links for 2006-12-01
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Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made. Otto von Bismarck
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One way to control microContent.
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November 30, 2006
November 29, 2006
links for 2006-11-30
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During the construction process, the New York team launched an internal social networking site that let employees watch the building as it was being constructed, see floor plans, meet co-workers who were in the other Manhattan offices, and share local goo
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#10 - aQuantive acquires Razorfish for $160M in June 2004
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Avenue A | Razorfish) uses MediaWiki to power its intranet - an intranet that supports a 1000 users.
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An award-winning IDE for Ajax development.
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On the Internet,Nobody Knows You're a Dog
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Some best practices guides for Web Development
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Tightly focused, content-rich social networking sites like CarnivalConnections, an interactive community for dedicated cruise enthusiasts built by Avenue A | Razorfish for Carnival Cruise Lines has already proven to be enormously successful
November 28, 2006
links for 2006-11-29
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AARF employees have learned to add the tag 'AARF' when they come across a web page (using del.icio.us), a photo (Flickr), or a news story (Digg) ... Shortly after they add this tag, [that page will] show up within the AARF E2.0 Intranet.
My "Countries Visited Map"
After the jump.
November 27, 2006
links for 2006-11-28
November 26, 2006
links for 2006-11-27
November 25, 2006
links for 2006-11-26
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A cheat-sheet showing all of the various options for the Verizon voicemail system.
November 24, 2006
Configuring a Linksys WRT54G router to work with a Westell 6100 modem for Verizon DSL
Tonight I've been having a bitch of a time configuring a Linksys WRT54G router to work with a Westell 6100 modem for Verizon DSL. After an hour or more of bushwhacking through help forums, I was lucky enough to run across this post in this thread at Broadband Reports. I made a couple of changes to the WRT54G's "Basic Setup" screen, and suddenly everything was fine!
Specifically, I followed Dslammer0's suggestion and changed the values of the "Host Name" and "Domain Name" fields of the "Basic Setup" screen to the following values:
Host Name : Verizon Online
Domain Name : myhome.westell.com
That was it! I'm typing this blog entry at a computer connected to my new Wireless-G router :)
I've never had problems when I've configured Wireless-G routers to work with cable or DSL before, but then again this is the first time I've configured one for Verizon DSL.
Another I learned (tho it may have been in a different thread) was that I should change the "Local IP Address" of my Wireless-G router from 192.168.1.1 to something else, such as 192.168.2.1. This is because the DSL modem was already configured to listen on 192.168.1.1. This change was also made from the "Basic Setup" screen.
November 21, 2006
links for 2006-11-22
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example of http://jagsapp02.v2.jny.com:8080/browse/OPE-2083
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example of http://jagsapp02.v2.jny.com:8080/browse/OPE-2083
November 20, 2006
links for 2006-11-21
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A tool for discovering connections between Fortune 500 companies and their board members.
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Kudos to New Zealand for their DISGUSTING anti-speeding add.
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More hype, a la the recent New York Times article. The assertation that crowdsourcing will finally bring the semantic web, is interesting; kind of like the end of Ender's Game.
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Controlled Chaos: European Cities Do Away with Traffic Signs - International - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News"Seven cities and regions in Europe are giving it a try -- with good results." The theory is that the elimination of superfluous signs, makes people more likely to observe real conditions and react accordingly.
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I was trying to figure out how digitalthread.com could use "Hoefler text" as a CSS font-family, but not provide a link to download the font. According to this page, there is an 85% chance that any Mac user will already have Hoefler text installed.
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Small form-factor computers.
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Bruce Schneier on password security.
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iconnecthere.com (July 12, 2001)
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SharpGallery.com (June 12, 2000)
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SuburbanAngst.com (October 24, 2002)
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AggressiveMusic.net (March 2, 2004)
Event Selectors JavaScript/Ajax library at Encytemedia --- Design and development crossfade
http://encytemedia.com/event-selectors/
Another js library that I'd like to use some time.
"event:Selectors allow you to apply an event such as mouseover, mouseout, click, et al using a CSS style syntax."
Here is some example syntax:
var Rules = {
'#pdetail .sizeButtons span:click' : function(element) {
cartButtonEvent(element.id);
}
}
November 19, 2006
links for 2006-11-20
Why Ajax is not just JavaScript
Ajax developer in New York, NY $98,000 |
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Web Developer in New York, NY $88,000 |
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Web Designer in New York, NY $68,000 |
Would they pay Ajax developers $3000 more, if it were "just JavaScript"? But JavaScript developers can take heart in that at least they are not Web developers, a clearly inferior profession.
November 18, 2006
links for 2006-11-19
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I lost the original of this drawing :(
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This photo sucks. The work is so much cooler than it looks here.
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This painting got sold at the second Flaming Fire art show.
Turn a plain text URL into a hyperlink wrapped in an LI
Add these lines to your .emacs:
(fset 'list-hyperlink-from-URL
[?< ?l ?i ?> ?< ?a ? ?h ?r ?e ?f ?= ?" ?\C-k ?\C-y ?" ?> ?\C-y ?< ?/ ?a ?> ?< ?/ ?l ?i ?> down ?\C-a])
November 17, 2006
links for 2006-11-18
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The store is at 16 East 60th Street right across the street from Barneys, the store front is pretty small
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The Sartorialist on Lidfort shoes and their merits.
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This guy was profiled in Wired this month (03.2006). He did some work for one of my current clients, Barney's New York. Worth checking out is the "Travel Map" section!
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I read A profile in the March 06 issue of Wired, and was curious what Davis had created for Barneys'.
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"The interface IS the brand."
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With video.
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Create a really authoritative (and goofy) Web2.0 logo.
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Hmmm, this idea has been around for years. Is it suddenly more popular?
November 16, 2006
links for 2006-11-17
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It was while reading The Waste Land that I first learned to appreciate the value of annotations and footnotes.
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Now I just need a region-free DVD player...
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"Barneys' website is also a top performer, ranking second overall for LWEI and first for trust and security. It scores particularly well in each of the three outcome measures."
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I read A profile in the March 06 issue of Wired, and was curious what Davis had created for Barney's; as at this time I am working on a Web site for Barney's.
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The store is at 16 East 60th Street right across the street from Barneys, the store front is pretty small
Barneys.com rated second most effective luxury e-commerce Web site
Barneys' website is... first for trust and security. ...the top-rated site for exceeding customer expectations and for improving overall brand favorability. Respondents who found that the site exceeded their expectations say the site has excellent quality and images, and is easy to use.
Article is mirrored after the jump.
Luxury Institute Survey: Wealthy Consumers Rank Nordstrom, Barneys and Neiman Marcus the Luxury Retailers With the Most Effective Websites in 2006
NEW YORK, NY -- (MARKET WIRE) -- November 14, 2006 -- In a recent Luxury Institute survey, a whopping 93 percent of individuals worth $10 million or more said that they purchased a luxury product over the Internet in the past 12 months. But are luxury retailers' web sites ready for the 2006 holiday season? According to the Luxury Institute's 2006 Luxury Website Effectiveness Index (LWEI) for luxury retailers, Nordstrom, Barneys and Neiman Marcus have the web sites that truly deliver for wealthy consumers. The LWEI incorporates four components of a luxury website's effectiveness: usefulness of content, ease of navigation, overall look and feel, and trust with one's personal information.
The survey measures the impact of the website on three critical "outcome" measures: exceeding visitor's expectations, willingness to recommend the site to people they care about, and improvements in the overall opinion of the brand as a result of the website experience. The research also captures consumer feedback, from those who found the site failed to meet their expectations, on how the website could be improved, as well as reasons consumers say their expectations were exceeded. Importantly, the survey measures the e-commerce experience of each site.
Although wealthy consumers were surveyed about eight leading retailer brands, only six brands, Barneys, Bloomingdales, Brooks Brothers, Neiman Marcus, Nordstrom, and Saks Fifth Avenue, had sufficient incidence of visits to be rated.
"Nordstrom's website is the clear winner in the 2006 LWEI," said Milton F. Pedraza, CEO of the Luxury institute. "It ranks first for overall LWEI in three of the four sub-indices. On the index measuring trust with personal information, it ranks third, closely behind Barneys and Bloomingdales. Nordstrom is also the top-ranked site for the outcome metric measuring willingness to recommend the site. Wealthy responders cite the 'excellent customer service' and ease of use. They say the site is 'intuitive,' 'well-organized' and has great products. Respondents like the shipping and return policies."
Barneys' website is also a top performer, ranking second overall for LWEI and first for trust and security. It scores particularly well in each of the three outcome measures. Specifically, it is the top-rated site for exceeding customer expectations and for improving overall brand favorability. Respondents who found that the site exceeded their expectations say the site has excellent quality and images, and is easy to use.
When it comes to actual buying experience, Saks Fifth Avenue is the top-rated site. The website ranks first for easily tracking product shipments, receiving an e-mail order confirmation, having a shopping cart that is easy to use, and products arriving as ordered. Nordstrom's website ranks second overall on the e-commerce index, and first for comfort providing credit card information, ease of returning products, and likelihood of repeat purchases.
A nationally representative sample of 1,611 wealthy consumers was surveyed online. Respondents had an average household income of $298k and average net worth of $2.9m. Survey results are weighted to match the demographic and net worth profile of the same audience according to the latest Survey of Consumer Finances from the Federal Reserve.
About the Luxury Institute
The Luxury Institute is the uniquely independent and objective ratings and research institution that is the trusted and respected voice of the high net worth consumer. The Institute provides an impartial portfolio of proprietary publications and research that guides and educates high net-worth individuals and the companies that cater to them on leading edge trends, high net worth consumer rankings and ratings of luxury brands, and best practices. Publications include the monthly Wealth Report, the Luxury Brand Status Index surveys, the Luxury Best Practices surveys and the Luxury Consumer Experience Index surveys. To reach the Luxury institute, please call 646-792-2669, or go to www.luxuryinstitute.com.
Out: view source. In: DOM inspector
Alternately...
Out: view source. In: View Rendered Source Chart.
November 15, 2006
links for 2006-11-16
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I'm getting used to viewing squarified treemaps. I think it helps to have a 1440x900 resolution monitor.
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"The foreign businessmen apparently forgot that these communist rebels attack and bomb businesses like Globe towers for failing to pay extortion money to them ... and intimidate and brainwash communities in the hinterland barangays to rise against the gov
November 14, 2006
links for 2006-11-15
November 13, 2006
links for 2006-11-14
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Is there a way to merge two JSON structures, so that the values of properties with the same name are concatenated?
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ZOMG TEH COMPUTARZ r KEWL
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A visualization for Digg, that shows which stories are currently being posted, and which users are voting for those stories.
November 12, 2006
links for 2006-11-13
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Google Maps mashup that suggests best driving routes between any two points.
November 11, 2006
links for 2006-11-12
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I guess all software is a little bit broken, not just the Web. "We've just never had the computers up and going when we've transitioned from one year to another, ...We're not really sure how they're going to operate."
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"Darwin was humble and modest in exactly the way that Inspector Columbo is. ... “Oh, yeah—just one more thing about that six-thousand-year-old Earth, Reverend Snodgrass . . .”"
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365 tracks that are licensed under Creative Commons.
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"You can only "Google" on the Google search engine." I have to question how seriously this post was intended.
November 10, 2006
links for 2006-11-11
Pragmatic Ajax
I bought a copy of Pragmatic Ajax at Computer Book Works a few months back. I love the cover, but I haven't had time to really get into the book yet :(
November 09, 2006
links for 2006-11-10
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Robert Lanham's New York Times article about Joanna Angel.
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Robert Lanham's culture portal.
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An interactive command shell for Javascript. The bookmarklet opens in the scope of the current page, so it's great for debugging. Would be nice if it could be embedded in HTML for debugging as well. Not sure if that's possible.
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Debug Doctor on NW2.0
The Sinner's Guide, by Robert Lanham
I'm slowly enjoying my signed copy of The Sinner's Guide to the Evangelical Right. I'm learning about Creflo Dollar, and of course, Ted Haggard
November 08, 2006
links for 2006-11-09
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"You may use this tool to create a Firefox extension (.xpi) from a greasemonkey script." In other words, you can write JavaScript and turn it into an FF extension!
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Tracks how much time FireFox spends browsing each site that it visits. Categorize sites, and measure how much time is spent per category. Since all of my work is done online, this should help me to bill much more accurately.
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Personalization should be a goal of a web app from day 1.
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Gollum is a Wikipedia Browser for the fast and eyefriendly browsing throw the free encyclopedia Wikipedia
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Articles that are in the process of being rejected from Wikipedia
Clusty cloud for Hypertext Architect
I think this is my new title. It's an old turn of phrase, but it does actually describe what I do.
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A suggestion for LiveMarks
LiveMarks lets you "spy " on what del.icio.us users are posting, in real time. It's very cool, but I wish they would Hide the static links in the right column. That way I could split a NetVibes page into two columns, and watch digg spy and LiveMarks at the same time!
November 07, 2006
links for 2006-11-08
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"W3 compliant float behavior does not allow containers to automatically enclose floats ... compliant browsers like Moz/FF/NS require that you explicitly tell a container to contain it's floated children."
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"Only floats that are children of the element itself or of descendants in the normal flow are taken into account, e.g., floats inside absolutely positioned descendants or other floats are not." IE, if you want a container to expand around its floated chi
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Typing a space into the delicious extension's search box, displays _all_ of your bookmarks in alphabetical order.
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"Pen strokes made in the air are recorded with Motion Capture and become 3D digital files; these are then materialised through Rapid Prototyping into real pieces of furniture." One step closer to the "light pen" from Supergilrl ;)
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"based on the thesis that Abraham Lincoln's telegrams made him the first online president"
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Internet slang illustrated.
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Timeline is a DHTML-based AJAXy widget for visualizing time-based events. It is like Google Maps for time-based information.
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"Hate, Murder and Mayhem on the Net" by Vic Sussman, 1995
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"Mypictr is a simple web app that helps you create avatars - or "social pictures", as it calls them - by uploading a picture and either selecting the social network you want to use it with or defining your own dimensions."
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The Tiny Living online store.
Links I've tagged with "Vic Sussman"
Clusty cloud for Vic Sussman
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November 06, 2006
links for 2006-11-07
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This is cool! A tag cloud aggregated from over 360 presidential speeches, starting with John Adams in 1776. A slider lets you rapidly browse through 2 centuries of speeches.
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The costumes are my favorite part of the marathon, to be honest. I hope that the Times will do this feature every year from now on!
Also, it's worth noting that the guy in the firefighter costume ran the entire race with an oxygen tank strapped to his b
How to turn on the "note this" button in Google Notebook. Just select text and hit the"+" button to add it to your notebook.
Grossest. Nosepick. Ever.
Choose a value with two select menus
Intermediate Web developers often stumble over the problem of getting select menus to talk to each other. One common problem is the situation where the options that are in select menu B, are dependent upon the option that has been selected in menu A.
Here is one solution to a somewhat different problem, that also involves getting two select menus to cooperate.
The problem is that we have two menus, one of which contains the first part of a choice, and the other contains the second part. Once a selection has been made, how do we collect both parts of the choice; and how do we decide what that particular choice means, in the context of the application? Here is how I would probably implement that.
Tao Te Ching: The Definitive Edition
Tao Te Ching: The Definitive Edition
I bought this book at Coliseum. It has a concordance, which allows you to create your own translations by mix-and-matching english equivalents of Chinese words. There's also a couple of support chapters, which I haven't looked at yet at all.
See also the Tao of Programming.
November 05, 2006
links for 2006-11-06
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I'm going to try Google Notebook for keeping track of small snippets of information. Mostly quotations and snippets of source code.
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The Media Manager plugin allows users to manage and review a list of CDs, DVDs, Books and/or any product from Amazon's product catalog using a fully integrated, simple to use interface.
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"You're going to be doing product reviews and recommendations" lol I seriously doubt I'll be making any money off affilliate links, ever. Maybe if I only review books about people named "Noah."
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"How to I quickly learn to make my site more like BenStraw.com?"
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Greg took this mirror of the old Hotsocket site down for a while, but now it's back up. Hilarious!
The Long Tail, by Chris Anderson
I just picked up
The Long Tail, by Chris Anderson. I read about the Long Tail Web site in Ambient Findability, this spring. I now understand that sorting a great deal of material according to taste, seems to consistently produce a few "hits" and a "long tail" which is everything else. This seems to happen even in my own CD collection, for instance.
Smashing Pumpkins (live '93)
Smashing Pumpkins, record release party for Siamese Dream, Tower Records, Chicago, July 26, 1993. On Rbally.net.
"...a reminder that whatever you might think of the band towards the end, they were definitely great (at some point)..."
This show is a total jam!
Beck and the Flaming Lips (live)
Beck with The Flaming Lips, at the Universal Amphitheater, Los Angeles, CA, December 8, 2002. On Rbally.net.
I have been listening to this for about a week and it's a total jam. I wish there were some Flaming Lips songs as well as Beck's, though.
November 04, 2006
links for 2006-11-05
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Pixel animation about an outdoor game. Long live 8-bit!
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I'm going to try Google Notebook for keeping track of small snippets of information. Mostly quotations and snippets of source code.
November 03, 2006
links for 2006-11-04
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Ted Haggard outed by a gay escort, who was outraged that Haggard was having sex with him and then going to church to lobby against domestic partnerships!
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I was skeptical when I started using this "ajax desktop" in 2005. Surprisingly, I still use it daily. The lightweight, draggable boxes are my hands-down favorite way of skimming my "core" RSS feeds. And the "ecosystem" allows the inclusion of just abou
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Tool to build site maps. Uses a crawler to traverse the site and test and catalog links.
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How to run Selenium tests from the command line. This is done by running a Java server that can control a browser on the local machine.
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I like the way it looks when you make the browser window really small!
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It was while reading The Waste Land that I first learned to appreciate the value of annotations and footnotes.
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zomg what I could do if I had one of these, an RFID reader, a WAN, and unlimited time...
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"The evolution of culture marches with the elimination of ornament from useful objects"
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The Only Intuitive Interface Is The Nipple
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"The interface IS the brand."
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I eat here at least once a week.
November 02, 2006
links for 2006-11-03
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Lots of useful information to be gleaned here. But I wish it was annotated.
November 01, 2006
links for 2006-11-02
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Prevents entering a long description that then gets truncated by del.icio.us. I have been wishing for this for a while and was very glad to finally run across it.
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Very nice user experience improvement. Visually distinguishes links with the appropriate FavIcon.
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An annual seance has failed to contact Harry Houdini, again.
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This single module increases the utility of netvibes immensely. I used to open up to 10 aggregator sites in Firefox tabs. Now that same tabbed environment can be saved on the internets, and I have the freedom to combine these aggregators freely with RSS
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Add Flickr photos to NetVibes.
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Currently at work we use Spring and Hibernate to cache Java applications. If I ever get back to doing my own thing, I will use similar scheme for my PHP.
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Lots of useful information to be gleaned here. But I wish it was annotated.
BlogLines inside NetVibes
I've been using NetVibes for a while. But I just discovered the Web Page Module. And that has greatly increased NetVibes' usefulness to me.
First, there are several visualizations (newsmap, delicious map, delicious LiveMarks and digg spy ) which cannot be replaced by an RSS feed. Web Page Module allows me to view each of these interfaces from within Netvibes, each in its own tab. NewsMap is so flexible that it fits into one column of a 3-column layout.
Netvibes is a smooth interface for reading 10 or 20 important feeds. Beyond that, I either have to scroll deeper than I'd like, or I have to start breaking up my feeds into tabs; and then I have to go back to BlogLines. Reading a bunch of little boxes spread across many tabs, does not appeal to me. I cannot make a good case for just why that is, however.
In any case, tonight I realized that the Web Page Module means that I can put BlogLines inside Netvibes. So now I truly do have all my feed-reading on one page.