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Archive for July 2010


Bookmarks for 30 Jul 2010

Comment on this article and help us with our testing | Help | guardian.co.ukWell that was fun. "In order to improve stability and response times on commenting we've made some changes to the flow of comments through the application. [...] Please post a comment below to help us test the changes – this entire thread [...]

Bookmarks for 30 Jul 2010

Kindle formatting for web geeks"When I was preparing my short story The Variant for the Kindle, I found a lot of confusing and contradictory information about how to do the formatting — much of it on the official help site. So I’m writing up this quick guide aimed at somebody with roughly my level of [...]

Bookmarks for 28 Jul 2010

The importance of being Ernest | Alison Flood | Books | guardian.co.uk"After 11 years of toil, Charles Bicht has finally had his day. Dressed in a safari suit, the white-bearded Floridian this Saturday beat 123 other hopefuls to triumph in the annual Hemingway lookalike contest." …And a wonderful accompanying photo. (competition ernest_hemingway fun ) Time [...]

Bookmarks for 26 Jul 2010

A tale of two languages"While I was at OSCON I found myself chatting with various non-perl and ex-perl folks and many of them had the same impression of Perl as a great language for hacking out short scripts to get stuff done, right now and possibly under severe time pressure. For these people, those scripts [...]

Bookmarks for 20 Jul 2010

Learning Center – Lightroom 3 | Learn Adobe Photoshop, Lightroom and Digital Photography | NAPPAdobe Lightroom 3 is out. This is what's new. (lightroom photography adobe tutorial video ) Recursion: See Recursion: Note to self about Scala and IntelliJHow to solve the problem with IntelliJ and Scala of "Error: fatal error: object scala not found." [...]

Bookmarks for 16 Jul 2010

Editorial – The Google Algorithm – NYTimes.comThat not-very-interesting NYT editorial on regulating Google. As satirised on Search Engine Land. (google nytimes regulation ) The New York Times Algorithm & Why It Needs Government RegulationA smart piece of writing satirising a New York Times editorial on regulating Google. (google humour nytimes regulation ) BBC – BBC [...]

Bookmarks for 13 Jul 2010

Parleys.com — Talk: Get Higher with ScalaTestBill Venners on ScalaTest. (testing test_driven_development scala video ) usbnet. need help disabling – PreCentral ForumsThank goodness. How to revert a Palm Pre after installing and uninstalling MyTether. It left behind the RNDIS service which then interfered with the Pre pretending to be an iPod, and as a result [...]

Bookmarks for 10 Jul 2010

How A "Free" iPhone Game Suckered Me Out Of $190"Today, iPhone app developer PlayMesh took multiple unauthorized in-app currency purchases from my 7 year old son, while he played their Fishies app on our iPad." Mike Rohde finds that Apple's easy purchasing seems to have some very serious flaws. (app_store ipad shopping ) "yeah thats [...]

Bookmarks for 1 Jul 2010

Another Nail in the Pageview Coffin | Mike Industries"This weekend, msnbc.com launched a sweeping redesign of the most important part of their site: the story page. The result is something unlike anything any other major news site is offering and is a bold step in a direction no competitor has gone down (yet): the elimination [...]