- Daring Fireball: Markdown Syntax Documentation — After a year or two of being completely sold on Textile, I’m really thinking that there’s a lot to this Markdown lark. Namely, readability
Tagged as: markdown formatting syntax text processing - .c( whytheluckystiff )o. — Seeing Metaclasses Clearly — _why on Ruby Metaclasses – providing a bit of clarity.
Tagged as: ruby metaprogramming programming oo development
- REST Web Services — A new book for O’Reilly by Leonard Richardson and Sam Ruby, which looks fantastic – both in tone and in content. Almost certain to be essential reading when it’s published.
Tagged as: rest webservices roa oreilly book soap - Will Wright’s bibliography (kottke.org) — Jason Kottke brings all manner of Will-Wright-related goodness together in one post. Hence: linky linky.
Tagged as: willwright games technology play social interaction bibliography design - Barcode scanner — Open source barcode scanning for OSX with iSights. Gives me ideas, that does…
Tagged as: barcode scanning opensource osx software
- Inside Aperture — O’Reilly launch an Aperture-specific site. Some great writers, and some good content already. Looking forward to more…
Tagged as: oreilly blog aperture photography
- The Django Book — The Django Book is now in beta, and it’s looking great – the JavaScript annotation system in particular is a delight. I’m really looking forward to seeing this develop.
Tagged as: django python development book framework programming reference - Apple – Aperture – Free Trial — Apple finally release a free trial version of Aperture. Smart move. It could be enough to convince me to buy it…
Tagged as: aperture apple macosx application photography - The "View Source" key — Most interesting – the OLPC has a dedicated view source key – not just for the web, but for everything…
Tagged as: hardware design open opensource education software
Barcleona, now online
02 November 2006
Montserrat
Originally uploaded by Tom Armitage.
So I finally finished processing all my photographs from Barcelona (or, at least, the 1/4 good enough to make it online). They’re available in this photoset at Flickr. Really pleased with many of these, even though they’re not at all popular on Flickr itself. Probably something to do with my inability to join a bazillion groups.
Now, onto the next set of photographs from two months ago that need uploading…
- ThisService — Input: a script in a language of your choice; output: an entry in the Services menu. Neat. Never really used Services too much, but this might convert me…
Tagged as: macosx scripting programming osx - Jeffrey Zeldman Presents : IE7 CSS tweak show and tell — Zeldman asks everybody to show their IE7 hacks and chops. Could well become a useful resource
Tagged as: ie7 standards xhtml hacks bugs browser pos
- the { buckblogs :here }: Prolog in Ruby — Jamis is right; sometimimes a little prolog can be awfully succinct.
Tagged as: ruby prolog logic programming - Optimizing Page Load Time – die.net — Lots of useful information in here – but implementing it is more problematic, depending on your setup.
Tagged as: for:dotcode latency network http optimisation browser
- Bagelturf – Aperture Articles — A series of fantastic, well-written, clear articles about some of Aperture’s nuances. Definitely a piece of software on my "one day" list…
Tagged as: aperture photography tips tutorials howto - Information Architects Japan » Blog Archive » Web design is 95% typography — Very true. This, and a beautiful piece of print design I saw this weekend, are giving me _all_ sorts of ideas…
Tagged as: typography ia layout grids design web usability - White House Photo of the Day | TIME.com — Time’s White House photographers have a photoblog. Some lovelly, off-the-cuff pictures in it.
Tagged as: whitehouse photography photo blog photoblog - Yahoo! Bookmarks Beta (or Alpha) :: Off the Top :: vanderwal.net — Thomas Vanderwal on the new Yahoo! Bookmarks service. Quite dense.
Tagged as: tagging bookmarking ui commentary interface
- Creating Passionate Users: Better Beginnings: how to start a presentation, book, article… — Guilty of half of these (at points). They usually didn’t matter – but I’ll be some more in mind for the future.
Tagged as: presentation technique performance narrative communication writing