12/06/2007 @ 22:01 GMT
factoryjoe : SPACE Workplace Strategy, Design & Management Consulting - An interesting coworking-like workplace strategy consultancy. Tags: workplace, coworking
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12/06/2007 @ 22:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Casa Blanca's Cafe Incorporated, 1185 Lincoln Ave, San Jose, CA - Casa Blanca's Cafe Incorporated, 1185 Lincoln Ave, San Jose, CA: Good greek food near my house.
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12/06/2007 @ 22:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Lack of a *real* Web Operations Conference - Lack of a *real* Web Operations Conference: "I think that there are lots of sysadmins and ops people who would go to a conference solely about web operations." Indeed.
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12/06/2007 @ 22:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Floppy Disks Live On - Floppy Disks Live On: "My kids now associate that little icon with saving, but have never needed to use an actual floppy disk. I wonder for how many years will still be using that icon?" Heh.
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12/06/2007 @ 21:01 GMT
jcgregorio : Interoperability Happens - The relational database needs no "defense" - """not so strong a case that they could displace the RDBMS from the "enterprise data" throne.""" As if enterprise were the pinnacle.
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12/06/2007 @ 21:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Yahoo shareholder meeting will be day of discontent - Yahoo shareholder meeting will be day of discontent: I'm curious to read the reports...
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12/06/2007 @ 20:00 GMT
nelson : President approval ratings - Crazy trends
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12/06/2007 @ 20:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : omg.yahoo.com - omg.yahoo.com: this is sorta scary....
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12/06/2007 @ 19:00 GMT
factoryjoe : Open Source Economics Driving Web 2.0 Innovation - The open source movement has become a powerful value creator. In addition, it has created an interesting and somewhat egalitarian wealth distribution mechanism, where on one hand it has made it hard for one stakeholder to extract inordin
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12/06/2007 @ 18:00 GMT
Eric Meyer : Deadly $2 heroin aimed at young teens - CNN.com - Death now costs $2. How much longer until we decide to wipe out our future for free? (Which I guess would be Extinction 2.0.)
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12/06/2007 @ 18:00 GMT
nelson : Bush's watch stolen - Video sure makes it look like someone in the crowd stripped his watch off
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12/06/2007 @ 17:01 GMT
jcgregorio : Brian McCallister - Go Learn $language NOW! - Java is a nice language, but it is far from the end of the world. It is well suited for what it was designed for, ... and building really big systems with really big teams of $programmerish_titles. That isn't most development, it is simply the most expens
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12/06/2007 @ 17:00 GMT
deusx : A Patent Lie - New York Times - "As more and more lawsuits rock the industry, we should ask if software patents are stifling innovation. Bill Gates certainly thought so in 1991, even if he won’t admit it today."
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12/06/2007 @ 16:00 GMT
Isofarro : How the Color Deficient Person - A practical demonstration of how various forms of colour-blindness affect how colours are seen. Interesting side-by-side analysis to be read in conjunction with Joe Clark's online book Building Accessible Websites
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12/06/2007 @ 16:00 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : Big Lebowski - Jesus - that creep can roll man (via cynical-c) [via]
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12/06/2007 @ 15:00 GMT
Simon Willison : Enabling the debug menu on Safari for Windows - Enabling the debug menu on Safari for Windows. “Turn off site-specific hacks” is one of the menu options.
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12/06/2007 @ 15:00 GMT
Simon Willison : Safari for Windows, 0day exploit in 2 hours - Safari for Windows, 0day exploit in 2 hours. Once again, down to handling of alternative URL protocol schemes. [via]
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12/06/2007 @ 15:00 GMT
plasticbag : CNN Money on Facebook's Transformation into a platform for other people's products. - Huge. Now you don't compete with Facebook, you compete with other people on Facebook. Reminds me of Ancient Greek concepts of masculine and feminine. I suspect no one thought of this before because it's such a male industry.
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12/06/2007 @ 15:00 GMT
plasticbag : Stephen Bayley in the Guardian rips the Olympics logo a new ... er ... ring? - The one thing he says that really resonated with me was that people are now obsessed with brand as a mask for reality, rather than brand as a representation of something fundamental to your organisation or product. Agree with that.
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12/06/2007 @ 15:00 GMT
plasticbag : Vile Telegraph logo that rips into the people who came up with the Olympics logo... - Apparently the media are camped out around the houses of people who did the work. And can I just say that £400,000 is a reasonable cost for a medium sized team of people for a year doing skilled work.
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12/06/2007 @ 14:00 GMT
plasticbag : Gruber on the WWDC Keynote yesterday... - The only thing I disagree about is the coverflow thing. I can see a lot of cases where rapidly scanning through a large number of files would be profoundly useful.
Cameron Moll : On web apps as iPhone apps - John Gruber: "Telling developers that web apps are iPhone apps just doesn’t fly. Think about it this way: If web apps -- which are only accessible over a network; which don’t get app icons in the iPhone home screen; which don’t have any local data s
factoryjoe : Daring Fireball: WWDC 2007 Keynote News - Web Apps as the Route for iPhone Development Perhaps it’s playing well in the mainstream press, but here at WWDC, Apple’s “you can write great apps for the iPhone: they’re called ‘web sites’” – message went over like a l
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12/06/2007 @ 05:01 GMT
factoryjoe : Startup Tips Day 11: Tara Hunt / Chris Messina from Citizen Agency - CenterNetworks - News, Reviews, Insights and Interviews - A bunch of tips we pulled together describing our advice to startups. YMMV. Tags: Tara Hunt, Chris Messina, Citizen Agency, tips, advice, startups
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12/06/2007 @ 05:00 GMT
joshua : Modest Maps - BSD-licensed display and interaction library for tile-based maps
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43folders : Machinist: Tech Blog, Tech News, Technology Articles - Salon
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12/06/2007 @ 03:01 GMT
43folders : Seeking Alpha: Stock Picks, Stock Market Investing
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12/06/2007 @ 03:01 GMT
joshua : prefuse - interactive information visualization toolkit
Matthew M. Boedicker : prefuse, a Java-based toolkit for building interactive information visualization applications - (via del.icio.us/joshua) [via]
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12/06/2007 @ 01:00 GMT
Simon Willison : Mac OS X Leopard: Multicore - Mac OS X Leopard: Multicore. “... NSOperation, a breakthrough new API that optimizes applications for the world of multicore processing.”
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12/06/2007 @ 01:00 GMT
Simon Willison : Mac OS X Leopard: UNIX - Mac OS X Leopard: UNIX. Leopard ships with DTrace, and it’s been hooked in to Java, Ruby, Python and Perl.
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12/06/2007 @ 01:00 GMT
Simon Willison : Safari 3 Public Beta - Safari 3 Public Beta. Safari for Windows. Unfortunately this kills the best excuse corporate Web developers had for getting Macs (“we need to run all our supported browsers on one machine”).
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12/06/2007 @ 00:00 GMT
nelson : Ruby / Merb - An alternative to Rails for high performance
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12/06/2007 @ 00:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : I’ve Seen This Movie - I’ve Seen This Movie: "Microsoft has tried to swim against the current of the Internet a few times before, and it’s basically never worked."
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12/06/2007 @ 00:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Thread Herrings - Thread Herrings: "These days, you’re way better scaling out not up. Shared memory? Hell, shared nothing if you can get away with it."
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