- bitquabit - Zombie Operating Systems and ASP.NET MVC
Funny, and sad… "And that is why, in 2009, when developing in Microsoft .NET 3.5 for ASP.NET MVC 1.0 on a Windows 7 system, you cannot include /com\d(\..*)?, /lpt\d(\..*)?, /con(\..*)?, /aux(\..*)?, /prn(\..*)?, or /nul(\..*)? in any of your routes." (microsoft windows software_development filenames )
- Telegraph relaunches blogs, now powered by WordPress | Media | guardian.co.uk
"The Telegraph technical team has moved their blogs to the open-source blogging platform WordPress, also used by Reuters, the New York Times and CNN." (telegraph wordpress blogs cms )
- AdSense: The (Weak) Elephant in the Room
"A few years ago, we spoke of the "AdSense Economy." It was so simple. [...] But cracks are appearing in AdSense." (google advertising adsense business_models )
- Homer Simpson is worth more on Hulu than FOX | Blog | Econsultancy
"Thanks to shows like "The Simpsons" and "CSI," Hulu is finally charging more for ads online than during primetime." (video advertising business_models hulu television )
- Velocity 09: John Allspaw, "10+ Deploys Per Day: Dev and Ops Cooperation at Flickr"
The Flickr folk talk about deploying ten times a day. (performance web_development flickr agile )
1603hrs, Friday, 26 June, 2009 | Links | Trackback | No Comments »
- Guardian: “MP paler than we might have led you to believe” « Foibles
Oh dear… "The Guardian hit on an ingenious way to speed things up when searching through the MPs expense documents released last week in response to FoI requests: get the readers to do it (or “crowdsourcing,” if we’re being polite). [...] Great idea! However, it would probaby have been wise to subject anything that cropped up through this process to rather more rigourous scrutiny than has actually been employed. One diligant Guardian website user, going by the name “Pigsaw,” spotted the followng in the expense documents for Adrian Bailey, MP for West Bromich West…" (mps_expenses guardian crowdsourcing )
- Let's make the web faster - Google Code
"There are plenty of ways to make websites run faster. In this section, you can discover performance best practices that real web professionals employ in their everyday work. These practices have improved the user experience for millions of users and we hope they are going to be useful for other web developers." (performance google presentation web_development )
- Presentation Files: Velocity 2009 - O'Reilly Conferences, June 22 - 24, 2009, San Jose, CA
Slides from speakers at the O'Reilly Velocity conference. (performance web_development presentation conference )
- Four crowdsourcing lessons from the Guardian’s (spectacular) expenses-scandal experiment » Nieman Journalism Lab
"Okay, question time: Imagine you’re a major national newspaper whose crosstown archrival has somehow obtained two million pages of explosive documents that outed your country’s biggest political scandal of the decade. They’ve had a team of professional journalists on the job for a month, slamming out a string of blockbuster stories as they find them in their huge stack of secrets.
How do you catch up?" (guardian crowdsourcing journalism mps_expenses )
- Telegraph.co.uk: MP's expenses
Searchable database of MPs' expenses, from the people who bought the data. (telegraph politics data database mps_expenses )
- Twitterers claim victory over loaded Daily Mail gypsy poll | Journalism.co.uk Editors' Blog
"The UK-based Mail Online was forced to shut down one of its online polls yesterday after a concerted campaign by Twitter users and, Journalism.co.uk can reveal, UK-based psychologists, nearly brought their servers to a halt with an overwhelming ‘yes’ vote.
The poll, which asked the somewhat leading question “Should the NHS allow gipsies to jump the queue”, attracted ridicule from many within the Twitter community leading to, at one point a 96% vote in favour of the proposition." (twitter daily_mail journalism )
1901hrs, Wednesday, 24 June, 2009 | Links | Trackback | No Comments »
- Charles on… anything that comes along » David v Goliath in the newsroom, and why we need new wrappers for journalism
Charles Arthur on his epiphany that it's okay (if not actually good) to prioritise fast over right on the web: "To repeat: journalism is the process and publishing is the wrapper that you put around journalism in order to make it profitable and sustainable. Journalism will continue, just as putting books into parcels will continue, even if Amazon disappears; you’ll just do it yourself, buying it at a local store and sending it to Granny. Might be more expensive than Amazon, but that’s just how it is." (journalism blogging publishing business_models )
- Tweader - Read Twitter conversations.
Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger invites Tom Watson MP to the morning conference via Twitter:
"arusbridger says:
@tom_watson Come into Guardian conference and debate it! :-)
tom_watson says:
@arusbridger *gulps* Head into lion's mouth. I gladly accept. Thank you." (guardian journalism tom_watson twitter )
- Digg the Blog » Blog Archive » Ads You Can Digg…or Bury
Today, we’re announcing our plans to roll out a new advertising platform — Digg Ads. Digg Ads will give you more control over which advertisements are displayed on Digg. The more an ad is Dugg, the less the advertiser will have to pay. Conversely the more an ad is buried, the more the advertiser is charged, pricing it out of the system. (advertising digg business_models )
- Palm Pre - How to Guide to Enable Tethering!
The Pre is open to hacking, and a world of possibilities. (palm_pre hacking tethering )
- Every news organisation should have a Datastore | Online Journalism Blog
"Is [linking to raw data] a natural extension of the blogging culture of linking to your sources? I think it is. And the more journalists get used to publishing their work on the likes of Google Spreadsheets, the better journalism we will get." (guardian data_store journalism data )
- Java Image Processing - Blurring for Beginners
Blurring techniques explained, with a bit of Java. (java image_processing graphics tutorial )
- Riots in Tehran After Election Results | World news | Observer.co.uk
Some very dramatic pictures. (iran elections photography photojournalism )
1301hrs, Wednesday, 17 June, 2009 | Links | Trackback | No Comments »
- JavaFX | JavaFX 1.2 Plugin for Eclipse Release Notes | JavaFX
The team behind the JavaFX Eclipse plugin hadn't disappeared after all. They'd been working on this. (javafx eclipse plugins )
- Q&A: London tube strike | UK news | guardian.co.uk
"Tfl managers put a new two-year deal on the table last week of a 1% above inflation pay rise this year and 0.5% above inflation next year, but this was rejected. The RMT says the recession could mean that an above-inflation deal could turn into an effective pay cut if there is deflation." …so they want a below inflation deal? (strikes unions rmt tfl )
- Can Computer Nerds Save Journalism? - TIME
Probably not, but some of them can get jobs there: "One of Medill's new graduates, a 31-year-old software developer named Brian Boyer, starts in June as the inaugural "news applications editor" at the Chicago Tribune. In this job, Boyer will be writing applications for the paper's website to accompany investigative reports and present data to readers in formats such as searchable databases and interactive charts." (journalism data_journalism )
- The Morality And Effectiveness Of Process Journalism
"The New York Times Sunday edition team picks fights like no one else. The problem is they tend to pick the wrong fights. And mask opinion pieces as straight up factual articles. [...] When Damon reached out to me by email to talk about the story [...] We talked for 20-30 minutes by phone. About 30 seconds of dialog, remixed to change the meaning and context entirely, made it into the article as quotations. None of the rest of our talk seemed to influence his thesis, that blogs can’t be trusted, at all. [...] We don’t believe that readers need to be presented with a sausage all the time. Sometimes it’s both entertaining and informative to see that sausage being made, too. The key is to be transparent at all times. If we post something we think is rough, we say so." (journalism techcrunch blogging nytimes )
- AOP Digital Publishing Awards 2009
"This site features 304 pictures taken by The Digital Paparazzi at Old Billingsgate, London, for
the AOP Digital Publishing Awards 2009." (aop_awards photograph )
2104hrs, Saturday, 13 June, 2009 | Links | Trackback | No Comments »
- How Palm Designed The Pre - Forbes.com
(palm_pre design )
- Obituary: David Carradine | Film | The Guardian
On the subject of children's names, from the obituary of David Carradine: "A co-star in [Boxcar Bertha] was Barbara Hershey, his partner in the Kung Fu days. This was a hippie affair - she changed her name to Barbara Seagull, and their child was named Free. They never married, but Carradine was to wed five times. There were two other children and four divorces before his final wife, Anne Bierman. [...] He is survived by Annie; two daughters, Calista and Kansas, by his first two wives; and Free, later known as Tom." (obituary names )
- Video: Latest Palm Pre ad makes poppies seem brutish
"If we didn't know better, we'd guess that Pre was a new brand of feminine deodorant." (palm_pre advert video )
- Gizmodo - Palm Pre Review - Palm pre review
"One last effort. A slow, but firm, shove of the chips. All in. Palm's only hope to save a company once synonymous with smart handheld devices: the Pre. Their eyebrow raised, daring you to call. They flip. Full house. Respectable. Decent. Impressive even. But not the highest hand." Gizmodo's review of the Palm Pre. Bonus feature: includes cheese-cutting video. (review palm_pre )
- Welcome to Pivotal Tracker
"Tracker is an award winning story-based project planning tool that allows teams to collaborate in real-time." (agile tools project_tracking )
1100hrs, Saturday, 06 June, 2009 | Links | Trackback | No Comments »
- Gordon Brown facing crisis as Labour MPs head for the lifeboats | Politics | The Guardian
In case you thought any of the remorse coming from the House of Commons was genuine, or that lessons really have been learnt, think again. MPs still don't understand that feathering their nests is wrong wrong wrong: "the Guardian has learned that at least 52 MPs have formally approached Downing Street to be given places in the upper house." They can't honestly think they deserve it. Can they? (politics guardian labour_party peerages )
- The Barefoot Doctor, live online
An example from the archives (October 2003) of hostile (and really rather amusing) questioning… this time with engagement from the subject. (guardian public_relations complementary_medicine )
- The PR lessons from Neal's Yard Remedies public debate U-turn | Environment | guardian.co.uk
If you don't participate in the debate, others will set the agenda around you. As happened once when Neal's Yard Remedies reversed a decision to participate in an online Q&A, and a second time when that reversal turned into a news story in its own right. (guardian homeopathy public_relations complementary_medicine )
- Software Engineering: Report on a conference sponsored by the Nato Science Committee, 1968
Report on a 1968 conference on failures in software development. (software_in_practice software_failure system:filetype:pdf system:media:document )
- Factory concepts and practices in software development (Open Library)
Published in 1989 at MIT: "This paper reviews the introduction of factory concepts and practices, based on tools and methods from the evolving field of software engineering, at major software producers [...]. The paper emphasizes that the difficulty of of the technology, shortages of skilled engineers, and large-scale projects have encouraged producers to become more systematic or factory-like in managing a series of projects, even though some characteristics of the technology and the industry have made software seem difficult to control and more suitable to a loosely structured project-centered or craft approach to development." (software_development software_in_practice management project_management )
1001hrs, Friday, 29 May, 2009 | Links | Trackback | No Comments »
