11/09/2007 @ 23:02 GMT
factoryjoe : Four Starters » GMail Meets the Desktop [Update] - A good overview of the benefits of Mailplane and similar SSBs. Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: gmail, webkit, ssb, site-specific browser, email
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11/09/2007 @ 23:02 GMT
factoryjoe : nanoc: a Ruby CMS that generates static HTML - nanoc is a CMS written in Ruby. It operates on local files, and therefore does not run on the server. nanoc “compiles” the local source (eRuby, Markdown, Textile, Haml, etc) files into static files (HTML, XML, etc); the static output
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11/09/2007 @ 22:03 GMT
jcgregorio : ongoing · Tab Sweep — Tech - "You know, Uniform Resource Identifiers are at the core of the Web, and have been around for fifteen years now; you’d think popular programming languages would have nailed the APIs down. Oddly, this has long been a weak spot for Java" Ahem.
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11/09/2007 @ 22:02 GMT
jonhicks : I HEART LUXE - daily women’s shopping magazine
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deusx : Never Knows Best » I am an attention whore after all - "crazy ideas like filling my cubicle full of ball pit balls suddenly seem like perfectly valid things to do."
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11/09/2007 @ 22:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Yahoo (YHOO) Traffic Grinds to Halt: Fat Lady Singing? - Yahoo (YHOO) Traffic Grinds to Halt: Fat Lady Singing?: "Perhaps the reason Jerry Yang doesn't plan to announce a significant restructuring when he finishes his 100-day review is because he's realized there's no reason to bother." Yi
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11/09/2007 @ 21:01 GMT
nelson : ZeroShell - A Linux distribution custom designed for routers
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11/09/2007 @ 19:04 GMT
Khoi Vinh : Fix the Folders in Mac OS X Leopard - “ Folder icons in Mac OS should serve the following purposes: Fit in aesthetically with the other Apple-designed icons provided in the Leopard install; make it very easy to distinguish between folders at a glance; quickly describe the co [via]
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11/09/2007 @ 19:03 GMT
jcgregorio : Steve: Developing on the Edge - 64-bit Java
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11/09/2007 @ 19:02 GMT
jcgregorio : Brendan's Roadmap Updates: Threads suck - repeat after me: channels
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11/09/2007 @ 19:00 GMT
gleuschk : Google Answers: Why is a mouse that spins? To higher the few. - excellent new-to-me dada joke
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11/09/2007 @ 18:02 GMT
factoryjoe : DokuWiki [splitbrain.org] - DokuWiki is a simple to use Wiki aimed at a small companies documentation needs. It works on plain texts files and thus needs no database. It has a simple but powerful Syntax which makes sure the datafiles remain readable outside the Wik
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11/09/2007 @ 18:01 GMT
Richard Rutter : The name riddle - Highlight the issue and solutions of asking for names in a form.
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11/09/2007 @ 18:00 GMT
Richard Rutter : dConstruct t-shirts for sale - Exclusive limited edition Kevin Cornell design.
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11/09/2007 @ 17:01 GMT
Linkorama : Collaboration Loop - Wikis in Action - I recently spoke with Tom Biro, Director of New Media with MWW Group, a PR firm that’s using SocialText to change how it collaborates internally, and with clients.
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11/09/2007 @ 17:01 GMT
Linkorama : Office 2.0 Good, the Bad, and the Ugly - The second Office 2.0 Conference is just over, and it’s time for a debrief.
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11/09/2007 @ 16:01 GMT
Cameron Moll : Tobias Frere-Jones to lead NYC typographic walking tour - "On Saturday, September 29 at 11:00, Tobias [Frere-Jones] will be leading a typographic walking tour for AIGA/NY, which promises two and a half hours of the city's most unexamined -- and imperiled -- typographic treasures." Wow. How I'd die to be in NYC t
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11/09/2007 @ 16:01 GMT
jonhicks : Workshops For Web People - Professional and affordable training for web designers and developers
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11/09/2007 @ 11:01 GMT
factoryjoe : Open Social Graph @ Plaxo - A demo a how crawling the XFN-driven social graph would work. Awesome!!! Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: portable social networks, crawler, plaxo, social graph
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11/09/2007 @ 11:00 GMT
plasticbag : Andy Budd wrote a post about SXSW the other day and how much he dislikes it when speakers stand up and say that they were up to 4am the night before doing their slides - I started my dconstruct talk a little over a month ago, and was still finishing the slides an hour before my talk at 3pm on Friday. Absolutely terrifying. Still, it came off okay I think.
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11/09/2007 @ 11:00 GMT
plasticbag : Jeremy Keith's overview of dconstruct is pretty fun reading... - He liked my talk, which makes me happy.
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11/09/2007 @ 10:00 GMT
Simon Willison : jQuery 1.2 - jQuery 1.2. Lots of neat new stuff; my favourite new feature is “Partial .load()” which lets you pull in HTML with Ajax and then use a CSS selector to grab a subset of that page and inject it in to the DOM.
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11/09/2007 @ 10:00 GMT
plasticbag : Martin Klimas gets porcelain figures in total darkness and then drops them on the ground. The sound of them touching the floor triggers a light allowing a nearby camera to capture their 'moment of transformation' - Extraordinary imagery (thanks Kerry). The picture of the liberated hummingbirds is my favourite.
gleuschk : Still Life - The Morning News - astounding
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11/09/2007 @ 08:01 GMT
factoryjoe : Social Networking Portability with Microformats - A parser for a number of social networks... Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: microformats, portable social networks
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11/09/2007 @ 07:01 GMT
factoryjoe : bioformats.org - microformats for biology - Holy cow Batman. Microformats for genes, sequences and protein. No. SRSLY. Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: microformats, bioformats, semantic web
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11/09/2007 @ 07:01 GMT
factoryjoe : Turning your Safari into a Carnival - Carnival is a free microformat parser for Safari. Download it, fire it up, and whenever a microformatted site is viewed in Safari, Carnival will glow green. Click on the icon to view the available data. Saved By: Chris Messina | View De
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11/09/2007 @ 03:02 GMT
factoryjoe : Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: Adblock Plus: what would Jesus do? - "So will I continue to use Adblock Plus? I'm afraid I will not. But that's only because I would find it hard to write about the online world if I was seeing a different Net than most people see. I will disable the plug-in and return to t
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11/09/2007 @ 02:04 GMT
factoryjoe : Freedom to Tinker » Blog Archive » Intellectual Property and Magicians - a very interesting post about how IP law relates to magic. Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: intellectual property, magic, patents, guilds, economics, invention
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11/09/2007 @ 02:03 GMT
factoryjoe : Anarchogeek: Recommended Rails Hosting - "I get asked from time to time for recommendations on where to go for good rails hosting. There are tons of places out there. This is what i’m recommending at the moment. I’m sure in the future it’ll change." Saved By: Chris Messi
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11/09/2007 @ 02:02 GMT
joshua : How to give your low-end Canon digital camera RAW support
jcgregorio : Linux.com :: How to give your low-end Canon digital camera RAW support - ooh, RAW for the A630
gleuschk : Linux.com :: How to give your low-end Canon digital camera RAW support - wish I could try it first with my A520 to make sure I don't brick the thing
nelson : Hacker Canon firmware - Hack your mid-range Canon camera to do RAW output, other things
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11/09/2007 @ 02:01 GMT
deusx : FactoryCity » On exporting the culture of Silicon Valley - "So wherever you are and whatever you think you need to do to become more “like” Silicon Valley… STOP. You’d be wasting your time."
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11/09/2007 @ 02:01 GMT
deusx : XQilla: XQilla - "XQilla is an XQuery∞ and XPath 2∞ library and command line utility written in C++, implemented on top of the Xerces-C∞ library."
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11/09/2007 @ 02:00 GMT
Simon Willison : Styling File Inputs with CSS and the DOM - Styling File Inputs with CSS and the DOM. Clever hack to style the un-stylable: set the opacity of the file input to 0, then use a bit of JavaScript to make sure the (now invisible) browse button is always under the mouse.
philgyford : Styling File Inputs with CSS and the DOM // ShaunInman.com - File input fields are stubbornly resistant to beautifying. A new way to make them pretty. (via Daring Fireball)
factoryjoe : Styling File Inputs with CSS and the DOM // ShaunInman.com - File inputs () are the bane of beautiful form design. No rendering engine provides the granular control over their presentation designers desire. This simple, three-part progressive enhancement provides the markup, CSS, and JavaScript to
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11/09/2007 @ 01:02 GMT
factoryjoe : Welcome to BarCampMakerFaire | October 12th-14th 2007 - Ooo, BarCampMakerFaire! Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: barcamp, maker faire
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11/09/2007 @ 01:00 GMT
gleuschk : wsj on yahoo's 100 days - short version: nobody has any idea what the hell is going on, probably not even the CEO
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11/09/2007 @ 01:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : iPhone: Prepay the right way - iPhone: Prepay the right way: how to get pay-as-you-go on the iPhone
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11/09/2007 @ 00:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Dilbert on Web 2.0 - Dilbert on Web 2.0: heh
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