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Apolis Activism
by karlcow
Apolis Activism is an independent contemporary brand that began with dreams and thread. Three brothers — Raan, Shea, and Stenn Parton — created a unique bridge between commerce and sustainable development. Through their travels they discovered stories of struggle and survival from visionaries and activists for change. These experiences shaped their perspective, resulting in a union of ideal and action. They anchored this vision in the word Apolis, which translates as a “global citizen” — where there are no flags and no borders, humanity is our common cause and greatest priority.
October 2009
Creating Offline Web Applicat...
by oseres
Creating Offline Web Applications With Dojo Offline
by Brad Neuberg (SitePen), September 23rd, 2007
This tutorial steps you through creating offline web applications using Dojo Offline.
What is Dojo Offline?
Dojo Offline is an open-source toolkit that makes it easy to create sophisticated, offline web applications. It sits on top of Google Gears, a plugin from Google that helps extend web browsers with new functionality. Dojo Offline makes working with Google Gears easier; extends it with important functionality; creates a higher-level API than Google Gears provides; and exposes developer productivity features. In particular, Dojo Offline provides the following functionality:
An offline widget that you can easily embed in your web page with just a few lines of code, automatically providing the user with network feedback, sync messages, offline instructions, and more
A sync framework to help you store actions done while offline and sync them with a server once back on the network
Automatic network and application-availability detection to determine when your application is on- or off-line so that you can take appropriate action
A slurp() method that automatically scans the page and figures out all the resources that you need offline, including images, stylesheets, scripts, etc.; this is much easier than having to manually maintain which resources should be available offline, especially during development.
Dojo Storage, an easy to use hashtable abstraction for storing offline data for when you don't need the heaviness of Google Gear's SQL abstraction; under the covers Dojo Storage saves its data into Google Gears
Dojo SQL, an easy to use SQL layer that executes SQL statements and returns them as ordinary JavaScript objects
New ENCRYPT() and DECRYPT() SQL keywords that you can mix in when using Dojo SQL, to get transparent cryptography for columns of data. Cryptography is done on a Google Worker Pool thread, so that the browser UI is responsive.
Integration with the rest of Dojo, such as the Dojo Event system
Threads at daniel shiffman
by karlcow
Threading
We’re quite familiar with the idea of writing a program that follows a specific sequence of steps as outlined in, say, a main() function. A Thread is also a series of steps with a beginning, a middle, and an end. A thread’s sequence, however, can run independently of the main program. In fact, we can launch any number of threads at one time and they will all run concurrently. Visit the Java site for a more involved explanation.
This is incredibly useful when it comes to data mining, as we can have separate threads retrieving different pieces of information from the network. If one gets stuck or has an error, the entire program won’t grind to a halt, since the error only stops that individual thread. To create independent, asynchronous threads, we simply extend the Thread class.
tldr - Interfaces for Large-Scale Online Discussion Spaces
by karlcow
tldr is an application for navigating through large-scale online discussions. The application visualizes structures and patterns within ongoing conversations to let the user browse to content of most interest. In addition to visual overviews, it also incorporates features such as thread summarization, non-linear navigation, multi-dimensional filtering, and various other features that improve the experience of participating in large-discussions.
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August 2009
June 2009
sfManagedCachePlugin | Recoursive
by Xavier Lacot
(via)
The very point of caching is that it's faster and less resource intensive to deliver cached data than creating it on the fly. With existing cache solutions, when the cached data expires, it has to be refreshed while the user waits. In environments that rely heavily on caching, such behavior has the potential to create thread pileups and other cascading failure scenarios.
This plugin introduces a cache manager : when an expired âge is called, then it is directly served from the cache, and then the cache gets asynchronously refreshed.
Make a Do-Si-Do Book
by blackgoldfish
Tools
Paper
Scissors
Linen thread
Needle
Bone folder
Awl
Pencil
April 2009
February 2009
Rules sur Flickr : partage de photos !
by karlcow
papier et filMSCE 1/03/09: blank sheet of paper old note pad thread tape exacto knife camera
December 2008
A visual guide to navigating blog comments | Blog | 1976design.com
by Spone
(via)
When it comes to following the ebb and flow of comments on blogs, it’s easy to get lost; they’re not laid out in the thread format we see in forums, but in a linear hoppity-skip way that makes a consistent flow of discussion almost impossible to maintain. One comment might not draw a response for a month, by which time fifty other comments may separate the initial post and its follow up.
This is the issue I think I’ve dealt with.
Web Workers
by parmentierf
(via)
This specification defines an API that allows Web application authors to spawn background workers running scripts in parallel to their main page. This allows for thread-like operation with message-passing as the coordination mechanism.
November 2008
mail-trends - Google Code
by delavigne
& 5 others
(via)
Mail Trends lets you analyze and visualize your email (as extracted from an IMAP server). You can see:
* Distribution of messages by year, month, day, day of week and time of day
* Distribution of messages by size and your top 40 largest messages
* The top senders, recipients and mailing lists you're on.
* Distributions of senders, recipients and mailing lists over time
* The distribution of thread lengths and the lists and people that result in the longest threads
Check Your Mysql Server Performance with MySQLTuner -- Debian Admin
by helmeloh
& 1 other
MySQLTuner is a script written in Perl that will assist you with your MySQL configuration and make recommendations for increased performance and stability. Within seconds, it will display statistics about your MySQL installation and the areas where it can be improved.
It’s key to remember that MySQLTuner is a script which can assist you with your server, but it is not the solution to a badly performing MySQL server. The best performance gains come from a thorough review of the queries sent to the server, and an evaluation of the MySQL server itself. A qualified developer in your application’s programming or scripting language should be able to work with a MySQL database administrator to find improvements for your server. Once the server and application are optimized well, you may need to consider hardware upgrades to the physical server itself.
This is a really useful tool for helping to optimize MySQL performance.Understanding the various my.cnf variables and how they affect performance can seem really complicated but this tool takes some of the pain away and makes it easier to understand the effects of each variable.It is especially useful to be able to see the global memory usage, memory usage per thread and the maximum possible memory usage - that is really valuable information that is otherwise complex to calculate.
Check Your Mysql Server Performance with MySQLTuner -- Debian Admin
by camel
& 1 other
MySQLTuner is a script written in Perl that will assist you with your MySQL configuration and make recommendations for increased performance and stability. Within seconds, it will display statistics about your MySQL installation and the areas where it can be improved.
It’s key to remember that MySQLTuner is a script which can assist you with your server, but it is not the solution to a badly performing MySQL server. The best performance gains come from a thorough review of the queries sent to the server, and an evaluation of the MySQL server itself. A qualified developer in your application’s programming or scripting language should be able to work with a MySQL database administrator to find improvements for your server. Once the server and application are optimized well, you may need to consider hardware upgrades to the physical server itself.
This is a really useful tool for helping to optimize MySQL performance.Understanding the various my.cnf variables and how they affect performance can seem really complicated but this tool takes some of the pain away and makes it easier to understand the effects of each variable.It is especially useful to be able to see the global memory usage, memory usage per thread and the maximum possible memory usage - that is really valuable information that is otherwise complex to calculate.
October 2008
gReader Comments
by sbrothier
gReader Comments is a Greasemonkey script-turned-extension for Firefox that brings all Disqus conversations into Google Reader. All entries will have a comment thread (regardless of Disqus integration on that site), but more importantly you will be able to join the existing conversation for blogs that use Disqus.
How to download the largest Flickr photo with comments!___YouTube -
by decembre
Here is my workflow which allows me to download the largest photo (available) from Flickr (from the main photo page) inclusive of the relevant metadata attributed to the user and the reason for its being.Once you have set everything up, simply downloading the photo will include the following data inside it: The Title of the photo The URL of the photo Any selected text e.g. the comments FireFox version 2 (met.a only works with FF2, for now) met.a: http://lovelago.googlepages.com/home2 GreaseMonkey for FireFox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/fire... Flickr Largest Image Replacement script: http://anythreewords.com/gwsf/flickr_... / (Thread: http://www.flickr.com/groups/guesswhe... ) Aperture: http://www.apple.com/aperture/ Maperture plug-in: http://www.ubermind.com/products/mape... http://www.flickrleech.net/ (use for browsing Flickr @ 200/photos a page)
September 2008
noName CMS | free underground cms
by jakamos
http://board.gulli.com/thread/1209553-noname-script---1-free-scene-cms/
http://xtra.kilu.de/evo/index.php
August 2008
The Golden Thread
by ronyws
Hi Everyone...
Michael Cheney has given me a report about "The Golden Thread" and i have just finished reading it, and let me tell you something… I read it from cover-to-cover TWICE because I couldn’t believe Michael Cheney said "You can make money from internet even if you don’t have a product, list or even a website !"
June 2008
Digital Storytelling- Part VI VoiceThread
by knann
Great explanation of using Voice Thread with students
SkyscraperCity - View Single Post - Japan Mass Transit Thread
by karlcow
photosTokyo Metro fukutoshin line Shibuya station
May 2008
Main Page - AlsaProject
by Emaux
& 2 others
The Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA) provides audio and MIDI functionality to the Linux operating system. ALSA has the following significant features:
Efficient support for all types of audio interfaces, from consumer sound cards to professional multichannel audio interfaces.
Fully modularized sound drivers.
SMP and thread-safe design.
User space library (alsa-lib) to simplify application programming and provide higher level functionality.
Support for the older Open Sound System (OSS) API, providing binary compatibility for most OSS programs.
April 2008
How To Set Up A Debian Linux WebCam Server Using a USB Web Cam
by camel
& 1 other
First and foremost, be prepared to have some patience when trying to get a USB cam to work under Linux. In trying to get mine to work, I searched many a newsgroup thread only to find there was only one message in the thread, the original question stating the problem. i.e. no one had an answer for the person who posted the question so you may be on your own trying to get your cam to work. Often times the same camera model will use different drivers for different sub-models (ex: not all QuickCam Express sub-models use the same driver). However, my trials and tribulations were a good learning experience and I'll share what I learned here to hopefully make your setup easier.
