- Soft hyphen (SHY) – a hard problem?
More than you probably wanted to know about "soft hyphenation" on the web, but fascinating if you do. "There is a fundamental controversy about the soft hyphen character (often abbreviated SHY, one HTML notation: ­). Although the ISO Latin 1 standard (ISO 8859-1) makes things perfectly clear, saying that it is a visible hyphen, to be used in a specific context, it is commonly regarded as hidden hyphenation hint, and this is what the Unicode standard currently says. These two views are incompatible." (html browsers encoding unicode hyphenation standards )
- Building on the API for the World Goverment Data Store | The Guardian Open Platform | guardian.co.uk
An API for the World Government Data Store (with work-in-progress caveats). (data api guardian )
- Motivational Posters: Weekend Photography Challenge
"This weekend your challenge is to create a motivational poster of your own and to share it." Lots of examples, not all serious (of course). (humour photography )
- Diptychs & Triptychs – 5 Prime Examples
"Diptychs and triptychs are a brilliant tool for photographic storytelling. [...] Below are 5 such images and what we can get out of them to help us form our own effective diptychs and triptychs." (photography tips )
- How pair programming really works – IEEE Computer Society [PDF]
"Pair programming has generated considerable controversy: some developers are enthusiastic about it, almost evangelical; others are dubious, even hostile. However, a large factor in this controversy is that programmers label a wide variety of practices under the “pair programming” umbrella. Thus, before our community can sensibly discuss how pair programming works, we first need to establish exactly what it is." (pair_programming programming agile pdf system:filetype:pdf system:media:document )
- InfoQ: HTML5, H.264 and Flash roundup
Where are web video standards going? Apple is against Flash and support H.264. Mozilla rejects H.264 in its HTML5 browser in favour of Ogg. But YouTube and Vimeo have announced HTML5 betas using H.264. Sigh. All — well, some — is explained. (video apple mozilla youtube html5 flash vimeo h264 )
- Some personal thoughts on Apple and the trend towards closed platforms at Mike Chambers
Mike Chambers, developer of apps in Flash and Cocoa: "I love my Mac, I love OS X and I love developing with Cocoa. What I don’t love is the prospect of having Apple being the gatekeeper and arbiter of what software I develop and run on my own computers and devices." (ipad apple flash )
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