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12 November 2009
11 November 2009
scraplab — Using Geoplanet Data in Ruby on Rails
Geoplanet is a database of 5.4 million places in a hierarchy. Each entry has a unique, permanent ID (WOEID), a name and a place type. For example, Homerton (20089379) is a Suburb in the London Borough of Hackney (12695808), which is a LocalAdmin in London (44418), which is a Town in Greater London (23416974), and so on.
07 November 2009
Open IT Online | View your documents online
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03 November 2009
WordPress › More Fields « WordPress Plugins
30 October 2009
Software is hard | Eventbug (alpha) Released
This extension brings a new Events panel that lists all of the event handlers on the page grouped by event type. The panel also nicely integrates with other Firebug panels and allows to quickly find out, which HTML element is associated with specific event listener or see the Javascript source code.
27 October 2009
Photocrati - Affiliate Program
25 October 2009
From Drupal to Movable Type - François Nonnenmacher (EN)
a migration of a blog from Drupal to Movable Type. The process is pretty much undocumented out there, apart this helpful tutorial from Andrew Sterling Hanenkamp, which unfortunately will not work if you're using Drupal 6. Hence this little how-to, which works with Drupal 6, but that you'll have to adapt to your own Drupal installation.
22 October 2009
B-String Monsters That Deserve a Turn in the Limelight - Movie monsters - io9
TP-PolyTweet.pdf (Objet application/pdf)
Official Google Blog: RT @google: Tweets and updates and search, oh my!
Given this new type of information and its value to search, we are very excited to announce that we have reached an agreement with Twitter to include their updates in our search results. We believe that our search results and user experience will greatly benefit from the inclusion of this up-to-the-minute data, and we look forward to having a product that showcases how tweets can make search better in the coming months
21 October 2009
Discuss: Getting to No
15 Questionnaire
It would be very interesting if you could share a mockup, template of your questionnaire. Or if specific to each projects you are creating, at least, the type of questions in the questionnaire.
On the side of the No No for projects, setting a deadline for delivery of the projects or even a step without having all the materials which guarantee the delivery date.
We have to be very careful when committing to dates, to also set the right expectations of the client. Too often, in a project, it is possible to say, let’s release this section at this date YYYY-MM-DD, the materials will be given to you in the next two weeks. Red flag. It is often better to say, once given this list of items (deliveryDate), we will be releasing this section at “deliveryDate 10 business days”.
In middle size agencies, there is also an issue of resources management. There is more than one project in parallel. Explaining to the client that if he/she misses a particular window, the project will be delayed.
Keep written records of every discussions you had, put down the RESOLUTION and the ACTION. After each meeting, send your meeting minutes to the project participants and the client. It is often better to have a scribe. If you get phone calls from the clients (which is fine), send a summary of the discussion just after.
If you are using a project management system (be mail, sharepoint, basecamp, etc. anything), if the client says “It is not the way I work”, rise a red flag again.
Be careful also of the “just this time” or “just for once” on a exceptional work issue, because if you authorize it once, the client will keep the foot in the door, to reuse it again.
posted at 10:38 am on October 21, 2009 by karlcow
16 October 2009
ASP.NET MVC – Multiple buttons in the same form
15 October 2009
Le gratuit de proximité, un concept made in Japan | France 24
Voilà un nouveau type de magazine qui promet en ces temps de crise, le gratuit de proximité ! C’est un concept japonais qui propose de mieux vivre son quartier et de consommer malin.
Web Things, by Mark Baker » Media type centralization is a feature, not a bug
Via Stefan, a proposal from the WSO2 gang for an approach to decentralizing media types and removing the requirement for the registration process.
Decentralizing Media Types - Stefan Tilkov's Random Stuff
In a plain HTTP interaction, the Content-type and Accept headers carry information about the type of the data being transmitted and accepted, respectively. You’ve seen these media types in numerous examples, e.g. a typical request or response might have a Content-type header with the value application/xml.
Sound advice - blog
A significant weakness of HTTP in my view is its dependence on the MIME standard for media type identification and on the related iana registry. This registry is a limited bottleneck that does not have the capacity to deal with the media type definition requirements of individual enterprises or domains. Machine-centric environments rely in a higher level of semantics than the human-centric environment of the Web. In order for machines to effectively exploit information, every unique schema of information needs to be standardised in a media type and for those media types to be individually identified. The number of media types grows as machines become more dominant in a distributed computing environment and as the number of distinct environments increases.
Coding from Scratch: A Conversation with Virtual Reality Pioneer Jaron Lanier, Part One
answer Right. And it results in a type of error that doesn't teach you anything. You have chaotic errors where all you can say is, "Boy, this was really screwed up, and I guess I need to go in and go through the whole thing and fix it." You don't have errors that are proportionate to the source of the error. And that means you can never have any sense of gradual evolution or approximate systems. So, the real difference between the current idea of software, which is protocol adherence, and the idea I'm discussing, pattern recognition, has to do with the kinds of errors we're creating. We need a system in which errors are more often proportional to the source of the error.
14 October 2009
Typophile Film Festival 5 Opening Titles | The FontFeed
12 October 2009
OPTENET - Le contrôle parental sur internet : efficace ou stupide ? - "enseigner.forumactif.net " : La page que vous avez tenté d'ouvrir ne répond pas aux critères de protection d'accès mis en place par Optenet
08 October 2009
