September 2009
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Attention-Worthy, Week of 2009-09-27
My weekend has been focused on EuroIA, the early European information architect conference, this year held in Copenhagen. As you’d expect, I had a great time and met a lot of cool people!
A good way to start off this week’s link mania is with some impressions from the conference. Jeroen van Geel over at Johnny Holland did a good job summarizing many of the sessions; check out day 1...
Henrique C. Alves - Keeping simple with Django →
Code tips of the day!
Spotify – liberation or DRM-hell? →
Interesting take - and I agree. Putting all your eggs in Spotify’s basket doesn’t feel right.
swissmiss | Arial versus Helvetica →
It’s all in the details.
Raphaël—JavaScript Library →
Check out the demos, it looks pretty good!
What You Should Plan, Do, and Support →
I posted this comment:
Isn’t the technology adoption life cycle by its very nature misleading? Since it depicts adoption, the actual number of users is not shown.
If the “late majority” is as numerous as the “early majority,” doesn’t that make the values of the groups equal? E.g. Blogs have more visitors than social hubs at the moment, since the cumulative...
The HTML5 drag and drop disaster →
A lot of frustration and a lot of profanity - and a fun read. Still, HTML5 and its associated JavaScript APIs still have a long way to go. As evidenced by this, the HTML5 Super Friends, and others.
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google-jstemplate - Project Hosting on Google Code →
Another random release from Google - a templating system for Ajax based applications.
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Attention-Worthy, Week of 2009-09-19
I a world where micro equals better, it’s sometimes nice to focus on just one thing for an hour or two. Here is a collection of links to longer form content that I’ve found interesting over the past week.
Longest, and my favorite, is From Nand to Tetris in 12 hours. In this 2007 Google Tech Talk, Professor Shimon Schocken describes a one semester course in which students build...
“Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we...”
– Alfred North Whitehead
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Paper explaining how Shazam works →
This scientific paper (though short on sources), explains how Shazam, the audio recognition service, works.
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MacBook Pro 15" vs. MacBook 13"
A new MacBook Pro 15” versus the first unibody MacBook - how big is the difference? Since I have both, I’ll try to answer this.
Both computers are the lowest end version. This means a 2GHz/2GB/160GB MacBook and a 2.53GHz/4GB/250GB MacBook Pro. I won’t be running any benchmarks, but a general speed boost is definatly noticable with the Pro. Boot and application load times are a...
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