- Development – Akismet — Distributed spam-catching system. Built for WordPress, but works with anything. Will be putting this to use soon…
Tagged as: antispam api comment spam - Akismet.rb — Ruby class for checking spam against the Akismet distributed spam-processing service. Could be useful
Tagged as: akismet heuristics ruby spam - COMICON.com: WARREN ELLIS’ THE MINISTRY 6: PUBLIC INTELLECTUALS — Excellent Ellis piece on public intellectuals – worth a read.
Tagged as: essay intellectual philosophy warrenellis - Painless JavaScript Using Prototype [JavaScript & DHTML Tutorials] —
Tagged as: DOM ajax javascript protoype scripting tutorial - Vivabit | The Web’s Bollocks | Introducing DOM Builder —
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- Four Modes of Seeking Information and How to Design for Them – Boxes and Arrows — Nice IA piece from boxesandarrow
Tagged as: ia informationarchitecture structure webdesign
- Hex Fiend — Hex Editor for OS X. Yes. Need this, if only for horrendous character encoding issues.
Tagged as: editor freeware hex macosx osx software - home | donotremove — Some design elements here I like a lot (and a few I can’t bear) – worth noting down for inspiration
Tagged as: css design web xhtml
- How can software be social? — It is, after all, already social, writes Julian Bleecker. He’s right. Ties into my ideas around ‘sociable" software.
Tagged as: social socialsoftware software - Mint Forum / Typo (Ruby on Rails) : Configuring Mint — Configuring Mint for Typo – and, by extension, any Rails app
Tagged as: mint rubyonrails stats web
- Theory Objects & Design Patterns — Julian Bleecker commenting on Theory Objects: "A Theory Object is a kind of Theory Object"
Tagged as: design internetofthings research theoryobjects - Blackbeltjones/Work: What put the "architecture" into "information architecture"? — "We’re not creating a space that people move through, and engage with. We’re classifying material to be retrieved. But with web 2.0, we are providing an architecture — a space, a platform through which and upon which people move, contribute, and cha
Tagged as: ia informationarchitecture web20 - What do we do with ‘social media’? (plasticbag.org) — Tom Coates’ own notes for the Guardian Changing Media Summit
Tagged as: media social socialsoftware web20
- Raimo: the Ruby AIM bot — Once I’ve got this all up and running… it’s time to exploit the Basecamp API for fun and profit!
Tagged as: aim chatbot ruby - International Components for Ruby —
Tagged as: i18n l10n programming ruby - Just Build It: HTML Prototyping and Agile Development —
Tagged as: agile html methodology prototyping rapid webdev xhtml - The ten commandments of bilingual blogging —
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- [Workshop] What video games do to us… and other things —
Tagged as: development education games society - PowerPoint Presentation – Putting the Fun in Functional — Amy Jo Kim’s awesome talk from Etech. It’s not just about applying game design to mobile services – it’s about applying game design to everything you build for the web. It raised a lot of good points, and crystallised a lot of others. Worth a look.
Tagged as: application design etech games ludic methodology presentation services - Friendster lost steam. Is MySpace just a fad? — Public – super-public – hyperpublic. Lots of interesting stuff in this essay from danah. Memo to self: it’s all about the ablative case.
Tagged as: danahboyd essay friendster glocalization myspace public socialsoftware superpublics
- Time to stop obsessing about the infrastructure — The network is not about the applications. The network is about the glue. (I will be repeating this mantra in future).
Tagged as: glue infrastructure network systems
- Purse Lip Square Jaw: Internet of things: working bibliography — I may eventually get around to checking some of this lot out. I hope so, anyhow…
Tagged as: blobjects fabjects internetofthings jargon spimes
- Yahoo! Weather — Y!DN Weather forecasts by location, through API. I’m trying the "Weather forecasts" challenge in Rubyquiz (flexing muscles, etcetera) and it seems ilke a good place to start.
Tagged as: api weather webservice xml - Creating Passionate Users: Web 2.0 is like Group Therapy — Really rather funny. (From Kathy Sierra)
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