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ealing with browser caching is a balancing act. On one hand, you aim to minimize load times and bandwidth use by ensuring that images, scripts, and style sheets are cached by your visitors; however, you still want to ensure that they’re accessing the most recent versions of all your files. In this article, I’ll show you a few methods for controlling how your site’s files are cached by browsers so you can achieve the best of both worlds: maintaining optimal performance while ensuring that any updates are seen immediately, without a hitch by all of your users.
The Twitter Times is a real-time personalized newspaper generated from your Twitter account
The New York Times has published 5,000 people subject headings as linked open data under a CC BY license. We provide both RDF documents and a human-friendly HTML versions.
I believe the recent surge in popularity of CSS frameworks comes from a lack of basic understanding of the CSS box model and how it’s implemented across browsers. I wanted to share with you some quick tips on how to avoid easy pitfalls so you can create your own CSS framework in no time flat, without all the cruft of having ten thousand column combinations available. Keeping these quick tips in mind at all times will allow you to do something I like to call defensive coding — and really that’s all CSS frameworks are: defensively coded snippets of CSS.
Well, most of the work is done by Earthdesk and GeekTool 3.
Earthdesk is set to Natural Color, Equirectangular projection, Natural Color, Real Moonlight, centered on Vienna, Background: Starfield. Zoom 80%, Clouds 80%, Brightness 80%.
In GeekTool, the times and the weathers are all separate Shell "geeklets".
Times are generated by running shell commands like
env TZ=Asia/Tokyo date " %l:%M %p"
every 20 seconds
The weather is the tricky part. The way I am doing it now, if I am not careful, gets me throttled for too many concurrent requests to the wunderground.com API server. It also fails badly if I am disconnected, so I will need to do it differently.
FWIW: I have a PHP script which I run as separate Shell Geeklets. I invoke it with the name of the city I want. It then hits wunderground and gets back an XML stream of the local weather, which I parse, format and echo. (the way I'd change this is run the script from cron, with a 30 second wait between requests, and cache the results locally, which I would then call from the Shell Geeklets)
From there it's just a question of setting fonts, sizes, colors and moving the little Geeklet boxes around as you want them.
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The New York Times: Cinema version commercial
et hop un débat pour @nkame et @biologeek.Comparing Python and Java
A programmer can be significantly more productive in Python than in Java.
How much more productive? The most widely accepted estimate is 5-10 times. On the basis of my own personal experience with the two languages, I agree with this estimate.
For over fifty years the World Press Photo contest has captured images of our times. Our archive of winning photos is not only a record of more than half a century of human history, but a showcase of successive styles in photography and reportage. The archive gallery comprises some 10,000 images. It includes photos that have become icons, by some of the leading names in the profession. World Press Photo has put them online with the aim of sharing our knowledge, resources and experience with the widest possible network. This site was made possible with the support of the Mondriaan Foundation and VSB Foundation.
At the present time, we have access to countless cuneiform documents, including economic records, letters, and literary works from early Sumerian times, produced over 4,000 years ago. Many of these artifacts are essential to our understanding of the values and practices that shaped this ancient culture. Can we aspire the same longevity for our modern cultural artifacts?
justniffer is a tcp packet sniffer. It can log network traffic in a 'standard' (web server like) or in a customized way. It can also log response times, useful for tracking network services performances (e.g. web server, application server, etc.).
show the Earth viewed from books, where individual mentions of locations in books combine to yield another interpretation of the globe. The intensity of each pixel is proportional to the number of times the location at a given set of coordinates is mentioned across all of the books in Google Books Search.
According to a Japan Times editorial today, Japan is set to increase the number of foreign students studying in Japan to around 300,000 by 2020. This represents a 250% increase over current levels (there are currently about 120,000).
List Category Posts is a simple WordPress plugin which allows you to list posts from a category into a post/page using the [catlist] shortcode. This shortcode accepts a category name or id, the order in which you want the posts to display, and the number of posts to display. You can use [catlist] as many times as needed with different arguments. Great to use WordPress as a CMS, and create pages with several categories posts. Usage: [catlist argument1=value1 argument2=value2].
A member of the photo.net community since December 03, 2007. (Give this person a gift subscription) * Personal home page: http://www.simonbutterworthphotography.com * photo.net Gallery Portfolio: photo.net/photos/dacamera * This page has been visited 23573 times since December 04, 2007 Photographer Biography Simon Butterworth: Photographer at photo.net " I am a professional musician who is mad about photography. I love looking at any type of photograph but I restrict my own image making mostly to landscape and musicians, this restriction is due only to lack of time not inclination! Thanks for taking the time to look at my portfolio, any comments are very welcome. Please have a look at my web site www.simonbutterworthphotography.com"
Five Ways to Speed Up Page Response Times
Five Ways to Speed Up Page Response Times
Reuters a mis en ligne mercredi une production interactive et multimedia qui retrace une année de crise financière déclenchée par la faillite de la banque d'affaires Lehman Brothers, le 15 septembre 2008. Cette production, baptisée "Times of Crisis" (www.reuters.com/timesofcrisis), a été réalisée en anglais en intégrant la couverture video, photo, texte et infographie produite par Reuters au long des douze derniers mois. Intégrant des centaines de photos, plusieurs heures de video - dont des témoignages inédits de nombreux grands acteurs de la crise - des milliers de dépêches, encadrés, portraits, analyses, etc. "Times of Crisis" permet de revivre au jour le jour la plus grande crise économique mondiale depuis les années 30. Reuters reviendra par ailleurs au cours des prochains jours sur les conséquences de la faillite de Lehman Brothers à l'occasion du premier anniversaire de la plus importante faillite bancaire jamais intervenue.
Tough economic times call for innovative approaches. An estimated 51 million people internationally are expected to lose their jobs in 2009, and with the unemployment rate on the rise, how does one find career opportunities fast? One great option is Twitter. Twitter (Twitter) is evolving as another resource, in addition to traditional methods, for both job searching and recruiting.
Set in the middle of the Sengoku period, play as Daisuke Shimada, a wandering samurai who travels around Japan. During the most dangerous times, Daisuke must ultimately defeat the mad and awful Daimyo Hattoro, who rules the province. * First hack and slash game developed specifically to leverage the iPhone. * Visit unique environments in the Japan in a feudal 16th century setting. * Unlock all combo attacks and master your skills. * Original comic storytelling. * Special Dojo mode. Fight in the arena sparing enemies in the rounds. * Original soundtrack.
Le New York Times publie cette semaine un article sur l’analyse de sentiment, une tendance qui ne fait que s’accélérer, portée par une autre, celle du temps réel et de Twitter. L’analyse de se ...
Ever wish you could remix the gallery experience? When I walk into a museum I enjoy the structure—the information given, which objects have been placed where, the specific sequence in which the space has been designed—but I will admit, there are times when I want something else too….something that’s a bit off the charts and possibly something that is always subject to change. I’m positive this other need has something to do with all those Choose Your Own Adventure books I was hooked on as a kid.
The New York Times includes a large amount of topical metadata with each article it publishes. These daily dumps plot the relationships, and geographies, of each article and are archived as RDF, XHTML and SVG maps.