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Thesaurus Rex | GOOD
with the publication—after 44 years of work—of the Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary. At almost 4,000 pages and about 800,000 meanings
06 November 2009
The Blu Dot Real Good Experiment
On November 4-5, 25 Real Good Chairs will be dropped around NYC. Many chairs will be GPS-enabled. You can follow their journeys here.
05 November 2009
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30 October 2009
26 October 2009
Learning from Shogun
Against Transparency
Likewise with transparency. There is no questioning the good that transparency creates in a wide range of contexts, government especially. But we should also recognize that the collateral consequence of that good need not itself be good. And if that collateral bad is busy certifying to the American public what it thinks it already knows, we should think carefully about how to avoid it.
24 October 2009
SOA Manifesto - Stefan Tilkov's Random Stuff
The reason for the manifesto being somewhat vague, in my opinion, is a good one – describe the values that are common to those who aim to improve upon the typical company's IT landscape, regardless of the actual technical architecture.
A Thanksgiving Gift – 7 Days of Source Code | blprnt.blg
When it comes to releasing source code, I’ve always been torn. I really believe in the philosophy of open source, but I’m intimidated by putting my code out there for everyone to see. Underneath it all, I’m probably scared of being exposed as some kind of a charlatan (”You call that programming?”). So, to pre-empt that possibility, I’ll start by saying this: I’m not a great programmer. My code is clean and fairly well-structured, but don’t expect to find any particularly advanced code wizardry or complicated mathematics. I do, however, think that the projects that I’ll be sharing over the week contain some good ideas, and a lot of helpful techniques. Hopefully you’ll find one or all of them useful.
23 October 2009
old sayings
22 October 2009
How to Migrate to Linux
20 October 2009
Charles Apple » Blog Archive » First look: Redesign of the Washington Post
18 October 2009
Data Visualization: A Primer and Practical Application | eyecube
Good Data Viz can illuminate and educate, inspire and entertain. I also understand that this is an area when I am a student and am happy to turn it over to the pros. So, with this post I want to share some of the smartest stuff I’ve seen, as well as provide you with some original commentary from Patricia McDonald, Planning Director at BBH Labs.
17 October 2009
Geonames, rdf, triplr, json, Yahoo! Pipes and the Semantic Web, oh my! « geobloggers
entre php et javascript, je ne suis pas sûr que cela arrange les choses ;)Why is it good? Because we’ll learn a few tricks about how to do stuff with just JavaScript and no yucky backend stuff like PHP.
MySQL-Memcached or NOSQL Tokyo Tyrant – part 2 | MySQL Performance Blog
A couple of good things to remember here: #1 resolving 1 bottleneck can open another bottleneck that is much worse. #2 is to understand that not all API’s are created equal. Additionally the configuration and setup that works well on one system may not work well on another. Because of this people often leave lots of performance on the table. Don’t just trust that your current API or config is optimal, test and make sure it fits your application.
16 October 2009
15 October 2009
WhatIsVoCamp - VoCamp Wiki
VoCamp is a series of informal events where people can spend some dedicated time creating lightweight vocabularies/ontologies for the Semantic Web/Web of Data. The emphasis of the events is not on creating the perfect ontology in a particular domain, but on creating vocabs that are good enough for people to start using for publishing data on the Web. The intention is to follow a "paper first, laptops second" format, where the modelling is done initially on paper and only later committed to code. The VoCamp idea is influenced by BarCamp, although the emphasis is different. Whereas BarCamps are oriented to demos and presentations, VoCamps are oriented to hands-on technical work and practical outputs; any presentations and demos should be short, highly on-topic to the vocabulary development process, and limited in number, to leave plenty of time for hacking on new vocabularies.
Linux.com :: Using free software for HTTP load testing
A good way to see how your Web applications and server will behave under high load is by testing them with a simulated load. We tested several free software tools that do such testing to see which work best for what kinds of sites.
12 October 2009
WebKit, Mobile, and Progress | Continuing Intermittent Incoherency
The important takeaway for web developers in all of this is that WebKit is winning and that that is a good thing.
C'est Alex Russell, employé de Google qui nous le dit : HTML 5 on s'en tape, ce qui est important, c'est le monopole de WebKit.
IE, Chrome, Safari duped by bogus PayPal SSL cert • The Register
If you use the Internet Explorer, Google Chrome or Apple Safari browsers to conduct PayPal transactions, now would be a good time to switch over to the decidedly more secure Firefox alternative.
11 October 2009
08 October 2009
Design Licks
Pagezipper extension automatically loads "next page" links
02 October 2009
An Engineer's Guide to Bandwidth (Yahoo! Developer Network Blog)
Web app developers spend most of our time not thinking about how data is actually transmitted through the bowels of the network stack. Abstractions at the application layer let us pretend that networks read and write whole messages as smooth streams of bytes. Generally this is a good thing. But knowing what's going underneath is crucial to performance tuning and application design. The character of our users' internet connections is changing and some of the rules of thumb we rely on may need to be revised.
