Links & notes for this month

• • g o s u - Images from Africa -- Lovely South African photoblog. | photography blog photoblog southafrica za
• • News - Live Arcade dev costs rising // Xbox 360 /// Eurogamer -- While these budgets may seem high to indies, these budgets wouldn't buy coffee on a triple-A console title for the retail box channel | development xbla livearcade xbox games gaming
  • Interview with Cakey - BizarreOnline.net -- Stephen Cakebread, affectionately known as "Cakey" throughout Bizarre Creations, is the mastermind behind both the original mini-game Geometry Wars, and its next generation sequel Retro Evolved. | games xbla livearcade casual distribution downloadable xbox retro
  • Gamasutra - Feature - "Rag Doll Development: An Interview With Rag Doll Kung Fu's Mark Healey" -- | games development independent indie distribution
  • UrbanGuitar.com :: Main Stage :: Guitarmed and Dangerous -- "As a trained guitarist and budding programmer, the future scenario for the sonic gaming interface for me became crystal clear: Two battling guitarists in a classic street-fighting video game. I thought, what better game to play that Mortal Kombat?" - thi | interactiondesign interaction games play guitars music fighting awesome
  • Ola Bini on Java, Lisp, Ruby and AI: Ruby Metaprogramming techniques -- Useful introduction to Ruby metaprogramming | ruby programming metaprogramming
• • AIGA - They're not fonts! -- (They're typefaces). Some useful clarification from AIGA on the matter | typography typefaces fonts notfonts
• • JeffCroft.com: On personal content management -- Great post by Jeff - whom I don't always agree with. This is spot on, though; content management is hard, and when the software isn't failing you, you often hack it into things it shouldn't do. Bespoke is the way forward, and tools like Rails and Django a | contentmanagement cms publishing online development
  • JustinFrench.com: Controller Inheritance in Rails -- Some days, I think I should just tidy things up in my application. This might go some way to doing that. | rails ruby rubyonrails
  • Online Depth of Field Calculator -- Really nice - simple implementation, clear explanation of results, and it calculates hyperfocal length for you. Hyperfocal length is really useful to know, folks. | dof photography technique calculator hyperfocal
• • Rails Rake Tasks Reference -- All the rake tasks in one place. Wasn't even aware of a lot of these. Useful. | ruby rubyonrails rake
  • TextDrive Community Forum / Mongrel on TxD -- What it says on the tin. Could be very, very useful... | mongrel textdrive deployment hosting
• • New Bamboo - Rails testing pointers -- Nice collection of articles on testing from the New Bamboo folks. | rails rubyonrails testing
• • Connect360 -- Connect360 lets you do all the media-sharing stuff to your XBox 360... but from a Mac, rather than a PC. And it worked first time. Two thumbs up! | xbox360 mac software xbox itunes iphoto media sharing
  • Dave Thomas' Ruby 1-liners -- Lots of useful things in here. | ruby programming scripting useful
• • evhead: 16 Assertions -- I assert a lot of these, too; I should probably follow through on more of them. | assertions maxims advice creativity gtd productivity
  • Server Logistics - Complete Apache 2 -- Installer package for OSX | apache macosx osx webserver
• • adaptive path » blog » blog archive » A new framework -- Todd Williams from Adaptive Path looks at a new (mental/process) framework for design. Really good article - even if you don't ascribe to it, there's loads to think on in there. | design usability process interaction ux
  • Potlatch: the marketing 'we' and other lies -- These marketing strategies are bogus forms of anti-capitalism, fraudulent denials of the unbreakable-but-contradictory relationship between quantity/exchange value and quality/use value. Between them, they promise a new economic culture, in which 'economy | business society advertising marketing economics
  • Facebook's "Privacy Trainwreck": Exposure, Invasion, and Drama -- "Privacy is not simply about the state of an inanimate object or set of bytes; it is about the sense of vulnerability that an individual experiences. When people feel exposed or invaded, there's a privacy issue." Loads in here that's of use beyond this qu | exposure privacy facebook social socialsoftware socialnetworking
  • Overstated: HT06, Tagging Paper, Taxonomy -- In the paper we present two taxonomies of tagging, the first dedicated to design decisions in tagging systems, and the second to the incentives that drive people to tag therein. | folksonomy tagging research paper article
  • Crazy Egg – visualize your visitors -- Crazy Egg is, basically, low-budget heatmapping for the web. Powered by Rails - it'd be interesting to look into this more when certain things go live... | analytics heatmaps web tracking rubyonrails statistics usability
  • Algorithms -- PDF drafts of a new textbook. | programming reference algorithm
  • Guardian Unlimited Arts | Arts features | Between the lines -- What if you could see each page of a book at the same time, hear every note of a sonata in an instant, or view an artist's works all together? Idris Khan's obsessive photographs attempt to do just that, writes Geoff Dyer | photography art review criticism
• • Rossignol » The Grim And The Dumb -- Two lovely McLuhan quotations from jim | quotations marshallmcluhan
  • Removing Stale Rails Sessions -- By default rails does not clear out stale sessions from the session store. To implement this feature I added the following small snippet of code. | rails ruby rubyonrails sessions
  • err.the_blog.find_by_title('Sessions N Such') -- Sessions in Rails are not black and white. Please stop treating them as such. | rails ruby rubyonrails sessions database
  • TrackMeNot Extension -- This kind of thing always amuses me - clouding real data by making ghost-queries as background noise. | search metrics monitoring stealth firefox extension
  • GameTrailers.com - User Movie: 1K Project II by sMull -- In the entertaining racing game Trackmania Sunrise, you can layer replays over the top of each other, to see multiple cars "racing" through one another. This is what happens when you layer a thousand replays with the express point of being beautiful. It s | trackmania trackmaniasunrise games video art machinima driving