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Links for 2007-5-30

Posted by mattc at May 31, 07 05:05 AM

• Coding Horror: The Power of "View Source"

  The view source menu is the ultimate form of open source.

Links for 2007-5-29

Posted by mattc at May 30, 07 05:05 AM

• Speed Up Your Javascript Load Time | BetterExplained

  Users hate waiting, so here are a few techniques you can use to trim down your sites ... A decent summary of efficiencies in getting JS from your server to the client.

• Passing JavaScript arguments via the src attribute

  A disappointing fact of JavaScript is that an executing script is not itself an object ... How to read querystring param's passed from a JS file included via the script element.

• World Without Oil

  Save the world ...

Links for 2007-5-25

Posted by mattc at May 26, 07 05:05 AM

• ColorJack: Sphere - Dashboard - Reference

  Sphere Widget helps you design your website, redecorate your home, or perhaps even choose your outfit in the morning. It can even simulates various forms of color blindness! Sphere uses color theory in order to provide you with visually appealing colors.

Links for 2007-5-23

Posted by mattc at May 24, 07 05:05 AM

• Designing for Content | GarrettDimon.com

  harles Joseph Minard’s map of Napoleon’s march to Moscow ... has been one of the most significant influences during this redesign

Links for 2007-5-22

Posted by mattc at May 23, 07 05:05 AM

• inlet media » FLVTool2 - Flash video and meta data manipulation

  FLVTool2 can calculate a lot of meta data and insert a onMetaData tag. It can cut FLV files and add cue Points (onCuePoint). A debug command lets you see inside our FLV and the print command gives you meta data information in XML or YAML format.

Links for 2007-5-19

Posted by mattc at May 20, 07 05:05 AM

• Amazon.com: Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams: Books: Tom DeMarco,Timothy Lister

  Demarco and Lister demonstrate that the major issues of software development are human, not technical. As recommended by joelonsoftware

Links for 2007-5-15

Posted by mattc at May 16, 07 05:05 AM

• An Ant task for Schematron [pdf]

• PowerCursor - Design Interfaces you can Touch [BETA]

  Tactile interfaces via Flash - visually simulated force feedback.

Udder

Posted by mattc at May 13, 07 11:38 AM ... Comments (2)

Babbage on (badly taken) Criticism

Posted by mattc at May 12, 07 10:14 AM ... Comments (0)

Propose to any Englishman any principal, or any instrument, however admirable, and you will observe that the whole effort of the English mind is directed to find a difficulty, a defect, or an impossibility in it. If you speak to him of a machine for peeling a potato, he will pronounce it impossible: if you peel a potato before his eyes, he will declare it useless, because it will not slice a pineapple.

Charles Babbage, quoted in The Code Book by Simon Singh.

Singh paints Babbage out to be an perennial starter-but-unfinisher of things, which I find quite encouraging.

Links for 2007-5-11

Posted by mattc at May 12, 07 05:05 AM

• Epicenter - Wired Blogs

  Metacrap and Flickr Tags: An Interview with Cory Doctorow

Links for 2007-5-08

Posted by mattc at May 9, 07 05:05 AM

• Eric Von Hippel's Homepage

  I specialize in research related to the nature and economics of distributed and open innovation.

Links for 2007-5-07

Posted by mattc at May 8, 07 05:05 AM

• COPE: James Wallis levels with you » Wrong and Wright

  In other words, don’t do your game’s storytelling in passive media, let the player experience it for themselves by actively participating in it.