- Wonderland: SXSW: Will Wright Keynote — Alice provides a near-transcription of Will’s SXSW keynote; requires a more careful readthrough… but at first glance, it’s bloody marvellous. Totally should have gone to SXSW.
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- Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Tutorials by Michael Tapes — Lots of LR tutorial videos – really must get around to watching these some time.
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- Slack Key Guitar Book — A rather comprehensive history of Hawaiian-style slack-key guitar.
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- Shell Scripting Primer — ADC reference on shell scripting – looks comprehensive, nicely-organised, and well-written.
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- Script.aculo.us’ BlindDown Test — Some useful sample code.
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- disambiguity – » Ambient Intimacy — "the phatic function is communication simply to indicate that communication can occur." Leisa Reichelt on "ambient intimacy", Twitter, and some Bakhtinian ideas.
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- Math for the Masses « WordPress.com — WordPress.com add support for LaTeX into their posts – translates code into inline images with appropriate alt text. Impressive, for the mathematically/scientifically minded at least.
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Notes on the Future of Web Apps 2007
05 March 2007
It’s been about two week since I went to FOWA2007 in London, and I’ve been meaning to write it up for a while. It was an… interesting experience, and I’ve been trying to find a way to frame why that is. Speeding on a train back from the provinces to London seemed a good way to concentrate my thoughts.
Last year’s FOWA was great: a one-day conference for
- danwebb.net – The No Shit Guide To Supporting OpenID In Your Applications — A very practical guide to rigging up the basics of OpenID in Rails.
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- Web 2.0 Technologies: GeoKit: a plugin for location-based Rails apps — Geokit is a Rails plugin for building location-based apps. It provides geocoding, location finders, and distance calculation in one cohesive package.
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