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Gridshore » How WTF’s improve code quality awareness
It is very important to report the WTF to the developer who produced the code. Subversions “annotate” or “blame” function provides a means to blame someone for the existence of a specific piece of code. The best way to report this back is through an informative and educational discussion, where everyone could be involved. The factoring should preferably be done by the developer responsible for the code, perhaps with the assistance of the developer who reviewed it. As a result, quality awareness will have improved within the development team.
June 2009
Digital Web Magazine - User Interface Implementations of Faceted Browsing
10 Ways to Instantly Increase Your jQuery Performance - Nettuts
Erik Engbrecht's Blog: Pondering Actor Design Trades
Shindig - Welcome To Shindig!
WhereCloud – Products
FightingArts.com - The Study Of Iaido
Official Google Blog: Square your search results with Google Squared
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May 2009
:: Ambulantes no Trem ::
Linked Open Data — The National Dialogue
3. The Linked Open Data movement uses open royalty-free standards from W3C.
These do not bind the federal government to any specific supplier.
March 2009
Thermodynamics - CreationWiki, the encyclopedia of creation science
White Papers and Presentations
SparqlTree - oort - Automatic treeification of SPARQL query results. - Google Code
The SPARQL Tree tools digest SPARQL results for your convenience.
A "SPARQL tree" is a processed SPARQL query result which combines bound variables into trees of data. It processes regular results from queries using variables named according to a specific convention (designating "tree structure").
There is also (alpha) support for a custom mixed "SPARQL-in-XML" query format (mentioned furher down).
TimeSpace: World - washingtonpost.com
SourceForge.net: TTX/FontTools: TTX/FontTools
TTX is a tool to convert OpenType and TrueType fonts to and from XML. FontTools is a library for manipulating fonts, written in Python. It supports TrueType, OpenType, AFM and to an extent Type 1 and some Mac-specific formats.
February 2009
landkee (www.notpaper.net)
Q: What do you like to work with (magazines, photographs, vintage)? Be specific!
A: Anything that can be stuck to a piece of paper.
Documentation for the Combine (focused) crawling system
The Combine system is an open, free, and highly configurable system for focused crawling of Internet resources. It aims at providing a robust and efficient tool for creating topic-specific moderate sized databases (up to a few million records). Crawling speed is around 200 URLs per minute and a complete structured record takes up an average of 25 kilobytes disk-space.
Three Reasons Why I Won't Be Using Google Latitude - PC World
Hidding is revealing.Now, Google Latitude does let you limit how specific of a location any given person can see. Let’s face it, though: If you make the effort to get into a location-sharing relationship with someone, odds are you’re both going to reveal more than just your current city. And if you suddenly disappear from the map or switch over to showing limited info, it’s going to look a little strange.
Gemma San Cornelio - Node "Locative Media and Artistic Practice: Explorations on the Ground"
The term locative media refers generally to the communication technologies involving location; ie, those providing a link or information relating to a specific place via devices such as GPS, mobile telephones or PDAs, laptop computers or wireless networks. These media are now fully integrated into our daily lives and lead to a whole series of social, professional and cultural routines. Likewise, they have catalysed a certain level of curiosity and concern both in terms of artistic practice and academic study. In this issue of Artnodes, we want to contribute to the academic debate on locative media. We focus specifically on artistic projects that use these media for distinct aims, from political activism to games, or the different ways of appropriating these technologies. This allows us to see, from a conceptual perspective, that all these projects share an idea of the notion of space: how it is ordered, how it is represented, or what kind of social interaction takes place there. These are the underlying questions in each and every one of these locative media projects.
Sustainable Architecture in Japan - a greenhouse for a house! | Modern House Designs
Just craving for it… goshFinally, a greenhouse which can also accommodate people: the Camouflage House. Why should we continue considering that greenhouses are suitable only for plants? It's not the case anymore. This house by Hiroshi Iguchi is part of the Fifth World project which aims to promote eco friendly, sustainable architecture. The house takes natural elements and blends them all into the design of the interior. Warm, natural materials are used. Wood for the floors, light, traditional Japanese panels for compartments and white canvas to protect the interior from excessive heat. Even more, some of the trees were literally incorporated into the house, by letting them grow up to the sky in between the walls of the house. The rooms just go around them, surrounding all four sides and making themselves one with the green environment. Living close to the heart of nature was never so well understood and put into practice. A Camouflage House by Hiroshi Iguchi? Yes, please!
Google: "We're Not Doing a Good Job with Structured Data" - ReadWriteWeb
Google's Alon Halevy admitted that the search giant has "not been doing a good job" presenting the structured data found on the web to its users. By "structured data," Halevy was referring to the databases of the "deep web" - those internet resources that sit behind forms and site-specific search boxes, unable to be indexed through passive means.
