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Links for 2009-3-28

Posted by mattc at Mar 29, 09 05:05 AM

• Semantic Web Patterns: A Guide to Semantic Technologies - ReadWriteWeb

• Nodalities » Blog Archive » Nitpicking Alex’s Semantic Web Patterns

Links for 2009-3-27

Posted by mattc at Mar 28, 09 05:05 AM

• Multiget/intelligent generic PHP wrapper function... thoughts/advice wanted

  Thinking about how best to access data spread across lots of web-services. PHP/Zend doesn't seem to come with any multiple-GET/PUT functionality. Ideal solution would implement memcached & a simple DSL (maybe like SQL) - eg. a BBC version of GQL/YQL etc.

Links for 2009-3-26

Posted by mattc at Mar 27, 09 05:05 AM

• Physics Helper for Silverlight, Blend and Farseer

• 3d canvas in browser on its way

Links for 2009-3-21

Posted by mattc at Mar 22, 09 05:05 AM

• Chad Austin's Blog - 10 Pitfalls of Dirty Code

  Nice reasons why we (at work) are going to spend the next month reducing our technical debt rather than adding features.

• Lessons Learned: Continuous deployment and continuous learning

  'Our eventual conclusion was that there was no reason to have code that had passed the integration step but was not yet deployed."

Links for 2009-3-20

Posted by mattc at Mar 21, 09 05:05 AM

• Perspectives on Open Data Workshop

• DIY City Releases DIY Traffic

• iPhone Sketch

• John Resig - JavaScript Testing Does Not Scale

  Yeah, haven't found Selenium *that* useful for browser testing. Was it ever intended for that?? Selenium Grid is just about running 100 integration tests in parallel, not 100 tests on different browser/os combo's.

Links for 2009-3-19

Posted by mattc at Mar 20, 09 05:05 AM

• Mix Day 1 Recap

• Code: Flickr Developer Blog » Building Fast Client-side Searches

• Ibuildings - Ibuildings blogs > Windows Azure and PHP

  Interesting that Silverlight (or rather CLR) got friendly with Ruby, Python etc. and now their cloud stuff is being friendly with PHP. 5 years ago I'm sure this would generate FUD (cf. embrace & extend), but I think MS PR (less evil ;) has got better in the last few years, well done them.

Links for 2009-3-17

Posted by mattc at Mar 18, 09 05:05 AM

• Eight design patterns for errorproofing

• The Convention on Modern Liberty

• Creating pseudo 3D games with HTML 5 canvas and raycasting: Part 2

• pHash

Links for 2009-3-16

Posted by mattc at Mar 17, 09 05:05 AM

• [from jasoncartwright] Torus

• Fixing IE by porting Canvas to Flash

• slippy faumaxion, take two

• The World's Largest MMORPG: You're Playing it Right Now

• Spore API

• State Of The Map 2009

  I might go to this.

Imperfection

Posted by mattc at Mar 16, 09 10:44 AM ... Comments (0)

Before bomber planes came in the existence WWI aircraft crew used to take a sack of bombs in to their biplane cockpits & lob them over the side after flying in to enemy territory [1]. I like practical actions in the face of technical inperfection.

[1] according to a Timewatch DVD I just watched.

Links for 2009-3-15

Posted by mattc at Mar 16, 09 05:05 AM

• REST is a distributed data model :: Andrej Koelewijn

  It's slowly dawning on me in the past couple of weeks that the Internet is going to be one big database/cms. I didn't really understand the semantic web in the formality of RDF terminology, but every organisation publishing data models & opening up web services, unified by query engines (like YQL, GQL...) actually makes practical sense to me.

• neo4j open source graph database »

  Not relational, not key/value ...

Links for 2009-3-14

Posted by mattc at Mar 15, 09 05:05 AM

• 140 Characters » How Twitter Was Born

Links for 2009-3-13

Posted by mattc at Mar 14, 09 05:05 AM

• [from cisnky] Show us Your MouthOff_

Links for 2009-3-12

Posted by mattc at Mar 13, 09 05:05 AM

• http://tinyurl.com/dlag8e

  How to get to where I work (it's not very complicated).

• Flash Player Internals | Peter Elst

Links for 2009-3-11

Posted by mattc at Mar 12, 09 05:05 AM

• Two Thousand People Singing Daisy Bell Together via Mech Turk

• Guardian Lucene = Similar Articles Categorisation

• Performance Impact of CSS Selectors

• Why Can't Error Messages Be Fun?

• maps from scratch

• Can I Use Example Code from Internet Q

• Mike Snow and Silverlight

• GameJS: A 2d game development framework in JavaScript

Links for 2009-3-10

Posted by mattc at Mar 11, 09 05:05 AM

• CSS3 Feedback: Selector Blocks

• Zooming user interface - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

  history of ZUI's

• high-low tech - MIT Media Lab

• Propel : An introduction to a PHP Object Relational Mapping and Querying Framework | David and Katherine Goodwin

  Looking for object mapping for Voldemort.

• Project Voldemort

  Another distributed database.

Links for 2009-3-08

Posted by mattc at Mar 9, 09 05:05 AM

• walking papers

• Kestrel

• Odopod Sketch - Magical Drawing Tool

• Voice-Draw: Etch-a-sketch with your voice

• The Browser Operating System

• JavaScript Performance Rundown

Links for 2009-3-07

Posted by mattc at Mar 8, 09 05:05 AM

• A Lightweight SQL Database for Cloud and Web in Launchpad

  Forked from MySQL.

• Is the Relational Database Doomed? - ReadWriteWeb

  Useful introduction to the non-relational database trend.

• Eventually Consistent - Revisited - All Things Distributed

Links for 2009-3-04

Posted by mattc at Mar 5, 09 05:05 AM

• JSONView - View JSON documents in Firefox « Blog | BRH.numbera.com

Links for 2009-3-03

Posted by mattc at Mar 4, 09 05:05 AM

• Pie Are Square - Charting with SVG | Article | CodeStore

  Really nicely written SVG tutorial (if you want to draw pie charts). I don't think it's really happening on the client-side still, but Batik is great.

Links for 2009-3-02

Posted by mattc at Mar 3, 09 05:05 AM

• GPS Tracklog: Tracks and Routes

  Important thing to note if you were to animate a fly-over of a route vs. a track.

Links for 2009-3-01

Posted by mattc at Mar 2, 09 05:05 AM

• Adding Simplicity - An Engineering Mantra: Software Is A Craft

• Shooting stars | Film | The Guardian

  Fascinating that the boundaries of creative control on a film project are as dependent on collaboration as software projects. The worst projects I've worked on as a developer is where people stick to their tightly-defined roles, shunting requirements back and forth between disciplines, and conversely the most enjoyable ones have been where huge overlaps in responsibilities exist (which causes conflict, but this is better than gaps IMHO).

• MultiScaleImage: Flex Deep Zoom Component — RTFM / Daniel Gasienica

  Flex DZ again. Nice UI, the smoothness is still not quite there. Needs cunning JPEG streaming.

• So you're a producer... what exactly do you do? | Film | guardian.co.uk

  Made me laugh. In our bit of the BBC the producer's role differs from project to project. Some producers think they are designers/developers, some like budgets & policy more than the thing they are producing, but the best ones create an environment in which their project, and the talent working on it, can flourish. I like Jason Hoffs' explanation, 'a movie project is like a very sick patient who is dying in the emergency room...".

Links for 2009-2-28

Posted by mattc at Mar 1, 09 05:05 AM

• To Assert or Not To Assert

• My Unified Theory of Bugs

• Little Promises Waiting To Be Broken

• Are You An Expert?

• Building and Scaling a Startup on Rails: 12 Things We Learned the Hard Way

• [from 10ch] The Hofmeister Kink: A Lasting BMW Design Detail | Raleigh Web Design

• TotT: Partial Mocks using Forwarding Objects

• TotT: Use EasyMock

• Guide to Writing Testable Code

• Online Machine Learning Testing == Extreme Testing

• TotT: Simulating Time in jsUnit Tests

• Partial Automation: Keeping humans in the loop

• TechnicalDebt