Links from 2010

Top 10 Velocity sessions based on the attendee ratings, including The Top 5 Mistakes of Massive CSS by Nicole Sullivan and Internet Explorer 9 by Jason Weber, Microsoft.

Organizations simplify management of group-owned repositories (for example: your company's code), expand on our permissions system, and help focus your GitHub workflow for business and large open source projects.

Describes the differences between HTML4 and HTML5 and provides some of the rationale for the changes.

"The row developed as the victim tried to wave at a man dressed as a Snickers bar, the court heard." Second favourite article, after "Pierced man told to wear box on head".

"Allows you to quickly and efficiently "divvy up" your screen into exact portions."

Thrilling, edge-of-seat stuff.

Comparing iStockphoto's Standard and Extended Licenses

Subversion doesn't support resource forks, which is why committing PostScript font files doesn't work.

Disseminating gin based information since 2010.

This helps me understand what happened to blogging when the prospects of financial reward crept in. It changed everything. And, presumably, unless people read and understand this, it's going to happen again when new creative tools are invented.

An advanced protection system for PHP installations [...] designed to protect servers and users from known and unknown flaws in PHP applications and the PHP core.

This codelab shows how web application vulnerabilities can be exploited and how to defend against these attacks. The best way to learn things is by doing, so you'll get a chance to do some real penetration testing, actually exploiting a real application.

Why web applications are different to installed apps, problems that none of the revision control systems solve, and how you can solve some of them yourself within your app.

You didn't write that awful page. You're just trying to get some data out of it. Right now, you don't really care what HTML is supposed to look like. Neither does this parser.

A platform where anyone can share and mash open data on any subject. For example, you might find a directory of US restaurants, a database of endocrinologists, or a list of video game cheat codes. We provide smart tools to help the community build and maintain a trusted source of structured data.

An open catalog and marketplace for the world's data. You can share, sell, curate, and download data about anything and everything.

Analysis: The future belongs to the companies and people that turn data into products.

South is a Django project which [provides] “consistent, easy-to-use, database-agnostic migrations for Django applications.” Below are the most basic steps for getting South up and running in your project.

Possible PassPack replacement (should one ever be required).

Details and links to managed workspace providers in Hackney.

There were a handful of records released in the late 70′s and early 80′s that contained computer programs as part of the audio. This is totally insane, and totally great.

The idea is similar to the notion of Free Software, and like with freeware, the word “free”refers to freedom, not price. Specifically, Free Music means that any individual has the freedom of copying, distributing, and modifying music for personal, noncommercial purposes. Free Music does not mean that record labels and musicians cannot charge for records, tapes, CDs, or files.

If Pattern Recognition was about the immediate psychic aftermath of 9-11, and Spook Country about the deep end of the Bush administration and the invasion of Iraq, I could say that Zero History is about the global financial crisis as some sort of nodal event, but that must be true of any 2010 novel with ambitions on the 2010 zeitgeist. But all three of these novels are also about that dawning recognition that the future, be it capital-T Tomorrow or just tomorrow, Friday, just means more stuff, however peculiar and unexpected. A new quotidian. Somebody’s future, somebody else’s past.

Essentially, you create pseudo-elements using CSS (:before and :after) and treat them similarly to how you would treat HTML elements nested within your target element. But they have distinct benefits — beyond semantics — over the use of nested HTML elements.

A single page jobs aggregator

A Firefox extension produced as a collaboration between The Tor Project and the Electronic Frontier Foundation. It encrypts your communications with a number of major websites.

Pay as you go van hire.

How long does a Happy Meal stay fresh?

The first comprehensive collection of Numbers Stations recordings released to the public.

A service that can turn practically anything on the web into a JSON feed that any website or mobile app can consume. A JSON conduit, if you will.

...helps small and large businesses delivery and track transactional emails. Stop worrying about setup, delivery, and server maintenance. We already excel at this.

The big one is basically spend at least $10,000 on Facebook advertising in order to get an account manager in order to get approval.

A media aggregation platform built for the public display of up-to-the-minute activity on realtime services like Twitter.

A mobile web app that connects music to places. Point your mobile browser to m.spotisquare.com. You can just use Spotisquare to check-in on Foursquare, but it also connects Foursquare venues with Spotify playlists. When you find a venue that has a Spotify playlist, you can listen to it in Spotify, and also add your own songs to it.

A javascript-based video player that uses the HTML5 video functionality built into advanced browsers. In general, the benefit of using an HTML5 player is a consistent look between browsers.

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