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Are Your Controllers Playing Music?
The metaphor that I like to use when describing MVC to them is that of an orchestra. In it, the individual musicians are the model, the conductor is the controller and the audience is the view.
Urban Age | Conference | Istanbul | November 2009
On November 5, Urban Age will inaugurate an intensive two-day conference on the future of cities in Istanbul, an expanding metropolis and one of the worlds first global cities. 100 innovators of urban change from 15 countries, half a dozen mayors, renowned scholars and authors side-by-side with architects and developers leading major urban regeneration projects around the globe will offer presentations about urban transformations in 25 cities. The conference will engage an invited audience of over 300 urban policymakers, academics, designers, planners and developers to explore the vast and complex challenge of contemporary city making and the interconnected issues of the impact of the global economic condition on world cities, the effect of climate change on urban sustainability and the role of urban design in creating socially cohesive environments.
October 2009
greatstreetgames.org.uk
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September 2009
Simple API for Cloud Application Services
The Simple Cloud API is here to bring cloud technologies to PHP and the PHP philosophy to the cloud. With it, developers can start writing scalable and highly available applications that are still portable. If you're looking for code to start playing around with immediately, you'll find the first file storage, document storage, and simple queue interfaces with adapters for major cloud vendors here.
But this project is about more than just code. Zend has once again invited the open source community and software vendor of all sizes in to a dialogue that benefits all. And this time we're working with the companies that are leading the cloud revolution.
Habitable Polyhedron / Manuel Villa | ArchDaily
The project, meant for a family house back yard in the suburbs, aimed at designing a small park or opened area where the young parents and their newborn child would enjoy a independent space from day to day house activities, a space for reading, playing, etc. Having in mind this objective, and considering the usages of the space in the long term, it was proposed the project incorporated a small building to complement and support outside activities. That way he building would serve as a shelter for the child to share with his parents and, later on, as his own personal activities and hobbies setting.
Laurent Haug’s blog » Blog Archive » Street computers
Seoul is one of the world’s most wired city, and the recent “ubiquitous city” project aims to increase the level of connectivity citizens experience on the street. One of the most visible part of the u-city is the media poles forest, tenth of computers embedded into high poles offering services like news, submay and bus maps, email postcard, 3D avatar game, casual games, shopping/restaurant locator and Flickr photo gallery (more). This sort of rich country’s version of the hole in the wall is extremely popular, and many couples and groups gather around the screens to share a moment playing games or sending a postcard.
FoxyTunes - Yahoo! Media Player | plays music on web pages
12 Coolest Playing Cards - Oddee.com
August 2009
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School’s Out and Your Kids Are Online: Do You Know What They’ve Been Searching For This Summer? - OnlineFamily.Norton
Criminal case against “extremist” Siberian artist ongoing - Artem Loskutov was jailed for his role in a political art groupThe Art Newspaper
What a Community Manager does « Web Strategy by Jeremiah Owyang | Social Media, Web Marketing
July 2009
Yahoo committed seppuku today
Developer Evangelist Handbook
This handbook will get you on the way to be a great developer evangelist for any product or company. Of course your approach needs tweaking for different markets and audiences - and in accordance with your own personality - but the main principles are the same for everybody and anywhere in the world.
Developer evangelism is a totally new field of work and the first hurdle you will encounter is people asking what a developer evangelist is and why any company would need a role like that.
Developer Evangelism - home of the Developer Evangelist Handbook
A developer evangelist is a spokesperson, mediator and translator between a company and both its technical staff and outside developers.
If you think this would be a good role for you, here's the developer evangelist handbook which gives you some great tips on how to do this job.
Why Functional Programming Matters
As software becomes more and more complex, it is more and more important to structure it well. Well-structured software is easy to write, easy to debug, and provides a collection of modules that can be re-used to reduce future programming costs. Conventional languages place conceptual limits on the way problems can be modularised. Functional languages push those limits back. In this paper we show that two features of functional languages in particular, higher-order functions and lazy evaluation, can contribute greatly to modularity. As examples, we manipulate lists and trees, program several numerical algorithms, and implement the alpha-beta heuristic (an algorithm from Artificial Intelligence used in game-playing programs). Since modularity is the key to successful programming, functional languages are vitally important to the real world.
June 2009
OAuth-OpenID: You’re Barking Up the Wrong Tree if you Think They’re the Same Thing
Magnum : Pandora's Box
