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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.
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Wonderful paper about the creation and development of Crowther’s “Adventure”, and also the real Colossal Cave in Mammoth, which almost certainly inspired the geography of the game-cave.
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“The challenge is to create the openness needed for good ideas to surface, while simultaneously cultivating the feedback and criticism necessary to resolve open issues.” Tell me about it.
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What it says on the tin. Delightful. “You’re a piece of work, Charlie Branaski… you try to fly your kite, you play baseball, you drink all night and you’re lousy at all of it.”
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Gosu is a 2D game development library for the Ruby and C++ programming languages, available for Mac OS X, Windows and Linux.
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Some useful examples for using RSpec with controllers.
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pdf-to-html conversion utility, in C.
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“…HG Wells, had [this] huge, leisurely ‘here and [now]’ from which to contemplate what might happen. Wells knew exactly where he was and knew he was at the centre of things.’ Wonderful William Gibson quotation.
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“He knows nothing and he needs everything explained to him right away, so that exposition becomes this incredible, story-killing burden”.
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Stupid U3 software. Storage media should not be autoloading software or using stealth-partitions, and it shouldn’t want Windows to uninstall it. Naughty.
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jCodeViewer is a jQuery plugin which allows you to turn any div, textarea or pre tag into a simple Code viewer in an inobtrusive manner.