Links from 2010

The software [Canon Hack Development Kit] has allowed photographers using more than 50 models of Canon PowerShot cameras to reprogram the time lapse instructions to record construction projects or to use motion-sensing programs to capture animals in the deep woods. It can also be used to alter the camera’s exposure control to produce imaginative images in difficult lighting.

A Wordpress CMS plugin, focuses in simplifies content management for the admin creating custom write panels also with Magic Fields you will be able to create (in a very easy way) custom fields for your write panels.

The trick to really aromatic basil is to ration its water intake, to ensure that it grows slowly.

Go mefi!

National Trust: The Album:

The 33-minute recording titled National Trust: The Album takes the listener on an audio journey around Britain from the sounds of lapping of waves against the shores of Brownsea Island in Dorset to birdsong at Belton House in Lincolnshire and the sounds of gardeners at work at Powis Castle in Powys.

Login LockDown records the IP address and timestamp of every failed WordPress login attempt. If more than a certain number of attempts are detected within a short period of time from the same IP range, then the login function is disabled for all requests from that range. This helps to prevent brute force password discovery.

"Having a reliable and easy deployment should be non-negotiable. It’s a metric I’ve come to call the “quantum of deployment”: what’s the smallest number of steps, with the smallest number of people and the smallest amount of ceremony required to get new code running on your servers? This isn’t a trivial question." Great deployment stuff from Etsy.

To celebrate the publication of his eagerly anticipated new novel, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, David Mitchell makes a selection, exclusively for Foyles, of his favourite books.

""This has come to be known as the Colour of the Bike Shed Phenomenon: the time spent on any item will be in inverse proportion to its cost and importance. Relentlessly, the trivial squeezes out the non-trivial [...] Similar effects – where small stuff preoccupies us because it's small – course through our lives [...] I fear that something related is also what's transpiring whenever I get that delusional feeling of achievement from having powered through multiple unimportant items on my to-do list, leaving untouched the few tasks that really matter. Taken together, Parkinson's two laws amount to a wry but certainly not trivial warning: the work we do expands to fill the time available – and, half the time, it's not even the most important work."

This is a good time to have not just spent months building a WP2 site.

This document contains normative guidelines for web applications built by the Interface Development practice of Isobar North America (previously Molecular). It is to be readily available to anyone who wishes to check the iterative progress of our best practices.

Want to know if your ‘HTML application’ is part of the web? Link me into it. Not just link me to it; link me into it. Not just to the black-box frontpage. Link me to a piece of content. Show me that it can be crawled, show me that we can draw strands of silk between the resources presented in your app. That is the web: The beautiful interconnection of navigable content. If your website locks content away in a container, outside the reach of hyperlinks, you’re not building any kind of ‘web’ app. You’re doing something else.

This convergence of awareness, even urgency, on the business side and growing expertise in the tech community around web performance marks the beginning of a new industry that I’m calling “WPO” – Web Performance Optimization.

With version 1 of the API you can query artists’ discographies and get the information you need to write a custom embedded audio player, with metadata such as track credits and lyrics.

Dalston. Ala from The Village Orchestra’s ‘Amid The Blaze of Noon’, a DVD album of audio and visuals inspired by Dalston and Stoke Newington in London out this summer on Highpoint Lowlife.

Lisa and Karim met over a poker table in Afghanistan and celebrated their wedding in Marrakech. The ceremony united people of all religions and creeds. Lisa is Jewish and American, Karim is a muslim and Lebanese, although now an American citizen.

A contextual FTP, SFTP uploader for Mac OS X.

An anti landfill fashion accessory label

When taking part in a challenging event (anything from a marathon to a school scoot-athon), rather than inviting friends, family and work mates to sponsor you by donating money, through JustSaving you will be able to ask for sponsorship in the form of actions.

Google Chrome Speed Tests, via GU Planning.

What makes my heart go pitty-pat is the swarm of data that the sensor in the wheel captures and transmits. Not only does it track info about the biker (riding time, effort, calories) but it also grabs info from the environment, like temperature, carbon monoxide, noise and humidity. You can share this info with friends, and also with your city by making an anonymous donation of your data. The end result? A community of data-contributors helping cities build more accurate models of routes, noise, carbon emissions and temperature. All this data can be used inform urban planning, transit systems and environmental policies in service to sustainable cities.

Agile project management tool that enables real time collaboration around a shared, prioritized backlog.

New Spotify with a number of interesting new features.

Your PasswordCard has a unique grid of random letters and digits on it. The rows have different colors, and the columns different symbols. All you do is remember a combination of a symbol and a color, and then read the letters and digits from there.

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An interesting (though obvious, after-the-fact) consequence of increasing our hourly rate, is that the customers that were left tended to be exactly the type of customers we’ve always wanted to work for — they appreciate, value and demand high quality, and are doing interesting things.

"The distinction between good code and crap code is essentially literary. Good code emerges from an intuitive ability to separate structure from intention – to compose minimalist flows of well formed cues that balance direct statements of logic with modular flexibility. Holistic, pattern based thinking is important, treating the locality of a single statement in the context of its position in a larger system, and also understanding that this position is fluid, and may change as the system changes and grows." This is great.

"I remain convinced that _in principle_, video games cannot be art. Perhaps it is foolish of me to say "never," because never, as Rick Wakeman informs us, is a long, long time. Let me just say that no video gamer now living will survive long enough to experience the medium as an art form."