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Twittercal is “a free service that connects your Twitter account to your Google Calendar”. Very nice!
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“I figured it’s best just to tell you why netbeans’ rails support is so creamingly good”. I’m not really an IDE guy, but netbeans does sound quite impressive. Not sure it’ll drag me away from Textmate, though.
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This will come in handy, I think.
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“If the API you are using does not yet offer JSON output you can take advantage of Python’s excellent XML support.” Going to need this too, I think
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The Unarchiver is a much more capable replacement for “BOMArchiveHelper.app”, the built-in archive unpacker program in Mac OS X
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“metrics, data management, and usability for online games” – awesome blog discovery of the day. Just looks fab. Insta-subscribe!
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“…it sums up the particular strain of globollocks in Monocle that both entices and infuriates, like a coke-fiend friend” – great post from Nick Sweeney on Monocle and cultures of their own creation
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Beautiful, traditional screenprinted posters, as seen at End of the Road. Want to get my hands on some of these.
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“We’ve been using the same tired metaphors for decades and they are not serving us well. What there was to learn from them was absorbed long ago.” Eric Evans debunks metaphors for development.
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As recommended no the ixda-discuss list.
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“…indirect readers, unable to get access to articles behind the pay wall and less likely to pay subscription fees than the more loyal direct users…” – you don’t say?
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Just what I needed right now. This is a verbose approach, but it has the kind of granularity I like.
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This is going to be huge.
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“Programming is difficult. At its core, it is about managing complexity. Computer programs are the most complex things that humans make. Quality is a illusive and elusive.” Crockford on Javascript Style – almost certainly essential.
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“Quartonian Mixer is a free creative commons licensed VJ mixer created entirely in Quartz Composer.”
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A great Dan North entry on stories and BDD.
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Technically hardcore, dense paper explaining how the Dungeon Siege environment was constructed without a loading screen. Word of the day: “frustrum”. Interesting stuff in here. Now, how to apply it?
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Visualisation for looking at your listening history on last.fm. The outputs are beautiful.
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Lots of .flv tutorial videos. May be useful for my plans to do with learning Flash.
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Some useful tips on camping at festivals…
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“Literature is inescapably intertwined with our everyday environment. By making this visible, we can encourage and spread it, and send it in new and exciting directions.”
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Using the Wiimote with Processing, Max/MSP, and a whole load of other things (via OSC) on Mac OS. Fun!
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“Little handpainted people, left in London to fend for themselves”
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Second issue of Joss Whedon’s online comic.
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“For five years I also wrote a monthly column of the same title in the industry’s critical Bible, Edge magazine. All those columns are archived”… on Poole’s website. Excellent.
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Great selection of links to Raph Koster’s “Design For Everywhere” – a talk at GDC to the games industry about designing games (and, by inference, software) for use in any context. Important!
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“Here are some of the common pitfalls that lead to failure when building social web applications.”