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Scientists show their science-related tattoos. Some are better than others.
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“It seems to me that Coverflow replicates everything that is frustrating and unpleasant about looking for something in the real world.”
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“FHM was selling 800,000 for a reason, and it wasn’t to those of us who’ve seen all three endings of Deus Ex” Gillen talks about the resurgence of PC Accelerator.
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“Prince is a computer program that converts XML and HTML into PDF documents.”
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Interesting-looking little PHP web-forum.
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“When a work of art becomes useful, it becomes a craft, or it becomes propaganda. When a toy becomes useful, it becomes a tool, or a weapon.”
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“HasFinder is an extension to ActiveRecord that makes it easier than ever to create custom find and count queries.” Looks excellent. Might well be making use of this.
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“In this prsentation… we examine key agile practices, that when applied judiciously to Ruby, retain the amazing productivity, improve the quality of code, etc.” Looks good.
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“Scrolling works. Long pages work. Anything else tends to be informationarchitecturitis.”
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Webistrano is a Web UI for managing Capistrano deployments. It lets you manage projects and their stages like test, production, and staging with different settings. Those stages can then be deployed with Capistrano through Webistrano.
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Some good stuff on ActiveRecord proxy usage. I’m doing some of this already, but the advanced examples look really handy.
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“Bungie’s designers aren’t just making a game: They’re trying to divine the golden mean of fun.” Large Wired article on how Bungie do UX research for Halo 3.
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Some useful tips on keeping Lightroom data safe.
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“Build the Models Your Parents Warned You Against”. Sounds awesome!
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So NSFW. So funny.
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Westciv’s XRAY now works in IE6. Which all of a sudden makes it super-useful.
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“The date slider is a Flash visualization that Measure Map uses as one way to navigate the site. We are happy to provide a version of this date slider to the public.” As used on OaklandCrime.
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Awesome, awesome OSX puzzle game.
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“The rest is just implementation detail.” Great story from Will Lee about how, despite not doing any of the things you’re “supposed” to do, he became a programmer. The answer? He always was one.
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“WWW::Mechanize and Hpricot on Steroids”. An interesting looking screenscraping library; I’m a big fan of both HPricot and Mechanize, so it’ll be interesting to put this to use at some point.