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CSV Comma Separated Value File Format - How To - Creativyst - Explored,Designed,Delivered.(sm)
by night.kame
If you have a table for export in which leading zeros and spaces have significance AND that file will only be viewed in Excel, then you can use an Excel specific convention in those fields where leading zeros or spaces should be preserved (in Excel). To implement this fix, double quote each field with leading zeros or spaces and place an equals sign (=) directly ahead of the first quote
W00t!
2011
The Pragmatic Studio | Installing Ruby 1.9 and Rails 3 on Mac OS X
by oseres (via)
A few weeks before every Pragmatic Studio course, we send out homework to help attendees prepare for the course. The homework includes instructions for getting any required software installed and tested on their laptop, and some recommended reading. Our goal is to make sure that everyone turns up on the first day ready to program. So we try to catch installation problems early and help folks through them. Sending out prep homework ahead of time also means that attendees can begin to experiment on their own. As a result, they often jot down questions to ask during our time together. In a way, our courses start the moment you register.
We’re continually updating our homework to take into account new software versions and new ways of doing things. With the topics we teach, there’s never a dull moment. For the Rails Studio in particular, we’ve been teaching Rails 3 for a while now. And although you can use Ruby 1.8.7 with Rails 3, we’re beginning to nudge folks to try Ruby 1.9.2.
Facebook changes privacy settings for millions of users – facial recognition is enabled | Naked Security
The tagging is still done by your friends, not by Facebook, but rather creepily Facebook is now pushing your friends to go ahead and tag you.
Kendo Sen, and specific opportunities for striking
by Takwann
The lengendary swordsman Miyamoto Musashi mentions the three sen (before, ahead) as a method of strategy by taking the lead or initiative. Taking the lead, initiative requires you to see through the opponent's spirit and strategy in order to defeat him. Practicing sen falls into the realm of keiko in which each opponent is different, and each timing and strategy instance is unique.
ASCII by Jason Scott / FaceFacts
by night.kame & 1 other
Well, first, let’s start with Facebook itself.
Facebook is the third of what is probably a quartet (or quintet) of the destruction of the innocence of computing. First was viruses, second was malware, third is facebook. I suspect fourth will be related to control of networking itself, and fifth will be licensing of high level computer ability. But let’s not get ahead of ourselves.
MultiSystem - How To Boot 10 Different Live CDs From 1 USB Flash Drive - How-To Geek
by decembre
Ever get the urge to try out a bunch of Linux distros at once? Maybe you’re hosting a Linux installation party. Here’s an easy way to get a bunch of Live CDs working from a single thumb drive. 10 Distributions, You Say? MultiSystem is a really easy tool made to run on Ubuntu and Ubuntu-based distros that you can use to play with various LiveCDs at once, or to create the ultimate recovery device. If you don’t use Ubuntu, you can use an Ubuntu Live CD to install MultiSystem so that you can create your super live USB drive without having to run Linux as your main OS. It’s best to download your ISOs ahead of time, and select a USB drive large enough to house them all. I actually went with an 8 GB SD card (used via a USB adapter). Here are some of the popular and interesting distros I used.
Seth's Blog: A culture of testing
by François Hodierne
Netflix tests everything. They're very proud that they A/B test interactions, offerings, pricing, everything. It's almost enough to get you to believe that rigorous testing is the key to success.
Except they didn't test the model of renting DVDs by mail for a monthly fee.
And they didn't test the model of having an innovative corporate culture.
And they didn't test the idea of betting the company on a switch to online delivery.
The three biggest assets of the company weren't tested, because they couldn't be.
Sure, go ahead and test what's testable. But the real victories come when you have the guts to launch the untestable.
2010
Achieve what's ahead
by thomas.deyries & 3 others
site réalisé par une compagnie d’assurance américaine “The Hartford”, qui met en situation des profils types de clients qui pourraient avoir besoin de s’adresser à eux.
Pur marketing. Le fond est bidon.
Mais pour la forme, ca colle parfaitement aux vagues principes qui régissent le “webdocumentaire”, vidéos embarquées dans un moteur subtil, témoignages accrocheurs et bien réalisés, éclairages, questionnaires, participation, affiliation… tout y est. Vous pensez que les américains qui ont conçus ce site appellent ça un “webdocumentaire” ? J’en doute.
Il y a juste un besoin, et une réponse intelligente à ce besoin.
Et c’est vraiment superbement bien fait, merci flash. Les effets et animations sont très fins (la typo cinétique à l’ouverture de la vidéo, wow !). Le player qui lit la vidéo, c’est de l’orfèvrerie : naviguer dans le cercle “de progression” au centre de l’image, c’est très bien pensé. Le scroll qui se grossit à l’approche de la main + l’effet pneumatique au déroulé + le fond avec une vitesse différente…
Go Ahead, Raise Your Business's Prices
by webs & 1 other
Jason Friend explains why 37signals charges $9.99 for the simpliest sketching app for the iPad.
Achieve what's ahead
by gregg & 3 others (via)
site réalisé par une compagnie d’assurance américaine “The Hartford”, qui met en situation des profils types de clients qui pourraient avoir besoin de s’adresser à eux.
Pur marketing. Le fond est bidon.
Mais pour la forme, ca colle parfaitement aux vagues principes qui régissent le “webdocumentaire”, vidéos embarquées dans un moteur subtil, témoignages accrocheurs et bien réalisés, éclairages, questionnaires, participation, affiliation… tout y est. Vous pensez que les américains qui ont conçus ce site appellent ça un “webdocumentaire” ? J’en doute.
Il y a juste un besoin, et une réponse intelligente à ce besoin.
Et c’est vraiment superbement bien fait, merci flash. Les effets et animations sont très fins (la typo cinétique à l’ouverture de la vidéo, wow !). Le player qui lit la vidéo, c’est de l’orfèvrerie : naviguer dans le cercle “de progression” au centre de l’image, c’est très bien pensé. Le scroll qui se grossit à l’approche de la main + l’effet pneumatique au déroulé + le fond avec une vitesse différente…
Go Ahead, Raise Your Business's Prices
by sbrothier & 1 other
As the outcry over Draft's $9.99 price tag demonstrated, this has not made everyone happy. Plenty of people even think we're nuts. It's certainly not the first time we've been called crazy.
But giving away your products? That's what I call truly insane.
Moleskine launching iPhone and iPad cases: how would Hemingway play Angry Birds? -- Engadget
by sbrothier
The way we saw it, it was Moleskine vs. the inevitable march of 1s and 0s that would eventually consume us all. No longer (actually, Moleskine already sells a Kindle cover, but we're temporarily ignoring that for argument's sake). Moleskine just announced a Digital Covers line of hybrid notebooks that include a pad of regular, "legendary" notebook paper alongside a cozy spot for your i-device of choice. Will this combination (some might say compromise) make you smarter, your prose more concise, your beard more intellectual? Of course it will. But at what cost? Sure, literature survived the decline of penmanship with the emergence of Mark Twain and his typewriter, and Douglas Adams championed the Macintosh to no end, but now that Moleskine has gone and sullied its own reputation we're finally ready to just go ahead and say it: the novel is dead.
Five Tips to Reduce Risk from Modern Web Threats
by hiphop
By Chris McCormack, Product Marketing Manager, Sophos
User education and awareness, preventive measures and a modern web security solution are all integral components of a comprehensive defense against today’s web threats.
This guide covers some essential preventive measures you should implement to reduce your risk and keep ahead of the threats as much as possible.
Red Light, Green Light : The Invention of the Traffic Signal : Observatory: Design Observer
The traffic signal was first invented in 1912 — by a Detroit policeman named Lester Wire — as a two-color, red-and-green light with a buzzer to warn pedestrians ahead of the impending transition.
Google Hires Ex-McCain Spokesperson For Top Communications Job
by kuroyagi
"Google has historically hired people with Washington experience, but bringing on Hazelbaker may anticipate a somewhat more adversarial road ahead for the search engine as it confronts anti-trust scrutiny at every turn. "
2009
Nikolas Kozloff: Ecuador's Rafael Correa: Copenhagen Climate Hero or Environmental Foe?
by HK
For a country like Ecuador, getting at Yasuní's oil is a tempting target: currently the Andean nation derives a whopping 35% of its public spending budget from petroleum exports. Correa could well use the added money: currently half the Ecuadoran population lives in poverty. But Correa, who issued lime-green posters emblazoned with the slogan "citizen revolution" during his first run for the presidency, and who has renamed the oil ministry the "ministry of non-renewable resources," is busily pitching ITT-Yasuní to European governments instead of moving ahead with sensitive oil exploration. In exchange for preserving Yasuní, Correa wants $350 million a year from the Global North for the next ten years.
Team Apart - Real simple. Real-time.
by ycc2106
Meet face to face with others to quickly and efficiently share information. Go ahead, try it out now!
Welcome - netboot.me
by ycc2106 & 1 other
netboot.me is a service that allows you to boot nearly any operating system or utility on any computer with a wired internet connection - without having to know ahead of time what you'll want to boot. Once you can netboot.me, you never need to update your boot disk again! netboot.me works through the magic of netbooting. There are a number of ways to boot a computer with netboot.me. The simplest is to download a bootable image and burn it to a CD, USB memory stick, or floppy disk. Boot off it on any networked computer, and it will automatically fetch the latest boot options from netboot.me and let you choose from dozens of installation, recovery, testing, portable desktop and other tools. You can also start netboot.me from any computer running gPXE, or from any netbootable computer with some simple tweaks to your DHCP server.
Glims build 19 for Safari | www.MacHangout.com
by simon_bricolo & 2 others
Glims adds a cocktail of features to Safari (Tabs, Thumbnails, Full Screen, Search Engines, Search Suggestions, Forms autocomplete on, Dated download folders, Type Ahead ...)
Badass of the Week
by alphoenix & 1 other
You've reached the Badass of the Week, your one-stop shop for all things badassery-related. Scroll down for this week's badass, or just go ahead and search through the complete list of all badasses that have been featured on the site.
With Jobs Scarce in Japan, Women Become Professional Flirts - NYTimes.com
In a 2009 survey of 1,154 high school girls, by the Culture Studies Institute in Tokyo, hostessing ranked No. 12 out of the 40 most popular professions, ahead of public servant (18) and nurse (22).
Righteous Brothers songs collection in full length music wavs.
by tadeufilippini (via)
The Righteous Brothers collection
A Man Without A Dream
Baby I Need Your Lovin'
Dream On
Ebb Tide
Go Ahead And Cry
Give It To The People
Harlem Shuffle
He
Hey Girl
Hold On, I'm Comin'
I Believe
I Just Wanna Be Me
Island In The Sun
Hung On You
Just Once In My Life
Koko Joe
Let It Be Me
Little Latin Lupe Lu
My Babe
On This Side Of Good-bye
Rock And Roll Heaven
See That Girl
Soul And Inspiration
Stranded In The Middle Of No Place
Turn On Your Love Light
Unchained Melody
White Cliffs Of Dove
You'll Never Walk Alone
You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'
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