Links from 2009

Typical British caff food, nothing challenging or complicated, just straightforward hearty ingredients and recipes.

Interactive event calendar and personal agenda builder for conferences and festivals.

Webfaction's new Django documentation.

Reviewing is the new advertising.

Upload any file of any size for free and get back a link good for 24 hours

Allows you to enhance your Google search results by marking up web pages with Microformats or RDFa. Enter a web page URL to see how it may appear in search results.

A set of conventions and small javascript libraries to archieve a complete separation of html, css and javascript in your web application. Jamal is built on jQuery and inspired by MVC frameworks like Ruby on Rails, CakePHP and its derivatives.

"This is simply a "click these buttons" guide to git."

It’s overwhelmingly easy to write bad unit tests that add very little value to a project while inflating the cost of code changes astronomically.

“Film by Romuald Karmakar on Chilean DJ and musician Ricardo Villalobos which will have it’s World Premiere at the 66th Venice International Film Festival, September 8th, 2009”

Allows you to adjust the text-only and full-page (both text and images) zoom levels as well as color settings both globally (for all sites) and per site.

A simple online usability test that helps you identify the most prominent elements of your user interfaces.

Discover, share, tag and converge images that inspire you and your work

The project lets anyone run their own OpenStreetMap server in the cloud with one-step configuration and zero administration.

Summary: just be consistent, whichever way you go.

But does it do clockwise *and* anti-clockwise loaders? Clients can be funny.

Each participant was asked to rate more than 100 search ranking factors along with specific questions about hot issues in the SEO field. This document [helps] provide transparency into what matters (and doesn’t) for best practices in search engine optimization.

"If there were fewer labels and releases everyone would be happier, but that's difficult to accomplish. I am hoping for a loud voice of reason talking to everybody: producers, labels, distributors, and shops. Like hey, "Think it over, think twice before you release a record." Maybe things can get better again. The main problem isn't that people download or don't buy records anymore, the main problem is that there's just too many releases."

"This beautifier can process your messy or compacted javascript, making it all neatly and consistently formatted and readable." Handy for making sense of minified scripts.

There is a cancer in the collective American soul — a mercy deficit that has in recent years grown as alarmingly as the budget deficit. Nor is it as simple as a left/right thing: no political party has a monopoly on merciless behaviour. Rather, a creeping draconian absolutism has cast its penumbra across the entire arena of public discourse, tainting every debate, poisoning and hardening attitudes across the board.

"Full-body animal pajama with hoods or hats styled after animals are also called Kigurumi, but do not have the same "costume" connotation as the full-body suits. They are worn non-commercially and are another form of Japanese street fashion. People who choose to wear kigurumi in public are often referred to as "kigurumin", and the consumer-level costumes they tend to wear are known as "disguise pajama"."

“Craig Ferguson on the deification of youth and stupidity – and why it’s advertising’s fault&rdquo

(via katy lindemann).

A JavaScript library which provides SVG support on many browsers, including Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Safari. Using the library plus native SVG support you can instantly target ~95% of the existing installed web base. Once dropped in you get partial support for SVG 1.1, SVG Animation (SMIL), Fonts, Video and Audio, DOM and style scripting through JavaScript, and more in about a 60K library.

Ever notice an annoying, persistent lag every ten seconds or so when you're watching a YouTube (or other) video in Firefox?

Makes me want to stop using Google Maps.

...seeks to elaborate on a hand-picked Selection of features from the HTML 5 specification and other fine Standards. I shall publish Drafts periodically, as time permits.

I tend to see _why more as an artist. He used a wide variety of mediums for his exploration: Written word, drawings, code, and even music.

“So you’re not just playing the last 5 minutes backwards, you are actually playing reality backwards in realtime?”

A Treejack survey will show you the parts of your IA that work well, and the bits that need more work. Get answers to questions about which labels work best, whether a structure is too deep and where to put certain types of content. Think of it as analytics for a website you haven't built yet.

Get answers to questions about which labels work best, whether a structure is too deep and where to put certain types of content. Think of it as analytics for a website you haven't built yet.

Simon Singh’s Five Numbers radio series on huffduffer

Turn entire content blocks in to clickable targets.

There is a lot misuse of GET over POST and vice versa. Both HTTP methods can achieve the same goals, but an incorrect choice between them can lead to unexpected and potentially harmful outcomes.

Map of primary areas where height is constrained through the definition of the Viewing Corridors, Lateral or Background assessment areas of protected vistas.

Bitten is a Python-based framework for collecting various software metrics via continuous integration. It builds on Trac to provide an integrated web-based user interface.

The procession of technological discoveries is inevitable. When the conditions are right — when the necessary web of supporting technology needed for every invention is established — then the next adjacent technological step will emerge as if on cue. If inventor X does not produce it, inventor Y will.

Once a task has been automated to take dramatically less time, a threshold is crossed and at which point you can exploit emergent properties. Or in other words, crazy-ass improvements.

It’s time to take advantage of the cloud’s free parallelism. Most existing use cases merely map existing techniques to the cloud. Elasticity is a critical mesaurement: the time it takes to start a node up, and your minimum time commitment per node. Short lived but massively parallel tasks that were once impossible thrive in a highly elastic world. Big prediction: Clouds are going to get more elastic indefinitely; they’ll trend with Moore’s law.

So what is the organisation's end goal? Bowdler puts it simply: "To engage people with science who would not otherwise choose to immerse themselves in the subject."

Using a custom RjDj patch to control an Arduino. Made possible via the "netsend" and "netreceive" objects in PD, which are also usable in RjDj. The interface with the Arduino is made through the Firmata firmware in combination with the PDuino library.

Poolga

“iPhone and iPod Touch wallpapers from a selection of designers and illustrators from around the world.”

iPhone and iPod Touch wallpapers from a selection of designers and illustrators from around the world.

The QA style sheet highlights specific HTML problems like use of deprecated elements, inaccessible images, layout tables, empty elements, or styling-related maintenance issues. Theoretically, it is “unobtrusive” in a sense that when everything’s fine it won’t cause any visible changes.