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About The Rainbow Orchid - a brief history and FAQ
02 July 2009
Cam In Style download
01 July 2009
Pachube :: blog: Pachube augmented reality demo, with Dennou Coil-style chalk-drawn space-hack
Code written in c using openFrameworks, ArToolKit and the ofxPachube library. It's not quite ready/cleaned up for public release but we'll do so soon.
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26 June 2009
TwitFactory
Micro-blogging taken to the next step... Folders, multiple accounts, twitter and identi.ca, timeline and tree (mail style) views, iPhone-like conversations, filters to automatically dispatch new twits and messages into your folders, offline mode, inline view of images, add-ons and many other great features are what you can expect from TwitFactory.
24 June 2009
Bambous rustiques : Apprivoiser le dragon: Paul Whittaker: Amazon.fr: Livres
PUMA Menâs Alacron L Running Shoe
23 June 2009
Chrome and Firefox 3.5 Memory Usage
Firefox 3.5 used the smallest amount of memory during its peak, it used the smallest amount of memory when all points were averaged, and it used the smallest amount of memory at the end of the experiment after all tabs were closed. Firefox 3.5 continues Firefox 3.0's legacy of being the most memory efficient browser in this style of experiment.
A noter le "in this kind of experiment". Le test en lui-même ne montre pas grand chose, il est biaisé initialement par le fait que Windows gère mal la mémoire dans le sens où il ne maximise pas l'utilisation de la RAM. La seule chose importante est de savoir si la mémoire utilisée est la RAM ou la mémoire virtuelle (ie. un bête fichier). Tant qu'on reste dans la RAM, il n'y a pas de problème, et de ce point de vue là, une utilisation par Chrome de 1Go de mémoire sur les 4Go de mémoire physique (configuration du test) n'est pas forcément négatif au niveau des performances. De même, si la faible consommation de mémoire de Firefox est due à un nettoyage aggressif des structures de données temporaires, ça peut être pénalisant en vitesse. Mais étant donné que ce test ne regarde que la mémoire (espace) et pas la vitesse (temps), les conclusions ne peuvent être que très limitées. La remarque sur IE8 ne fait pas très sérieux...
Simple Online Time Tracking, Timesheet and Reporting Software: Harvest
Track time, log expenses, invoice clients, keep track of account receivables and revenue. Harvest lets you do it all, so you can run your business with style and ease.
19 June 2009
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11 June 2009
walking papers lives (tecznotes)
OpenStreetMap, the wiki-style map of the world that anyone can edit, is in need of a new way to add content. I've been working on a way to "round trip" map data through paper, to make it easier to perform the kinds of eyes-on-the-street edits that OSM needs now the most, as well as distributing the load by making it possible for legible, easy notes to be shared and turned into real geographical data.
Walking Papers is a working service that implements this paper idea, based on initial technical experimentation from back in February.
09 June 2009
Random Etc. - js-vector-maps on github
I've been experimenting with some javascript classes that mimic the structure of mapnik's Layer/Style/Rule classes and render OSM data (via GeoJSON) to a <canvas> element. I've also finally taken a look at how github works, so I've decided to share the initial code there in case people are interested. If you don't want to check the code out for yourself there's a demo page here (tested in Firefox and Safari only, so far).
08 June 2009
Google Data APIs - Google Code
07 June 2009
Unboxing Web-Oriented Architecture: The 6 Aspects Of An Emergent Architectural Style
Transfer Methods. This is at the core of REST and ROA and is the foundation of Web-Oriented Architecture. You can read Roy Fielding's chapter on REST (he conceived of the approach originally) or you can just follow the simple guidelines here. At other times, protocols like BitTorrent can be used if the requirements warrant it, but these are exceptional scenarios that I will cover at some point in the future.
Ne pas citer XMPP dans les "Transfer Methods" quelque jours après l'annonce de Google Wave, et surtout le mettre dans le schéma au niveau des Microformats fait perdre toute crédibilité à l'article.
