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“In a sixth-floor conference room of an office building near Nashville International Airport, Rodney Hatfield’s BlackBerry buzzed with an incoming e-mail: “The Lord placed a vision on our hearts of a skaters’ Bible. We really love the N.K.J.V. and w
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“The evolution of computer science can be viewed as an evolution of data-representations towards ever-greater comprehensiveness and ‘quality’. This timeline will try to reconstruct what classes of data were being processed at each point, starting with the
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“In other words, the American army has reached a state of global dominance which allows it to go anywhere in the world, quicker than ever before — and there be defeated.”
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“The problem with that approach is that you can only assign a single event handler function to any given event. All modern browsers support more advanced event registration mechanisms so you can attach multiple event listeners to any given event, though,
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“write Declaratively to generic Javascripts, plugins and browser features such as Hijax, hInclude, XForms, SVG, XBL, etc.”
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“adds one element to HTML; hx:include. When the browser encounters this element, it will include the document at the end of the src attribute.
To use it, first download a copy of the library and make it available on your site;
Download: hinclude.js
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“As much as this might make a Java or Ruby developer’s skin crawl, it’s still hard not to admire the sheer simplicity. Think of all the files you have to configure and all the directories you have to create to get going with big frameworks like J2EE, Stru
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“Less presentation, more structure: use stylesheets for defining presentation.
More usability: within the constraints of XML, try to make the language easy to write, and make the resulting documents easy to use.
More accessibility: ‘designing for ou
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“Remember, empirically, a program that is an order of magnitude smaller needs only 3% of the effort to build.”
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“# Winning the DARPA Grand Challenge: Sebastian Thrun stars in the heartwarming drama of a little car that could.
# The Graphing Calculator Story: A thriller starring Ron Avitzur as the engineer who snuck into the Apple campus to write code.
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“displays various types of cell structures”
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“OpenServing will provide free hosting, free bandwidth and free CPU time…and you get to keep 100% of any ad revenues you raise. It seems to be focused on apps that create content (e.g., blogs), but I believe it’s open to other apps as well.”
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For the average teenager in the US, if you’re not on MySpace you don’t exist,” she says, just as in Europe if you don’t have a mobile phone, you don’t have a social life.
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“Alla Zollers notes that we can tell a lot about a community by looking at its tags. E.g., delicious.com is clearly IT heavy. “Relevance is socially constructed,” she says. I.e., what is relevant changes over time depending on who interacts with it and ho
