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“it’s rife in B2B, where most “enterprise solutions” are presented so that you can’t tell whether they are suited for 100 people or 100,000 people. Price is the most specific piece of info customers use to understand the nature of an offering, and not pro
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“Douglas C. gives yet another great lecture on javascript. It’s amazing to see how much he knows about the language. I would suggest that you also download the PowerPoint slides.
PowerPoint slides
Advanced Javascript Part 1
Advanced Javascript Pa
Archive for December, 2006
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December 31, 2006links for 2006-12-30
December 30, 2006-
“Some good scientists stepped out of their field of expertise, leaving science behind for the unreflective sort of faith-based thinking they railed against. Sadly, in this regard, even good scientists join other people in unreason.”
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“Asked whether his installing a bishop in the United States violated the church’s longstanding rules, he responded heatedly that he was simply doing what Western churches had done for centuries, sending a bishop to serve Anglicans where there is no chur
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“More than 60% of the essence-of-mescalin eaters reported having a mystical experience, while only 11% of the Ritalin consumers achieved mystical one-ness. Thus, the experiment concludes there’s truth to the common idea that mescalin helps you get your my
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“Jon has a podcast interview of Paul English, my old friend and erstwhile partner, about treating customers with the dignity we deserve. Paul is endlessly inventive and good-hearted, as well as being wicked smart.
(Don’t forget to see the video my daug
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“Put and Delete work on resources, can call many times, they fall between Get (safe and bookmarkable) and Post (do once and once only, don’t want multiple transactions), no need to “get” a lock, put is stateless (careless?)”
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Make a plan now for a flu pandemic.
Figure out what you will do if members
of your household have to stay home
from work or school or stay separated
from others for a period of time. Keep
extra supplies of food, water, medications
and your disaster -
Ted Bromage offers suggestions about preparing for pandemic flu here.
links for 2006-12-28
December 28, 2006-
“I’ve never actually seen Django Reinhardt play before this video! I did once get to see St?phane Grappelli (with Bucky Pizzarelli sitting in for Django) in about 1996 at the late, great Bottom Line. Grapelli was eighty six or so. He needed somebody to le
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“Looking at the simplified support for AJAX and thinking about XForms dynamic visualization of ongoing changes I suspect Rails can push the AJAX framework even further to match the power of XForms.”
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“The miscellaneous category consists of that which does not share likenesses beyond their shared domain—the kitchen’s miscellaneous drawer contains implements that have nothing in common beyond the fact that they all belong in a kitchen. But the digital
links for 2006-12-27
December 27, 2006-
“it’s a set of applications running in a web browser that together mimic, replace or largely supplement a desktop OS environment. It’s a tough field to start in for a Web 2.0 entrepreneur, because to be successful you need to create several applicatio
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“Last I heard Tracfone will offer general web browsing and E-mail account access by next summer. Their current web access is still in an early test phase.”
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This is the browser on the Tracfone Motorola C261.
“With more than 1 billion mobile devices shipped on 600 different phone platforms, Openwave has extensive browser expertise. Openwave has also significantly enhanced the performance of its core browser b -
“Reading Preservation Magazine’s recent article on fires in historic structures was scary. These old structures are dry, typically have balloon wall construction (which is comparable to having a flue on either side of every stud) and are particularly at
links for 2006-12-26
December 26, 2006-
“Dylan Thomas’ 1955 poem of the same name–originally written for radio–is richly adapted to the small screen by director Don McBrearty who brings to life an already masterful piece of prose, infusing it with even more grandeur through vivid costumes, sc
links for 2006-12-24
December 24, 2006-
“This paper describes FrTime, an extension of Scheme designed for writing interactive applications. Inspired by functional reactive programming, the language embeds dynamic dataflow within a call-by-value functional language. The essence of the embedding
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“Tools and techniques for getting relatively complicated Web sites up and running quickly”
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“Hello World!” Tutorial – formsPlayer
“How to add XPath functions'” Tutorial – formsPlayer
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“A clean separation of presentation, user interface, and business processing model
John is a senior product architect and research scientist for PureEdge Solutions. He can be contacted at jboyer@pureedge.com. “
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“I think the architecture described in The Emotion Machine is programmable. If I could afford to get three or four first-rate systems programmers, we could do it. You can get millions of dollars to drive a car through a desert, but you can’t get money to
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links for 2006-12-23
December 23, 2006-
“Online service PlateWire lets motorists, pedestrians and cyclists keep tabs on the good, the bad and the ugly behind the wheel. In Autopia.”
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“dedicated to hacking, modding, and pimping the hoo-ha out of the iPod shuffle”
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“We also discuss the national initiative to create a standard for continuity of care documents that will provide two key benefits. First, continuity both within and across regions. Second, data on medical outcomes that can be used by patients to choose pr
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# Atom is an Internet standard that’s more adaptable to uses outside site syndication
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“Boyer is a very smart guy, and these ideas are possibly true. But they are not an explanation of religion because it can’t just be reduced to a belief in supernatural beings. Any coherent explanation has to balance social function with psychological or
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“Interference is a metaphor that paints an old limitation of technology as a fact of nature.” So says David P. Reed, electrical engineer, computer scientist, and one of the architects of the Internet. If he’s right, then spectrum isn’t a resource to be di
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“Functional Reactive Programming (frp) extends traditional
functional programming with dataflow evaluation, making it
possible to write interactive programs in a declarative style.
An frp language creates a dynamic graph of data dependen-
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“Following del.icio.us’ release of JSON output for URL lookups, here’s an update to Jon Udell’s memetrack script that displays how many people have tagged the current page: →metrack←. It eval’s the JSON response, so decide if you trust the Yahoo/del.i
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“Use XML · If you want to provide general-purpose data that the receiver might want to do unforeseen weird and crazy things with, or if you want to be really paranoid and picky about i18n, or if what you’re sending is more like a document than a struct
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“There’s been a flurry of commentary about Google deprecating their SOAP API. For amusement value, you can’t beat Steve Loughran’s “Slowly, all over the world, the lights on the SOAP endpoints are going out”; but the deepest thinking comes from
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How has the geography of religion evolved over the centuries, and where has it sparked wars? Our map gives us a brief history of the world’s most well-known religions: Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Judaism. Selected periods of inter-religio
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We can prove, not surprisingly, that such a neural net would be extremely limited in its power. Ditto if we replace the 2 by 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, or 11. But if we replace the 2 by 6, 10, or 12, then we no longer know anything! For all we know, a three-layer
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“Sisters Lucy and Susan Letcher hiked the Appalachian Trail twice. Their unusual choice of footwear earned them the moniker “the Barefoot Sisters.” This book chronicles their adventures on the first part of their hike, from Maine to Georgia: from summ
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“Sisters Lucy and Susan Letcher hiked the Appalachian Trail twice, from Maine to Georgia and back again. Their unusual choice of footwear earned them the moniker “the Barefoot Sisters.” This book chronicles their adventures on the northbound leg of their
links for 2006-12-22
December 22, 2006-
“Receiving the grace of God through sermons, Sunday school, small groups, worship and fellowship.
Believing the gospel message of Christ’s atonement for our sin, and through faith trusting it for salvation – Working out our faith in honest relat
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“What do we lose from not using XML? The ability to use XML tools. If you’re someone who breathes XSLT that might be a problem; if like me your approach when faced with XML is to parse it in to a more agreeable data structure as soon as possible you’l
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December 20, 2006links for 2006-12-19
December 19, 2006-
“an RSS feed that’s updated when a book on your Amazon wishlist becomes available in your local library. Originally I planned to build a simple web application that would register Amazon wishlist IDs and produce custom RSS feeds for each registrant. But
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“The mobile phone has now surpassed bicycles as the number one selling consumer device in India. That’s unbelievable in a country where 80% of the 1.1 billion population survives on less than $2 a day and 70% live in villages.”
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