#via:tomtaylor (37 links)
- Six cool features of the Git 2.x series - Atlassian Developers developer.atlassian.com
Workspaces look useful.
- Health hackers: the patients taking medical innovation into their own hands | Life and style | The Guardian theguardian.com
When people talk about innovation in healthcare, they have in mind a new malaria vaccine or a cure for Alzheimer’s disease. But these breakthroughs, despite the continued investment of hundreds of millions of pounds in research and development, are increasingly rare. The big gains in the future are likely to involve adaptations of existing technology such as mobile phones to enable the delivery of new forms of care in new ways by new players.
<blockquote>A UK-based entrepreneur, they hope, will decide to open her business in Estonia, use an Estonian bank and pay for some Estonian services, even if the company was only going to be trading in the UK, because she would find Estonia's national infrastructure far easier to deal with than the UK's. In other words, a nation is now competing with its neighbours on the basis of the quality of its user interface. Just as you might switch your bank to one with a better mobile app, the Estonians hope you'll switch your business to a country with an infrastructure that is easier to use.</blockquote>
- The Economist’s Tom Standage on digital strategy and the limits of a model based on advertising » Nieman Journalism Lab niemanlab.org
The Economist has taken the view that advertising is nice, and we’ll certainly take money where we can get it, but we’re pretty much expecting it to go away.
- Product Land (Part 2) blog.memespring.co.uk
<blockquote>Tools for exploring the margins. The purpose of this post is to try and start listing some approaches to moving away from the linear design-test-develop-iterate approach.</blockquote>
- Lacuna Books lacunabooks.com
Lacuna Books is an application designed specially for writing books, research papers, and technical writings. It helps you manage content more effectively and produces beautiful digital books.
<blockquote>If I had to sum up this book in my own words it would be; “If you are willing to build your business on expertise, you can make a living instead of making a fortune — and occasionally the fortune comes anyway.”</blockquote>
- musicForProgramming(); musicforprogramming.net
A series of mixes intended for listening while programming to aid concentration and increase productivity (also compatible with other activities).
- Said the Gramophone: BEST SONGS OF 2011 saidthegramophone.com
- wahwah.fm | the music around you wahwah.fm
An upcoming music service, based on your smartphone. With wahwah.fm, you listen to your music and broadcast it at the same time.
- It Will Be Awesome if They Don't Screw it Up: 3D Printing... | Public Knowledge publicknowledge.org
This white paper, It Will Be Awesome if They Don’t Screw it Up: 3D Printing, Intellectual Property, and the Fight Over the Next Great Disruptive Technology, examines how intellectual property (IP) law impacts the rapidly maturing technology of 3D printing, and how incumbents who feel threatened by its growth might try to use IP law to stop it.
- Pawned. Gamification and Its Discontents slideshare.net
Excellent presentation from Playful 2010.
- DevStructure devstructure.com
DevOps is hard, we can help. Simple and automated development environments. Experiment, collaborate and deploy with confidence. From $7 per month.
- Always ship trunk paulhammond.org
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.
- Your PasswordCard passwordcard.org
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.
- Doxie - the amazing scanner for documents getdoxie.com
Small, USB-powered, reasonably-priced scanner.
- Revised Font Stack | A Way Back awayback.com
These font-stacks are created after considering the font-share percentage on both Mac and Windows platforms and then checked in browser for x-height and other issues (like: readability).
- How to obtain and install an SSL/TLS certificate, for free arstechnica.com
Anyone operating a server on any scale should want a digital certificate to encrypt data between clients and services, whether for personal, office, or public use. Ars tells you how to obtain and install one, for free.
- Hammerhead stevesouders.com
Adds a tab to Firebug for measuring the load time of web pages.
- Rossignol » Thrilling Wonder Stories rossignol.cream.org
- Chatsworth Road E5 chatsworthroade5.co.uk
New weekly street market in E5.
- browsermedia's browsercms at master - GitHub github.com
Humane Content Management for Rails
- The dark side of Dubai - Johann Hari, Commentators - The Independent independent.co.uk
Once the manic burst of building has stopped and the whirlwind has slowed, the secrets of Dubai are slowly seeping out. This is a city built from nothing in just a few wild decades on credit and ecocide, suppression and slavery. Dubai is a living metal metaphor for the neo-liberal globalised world that may be crashing – at last – into history.
#dubai #environment #culture #architecture #economics #poverty #via:tomtaylor #capitalism#slavery#middleeast - mathusalem - Google Code code.google.com
A robust and unintrusive backup system for Mac OS X Leopard, which can be used either as a System Preferences pane or directly as a command line tool.
- My Git Workflow gweezlebur.com
Workflow tips. "The thing that’s hard about Git for most people is the same thing that’s hard about all DVCS tools: if you’re used to centralized systems, they work weird [...] It’s also really easy to never grok DVCS, so when something unusual happens, you don’t know how to fix it."
- Ethan Hein’s metablog » Social bookmarking is delicious ethanhein.com
Brilliant post on delicious.
- Flickr: Panda flickr.com