- Zaky Infant Pillow: Child Neglect Accomplice – Gizmodo — One for all the new dads, I feel.
Tagged as: baby ergonomics for:dotcode odd pillow strange
- ESV Bible Blog » Blog Archive » Mechanical Turk Recap — The ESV Bible team crowdsourced their interlinked search database to Amazon’s Mechanical Turk. That turned out quite well for them.
Tagged as: amazon crowdsourcing distributed mechanicalturk outsourcing processing
- GigaOM : » StartUps Embracing Amazon S3 — S3’s early success makes you think that if the on-demand infrastructure can be delivered at an affordable price, the cost of setting up an online business is going to decline even further, perhaps prompting a whole cycle of new entrepreneurial activity.
Tagged as: amazon s3 startup storage webservices - Refactoring to REST — So, by adding a few controllers, I cut the total number of actions by almost twenty. That’s a pretty big deal, because actions are like moving parts in a machine—the more there are, the more can go wrong.
Tagged as: development patterns rails refactoring rest ruby rubyonrails
- Luke Redpath » Blog Archive » Testing your Rails views with Hpricot — Because, you know, if you’re going to test models and controllers, test the damn views!
Tagged as: html programming ruby rubyonrails testing validation - A Rails Feature You Should be Using: with_scope — Yes – I definitely should be using this. Will refactor some code to take account of it at the weekend. A really elegant construction.
Tagged as: activerecord development rails ruby rubyonrails scope tips
- Ultimate Exposure Computer — Complex, comprehensive, worth going back to; interesting for those times when you don’t want to use the light meter.
Tagged as: camera exposure howto photography useful
- Labnotes » Blog Archive » Scraping with style: scrAPI toolkit for Ruby — Wow. This totally comes in at my level of competence, and works pretty much how I’d want it to. Time to futz around with some prototypes…
Tagged as: code markup microformats parser programming ruby screenscraping script
- [giantJoystick] by Mary Flanagan (2006) | — "Inviting users to play classic arcade games by collaboratively moving on and controlling a 9-foothigh joystick (modelled after the 1980 Atari 2600 one), Mary Flanagan highlights the spatial and social role of the interface." Fun!
Tagged as: art games giant interface technology - SCIFI.COM | The Amazing Screw-On Head — Awesome – animated Mignola to watch.
Tagged as: animation free lovecraft mignola mikemignola scifi - MySpace parser — Tom Dyson writes a MySpace parser in Python out of Beautiful Soup. Delightful – and really, really useful.
Tagged as: html myspace parser python scraping
- cookin’/relaxin’: On the nature of time-based media — "Fractals are common in nature and show a repeating, self-similar structure and there is a similar kind of structure here from schedules to programmes to music and speech." – some great visualisation from Tristan Ferne.
Tagged as: audio broadcast media music visulisation - Battleship:GoogleEarth (a 1st Life/2nd Life mashup) — Awesome – Julian starts building a game of Battleships played out in the real world and Google Earth, using a mobile phone as a geolocator. It’ll be interesting to see how this develops
Tagged as: battleships games locational maps research technology
- thinglink blog: Design patterns for building with web APIs — MattB on fine form – an exceptionally clear explanation of the potential design patterns of building an API into your application
Tagged as: api application design development patterns thinglink web
- M@ McCray » Comatose, a Micro CMS Plugin — Comatose is a tiny CMS that you drop into other Rails apps as a plugin
Tagged as: cms plugin rails rubyonrails