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Some good stuff on ActiveRecord proxy usage. I’m doing some of this already, but the advanced examples look really handy.
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“Bungie’s designers aren’t just making a game: They’re trying to divine the golden mean of fun.” Large Wired article on how Bungie do UX research for Halo 3.
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Some useful tips on keeping Lightroom data safe.
Seaside
25 August 2007
I’m off to the seaside on holiday. To Whitstable, to be precise (which still isn’t in Dopplr, despite the remarkably good gazetteer update). Looking forward to it a huge amount. I’ve been a bit burnt out in recent weeks, with piles of work and other things. Means I’m behind on uploading photographs, writing about things, putting things out into public.
Never mind. I’ve got 7 days on the coast to read, walk, eat, and recharge my batteries.
And then we begin again.
It’s hard to describe how much I’m looking forward to this. The beautiful weather can only be a good sign, right?
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“Build the Models Your Parents Warned You Against”. Sounds awesome!
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So NSFW. So funny.
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Westciv’s XRAY now works in IE6. Which all of a sudden makes it super-useful.
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“The date slider is a Flash visualization that Measure Map uses as one way to navigate the site. We are happy to provide a version of this date slider to the public.” As used on OaklandCrime.
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Awesome, awesome OSX puzzle game.
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“The rest is just implementation detail.” Great story from Will Lee about how, despite not doing any of the things you’re “supposed” to do, he became a programmer. The answer? He always was one.
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“WWW::Mechanize and Hpricot on Steroids”. An interesting looking screenscraping library; I’m a big fan of both HPricot and Mechanize, so it’ll be interesting to put this to use at some point.
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“In this context, the insertion of a Latin word in a couple of paragraphs may be a tiny step: but it is at least one in the right direction.” Nature changes its mission statement.
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First RC of Prototype 1.6.0. Some nice additions, notably lots of improvements to Event handling. Welcome, I think.
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Awesome jQuery color-picker. Works exactly as it says on the tin. Makes me very happy.
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“From basic electronics to advanced computer hardware, you’ll learn the magic behind the gear that makes it all run.” PDF only, due for publication this month (August 2007). Could be interesting.
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Free webcomic. Nice, but hope it’ll develop. And happen. It’s all about Robot Phil, incidentally.
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“Most introductions to jQuery focus on designers and inexperienced developers. I’m going to try to explain why jQuery should be of interest to experienced programmers as well.” Excellent introduction to jQuery from Simon.
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The Stamen gang mash up screen-scraped Oakland crime data and put it on a map. This is not just any “put it on a map”, though; the work they’re doing with Modest Maps really is putting red dot fever totally to shame.