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scraplab — The Scruffying of Print
So you design things with high tolerances and gentle failure modes which still look OK when everything isn’t quite as expected.
This is something that print is going to have to get used to. Slightly messier, with a few more bad line breaks and unbalanced columns.
04 November 2009
CK-12.org - Free Curriculum
03 November 2009
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01 November 2009
Lift – The Simply Functional Web Framework – Home
Lift is an expressive and elegant framework for writing web applications. Lift stresses the importance of security, maintainability, scalability and performance, while allowing for high levels of developer productivity. Lift open source software licensed under an Apache 2.0 license.
four
30 October 2009
26 October 2009
Extra Cheese
Each line gets highlighted based on the complexity of the function: green for low, yellow for medium, red for high.
No country has perfect system, but there are lessons to learn
25 October 2009
Coming At You Like A Pydermonkey at Toolness
Pydermonkey’s mission is pretty simple and straightforward: it’s just meant to wrap Spidermonkey’s C API as faithfully as possible—including its debugging API—while enforcing the memory safety that Python is known for. This makes it awfully low-level for casual programmers, but thanks to Python’s awesome support for magic methods, it’s not hard to create high-level wrappers that provide much more convenient bridging between JavaScript and Python code.
20 October 2009
Places and Spaces :: Mapping Science
Places & Spaces: Mapping Science is meant to inspire cross-disciplinary discussion on how to best track and communicate human activity and scientific progress on a global scale. It has two components: the physical part supports the close inspection of high quality reproductions of maps for display at conferences and education centers; the online counterpart provides links to a selected series of maps and their makers along with detailed explanations of how these maps work. The exhibit is a 10-year effort. Each year, 10 new maps are added resulting in 100 maps total in 2014.
Canon EOS 5D Mark II Firmware
19 October 2009
Wolfram|Alpha Webservice API
16 October 2009
High Performance Web Sites :: @font-face and performance
A quick survey shows that seven of the Alexa U.S. top ten web sites have a SCRIPT tag above their stylesheets or STYLE blocks: AOL, Facebook, Google, Bing, MSN, MySpace, and Yahoo!. These web sites don’t currently use @font-face, but if they did, they would experience the IE blocked rendering problem. This raises the concern that other web sites that are early adopters of @font-face have a SCRIPT tag above @font-face and their IE users run the risk of experiencing blocked rendering.
15 October 2009
High Performance Web Sites :: Aptimize: realtime spriting and more
tracking Aptimize for about a year since they contacted me about their Website Accelerator. I was psyched to have them present at and sponsor Velocity. Website Accelerator changes web pages in real time and injects many of the performance best practices from my books, plus some others that aren’t in my books. It’s a server-side module that runs on Microsoft Sharepoint, ASP.NET, and Linux/Apache.
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.
14 October 2009
13 October 2009
Super Yachts Club
11 October 2009
PhotoSketch
We present a system that composes a realistic picture from a simple freehand sketch annotated with text labels. The composed picture is generated by seamlessly stitching several photographs in agreement with the sketch and text labels; these are found by searching the Internet. Although online image search generates many inappropriate results, our system is able to automatically select suitable photographs to generate a high quality composition, using a filtering scheme to exclude undesirable images. We also provide a novel image blending algorithm to allow seamless image composition. Each blending result is given a numeric score, allowing us to find an optimal combination of discovered images. Experimental results show the method is very successful; we also evaluate our system using the results from two user studies.
06 October 2009
BBC - Jersey - Kap Bambino make for stunning end
04 October 2009
