Posted by mattc at Dec 30, 07 05:05 AM
Notes on a talk by Ed Catmull
A good point about software depreciation, which degrades (and ultimately costs the business) as much as any physical asset if left untouched.
Posted by mattc at Dec 21, 07 05:05 AM
Some useful CruiseControl setup instructions.
Hooking build success/fail states to physical things via x10
Posted by mattc at Dec 19, 07 05:05 AM
Bayeux is a protocol for routing JSON encoded events between clients and servers in a publish subscribe model.
Configuring a fresh Apache httpd.conf is always an strange experience, like wading around a supermarket just to buy a loaf of bread and pint of milk.
A bi-annual 48 hour solo game development competition.
Posted by mattc at Dec 17, 07 05:05 AM
Give your favorite webapps a home on your Mac OS X Leopard Desktop.
DSDM software development templates
Posted by mattc at Dec 16, 07 04:23 PM ... Comments (0)
As every man goes through life he fills in a number of forms for the record, each containing a number of questions . .. There are thus hundreds of little threads radiating from every man, millions of threads in all. If these threads were suddenly to become visible, the whole sky would look like a spider's web, and if they materialized as rubber bands, buses; trams and even people would all lose the ability to move, and the wind would be unable to carry torn-up newspapers or autumn leaves along the streets of the city. They are not visible, they are not material, but every man is constantly aware of their existence.... Each man, permanently aware of his own invisible threads, naturally develops a respect for the people who manipulate the threads.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Cancer Ward, 1968.
Posted by mattc at Dec 16, 07 05:05 AM
Benchmarking like wot Perl does
Queues can be implemented in JavaScript using either the push and shift methods or unshift and pop methods of the array object. Although this is a simple way to implement queues, it is very inefficient.
In the past I have been guilty at times of imagining that everywhere else they do things really properly… and if not properly per se, then at least much, much better.
Posted by mattc at Dec 14, 07 05:05 AM
JavaScript on Rails app.
RoR for JS.
Posted by mattc at Dec 13, 07 11:37 AM ... Comments (0)
Clearing out my desk prior to moving up to the 3rd floor. Finding odd bits of paper I've collected over the last 3 years.
Here's a poem taken from a poetry workshop in White City, I think, prior to the BBC building two giant buildings (the Media Center & Broadcast Center) amidst their community in W12. I thought it, albeit unknowingly, chimed well with the user-centred design process :)
If it had been straight they'd have wanted it curved If it had been rounded they'd have longed for awkward angles If it had been left to them there might not have been anything... but maybe that's what they might have wanted
The author was Christina Gestra, 2006
Posted by mattc at Dec 12, 07 05:05 AM
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find . -name *.xml -exec xmllint --noout {} \; 2> foo.txt
Validate a folder of xml files, write errors to foo.txt
Posted by mattc at Dec 6, 07 05:05 AM
This module allows you to seek in FLV files using the high performance infrastructure of lighttpd.
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