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The CSS Box Model | CSS-Tricks
by karlcow
every element in web design is a rectangular box. This was my ah-ha moment that helped me really start to understand CSS-based web design and accomplish the layouts I wanted to accomplish.
June 2009
Erik Engbrecht's Blog: Pondering Actor Design Trades
by jpcaruana
(via)
# Why is the standard Scala actor implementation so complex when others have done it in a such simpler fashion?
# Is it better to have one, big actor library that supports a wide variety of use cases, or a bunch of smaller ones targeted at specific niches and programming styles?
# If there are to be a bunch, should they just be conceptually similar (e.g. all based on the actor model), or should there be interoperability among them?
Unknown Device Identifier 6.01
by nachilau
& 1 other
Unknown Device Identifier enables you to identify the yellow question mark labeled Unknown Devices in Device Manager. And reports you a detailed summary for the manufacturer name, OEM name, device type, device model and even the exact name of the unknown devices. With the collected information, you might contact your hardware manufacturer for support or search the Internet for the corresponding driver with a simple click. With this utility, you might immediately convert your unidentified unknown devices into identified known devices and find proper driver on the Internet and contact the hardware device manufacturer or vender. Known devices recognized by Microsoft Windows will also be analyzed independent of the operating system.
Le “Pay what you want” de Brandalley séduit 5 000 nouveaux clients - e-marketing.fr : Ventes privées, E-commerce, Brandalley, Pay what you want
by tisienpo
Le “Pay what you want” de Brandalley séduit 5 000 nouveaux clients
13/05/2009
La semaine dernière, le site Brandalley lançait une opération originale baptisée “Pay what you want” proposant à la vente une sélection de 10 000 articles dont le prix (à partir de 1 euro) était entièrement laissé à la libre appréciation des acheteurs. Le concept a généré un énorme buzz sur la toile et dès le premier jour, plus de 450 000 internautes se seraient connectés au site. Brandalley aurait recruté 5 000 nouveaux clients grâce à cette opération pour un coût total d'acquisition de 12 euros par client. La société annonce que 85% des internautes ont payé 1,37 euro les articles mis en vente, quel que soit le prix recommandé et 15% ont payé le juste prix ou légèrement en dessous. Une opération qui avait valeur de test pour le site d’e-commerce qui reconnaît n'avoir pas gagné d'argent sur cette vente. Il serait néanmoins rentré dans ses frais grâce au recrutement de plusieurs milliers de nouveaux clients et au buzz généré sur Google notamment. Une opération qui pourrait être reconduite sous une autre forme plus adaptée au business model de Brandalley.
Google Data APIs Overview - Google Data APIs - Google Code
by holyver
The Google Data APIs provide a simple standard protocol for reading and writing data on the web.
The Data APIs use either of two standard XML-based syndication formats: Atom or RSS. They also have a feed-publishing system that consists of the Atom publishing protocol plus some extensions (using Atom's standard extension model) for handling queries.
OLYMPUS PEN 50th Anniversary: OLYMPUS PEN D (1962) | Olympus Imaging Asia
by karlcow
The Olympus Pen D was introduced in 1962 as the top model in the Olympus Pen range... > more
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May 2009
Mobiscopes for Human Spaces
by karlcow
Mobiscopes extend the traditional sensor network model, introducing challenges in data management and integrity, privacy, and network system design. Researchers need an architecture and general methodology for designing future mobiscopes.
Google Maps Data API - Google Code
by karlcow
(via)
The Google Maps Data API allows client applications to view, store and update map data in the form of Google Data API feeds using a data model of features (placemarks, lines and shapes) and maps (collections of features).
Understanding the Striped RDF/XML Syntax
by karlcow
This document provides a brief introduction to the underlying structure of the RDF/XML 1.0 graph serialization syntax. The Intended audience is mainly content and tool developers familiar with XML basics, and with the RDF model, who want a minimalistic understanding of RDF's XML syntax, so they can read and write RDF/XML with more confidence.
IRC logs: freenode / #whatwg / 20090516
by karlcow
retour à la réalité(But that seems unlikely to happen unless someone familiar with HTML5 writes it, because anyone else would find it very hard to understand the HTML5 processing model in enough detail without spending ages learning it)
Nem's Tools [Crafty - About]
by shadoko
Crafty is a 3D object, material, model and file browsing utility targeted towards Half-Life modders or enthusiasts looking for a Steam Independent application for quick previews. It currently supports Half-Life 2 .bsp, .mdl, .vmf and .gl formats along with Half-Life .bsp, .mdl, .map and .rmf formats in a variety of render modes.
uxtopia » Social Web Systems Common Model
by Xavier Lacot
& 2 others
h ben oui, ça doit être ça un réseau social :-)
uxtopia » Social Web Systems Common Model
by karlcow
& 2 others
As I collected more and more, I grouped them and realized that it seemed to be some higher level information architecture patterns common to every site. Some “big blocks” appeared all the time, way obvious as “Profile”, or rather more unpredictable, as “Statistics”.
EU Calls For Full Privatization of ICANN, Commissioner Calls Sept 30 Moment of Truth
by marco
She outlines a new Internet Governance model which includes a fully private and accountable ICANN, accompanied by an independent judicial body, as well as a "G12 for Internet Governance"
April 2009
What to do if your cloud provider disappears | ITworld
by ERSWeb
as well as use hundreds of applications written to Salesforce's Force.com API via the Apex development language.
However, this highly proprietary model means customers can run only Salesforce.com (including any customization they have done to the pages they use within the application) on the Salesforce platform.
SRW/U [OCLC - Software]
by parmentierf
The SRW/U Open Source project offers software that implements both the SRW Web Service and the SRU REST model interface to databases. Included are interfaces that support DSpace's Lucene implementation and OCLC's Pears and Newton databases.
ΑΝΝΑ ΙΟΡΔΑΝΙΔΟΥ - ΤΑ ΡΗΜΑΤΑ ΤΗΣ ΝΕΑΣ ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΗΣ
by bieiris
4.500 ΡΗΜΑΤΑ - 4,500 Verbs
235 ΥΠΟΔΕΙΓΜΑΤΑ ΚΛΙΣΗΣ - 235 Model Conjugations
TechTLV : Can you hear me now? The operator-centric mobile model is over
by oseres
Can you hear me now? The operator-centric mobile model is over
Last week, T-Mobile Germany made some waves by banning Skype for the iPhone. Some might read this as a long overdue reassertion of operator power, but I disagree. A few months ago, I learned from a reliable source that a major operator was deliberately not shipping a very popular mobile phone model that they knew their customers wanted because the phone didn’t give them enough control over what the customer does. The phone was too open. This is exactly what Google was talking about back in 2007 when it insisted on openness as a condition to bidding in the FCC’s spectrum auction.
Ten years ago, when I covered mobile operators on Wall Street, they used to cite their vast capital expenditure on building on their cellular networks as their core differentiator. This was the reality behind Verizon’s amusing “can you hear me now?” campaign.
Inference Group: Dasher Project: Home
by ronpish
& 1 other
Keyboards are inefficient for two reasons: they do not exploit the redundancy in normal ... all » language; and they waste the fine analogue capabilities of the user's motor system (fingers and eyes, for example). I describe a system intended to rectify both these inefficiencies. Dasher is a text-entry system in which a language model plays an integral role, and it's driven by continuous gestures. Users can achieve single-finger writing speeds of 35 words per minute and hands-free writing speeds of 25 words per minute. Dasher is free software, and it works in all languages, and on many platforms. Dasher is part of Debian, and there's even a little java version for your web-browser.
Fast and Furious 4 (2009)
by alamat
(via)
Removing the “the” from its predecessors’ title not once but twice, Fast & Furious’s abbreviated moniker harkens back to the series’s 2001 original while simultaneously expressing a tough curtness that marks it as its own model.
