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May 2009
April 2009
Dave Alvarez Studio
by everyueveryme
I'm David Alvarez, mostly known for my comic strip Yenny and my early work in Looney Tunes comics
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February 2009
Database versus files for Images at Spindrop
by Xavier Lacot
Dave gives his feedback on a long-debated developement topic : storing files in database or on the filesystem.
"I had been serving images via the database. Immediately when I switched to the filesystem I saw a huge benefit. Not just a drop in database connections, but overall “zippiness” in the site.
We’ll see how well this performs in the real world, but I am quite sure that I learned my lesson."
All this makes sense : files are not data, they are just files. A filesystem is designed for hosting files. A database is designed for hosting data. Don't mess things.
January 2009
December 2008
The Evolution of Classical Jojutsu
by Takwann
& 1 other
by Dave Lowry
When one considers it is really only a short, round stick of wood, it is even more intriguing to ponder what an elemental gap the hardwood jo has filled in the history and evolution of the martial disciplines of Japan.
November 2008
October 2008
Using jQuery for Background Image Animations
by marco
& 4 others
After reading Dave Shea's article on CSS Sprites using jQuery to produce animation effects, I felt like playing around with things to see what could be done but accomplish it with a simpler HTML structure and simpler code.
September 2008
The 10 best beer names ever - St. Petersburg Times
by sbrothier
I recently read a piece by John Foyston in The Oregonian relating how five bottles of an ultra-rare beer named Hair of the Dog Dave sold separately at auction for a combined $2838.30. Had there been a sixth, Foyston points out, it would have amounted to a $3,500 sixer.
After cringing a bit, I had to laugh. If it had been a wine, the name on the bottle would have been something pompous sounding like Coche-Dury Corton-Charlemagne. However, these bidders shelled out up to $719 per 375ml for a tipple named Dave. You have to love the working-class ethic of the craft beer community.
'Rock Band' vs. 'Guitar Hero' | Guitar Hero | Music Spotlight | Music | Entertainment Weekly | 1
by xibe
omg, la Jackie de "That 70's Show" tue à la batterie de Rock Band!Don't be that impressed,'' [Mila Kunis] says mid-solo, but even Dave Grohl, who's hanging nearby, starts paying attention. ''Okay, be a little impressed. I can get 99 percent if I take my heels off.'
July 2008
June 2008
May 2008
Digital Voodoo -- Social Media strategy and intelligence applied to marketing.
by springnet
Strategy + Tactics - Dave Evans network of best-of-class partners helps define and implement new applications built around a socially-aware launch strategy that you can measure. twitter @evansdave
April 2008
Error 453 Not Enough Bandwith
by tehu
(via)
"Honestly, I think Comcast should give me my service for free and let's work to create new services that use more bandwidth so they can sell them to customers as part of the upsell to people who use a lot of bandwidth." // Dave Winer, précurseur du Web 2.0
March 2008
Dave Made That - New Media Musings by Dave Delaney — Join Dave Delaney as he explores and shares his findings from the wild world of web two-point-whoa!
by springnet
On that note, be sure to friend me on the SXSW ‘08 Insider’s Guide so we can stay connected in Austin.
February 2008
Dave Cusick's POST MODERN ROCK SHOW on KPSU
by garret
Playable archives (June 10, 2005 to July 27, 2007) of Dave Kusick's radio show on KPSU before its name was changed to That Sound. Visit http://www.thatsoundradio.com/ for recent shows or to subscribe to a podcast.
January 2008
Choosing a Distributed Version Control System
by sdaclin
& 1 other
Bazaar, Hg (Mercurial) ou Git sont-ils les dignes successeurs de SVN et CVS ? C'est ce que Dave DRIBIN compare dans son blog.
Amazon.com: The Book of Other People: Books: Zadie Smith
by sbrothier
Starred Review. "The instruction was simple: make somebody up," explains novelist Smith in her introduction to this marvelous compendium of 23 distinct, pungent stories that attack the question of "character" from all angles. From David Mitchell's hilarious rendering of one menopausal woman's fantasy internet love-affair to ZZ Packer's heart-wrenching Jewish guy-black girl romance, each story is, as Smith puts it, "its own thing entirely." There are moments of prosaic precision (Andrew O'Hagan's eerily incisive "Gordon" is introduced "in the talcum-powdered air of the bathroom muttering calculations and strange moral sums about the cause of Hamlet's unhappiness"), but this volume is more than a showcase for deft prose and quirky souls. Toby Litt's lovely, lyrical "Monster," for example, playfully upends notions of personhood, as does Dave Eggers' surprising "Theo," a moving tale of a mountain who falls in love. Also on hand are a number of wonderful graphic shorts: Daniel Clowe shrewdly explores an insufferable critic's solipsistic lapses, Nick Hornby's "A Writing Life" gives a knowing wink with a series of writer bios and mock headshots, and "Jordan Wellington Lint" by Chris Ware cleverly chronicles the first 13 years of its hero's life. With so much to savor-the sensuality of Adam Thirlwell's "Nigora," the knowingness of George Saunder's "Puppy"-this anthology will sate even the most famished short story fan. Sales benefit Eggers's nonprofit literary organization 826 NYC.
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