- Fast Company Now – Google, Innovation and the Web — What defines a project? Sometimes there are small projects. Google News took a team of 3-5 people. If you take a pool of engineers and put them in teams of three, you can actually do 100 projects.
Tagged as: business development google innovation process - Ruby Linguistics – Trac — Going beyond just pluralize. Cute.
Tagged as: gem language linguistics ruby - Interactive Fiction: First-Timer Foibles — A nice look at some common stumbling blocks in IF
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- Assert Valid Markup — Great. Automated testing for valid view output. I’m going to try and get this in place once I start testing more.
Tagged as: html rails ruby rubyonrails testing validation w3c xhtml
- Imperial Star Destroyer – a photoset on Flickr — Cal bought a Lego Star Destroyer. It is *huge*.
Tagged as: lego starwars - Charlie’s Diary: What is the sensory bandwidth of Scotland? — Charlies does some maths. The results are at the very least interesting.
Tagged as: delusion futurism scifi senses - BuzzMachine » Blog Archive » The last presses — Jeff Jarvis rambling on as ever – some good quotes in it, though
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Tagged as: cookery cooking curry food - Rupert Murdoch tells all to Press Gazette – exclusive interview | Press Gazette — The internet is changing, very disruptive technology and there are new inventions coming along every month. One has to stay awake and race to stay up with it, or if you get enough brilliant people around maybe you can get ahead of it.
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- JavaScript Closures for Dummies | Developing thoughts — Morris Johns — I’ve needed a decent introduction to closuers, especially in JS, for a while. This one looks good.
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- Telegraph | Personal view: New breed of journalist for a new world — I have been a print journalist for 42 years and up until, say, three years or so ago I expected to die a print journalist. But there is no point in looking backwards, in being an inky dinosaur, so I have come to accept that the only way forward, for the m
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- Balloon. (Scripty postcards.) — Scripty postcards: chunks of Ruby you can run just by evaluating them. They do useful things, and are hilariously insecure – but the concept is delightful. Not sure what I’d use it for… but it all hangs together very nicely.
Tagged as: fun proramming ruby scripting web - RedHanded » Hpricot 0.1 — Crunchy! _why knocks up a really loose HTML parser for Ruby (in C) with some delightful syntax. Now, to knock up some microformat parsers…
Tagged as: gem html parser ruby
- Rossignol » The Big Hook Up — "What one will then wear on the wrist will be, not a mini-computer, but a computerized dialling system to the big hook up." Jim R on fine form, on one of Brian Aldiss’ many visions of the future.
Tagged as: futurism gaming network play scifi society - The lone wolf – Books – Entertainment – theage.com.au — [Murukami] wrote the initial chapters in English, before translating them into Japanese. "I didn’t know how to write fiction, so I tried writing in English because my vocabulary was limited. I knew too many words in Japanese. It was too heavy." Good inter
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- The Web Is a Pipe — I decided to make my presentation a call to action to, once and for all, put a big fat finger in FastCGI’s eye and move on.
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- Don’t say CRUD say FUC’D. — Now you’ve got a very useful part of your domain model – the hint was that you were writing some thing that wasn’t CRUD – you needed a new noun instead of a non-standard verb.
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- The Power of the Marginal — The big media companies shouldn’t worry that people will post their copyrighted material on YouTube. They should worry that people will post their own stuff on YouTube, and audiences will watch that instead.
Tagged as: broadcast essay innovation keynote media presentation - Arduino – HomePage — Nice. A tiny little USB I/O board for about twenty-thirty quid. It works with Macs, it works with Processing and Wiring, and it comes from Italy. Probably my way into experimenting with physical interface fun. Time to buy a soldering iron…
Tagged as: hardware io physical processing sensor wiring