
Richard Rutter : How to prevent HTML tables from becoming too wide - There seems to be universal acceptance of table-layout:fixed.
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27/04/2007 @ 09:00 GMT
deusx : YouTube - Making of the Doctor Who theme (full) - "Footage of the early 80s remake of the doctor who theme song for the show of the same name by Peter Howell. Get a great behind-the-scenes view of how it was made and close glimpse at the equipment used (this is a portion of the Music Arcade - Radiop
jonhicks : YouTube - Making of the Doctor Who theme (full)
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27/04/2007 @ 07:02 GMT
factoryjoe : Tell us the MISSION - On May 1, 2003, aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln off the coast of San Diego, President George W. Bush gave his infamous "Mission Accomplished" speech stating major combat operations in Iraq had ended. Today, four years later, nationally re
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27/04/2007 @ 07:01 GMT
factoryjoe : Six ways Twitter can make money - Download Squad - So there you have it: six ways Twitter can make money, two of which are straight from the lion's mouth. Judging from the sheer magnitude of buzz surrounding the recently-incorporated company, I wouldn't be surprised if these six are but
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27/04/2007 @ 07:01 GMT
Khoi Vinh : The Rules of Toys - Excellent post on play and software.
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27/04/2007 @ 07:01 GMT
adamrg : Jack Valenti, dead at 85 - This Funeral is Not Yet Rated.
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27/04/2007 @ 07:00 GMT
deusx : Flex:Open Source - Adobe Labs - "Adobe is announcing plans to open source Flex under the Mozilla Public License (MPL). This includes not only the source to the ActionScript components from the Flex SDK, which have been available in source code form with the SDK since Flex 2 was rel
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27/04/2007 @ 07:00 GMT
deusx : Saving Links Through IM with Meshly - "Like Twitter, Meshly is an instant blogging application, like del.icio.us it is about saving links, and it has a voting component that closely resembles digg."
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27/04/2007 @ 07:00 GMT
deusx : Craig Maloney » Rush Retrospective
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27/04/2007 @ 06:00 GMT
deusx : Booze Belt Will Transform You Into Drunk Cowboy - Gizmodo - "Once in a while, Gizmodo comes across that rare object, that invention that showcases the amazing nature of human genius and the never-ending quest for perfection that lifts the spirits of every man and woman in the planet."
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27/04/2007 @ 05:01 GMT
jimray : Film industry lobbyist Jack Valenti dies - Who will censor our movies? Who will keep us safe from the Boston strangler that is the VCR? Who will lobby against our fair use rights so Hollywood can keep selling us the same crap over and over?
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27/04/2007 @ 05:00 GMT
jimray : Helpful distortion - Design is knowing what not to include as much as what to include. In the case of subway maps, is it more important to know how the tracks actually bend - or to know how to get from one place to another.
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27/04/2007 @ 05:00 GMT
WillPate : 0.2% could make or break your community
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27/04/2007 @ 03:01 GMT
factoryjoe : The BFF: Plain old semantic HTML - "I was quite pleased about POSH being published. There had been many proposals for new formats which left me wondering if many people would use them. At the same time the release of the POSH might signal an end to new microformats. But t
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27/04/2007 @ 01:01 GMT
jimray : Lessig says that the presidential debates should be creative commons licensed - I whole heartedly agree. Not only that, I think the government should pay for it and throw it all online in a neutral format. Maybe, since no candidate actually accepts the money I keep allocating in my tax form, we could use it for something like this?
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27/04/2007 @ 01:00 GMT
jimray : Nikon is giving D80's to 50 or so "bloggers of influence" - I happen to know that they've not just including photobloggers. Innerestin'
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27/04/2007 @ 01:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Yahoo Pig and Google Sawzall - Yahoo Pig and Google Sawzall: "I have to say, it is good to see Yahoo building these kinds of tools for large scale data manipulation."
nelson : Yahoo Pig and Google Sawzall - massively parallel data crunching platforms
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27/04/2007 @ 00:01 GMT
jimray : Radically, transparently stupid - More on transparency and bloggers from Fake Steve. "The truth is, all this "radical transparency" and "naked conversation" horseshit from Rubel and Shel Israel and Robert Scoble is just a way for PR flacks to feel more important t
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27/04/2007 @ 00:00 GMT
Rod Begbie : Happy Mondays man refused US visa | News | NME.COM - Bez won't be appearing with the Happy Mondays at Coachella this weekend. What's the point in seeing them, then? Bez *was* the Happy Mondays. #
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