I finished a couple good books this month, all of which I’d recommend:
· How Soccer Explains the World: An Unlikely Theory of Globalization
· Consider the Lobster: And Other Essays
· The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game
My yearly tally is over here.
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Links: 10-17-2006
- Mike Schinkel’s Miscellaneous Ramblings – Well Designed URLs are Beautiful!
Twelve or so rules for making your URL’s well designed, quote: “Some people rail against the URL and say it is an overly technical anachronism to which non-technical people should not be exposed.”
(categories: url uri information ui ) - The Dilbert Blog: Knowing When to Quit
Quote from the blog of Scott Adams: “If everyone exposed to a product likes it, the product will not succeed.”
(categories: dilbert passion business marketing strategy success ) - Open Source Business Model: chapter 2 at Jive Talks
The guys on the Wildfire team are learning some great things about open source and making money. More importantly, they’re sharing the knowledge.
(categories: wildfire opensource business upselling )
Links: 10-11-2006
- Get Vanilla!
“… open-source, standards-compliant, multi-lingual, fully extensible discussion forum for the web…”, built in PHP.
(categories: forums community free opensource php software mysql ) - Sparklines for Java
I started writing this a couple times and never finished. This looks really useful.
(categories: visualization sparklines graphing graph jstl tufte java design )
Links: 10-10-2006
- JSMIN, The JavaScript Minifier
A filter which removes comments and unnecessary whitespace from JavaScript files
(categories: javascript optimization ajax software hacks )
Links: 10-6-2006
- BarCamp / BarCampPortlandMeetups
BarCamp Meetups coming to Portland: the October meeting is at Jive.
(categories: jivesoftware barcamp portland meetup )
DWR Callback rules
If you’ve spent time with DWR, you’ve probably seen both the callback function as last parameter idiom and callback function as first parameter idiom and wondered, wtf? The rules for when each one is applicable are below:
- If there is a function first or last then this is the callback function, there is no call meta-data object and the other parameters are the Java args.
- Otherwise, if the last param is an object with a callback member that is a function then this is call meta-data the other params are Java args.
- Otherwise, if the first parameter is null we assume that there is no callback function and the remaining params are Java args. HOWEVER we check to see that the last param is not null and give a warning if it is.
- Finally if the last param is null, then there is no callback function.
- Otherwise, this is a badly formatted request – signal an error.
Links: 10-5-2006
- Regular Expressions in JavaScript | evolt.org
Good quick intro to regular expressions in JavaScript
(categories: javascript regex regexp reference ) - prototype: Enumerable
FYI Enumerable.include(obj) gives you the same functionality as Java’s List.contains(obj).
(categories: javascript prototype ajax reference include contains ) - JSON Uniform Messaging Protocol (JUMP)
JUMP uses HTTP and a lightweight layout for JSON records to edit the Web.
(categories: json javascript http atom protocols )
Links: 9-30-2006
- Slide 8 of 20 (App After App)
Quotes: “..deploy to desktop” and “…Apple is letting you call OS-level functionality direct from Ruby, APIs like IM presence, todo lists, the filesystem and so on?”
(categories: apple osx rails ruby ) - (U) RSS and Atom Considerations: Moving Toward Atom (UNCLASSIFIED)
aka “why you should be using Atom rather than RSS”… brought to you by the Intelligence Community Metadata Working Group.
(categories: atom rss syndication ) - for in Intrigue ยป Yahoo! User Interface Blog
Douglas Crockford discusses using JavaScript and prototype properties…. also check out the comment re: !== and !=. Who knew?
(categories: javascript prototype programming ) - vagueware.com?Innovation in Software
Another attempt at explaining tags for people who don’t know what they are…
(categories: categories-suck tags tagging ontology categories taxonomy ) - visualcomplexity.com | NodeBox
NodeBox is a Mac OS X open-source application for creating 2D visual output (static or animated) using Python programming language.
(categories: visualization infoviz information python programming nodebox ) - RSS 2.0 Specification
RSS spec.
(categories: specification spec rss rss2 xml ) - The Atom Syndication Format
Atom specification.
(categories: atom standards xml spec specification syndication ) - The Fishbowl: HTTP Conditional Get for RSS Hackers
Otherwise known as how to use Last-Modified and etag headers.
(categories: atom rss blogging blogs system programming http java )
Links: 9-29-2006
- Stevey’s Blog Rants: Blogger’s Block #3: Dreaming in Browser Swamp
Quote: “…Screw all the XML minilanguages (XUL, XBL, X*L). Screw the RDF. You need to be able to do everything in JavaScript. JSON is just good enough and parseable enough and language-interoperable enough to replace all of them…”
(categories: json javascript browser programming web ajax ) - Flickr Services
Flickr supports JSON now…
(categories: json api flickr javascript )
Links: 9-27-2006
- Higher-Order JavaScript
A JavaScriptish companion to Mark-Jason Dominus’s Higher-Order Perl
(categories: javascript books toread programming reference )