December 2011
Rachel Ward
notes on "the berg cloud little printer alternative"
Don’t want to wait to get a cute, Berg Little Printer? Weekend hacking project
November 2011
Alex MacCaw - Asynchronous UIs - the future of web user interfaces
September 2011
[Caja] Fwd: "Future of Javascript" doc from our internal "JavaScript Summit" last week - Mark S. Miller - com.googlegroups.google-caja-discuss - MarkMail
The cough cough moment.Developers who can focus solely on Chrome can expect to be able to see some Harmony features in Chrome (behind a flag) by the middle of 2011. Developers focusing on all browsers will have to wait multiple years for direct Harmony support, due to the relatively slow pace of the standardization process.
July 2011
Require.js - A tiny javascript loader
Q: I don't understand book lengths. How can books have the same number of pages but have different word counts?
Books need to be a predictable size; they have to be manufactured to a price, stored, transported and displayed. Then they have to fit on home bookshelves. People tend to like books that are easy to read, handle, and store. We generally like and need novels to be certain sizes. If you picked up a diary-sized novel in a series one day and the sequel was the size of a family bible, you'd probably find that annoying. I know many readers won't buy hardcovers and wait for mass market paperback editions simply because the regular size of "MMPBs" fits their bookcase, or is easier to carry around.
So, production editors and typographers do a very clever job of smoothing out that big variation using white space and font sizes to get more words on each page - or fewer. They're so good at doing it that a manuscript of 100,000 words can be made into a book that is identical in overall size to one up to twice the length. Don't believe me? Pick a few books at random, do a word count, and then look at the appearance of the pages. You won't notice it unless you're looking for it.
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Page count doesn't mean a thing. It doesn't tell you how much book you're getting for your money. And, to be brutal, if your evaluation of any book is based on how many words you get rather than the impact it has on you and how well it's written - well, that's just dumb. Sorry, but it is. It's not like a pound of apples for 50 pence being better value than a pound for 75 pence. You're not being short-changed if you get a shorter novel. And left wanting more is not being short-changed. It's what good books are supposed to do.
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So don't get hung up about counting pages. A book is as long as it needs to be to tell the story. Just open it, and enjoy.
May 2011
The Ingenious “Cinemagraph” GIFs Of Jamie Beck And Kevin Burg Are A Game Changer In This Evolving Art Form | FEELguide
February 2011
Why we have to get rid of pi for the sake of good math
January 2011
November 2010
Remember the Kakapo – 3 reasons why large companies on the web are losing ground | Christian Heilmann's blog – Wait till I come!
The fallacy of a lot of large corporation communication is that there is the notion of having to control it.
October 2010
Jo HTML5 Mobile App Framework
# A Pretty UI Widget Framework With a side of DOM, event and data stuff
# Open Source Under a friendly OpenBSD License
# Cross Platform webOS, iOS, Android, Symbian, Safari, Chrome, Dashboard Widgets (wait, what?)
# Light and Efficient Minified JavaScript is just over 8K with no dependancies
# Compatible with PhoneGap Plus most other JavaScript frameworks
The Wilderness Downtown : Arcade fire
Lab Rat: Does A Balanced Email Diet = More Focus & Productivity? :: Articles :: The 99 Percent
September 2010
» Six JavaScript features we do not need any longer - Christian Heilmann's blog – Wait till I come!
Fans, but no frenzy, await iPad -- Shanghai Daily | 上海日报 -- English Window to China New
Although Apple announced it would issue reservation tickets yesterday afternoon for the iPad's debut this morning, to prevent customers from rushing for them, only about 10 people were lined up for the products at 4pm yesterday, willing to wait throughout the night to be the first batch of buyers.
Ces chinois, ils n'ont rien compris à l'avenir.
Chrome Experiments - Arcade Fire
Choreographed windows, interactive flocking, custom rendered maps, real-time compositing, procedural drawing, 3D canvas rendering... this Chrome Experiment has them all. "The Wilderness Downtown" is an interactive interpretation of Arcade Fire's song "We Used To Wait" and was built entirely with the latest open web technologies, including HTML5 video, audio, and canvas.
August 2010
Wait till I come! » view-source will teach you things that are wrong
July 2010
Hemisphere Games Osmos-iPad –
June 2010
How-to produce an online video Show: Export & compress. The blip.tv Learning Center.
April 2010
Read all of ASP.NET MVC 2 in Action now while you wait for the printed book
100 Meters of Existence, a print 30 inches high, and 100 METERS wide !- Did Simon Hogsberg
March 2010
Marco.org - Overdoing the interface metaphor
I Can't Wait for NoSQL to Die - Ted Dziuba
Le plus difficile de pas d'optimisation précoce est le client. Cela nécessite une bonne compréhension des chargés de compte que la réécriture du code est une partie du projet et donc du budget.Developing the app for Google-sized scale is a waste of your time, plus, there is no way you will get it right. Absolutely none. It's not that you're not smart enough, it's that you do not have the experience to know what problems you will see at scale.
I Can't Wait for NoSQL to Die - Ted Dziuba
The sooner your company admits this, the sooner you can get down to some real work. Developing the app for Google-sized scale is a waste of your time, plus, there is no way you will get it right. Absolutely none. It's not that you're not smart enough, it's that you do not have the experience to know what problems you will see at scale.
C'est bien de se prendre la tête, mais si votre application n'a que 4000 abonnés, ça tourne sur votre portable normalement.

