# Use Accept-Language – it just works
# Use IP detection as a fallback for language, or a separate test to determine jurisdiction
# Cookie your visitors’ language preferences, so you are consistent
# Provide a simple way to switch language, everywhere
# Treat language and compliance issues as two entirely separate problems
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Feature flags and flippers mean we don’t have to do merges, and that all code (no matter how far it is from being released) is integrated as soon as it is committed. Deploys become smaller and more frequent; this leads to bugs that are easier to fix, since we can catch them earlier and the amount of changed code is minimized.
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Lately we’ve been tinkering with deploying Android beyond the phone (using Google’s open-source Android to connect devices to each other and the web), so we thought we’d see if we could leverage the efficiency of Android on a BeagleBoard, the accessibility of wireless webcams, and the ease of a Flickr feed to a custom Google Gadget to track the ups and downs of our metered utilities. Why webcams? While there may be a few compelling (low-cost, low-impact) products out there to monitor your electric meter, there are no comparable products for reading gas or water meters. So until the really smart grid arrives, here’s a way to chart your whole utility spend on your own Google homepage.
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Papercraft Self Portrait - 2009 I made this as my costume for Halloween 2009. It was kind of inspired by big-head mode seen in videogames. I really wanted to get the faceted geosphere look with wireframe. Software used: 3ds Max 2009 Mudbox 2010 Photoshop CS3 Pepakura I should mention Bert Simons and Haywan Chiu.
An on-line tool to allow flickr users to automatically create new sets based on a variety of criteria - you can define set...
Dopiaza's Set Manager by dopiaza Dopiaza's Set Manager is an on-line tool to allow flickr users to automatically create new sets based on a variety of criteria - you can define set...
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This info graphic shows the immense threat of the Swine Flu compared to other manners of death. Today's the 300th day of the year 2009, so I used the numbers of deaths on the Poodwaddle's World Clock (which uses the death stats of the official WHO data and statistics) for a quick comparison. The number of swine flu deaths is from the official german epidemic info site. - click here to zoom image
This being a blog about maps, I of course mean Harvard not as a school but as a geographic entity. What color is the landscape, physical and cultural? When people look around at whatever interests them, what colors are they looking at?
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The definitive list of Flickr tools, applications, plugins, mobile apps and games. If it uses the API, it should be here: I now have a total of 186 applications and plugins in the database, all of which utilise the Flickr API in some way. You can read more about the API here.