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Bookmarks for 27 Oct 2008

The Joel Test: 12 Steps to Better Code - Joel on Software (management software_development )
Agile & Business: The Nokia Test (agile nokia scrum management )
BuiLD YouR WiLD SeLFCreate a sketch-like drawing of yourself. (fun avatars tools design )

Bookmarks for 26 Oct 2008 to 27 Oct 2008

YouTube Enables Deep Linking Within Videos (urls youtube videos web_2.0 )
Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life - REST API Design: Invent Media Types, Not Protocols and Understand the Importance of Hyperlinks (rest programming api web_2.0 architecture )
NYTimes.com Announces New Video Platform with Deeper Integration Throughout the Site (video nytimes press_release )

Bookmarks for 22 Oct 2008 to 24 Oct 2008

REST APIs must be hypertext-driven » UntangledI am getting frustrated by the number of people calling any HTTP-based interface a REST API. [...] API designers, please note the following rules before calling your creation a REST API: (rest api protocols architecture )
Darkening Backgrounds With Light in PortraitsClever, non-obvious, technique for getting black backgrounds against a [...]

Bookmarks for 21 Oct 2008 to 22 Oct 2008

Action Method Online :: HomeA kind of networked to-do list for managing projects. (productivity planning tools project_management )
Grazr - Gather Feeds, Create Streams, Publish Widgets"Merge and filter multiple feeds into a single stream" (rss mashups tools widgets )
Justgiving - Atheist Bus CampaignIn just a few hours the Atheist Bus Campaign raises enough money to put [...]

Bookmarks for 20 Oct 2008 to 21 Oct 2008

Portrait of the artist: Saskia Reeves, actorThe picture at the top of this article is the only way I can imagine Saskia Reeves, as the passionate mathematician in Theatre Complite's "A Disappearing Number". (theatre actors )
LR/Transporter for LightroomLightroom plugin that enables more flexible importing, exporting and modification of metadata fields (photography lightroom plugins tools )
EnterpriseAPI [...]

Bookmarks for 16 Oct 2008 to 17 Oct 2008

ActionScript 3: The Language of FlexInterview with Adobe Flex evangelist James Ward (actionscript flash programming flex interview )
How often can you say 'beaten at the box-office by a Hollywood Chihuahua'? | Comment is free | The Guardian
An American Carol had everything going for it [...] Yet it was beaten at the box office by Beverly [...]

Bookmarks for 15 Oct 2008 to 16 Oct 2008

Using Templates to control edit of an issue - JIRA Extensions - Confluence
(jira templates )

APIs and Developer Platforms: A Discussion on the Pros and Cons - ReadWriteWeb
(mashups rest web_2.0 )

BooRah Restaurant Search API
How will this play out if (when) the NYT also launches its restaurant review API? (api restaurant web_services )

Help Twitter Find [...]

Bookmarks for 9 Oct 2008 to 15 Oct 2008

Times Developer Network - Welcome
(nytimes newspapers api )

YDN Theater: All The Code That's Fit To printf()
Interview with Derek Gottfrid, Senior Software Architect at The New York Times. (nytimes interview technology )

'Congress is pretty strict on, um, export bans of oil and gas especially'
"On Wednesday, John McCain told Fox News' Sean Hannity that his VP [...]

Bookmarks for 6 Oct 2008 to 8 Oct 2008

Watchmen press preview reveals graphic novel brought to faithful life | Film | guardian.co.uk
I'm looking forward to this with some trepidation. So far, not so terrible. (film watchmen )

The Daily Beast
Tina Brown's new site. Looks like a print magazine, and designed without ad space, so it'll be one to watch. (news )

Twist - Collaborative Functional [...]

Bookmarks for 5 Oct 2008

Tina Fey As Sarah Palin In VP Debate On SNL (VIDEO) — A sharp portrayal of the vice-presidential debate. And I think Tina Fey is reassuring as Sarah Palin because we can laugh at her without worrying that she'll actually get to be the Vice President.
G1 emulator from T-Mobile —
Top 50 photography websites by [...]