Links from 2008

More info re. On A Bus: "Enter a route number to display the stops (and switch between alternate routes in the sidebar). A click on a marker or a stop name will show a blow-up map for that location (which can be maximised to show a StreetView of that location, or at least it would if StreetView was available in London). A selection of Wikipedia items near that stop will also be displayed, so you can use this to explore locations along the route; again, these maximise to show the whole Wikipedia page inline."

Feed in a London bus route number and it returns a route map. Nice.

Why do double decker buses have windows? I’m not talking about the big windows we look out of, but the small letterbox shaped windows above that we can open and close? The answer, obviously, is so that passengers can regulate temperature and ventilation, but they come with a major problem: for half the year, they make passengers on the bus ill. At least, that’s my theory.

WordPress Version 2.0 introduces the concept of Roles. Each Role is allowed to perform a set of tasks called Capabilities. This Plugin allows you to define and manage multiple subscriber profiles - called Roles and their Capabilities.

A website showcasing the best (and sometimes worst) in e-commerce design, with a clear focus on the individual elements that make up online stores. We break down retailers and focus on individual user interface elements in order to provide a gallery of inspiration for designers, developers, information architects, and anyone working with online retail.

The 90-9-1 Principle is an often discussed concept that has been used in countless conversations about online communities and social strategy. Until now, there hasn't been a single collection of description and support for the principle, making it hard to share a single links with clients, colleagues, and friends who haven't heard of 90-9-1. This site works to solve that problem!

This is for all those people that find it more convenient to bother you with their question rather than google it for themselves.

Can't... tear... eyes... away. Must... stop... watching...

Brilliant post on delicious.

Worth investigating. "Makes it easy to share content across different social media applications"

Great idea. "It’s a little social experiment that is best described as Pass the Parcel, meets Six Degrees of Separation, meets Message in a Bottle. Every person who receives this book leaves a trace on the next available page [then] they will send the book to the most famous person they know personally. Once we get the book from the last famous person, we’ll auction it on ebay and donate all the money to the NSPCC."

Web-based word processor that allows people to work together in really real-time. When multiple people edit the same document simultaneously, any changes are instantly reflected on everyone's screen.

This feature is a translation of the current Google Analytics tracking code into the ActionScript 3 programming language that dramatically simplifies the ability to track Flash, Flex and AS3 content.

No gzip on Cloudfront (yet); suggested workaround.

"Every band starts out at the bottom of the charts and if the community likes what they hear, they vote the band up. This works well for lesser known bands as the community votes on the quality of the song, not media hype or name recognition." Looks similar to thesixtyone...

"A web service for content delivery. It integrates with other Amazon Web Services to give developers and businesses an easy way to distribute content to end users with low latency, high data transfer speeds, and no commitments." Beaut.

"The product may seem like a powerful musical tool crammed into a gaming system but, in practice, the DS does a very good job of letting you control all of the many features of a synthesizer." Want.

"With Nokia MapLoader for Mac, you can sideload maps to your phone directly from your Mac. This way, you can save a lot on your data transfer costs – especially if you are planning a trip abroad." Wish you could sideload Google Maps for Mobile.

"There's nothing quite like a proper homemade chutney or pickle to add a welcome crunch or hit of spice to all manner of dishes". Oh yes, it's chutney-making season.

Now my second favourite article title, coming in just behind "Pierced man told to wear box on his head".

A view engine for Asp.Net Mvc and Castle Project MonoRail frameworks. The idea is to allow the html to dominate the flow and the code to fit seamlessly.

Fairly obvious but useful for reminding people.

Fairly obvious but useful for reminding people.

Basecamp for bands. Nice idea, but pricing looks a bit skewiff.

"Anonymous employees of the newspaper would visit seaside resorts. The newspaper would print details of the town, a description of the appearance of that day's "Lobby Lud", and a particular pass phrase. Anyone carrying a copy of the newspaper could challenge "Lobby Lud" with the appropriate phrase, and receive the sum of money."

Somebody's been reading Brighton Rock.

Some dead handy tips here.

Free modular software based synthesizer. What this means is that the entire system is based on objects, which may be routed in a modular fashion, giving you the freedom to be as creative as you want.

Allows you to easily add/modify/remove podcast episodes from blog posts and includes a simple on-line media player, iTunes compatibile RSS feed tags, ability to upload cover art images, ping iTunes, detect media size, detect time duration (mp3's only) and add 3rd party media statistics.

"A dozen London boroughs have implemented a "risk assessment" policy for live music that permits the police to ban any live music if they fail to receive personal details from the performers 14 days in advance."

Bit of a scare-story headline but some decent points here.

"I think I will give the track-by-track review a miss — in case I end up sounding like this." Crispy Godber, a star in the making.

I've been reading about unit testing for jQuery and wonder if an analagous approach could be used on a CSS system. Probably not, but a style guide featuring every type of box, unit, module and typographic style on the site can quickly allow you to not only see if any changes you make have knock-on or regression errors, but allow you to see what your styles imply.

New artist site. No music yet but who needs audio when there's desktop wallpaper.

Handy.

By understanding a business’ problems or opportunities, we can figure out what behaviors we’re hoping to engage, and then connect that behavior to a financial outcome.

A tool to traverse through all elements in a web page, and when it finds a HTML element with inline events [...] it highlights it with a red border. It also highlights javascript: links with a magenta border.

A powerful build management and continuous integration server supporting both Java and .NET teams.

"Is this the next killer site - or a bit of a dead duck? Let’s have your thoughts in the comments please." Look forward to the comments on this. Haven't spent enough time using PMS but like the concept and the people behind it are very friendly.

Great quality from this. Shame samples are for "private, non-commercial use" but not overly surprising.

Linking people who want to grow their own food to space where they can grow it

For Ajax-driven pages to have back/forward navigation and to allow bookmarking.

Podcasting plugin for WordPress