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  • UNION with Active Record – The Pug Automatic
    Turns out I really shouldn't have been messing with ARel: this seems more sane.
    (tags: union postgresql sql activerecord ruby rubyonrails )
  • ValhallaPlate, Diffusion, and Presets | Valhalla DSP
    "I view ValhallaPlate as being closely related to an SM57. Or a hammer. No need to be delicate with the tool. No need to think about things too much. It just works." I liked this line on toolmaking, especially when it comes to music technology.
    (tags: music software tools interfaces )
  • Autodesk Graphic – Mac Illustration and Graphic Design
    Much more Illustrator-like than Sketch is, in many ways, and affordable. Certainly leaps ahead of Inkscape in not being rubbish. Going to use this for lasercutting/frontpanel work, I think.
    (tags: graphics vector svg osx mac design software )
  • The Realities of Installing iBeacon to Scale – BKM TECH
    Really good article on the realities of installing iBeacons, and, secondarily, the way you develop your own internal processes just to solve workflow. I liked the trolly; I felt for the BKM very much as I read this.
    (tags: design location ibeacons installation galleries museums oof )
  • Translating Gender: Ancillary Justice in Five Languages Alex Dally MacFarlane | Interfictions Online
    Fascinating article capturing how various translators worked around their languages to translate not only the absence of gendered language _suggested_ in Ancillary Justice, but also the author's deliberate use of the feminine as a generic case. (Also, how to translate things for different cultures – what they expect and what they intimate).
    (tags: annleckie writing gender language translation )
  • ‘gazed and Confused: A Guide to Shoegaze in your DAW – Zeros and Ones
    Yes, it's a bit heavily focused on copying/emulation, but there's some useful stuff in here and some interesting starting points.
    (tags: synthesis shoegaze production music )
  • Administrate (documentation)
    Thoughtbot's engine for Rails admin UIs, sans-DSLs. Filed away for reference.
    (tags: rails ruby rubyonrails development programming thoughtbot admin )
  • Corrie’s Blog : "Leave A Pause Until It Hurts" – Memories of Peter Donaldson
    Corrie Corfield on Peter Donaldson. Lovely.
    (tags: announcing continuity radio radio4 bbc peterdonaldson corriecorfield )
  • code like you don’t have the time (tecznotes)
    [this is good] and I will remember more of it in future.
    (tags: migurski engineering software practice )
  • GTA V – Graphics Study – Adrian Courrèges
    Wonderful, dense, three-part study of one of GTA V's renderer. I like Adrian's posts because he focuses on the art of the technology, as well as the technology of the art; a reminder that game art isn't just plonking OBJ files into a world, but relies on a whole host of developers, maths, and drawcalls.
    (tags: games graphics programming rendering gtav 3D )
  • Electron
    Interesting; the wrapper Github used for Atom, as a platform. Makes building desktop applications for web-folk like me a notch easier, though as ever, I find the Javascript ecosystem baffling.
    (tags: desktop github javascript software development applications nodejs )
  • Gamasutra: Deanna Van Buren’s Blog – Architecture in Video Games: Designing for Impact
    Wonderful article from an architect who worked on "The Witness" about the role of architecture practice in game design, and all the rough edges architects see within game worlds. Good on spatial design principles, too.
    (tags: architecture design games thewitness space buildings )
  • timhunkin/initiation to museum design
    "Every gallery project needs an Andy" – and other insights from Tim Hunkin on installation design, following his work on 'The Secret Life of the Home' at the Science Museum. All rings very true for me, and glad to see it's not just me that finds this sort of stuff challenging. Also: very interesting on museum culture.
    (tags: design timhunkin installations exhibitions engineering sciencemuseum )
  • Roger Deakins – Page – Interview Magazine
    Lovely interview between Jeff Bridges and Roger Deakins – on film, and how they get made, and feel. Lots of deep knowledge and affection in this; I really enjoyed it.
    (tags: rogerdeakins jeffbridges film interview conversation )
  • Speed up file downloads with Rails, Apache and X-Sendfile – makandra notes
    Don't forget to enable XSendFile for the Vhost in question. Like I did, and wondered why 0b files were coming down all the time.
    (tags: apache xsendfile rubyonrails rails )
  • Converting OSGB36 (Eastings/Northings) to WGS84 (Longitude/Latitude) in Ruby « Peter Hicks' Blog
    That's a lot more succinct than my version.
    (tags: geo ruby wgs84 osgb36 conversion )
  • Jammit: Industrial Strength Asset Packaging for Rails
    "Jammit is an industrial strength asset packaging library for Rails, providing both the CSS and JavaScript concatenation and compression that you'd expect, as well as YUI Compressor and Closure Compiler compatibility, ahead-of-time gzipping, built-in JavaScript template support, and optional Data-URI / MHTML image and font embedding." Looks good.
    (tags: javascript compression performance rubyonrails assets )
  • kettle
    Puzzle-game, knocked up last week by Increpare, based on kettling.
    (tags: games kettling increpare responsivemedia )
  • Guest Post: How I built ASBOrometer – Jeff Gilfelt | data.gov.uk
    And yet: this just explains how, and shirks any understanding of what the presentation of that information might signify, and instead, essentially, says "there was information, so I made an app, and everybody likes a league table, so I added league tables". It's data visualisation as technical endeavour, when, of course, it is far more than that; the moment you start presenting any information, you're making a statement about it, and nowhere does Gilfelt talk about what he feels the app signifies, or whether its editorial stance is appropriate, which makes me a bit sad.
    (tags: asborometer visualisation editorial taste opendata datafordatassake )
  • Holga D – Holga Digtal Camera – Saikat Biswas
    "Holga D is a digital camera inspired from the extremely popular cult of Holga and other toy cameras of its kind. Even though it's a digital camera, it retains the qualities and simplicity of the original Holga camera and brings back the joy and delayed gratification associated with good old analog photography." I like this not because it's a digital version of a Holga, but what a digital camera might be like if it took the same approach as a Holga. I also really like the reversible top panel.
    (tags: design camera holga digital previousgeneration simple thoughtful )
  • Chimeric Thinking in the Trough of Disillusionment « Snarkmarket
    "Hybrids are smooth and neat. Interdisciplinary thinking is diplomatic; it thrives in a bucolic university setting. Chimeras, though? Man, chimeras are weird. They’re just a bunch of different things bolted together. They’re abrupt. They’re discontinuous. They’re impolitic. They’re not plausible; you look at a chimera and you go, “yeah right.” And I like that! Chimeras are on the very edge of the recombinatory possible. Actually — they’re over the edge."
    (tags: robinsloan snarkmarket chimeras mattjones )
  • How to Teabag in Halo 3 – wikiHow
    Just in case you needed instructions.
    (tags: halo3 games teabagging )
  • Composite Primary Keys
    Composite keys for Rails/ActiveRecord. Really does appear to work, too, which is nice.
    (tags: activerecord database keys composite programming rubyonrails ruby )
  • MarsEdit 3 – Desktop blog editing for the Mac.
    MarsEdit 3 is out; the headline feature is the WYSIWYG mode, but for me, the headline features are syntax-highlighting, support for WordPress Pages, and integration with Lightroom's library. Sadly, it's 10.6 only, and my knackered MBP is 10.5… but it's an upgrade I'll be making asap.
    (tags: blog editor software osx mac blogging marsedit )
  • ReBirth for iPhone — Home
    Blimey, ReBirth, entirely ported to iPhone and on the App Store. Looks finickity, but it was loads of fun, and for $7… I might end up with that.
    (tags: rebirth music software propellerhead iphone )
  • 451 Weeks – Click Nothing
    "Fortunately, for the first time in my life, I know the way forward. The way forward lies in my having the courage that I did not know I had a decade ago to bid farewell to those tragically comforting habits. I need to walk on hot coals and sleep on a bed of nails. I need to chew on broken glass. I need to drink paint. This post has gotten long enough and I am still afraid to come to the point, but what I really need more than anything is to write these words;<br />
    <br />
    I gave notice of my resignation to Ubisoft on Monday, April 26th, 2010."
    (tags: clinthocking games progress risk comfort resignation )
  • Rails Dispatch | Presented by Engine Yard
    Engine Yard have a new blog about Rails, consisting of screencasts and tutorials, and it looks good. One to subscribe to.
    (tags: ruby rails rails3 rubyonrails programming engineyard )
  • litany against fear ¤ by nick quaranto ¤ The Rails Module (in Rails 3)
    "Better alternatives [to the RAILS_ constants] have existed for a while in Rails core (some since 2.1.0), and it’s about damn time you start using them properly. There’s also some other helpful methods on the Rails module we’ll explore in this post." That was handy.
    (tags: rails rubyonrails rails3 programming development tips )
  • Mule Design Studio's Blog: The Failure of Empathy
    "As an industry, we need to understand that not wanting root access doesn’t make you stupid. It simply means you do not want root access. Failing to comprehend this is not only a failure of empathy, but a failure of service."
    (tags: culture service design ipad products computing generalpurpose )
  • flogr – Project Hosting on Google Code
    "Flogr shows your pictures from flickr in a customizable photo portfolio interface which includes a main photo page with EXIF details and flickr user comments, a customizable thumbnails page of your recent work, a slideshow component to browse through thumbnails, a tag cloud page, and an about page that shows your flickr user profile. With flogr you can control which photos are shown by specifying the flickr tag(s) to include so you can show only your best photographs if you choose." Which is something I've been looking for for a while. Glad I didn't have to write it, now.
    (tags: flickr photography photoblog webapp software )
  • Namechanger
    "NameChanger is designed for the sole purpose of renaming a list of files."
    (tags: mac osx utility application )
  • Hacking with Style: TrueType VT220 Font
    "Fortunately, modern displays can display characters that look exactly like this without special circuitry used in the original DEC terminals and there is free software that can be used to create a usable outline font out of a PNG image." Recreating VT220 terminal fonts in software, and from thence into Truetype.
    (tags: terminal typography fonts retro software )
  • LimeChat: IRC Client for Mac
    "LimeChat is an IRC client for Mac OS X written on RubyCocoa." I did not know about this. It looks nice.
    (tags: irc osx mac application )
  • elevation's event_calendar at master – GitHub
    "Easily show multiple, overlapping events across calendar days and rows." Which is hard, and it is nice to know someone else has done the work.
    (tags: rails plugin rubyonrails development ui calendar )
  • urban computing conference title generator
    "Do you like cities? Do you like architecture? Do you like speaking at conferences?" I think this has sewn up the 2010-11 circuit.
    (tags: cities urban informatics conferences talks funny )
  • [this is aaronland] buckets of vessels
    ""Who amongst us will write the Building as Contacts and Related Goodness blog post?" It's worth remembering, I think, that he [Dan Catt] already has."
    (tags: flickr buildings cities personification )
  • Leapfroglog – Cities, systems, literacy, games
    A nice post to end the year from Kars – it feels like a top-trump of so many things that have risen to the surface in my head in 2008.
    (tags: games play design space ubicomp cities karsalfrink systems everyware place systemsliteracy readwrite )
  • Katz Got Your Tongue? » Rails and Merb Merge
    "Today is a fairly momentous day in the history of Ruby web frameworks. You will probably find the news I’m about to share with you fairly shocking, but I will attempt to explain the situation." Yehuda Katz weighs in with a great, informative post.
    (tags: programming development ruby rails rubyonrails web software merb )
  • Riding Rails: Merb gets merged into Rails 3!
    "Merb and Rails already share so much in terms of design and sensibility that joining forces seemed like the obvious way to go. All we needed was to sit down for a chat and hash it out, so we did just that." No, really. Not an April Fool. It sounds like the architecture changes that are going to be made are going to be a big win for Rails 3. Looking forward to it.
    (tags: programming development ruby rails web frameworks merb )
  • AlternateIdea: Textmate Vibrant Ink Theme and Prototype Bundle
    Not concerned with the Javascript bundle, but the Vibrant Ink syntax-highlighting link is lovely.
    (tags: programming development theme textmate syntaxhighlighting )
  • Rails Metal: a micro-framework with the power of Rails: \m/
    "Rails Metal is a thin wrapper around Rails’ new Rack middleware support." Which means you can process requests outside of ActionPack, which is useful for the odd performance boost in certain places. Interesting to see concerns separating out within Rails like this.
    (tags: programming rails rubyonrails ruby rack middleware )
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