Zend Technologies Readies a New PHP Application Server

Zend Technologies Readies a New PHP Application Server - Business Center - PC World: "Zend Technologies is putting the finishing touches to Zend Server, a new Web applications server aimed at mission-critical PHP applications. In beta testing since Feb. 18, the final version is now about a week from launch."

Python goes Mercurial

Python goes Mercurial - News - The H Open Source: News and Features: "Python is moving to a distributed version control system (DVCS), but unlike many projects which have moved to Git, Guido van Rossum has selected Mercurial, also known as Hg (the chemical symbol for mercury), as the DVCS for Python."

Family finds underground lair while clearing backyard

Family finds underground lair while clearing backyard | lindley, underground, tessa - Local News - Recorderonline.com: "When James and Tessa Lindley purchased a foreclosed home last year in Porterville, they never dreamed of finding what they discovered this week: an underground adventure."

10 Shirts Every Type Nerd Must Own | The Design Cubicle

10 Shirts Every Type Nerd Must Own | The Design Cubicle: "Due to my obsession with type I thought it would only be right to present ‘10 shirts every type nerd must own’. A majority of these shirts come in both men and women’s sizes so get your credit cards handy."

Exploring CouchDB

Exploring CouchDB: "9

Relational databases define a strict structure and provide a rigid way to maintain data for a software application. Apache's open source CouchDB offers a new method of storing data, in what is referred to as a schema-free document-oriented database model. Instead of the highly structured data storage of a relational model, CouchDB stores data in a semi-structured fashion, using a JavaScript-based view model for generating structured aggregation and report results from these semi-structured documents. CouchDB has been developed from the ground up with Web applications as the primary focus and has its sights on becoming the de-facto database for Web application development."

Utilizing Web 2.0 in business

Utilizing Web 2.0 in business: "While Web 2.0 has been a huge hit with consumers, some businesses have been much slower to embrace it. Many companies, however, are now realizing the great potential of Web 2.0 and how Web 2.0 services such as YouTube, Twitter, and SlideShare can provide value to their organizations. See how businesses can exploit the power of Web 2.0 services while simultaneously improving workplace relationships. Empower your employees to share information that helps generate sales leads, aids in recruitment, and assists in strengthening your company's brand, image, and corporate identity. Explore business-oriented Web 2.0 tools such as LinkedIn and CrunchBase and the Web services and APIs that many of these tools offer, allowing their benefits to be incorporated into other applications."

Video security designs offer Linux SDKs

Video security designs offer Linux SDKs: "Texas Instruments (TI) and its partners announced two video security reference designs that are based on TI's TMS320DM365 and ship with Linux SDKs. The IP camera design (pictured) from Appro Photoelectron offers HD/H.264 video, and the DVR design from UD Works provides multi-channel recording, says TI."

Why Bit.ly Will Upstage Digg

Why Bit.ly Will Upstage Digg: "Yesterday, New York-based startup incubator Betaworks raised $2 million in funding for its URL-shortener project, Bit.ly, and spun it out as an independent company. The funding raised some eyebrows, with some speculating if Bit.ly, one of the dozens of link-shortening services, was worth a rumored $8 million. I fall in the camp of those who think Bit.ly is"

Make dashboards with XQuery

Make dashboards with XQuery: "Many digital dashboards that cropped up in the 1980s were horrible (if not unsubtle) analogs to a car's dashboard. Very few presented business data in a compelling manner. Today, Web-based dashboards try to achieve the same thing. Discover what makes a good dashboard, and learn to identify and leverage key performance indicators (KPIs) for more effective digital dashboards. Finally, build a Web dashboard using the eXist XML database and XQuery."

Ten Tips To Make Twitter Work for Your Business

Ten Tips To Make Twitter Work for Your Business | Business Hacks | BNET: "Twitter — a business tool? If our recent Guy to Guy on the business value of social networking is any guide, you’d expect me to dismiss Twitter out of hand. But according to the Small Biz Resource Blog, Apple pioneer and all-around tech guru Guy Kawasaki thinks Twitter is one of the most important business tools available for evangelizing your business."

Connecting to the cloud

Connecting to the cloud, Part 1: Leverage the cloud in applications: "Explore cloud computing and the offerings from the major cloud platform vendors: Amazon, Google, Microsoft®, and SalesForce.com. In this first of a three-part series, take an example of a typical corporate application that uses a JMS queue, and examine what would be involved to hybridize part of this JMS infrastructure in the cloud."

'The Analyzer' Hack Probe Widens; $10 Million Allegedly Stolen From U.S. Banks

'The Analyzer' Hack Probe Widens; $10 Million Allegedly Stolen From U.S. Banks | Threat Level from Wired.com: "Ehud Tenenbaum, an Israeli hacker arrested in Canada last year for allegedly stealing about $1.5 million from Canadian banks, also allegedly hacked two U.S. banks, a credit and debit card distribution company and a payment processor in what U.S. authorities are calling a global 'cashout' conspiracy."

Installation of FreeNAS

Installation of FreeNAS: "n this article by Gary Sims, we will cover the installation and configuration of the FreeNAS server. We boot the FreeNAS server from the LiveCD disk and configure a simple disk that is accessed by CIFS and FTP. We also look at how to install FreeNAS to the hard drive and how to upgrade it."

Building an Effective Business Profile on Twitter

Building an Effective Business Profile on Twitter: "As the popularity of micro-blogging continues to grow, it’s going to become a tool used by advertisers and marketers. In the same way that running a corporate or business blog is different from running a personal blog, running a corporate or business twitter profile is different from running a personal twitter profile."

Top 5 odd recipes and tips for a hangover

Nashville Downtown Examiner: Top 5 odd recipes and tips for a hangover: "Do you have a hangover and need help to make it go away? This weekly column will give you recipes and tips to help you feel better. Historically there are five different ways to get rid of a hangover-hydrate, eat, exercise, hair-of-the-dog (drink again), and sleep. We will include one of each and a bonus 'not-your-typical-remedy' remedy."

Has the Mac lost its cachet?

Has the Mac lost its cachet? - Tech and gadgets- msnbc.com: "In tough economic times, some wonder if Apple computers will take a hit"

New Microsoft Ad: Laptop Hunters

Steve Clayton: Geek In Disguise : New Microsoft Ad: Laptop Hunters: "I pal showed this to me yesterday whilst here on Microsoft Campus – and today it went public. Next stage of the Crispin Porter + Bogusky effect."

Top 7 Web and PC Pranks

High-Tech Hijinks: Top 7 Web and PC Pranks - ABC News: "Even the stodgiest among us enjoy a chuckle, and tech geeks, especially, have a field day every April 1, using their skills to snare surfers online or throw friends and co-workers off-kilter at their computers."

Swiftfox: Firefox's Speedy Brother

Swiftfox: Firefox's Speedy Brother - Linux Magazine Online: "There are many ways to tweak Firefox's settings to improve the browser's performance, but probably the most effective trick is to replace your favorite browser altogether with Swiftfox. It may sound as a drastic step, but there is no need to worry: Swiftfox is essentially Firefox optimized for specific AMD and Intel processors. The project features Swiftfox builds for AMD Athlon 64, Intel Core solo and Duo as well as assorted Pentium and Celeron processors. The best part is that Swiftfox detects and uses Firefox profiles. In fact, you can even run two browsers side by side if you are inclined to do so."

10 Cool Cursor Themes for Linux

10 Cool Cursor Themes for Linux — Cool Tux Apps: "If you are looking for a beautiful, cool, lovely cursor theme for Linux, I recommend the following cursor themes."

21 Must-Have Scripts For Your Favorite Javascript Library (jQuery, MooTools, Prototype)

21 Must-Have Scripts For Your Favorite Javascript Library (jQuery, MooTools, Prototype) - Labs: "In attempting to spruce up my knowledge of Javascript, I’ve been trolling around the net collecting scripts and tutorials for various Javascript libraries, mainly jQuery, MooTools, and Prototype. Of the three, MooTools seems to supply me with the most JS lovin’ - it’s easy to learn, holds super powerful Ajax abilities, and is customizable to the core."

Microsoft Calls for Open Cloud Standards

Microsoft Calls for Open Cloud Standards: "Steven Martin, Microsoft's senior director of developer platform management, discusses Microsoft's call for an open process to define cloud computing going forward. Essentially, Martin expressed concern about a so-called 'Cloud Manifesto' and Microsoft's view that it is biased to benefit its authors."

Times Nukes Itself On Google

Disasters: Times Nukes Itself On Google: "The New York Times has been demanding Google welfare, which would artificially promote the newspaper's stories in search results. Yet inept Times webmasters just killed hundreds of thousands of their own Google hits."

Universities with the Best Free Online Courses

Universities with the Best Free Online Courses -- Education-Portal.com: "No tuition money? No problem! There are many top universities that offer free courses online. This list ranks several of the best free university courses available for people who want to enhance their personal knowledge or advance in their current field."

Frank Miller's Charlie Brown

Frank Miller's Charlie Brown - Cinematical: "Who's gonna bully old Chuck."

HTML5 Canvas Cheat Sheet

HTML5_Canvas_Cheat_Sheet.png (PNG Image, 1388x1027 pixels) - Scaled (50%): "Learn more about this handy tag."

6 Twitter Games To Make Tweeting Fun

6 Twitter Games To Make Tweeting Fun: "There are endless ways to use Twitter (Twitter reviews): from posting what you’re doing, to sharing links, to organizing fundraising drives. But did you know there are also a growing number of games you can play on Twitter?"

Who Will Monetize Social Media?

Who Will Monetize Social Media?: "In 2000, a company in Mountain View, California launched a program for keyword-targeted advertising with 350 clients known as AdWords. That company, GoogleGoogle reviewsGoogle reviews, is now the undisputed powerhouse of online search and advertising. Like many startups today, it was dogged by constant criticism about its ability to monetize its search engine. Google found success with Adwords and later AdSense; that success turned keyword advertising into a business model still popular today."

Mavs' Cuban questions refs through Twitter

Mavs' Cuban questions refs through Twitter - NBA- nbcsports.msnbc.com: "Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban never has been shy about voicing complaints with officiating — and now he's letting loose with those opinions via Twitter."

Easy image processing with Python

Free Math Worksheets at DadsWorksheets.com: "I built all of the recent geometry worksheets using graphics saved in PNG format, which is a loss-less file format, making it somewhat more attractive relative to the older JPEG format. PNG isn’t a terribly new file format, but some people (including my wife) have had trouble printing the new worksheets. What I really needed to do was convert the 361 PNG files on which I’d labored over into JPEGs and then regenerate the worksheets. Not much fun for a lazy guy like me."

20 Useful CSS Tips For Beginners

20 Useful CSS Tips For Beginners | How-To: "Whether you are interested in picking up CSS to create your own website, or merely to tweak your blog’s look and feel a little - it’s always good to start with the fundamentals to gain a stronger foundation. Let’s take a look at some CSS Tips we thought might be useful for beginners. Full list after jump."

Bandwidth Monitoring Tools for Ubuntu Users

Bandwidth Monitoring Tools for Ubuntu Users | Ubuntu Geek: "Bandwidth in computer networking refers to the data rate supported by a network connection or interface. One most commonly expresses bandwidth in terms of bits per second (bps). The term comes from the field of electrical engineering, where bandwidth represents the total distance or range between the highest and lowest signals on the communication channel (band).

Bandwidth represents the capacity of the connection. The greater the capacity, the more likely that greater performance will follow, though overall performance also depends on other factors, such as latency."

Students tie £56 camera to balloon and send it to edge of space to capture stunning images of Earth

Students tie £56 camera to balloon and send it to edge of space to capture stunning images of Earth | Mail Online: "Teenagers with a £56 camera and latex balloon have managed to take stunning pictures from 20 miles above Earth."

Top 10 Free Linux Games in 2009

Top 10 Free Linux Games in 2009: "I have seen a lot of gamers who feel that there aren't good games to play on Linux. It might be that they love to play those pirated games, don't know why, when there are bounteous open source games available for free. The Linux games are hugely popular and that's not just because they are free, its also because a developer can take a great game and make it even better. There's an array of free open source games waiting to run on the Linux platform. So I got the top linux games in 2009. And here I come."

Monsters vs. Aliens: The Twitter Reviews

Monsters vs. Aliens: The Twitter Reviews | Cartoon Brew: Leading the Animation Conversation: "I’m still on the fence about whether I’ll subject myself to Monsters vs. Aliens, but I’ve been getting a kick from reading other people’s thoughts about the film on Twitter. The usefulness of a service like Twitter is in its aggregation of opinions, while its 140-character limit forces users to boil down their thoughts into a clear opinion. You can keep up with a steady stream of average moviegoer’s thoughts by looking at the following search results: “Monsters vs Aliens” and “MVA”."

Parsing with Zend HTTP Client

Parsing with Zend HTTP Client | ProDevTips - dev notes and tutorials: "I need to recap today’s adventures in parsing land, I’m currently writing a lot of different parsers that are retrieving information from various pages, sometimes I’m lucky and the info I want is available as CSV or XML, most often not."

How To Make A Carrot Ocarina

YouTube - How To Make A Carrot Ocarina: "How To Make A Carrot Ocarina"

A man, a vision, and the swimming pool he built in his garage

The Urbanite Magazine - SPACE: "A few years ago, I heard about my neighbor’s scheme to put a pool in his garage. At the time, I blew it off: It seemed more rumor than real."

Online Home Business Success

Make Money Online » Online Home Business Success: "There will be some sacrifices to be made and you may also find that other people tend to consider that because you are working at home it isn’t a ‘proper’ job and expect that you will drop work on your home business to suit their plans. So be prepared to take a stand; if you treat your home business seriously, others will be forced to do the same."

First CT scan made of eggs inside coelacanth

First CT scan made of eggs inside coelacanth | The Japan Times Online: "Researchers at Tokyo Institute of Technology carried out Wednesday what is believed to be the first CT scan of eggs inside a coelacanth, according to Norihiro Okada, a bioscience professor at the university and a member of the research team."

DIY Quick Stick Deodorant

Little House in the Suburbs: Quick Stick Deodorant: "aluminum crammed in your pores cannot be good for you, and it seems in recent years that store-bought deodorant is becoming less and less effective anyway. This deodorant uses a natural moisture absorber (cornstarch), a natural deodorizer (baking soda), and a natural anti-bacteria/fungal oil (tea tree oil) to keep any stink from developing in the first place."

An office made out of cardboard

Nothing - a set on Flickr: "I was pleased to shoot the interior of the card-box office of the Amsterdam based advertising company Nothing. It is designed by Alrik Koudenburg & Joost van Bleiswijk."

How to Build an Earthbag Home

How to Build an Earthbag Home | eHow.com: "This article explains the basics about building an earthbag home. Earthbag building has evolved from 100 years of building military structures out of sandbags. Modern-day builders are using the same basic process of filling, tamping and stacking bags to construct beautiful homes, offices, shops, orphanages, schools and a wide variety of other structures. Earthbag buildings are sustainable, nontoxic, quiet, rodent proof and fire, hurricane and flood resistant. They are even bullet and blast resistant."

10 Rare HTML Tags You Really Should Know

10 Rare HTML Tags You Really Should Know - Nettuts+: "Web developers these days are often expected to know and work in multiple languages. As a result, it's tricky to learn everything a language has to offer and easy to find yourself not utilizing the full potential of some more specialized but very useful tags."

7 Wonders of Google Earth

7 Wonders of Google Earth - ABC News: "They may not be quite as astonishing as the seven wonders of the ancient world. And many an armchair explorer will tell you that there are actually far more than seven."

Google searches for holy grail of Python performance

Google searches for holy grail of Python performance - Ars Technica: "Google's Python engineers have launched a new project called Unladen Swallow that seeks to improve the performance of the Python programming language. One of the project's goals is to replace the Python virtual machine with an LLVM-based JIT."

Projects: Weather Station

Electronics Project - Projects: Weather Station: "Weather station with pressure reading, relative humidity, indoor & remote outdoor temperature display.Both Celsius or Fahrenheit & mbar/hPa or mm Hg supported. With calendar & clock. Easy 3-button user-menu. 42 hour-history display (curve). Auto-memory & display of all high and low-values. PIC 18F452 running at 4 MHz, power saving sleep mode. Sensors are only turned on when needed.."

Stop Behaving Badly on Social Media!

Stop Behaving Badly on Social Media!: "I’m a noise musician. For those of you not familiar with the genre, that means my band, Grasshopper , caters to a very small audience who likes to describe the music using phrases like “f***** up inharmonious horns” and “a windspiel made of knives”. You may wonder how this relates to social media… well, I’ve learned a lot about how to social media works via my experiences in the noise scene."

Car Bibles: Get better gas mileage - improve your mpg

Car Bibles: Get better gas mileage - improve your mpg: "They used to say that you could only rely on two things in life - taxes and death. Not true. There's three things. Taxes, death and the cost of petrol sprialling forever upwards. So consider this page your guide to making the best of a bad situation. Follow these tips and you should be able to improve your mpg - miles per gallon. Better fuel economy = more money in your bank account."

Linux Puzzle Games

Worldlabel.com Blog » Linux Puzzle Games: "There are Linux games for every taste: first person shooters, board and arcade games, strategy games. But if you prefer to train your intellectual skills instead of blasting monsters or conquering the world, there are a few high-quality puzzle games, too. In this article we will take a look at some of the best puzzle games for Linux."

Shut Down Your Computer With A Cell Phone

Shut Down Your Computer With A Cell Phone: "This video will show you how to shutdown your computer from anywhere using a texting capable cell phone, Microsoft Outlook and a free account from www.kwiry.com."

Why Ugly Teams Win

Why Ugly Teams Win--Scott Berkun's Essay from Beautiful Teams - O'Reilly FYI Blog: "The Bad News Bears. The Ramones. Rocky Balboa. The Dirty Dozen. Real heroes are ugly. They are misfits. Their clothes are wrong, their form is bad, and they don't even know all the rules. They get laughed at and are told to their faces that, dear God, for all that is holy they should quit, but they refuse to listen. In spite of their failings, they find ways to achieve, betting everything on passion, persistence, and imagination. For these reasons, when things get tough, it's the ugly teams that win. People from ugly teams expect things to go wrong and show up anyway. They conquer self-doubt, make friendships under fire, and find magic in ideas that others abandon. Ugly teams are bulletproof, die-hard work machines, and once the members of an ugly team have earned each other's trust, they will outperform the rest of any organization. Nietzsche would have been right at"

Using Social Media For Your Small Business

Using Social Media For Your Small Business | WebProNews: "Social media is being used by small businesses to help build their brand and attract loyal customers while on a modest budget. The SES session 'Small Voices, Big Impact: Social Media for the Little Guy' focused on ways smaller companies can improve business and increase sales."

GUI Programming in Python For Beginners: Create a Timer in 30 Minutes

LinuxPlanet - Tutorials - GUI Programming in Python For Beginners: Create a Timer in 30 Minutes - Saving Absent-Minded Geeks From Soggy Gardens and Burned Food: "Python programming is all the rage, because the language has such simple, clean syntax, is easy to learn and has lots of libraries available. But best of all, you're not limited to writing command-line applications. Python has at least four ways to make graphical apps, but today I'll concentrate on one: TkInter"

Twitter Business Models Are Afoot

Twitter Business Models Are Afoot: "Speculation is once again running rampant as to how TwitterTwitter reviewsTwitter reviews will make money. Earlier this week, the company threw its support behind ExecTweets, a mashup of sorts that aggregates Tweets from top executives that is sponsored by Microsoft and the brainchild of ad network Federated Media."

Python Password Database

Python Password Database | OwainLewis.com: "I thought I would share one of the scripts I have been working on recently. This is a python script that I wrote to help me keep track of all my website passwords. I am sure most people can identify with being bogged down with remembering hundreds of user names and passwords for various websites, forums, blogs etc. I probably have around fifty passwords that I needed to keep track of and so I thought it was about time to write a piece of software to help me manage them. This is my first experience with using the python sqlite3 database but I have found it to be a real godsend for applications like this. I also built in a neat little function using the win32 COM module to export all my passwords into an excel spreadsheet when needed."

THE 10 HOTTEST FEMALE CELEBRITY NERDS

THE 10 HOTTEST FEMALE CELEBRITY NERDS: "It's a disease in the female species commonly known as 'Ugly Duckling Syndrome.' It's when a girl begins her life as an ugly tomboy, so she's forced to hang out with boys and do nerdy boy stuff like playing video games and having underwear fights. As these ugly ducklings get older, they suddenly become really hot and start hanging out with cool people. For the next five years they date some douche bag lead singer of a band and develop a severe heroin addiction. After the finish rehab, they go back to their old nerdy boy posse and procreate with them."

Pragmatical Math with Google Earth

About the site: "This website is designed for educators who wish to extend the concepts of the math curriculum beyond the pages of the text. Google Earth is the dynamic tool that will be used to accomplish this. Google Earth provides startling clear satellite views of the globe in an interactive 3D environment. Beyond the visual, users can add placemarks, annotations, photos, and models, as well as measure distances and draw paths."

Five Essential Ubuntu Modifications

Five Essential Ubuntu Modifications | WorksWithU: "I like to run the latest software, so every 6 months when a new Ubuntu debuts I upgrade my system. To keep everything running smoothly I like to start with a clean install, but I always find myself repeating the same modifications. Some of these modifications are essential to get certain features to work, one of them is something I couldn’t do without. Here are my five essential Ubuntu modifications."

Google Highlights Chrome's JavaScript Savvy with Humor

Google Highlights Chrome's JavaScript Savvy with Humor - PC World: "In the mood for something both technically impressive and silly? Google's new site, Chrome Experiments, brings together an assortment of browser-based JavaScript programs intended to both show off the platform and entertain."

Mozilla gives 3D web another shot

TG Daily - Mozilla gives 3D web another shot: "3D on the Internet is about as old as 3D graphics acceleration itself. But all those ideas often disappeared quickly after their release, because they always required a special browser plug-in. Now there is a new idea to enable 3D web graphics that do not need a plug-in, but are enabled via JavaScript acceleration. Conceivably, this could hand Firefox and Chrome yet another advantage, while Microsoft will feel even more pressure to work on JavaScript acceleration for its Internet Explorer."

Twitter vs Digg for links and attention

Twitter vs Digg for links and attention: "Many people are saying that Twitter is corrosive to online marketing and that the sudden upsurge in Twitter use is reducing the number of links being given to quality content."

8 Tools For Online Reputation Management

8 Tools For Online Reputation Management | Sterling Performance | BNET: "Managing your online reputation has become a must. It is absolutely unthinkable for anyone who wants to make a professional appointment to leave a dodgy photograph on his facebook profile since there are many chances that the person with whom he is about to have an appointment has just gone straight to ‘Google’ his name on the Internet. This is what is called online reputation management (aka ORM), that is to say your image as it is showing online through Internet and social media exposure."

Taking advantage of Social Media is not Taking part in Social Media

Taking advantage of Social Media is not Taking part in Social Media | PandemicBlog: "Do you simply use those tools? Or, do you participate with their communities?"

Replace Last.fm with VLC

Replace Last.fm with VLC - Linux Magazine Online: "Nothing boosts my productivity more than good music. That's why I always keep Last.fm radio running when I'm working. Or rather, used to keep it running: Last.fm has announced that the company starts charging international users for streaming music. It's not a big deal, except that the service will remain free in the US, UK, and Germany. For me it's as insulting as Windows-only applications. It's not the end of the world, though: as always, the VLC comes to the rescue."

Full Windows 7 Possible on Samsung Netbooks, Linux Too

Full Windows 7 Possible on Samsung Netbooks, Linux Too: "Techradar had a day touring Samsung's European forum and had the chance to interview Samsung's Head of Worldwide Sales and Marketing, Kyu Uhm. During the session, Uhm mentioned that future Samsung netbooks will undoubtedly include Windows 7, but having a full version as opposed to the sorry Starter Edition was iffy. It was also mentioned that future Samsung netbooks installed with a Linux distribution was a slight possibility if enough customers truly wanted it."

FREE Open Source Poker Game

PokerTH - Community Portal - PokerTH - Download: "Here you can download latest version of PokerTH"

Minimum Inventory, Maximum Diversity

Wolfram Blog : Minimum Inventory, Maximum Diversity: "A minimum inventory/maximum diversity system is a kit of modular parts and rules of assembly that gives you maximal design bang for your design-component buck. It’s a system that achieves a wide variety of effects from a small variety of parts. Nature excels at this game: every one of the many millions of natural proteins is assembled from an inventory of just 20 amino acids. Snowflakes are all just arrangements of the humble water molecule, H2O.

The same idea applies to the forms in the figure above, which are all constructed from semicircles joined at connection points evenly distributed along a vertical line. I stumbled onto this minimum inventory/maximum diversity system while playing with logo designs for a previous blog post, Exploring Logo Designs with Mathematica. The idea came from a logo for a concert hall by Peter Andermatt, approximated here:"

Easy trash bag holder replaces bulky cans

Easy trash bag holder replaces bulky cans: "Trash cans have always sort of annoyed me. They take up so much space, especially if, like me, you favor large cans to minimize the number of trips to the dumpster each week. There's no practical way to pack a large trash can for storage or transport. If you're moving, of course, you can fill the can with lightweight stuff like dirty clothes or something, but only if you're willing to expose your linen to the inside of your trashcan. I always use trash bags, anyway, and for my money if you use a bag the only major function of the can is to hold the bag open. Well, it's possible to achieve that same function with a much cheaper, lighter, and compact device."

Switching to Python

Switching to Python | Mojo On The Web: "If you are a manager who is considering adding Python programming to your organization, and need evidence about why programmers are talking about it so much, here are a couple of answers for you."

Does an 'open' format provide the benefits it is supposed to?

Does an 'open' format provide the benefits it is supposed to? - O'Reilly Broadcast: "I don't see that the current open standards for office document formats automatically provide all the particular advantages in the way people seem to think. It is of course better that the format information is published, that the IP has been sorted out, that it has been QAed by independent organizations to the champions, and that there are processes in place which, if taken advantage of, can allow broader future participation by users and other stakeholders."

First ever Linux botnet?

First ever Linux botnet?: "The first botnet designed for broadband equipment and routers may also be the first involving Linux, says our sister publication, eWEEK. Before being stamped out, a malicious 'Psyb0t' worm found a home in approximately 100,000 such devices running Linux 'Mipsel' (Debian for MIPS processors), says an article by Larry Seltzer."

Producing documentation and reusing information in XML

Producing documentation and reusing information in XML, Part 1: Document publishing using XML: "XML provides a way to identify data items and subcomponents within any structured data set, but has its roots in documentation development and production. Robust, open standards for XML document markup and a rich set of freely available tools for XML document parsing and format conversion make it easy to install and configure a complete documentation development and formatting environment on any UNIX® or Linux® system."

Stallman looks to fight JavaScript trap

Stallman looks to fight JavaScript trap | InfoWorld | News | 2009-03-24 | By Paul Krill: "Richard Stallman, president of the Free Software Foundation, is championing an effort to thwart the 'JavaScript trap,' in which users could unknowingly be running non-free programs in their browser."

Python 3: The Evolution of a Programming Language

InformIT: Python 3: The Evolution of a Programming Language > Introduction: "Major revisions to any programming language are alarming, but Wesley J. Chun believes that Python 3.x brings real improvements to solve long-established problems. He points out some of the more interesting changes that obliterate design flaws and outdated functionality carried across from release to release, promising that you'll find Python 3 to be leaner, meaner, and more powerful than ever before."

Mining the Deep Web with Mashups

InformIT: Mining the Deep Web with Mashups > How Mashups Can Help Your Business: "Many businesses have come to depend on information gained via the Internet. But what if you could get past the customary surface-level access on the Net, reaching deep into zillions of databases full of information and gleaning the bits and bytes that are most useful to you? Michael Ogrinz explains how diving into the Deep Web with the help of mashups can give your business a (completely legal) advantage over your competitors."

7 foot long LEGO Star Wars Mon Calamari cruiser - SlipperyBrick.com

7 foot long LEGO Star Wars Mon Calamari cruiser - SlipperyBrick.com: "7 foot long LEGO Star Wars Mon Calamari cruiserYou can buy anything and everything Star Wars if you are an extreme geek, but this here ship is so awesome, it beats all of them. This seven foot long model of the Calamari Cruiser from Return of The Jedi was built by Thomas Benedikt who used 30,500 Lego pieces. It took about 11 months to get it complete with all that detail. That’s 52 pounds of Lego."

CNN must be getting lazy

How JavaScript became a browser-war battleground

How JavaScript became a browser-war battleground - ZDNet.co.uk: "After lurking inconspicuously within the code of websites for more than a decade, JavaScript has emerged to become a key battleground in a second era of web-browser wars."

50 Nifty Tricks for Big DIY Savings

50 Nifty Tricks for Big DIY Savings | Money Saving Ideas | This Old House - 1: "Remember when the tightfistedness of relatives raised during the Depression was amusing? Our grandparents' certificates of deposit and plastic couch protectors seemed downright quaint when our own home-equity and retirement portfolios were ballooning. Suddenly, though, the pot-roast-and-potatoes ethic doesn't seem quite so kooky. We'd even say it's worthy of a salute."

How to Make An Inexpensive Light Tent

How to Make An Inexpensive Light Tent - DIY: "If you’re like me, you don’t want to spend money if you can do it yourself and yield the same results. One day I was at my local photography store I saw one of these “Pop-Up” light tents. It consisted of a collapsible white fabric box with a hole in the front and 3 lights - used for photographing small objects in photographic studios (like the shot of the chocolate reindeer to the left)."

Liquid Lamps

Liquid Lamps | Popular Science: "For beautiful mood lighting, just combine off-the-shelf parts -- and add mineral oil"

Portraits made from old film and reels

Ghost in the Machine - a set on Flickr: "In this series I showcase a number of portraits of musicians made out of recycled cassette tape with original cassette. Also included are portraits made from old film and reels."

What Happened To Watchmen?

What Happened To Watchmen?: "Well, the numbers are in, and they don’t look good: in its mere third weekend, Watchmen is down to fifth place on the box office charts, its take a mere six million dollars. Worst of all, it hasn’t even hit the 100 million dollar mark yet, which most of us thought it would do within a week. For those of us who followed the film’s development for months (even years) before it came out earlier this month, we’re just sort of left to wonder: what happened?"

MVC, XSLT and other animals

MVC, XSLT and other animals: "The MVC architectural pattern is a smart and bright way of developing web-based applications. The acronym MVC stands for Model, View and Control: these are the three components that, according to the pattern, every application can (and should) be divided into. I would actually state that MVC is 'the ultimate' way of developing apps but since IT is such a fast-growing/evolving discipline, I won't dare being so bold and just say that it is certainly a topic every good developer should spend some time on."

Form Validation using jQuery

Form Validation using jQuery: "Ah... form validation. A subject that has been the source of debates ever since Web browsers were born. There are as many ways to implement form validation as there are opinions of the best way to do it. This article discusses client-side validation using jQuery's validation plugin. That is, we will use JavaScript to validate the fields before submitting the form to the server. This is fast and efficient and provides quick replies to your visitor in the event of any errors. However, it is advisable to also validate the data on the server-side before adding it into the database."

10 Twitter Clients For Linux

10 Twitter Clients For Linux | LinuxHaxor.net: "If you think Twitter is a no-good, time-waster, fad that will die off just in time before the new social media fad comes in; you should be glad to know that that is exactly how I felt before I started using Twitter. Your experience with twitter will be as good as the people you follow or the users you socialize with. If you follow someone who spams you with marketing stuff and updates every morning what he had for breakfast, then you definitely will be disappointed."

Improve your web based software development and maintenance ROI with dynamic programming languages

PuneTech » Improve your web based software development and maintenance ROI with dynamic programming languages » Technology in Pune: "Programing language selection is often a topic that elicits a lot of excitement, debate and often a bit of acrimony as well. There is no universally superior programming language that one can recommend, so I tend to generally disregard most language opinions which say ‘X language is the best’, without specifying the context under which it is superior. Finally most language debates often deal with the technical issues and not the ROI issues. Hopefully I shall be able to address this topic without being guilty of any of these problems."

Designer versus Engineer War at Google; Does Visual Design Matter?

Designer versus Engineer War at Google; Does Visual Design Matter?: "A Google designer recently quit decrying Google's over-reliance on data, even for simple design decisions. Is it bad or is the designer plain wrong?"

Free Calculus

Free Calculus: "Here is a free online calculus course. This is essentially an ordinary text, but you can read it online. There are lots of exercises and examples. As we get the chapters scanned in, they will become highlighted so that you can click on them to read."

Smoke This Recession / It's simple: First we tax the booze. Then we legalize the pot. Done.

Smoke This Recession / It's simple: First we tax the booze. Then we legalize the pot. Done.: "It is a time of strange bedfellows and bizarre contortions and extraordinary responses to extreme situations, all overslathered with gobs of panic and dread and oh my God, I might have to sell the Range Rover."

Datejs - A JavaScript Date Library

Datejs - A JavaScript Date Library » About…: "Comprehensive, yet simple, stealthy and fast. Datejs has passed all trials and is ready to strike. Datejs doesn’t just parse strings, it slices them cleanly in two."

Puzzle: Fast Bit Counting

Puzzle: Fast Bit Counting « Reflections: "Devise a fast algorithm for computing the number of 1-bits in an unsigned integer. If the machine supports n-bit integers, can we compute the number of 1-bits in O(log n) machine instructions? Can we compute the number of 1-bits in O(b) machine instructions where b is the number of 1-bits in the integer?"

Linux 101 Hacks - Download Free eBook

Linux 101 Hacks - Download Free eBook: "I’m happy to announce the release of my first Free eBook — Linux 101 Hacks. There are total of 101 hacks in this book that will help you build a strong foundation in Linux. All the hacks in this book are explained with appropriate Linux command examples that are easy to follow."

55 Great Websites To Download Free Sound Effects

55 Great Websites To Download Free Sound Effects | Tools: "Sound effects are used to emphasize artistic or other content of films, television shows, live performance, animation, video games, music, or other media. These trick of sound are mostly achieved by combining technology, ingenuity and creativity. Sound effects are important for digital media because an appropriate sound effect can easily resemble a real occurrence for a situation."

BumpMapping with GLSL

BumpMapping with GLSL: "When I got started learning bump mapping and parallax mapping, I found a lot of tutorial involving a simple rectangle but nothing close to real life usage. This is my attemps to fill the gap."

How To Effectively Follow 15000+ People On Twitter Using These Tweetdeck Tricks

How To Effectively Follow 15000+ People On Twitter Using These Tweetdeck Tricks: "I often get the question “How do you follow so many people on Twitter”. Using Tweetdeck it’s actually quite easy. I made this video tutorial to show you exactly how I do it."

Why the world's economic leaders blame the catastrophe on the system instead of themselves

Why the world's economic leaders blame the catastrophe on the system instead of themselves. - By Daniel Gross - Slate Magazine: "For centuries, historians have debated whether history is propelled by Great Men (and Women), human forces of nature who bend events and systems to their will, or by vast impersonal forces (communism, capitalism, globalization) that render even the most powerful of us a mere reed basket floating in a massive river. There's no session on the subject at the World Economic Forum in Davos. But at least with regard to finance and business, the consensus seems to be clear: Success is the work of Great Men and Great Women, while failure can be pinned on the system."

Star Trek Inspired Corset

Etsy :: EveningArwen :: Star Trek Inspired Corset: "This corset is designed after the Star Trek: Next Generation jumpsuits. The fabric was cut in the asymmetrical design and then pieced together"

How to write a novel in 100 days or less

How to write a novel in 100 days or less — Day 1: "The great New Yorker editor and writer, E.B. White, said when accepting the National Medal for Literature, “A writer’s courage can easily fail him . . . I admire anybody who has the guts to write anything at all.”
On this your first day of writing your novel, make a promise to yourself that you are going to do it. This is critical. Without that commitment, you may as well save your pencils and paper. It isn’t going to happen. Remember, write as often as you can. That’s what writers do — they write."

Bonlebon's phrase of the week.

Your private life ends when you make it public.

Bonlebon

Fantasy Forest with Artemis in Photoshop

Fantasy Forest with Artemis - part 1 - photoshop tutorial - photoshoptalent.com: "In this tutorial I will show you how to give a magical fantasy touch to a forest."

7 Useful Tools for Web Development Testing

7 Useful Tools for Web Development Testing: "Before launching any new website, feature, or upgrade, it has to be tested. The worst nightmare of any programmer, designer, or business is to launch a broken website that drives away users and hurts reputations. It will only create more work, more headaches, and lost profits."

Create an amazing spiderman logo in photoshop

The amazing spiderman - Adobe Photoshop Adobe Photoshop Designing - Adobe Photoshop Software: "Lots of tricks to learn from."

How to Add Variables to Your CSS Files

How to Add Variables to Your CSS Files - Nettuts+: "Let's try something different on nettuts+ today. Any designer who has worked with large CSS files will agree that its major weakness is its inability to use variables. In this article, we will learn how to implement variables by using PHP and Apache's URL rewrite mod."

Smart-grid hackers could cause blackouts

Report: Smart-grid hackers could cause blackouts | Security - CNET News: "Deployments of smart grids should be slowed until security vulnerabilities are addressed, according to some cybersecurity experts, citing tests showing that a hacker can cause a major blackout after breaking into a smart-grid system."

Digg Has Fixed 'Digg Fraud," CEO Claims

Digg Has Fixed 'Digg Fraud," CEO Claims - News and Analysis by PC Magazine: "PCMag Editor Dan Costa and I sat down later in the week with Digg CEO and Revision 3 Chairman Jay Adelson to discuss the social news biz and what Digg is working on right now. I haven't had time to transcribe the whole conversation, but here are a few highlights. Basically, Digg doesn't care if you try and get your story on the front page. But if you're paying for Diggs, they'll find out pretty quickly."

It's Official: Twitter's Popularity Soars

It's Official: Twitter's Popularity Soars - News and Analysis by PC Magazine: "Visits to Twitter have increased 1,382 percent since last year - from 475,000 unique visitors in February 2008 to 7 million in February 2009, according to Nielsen."

What Defines a “Front-End Developer”?

What Defines a “Front-End Developer”? | six03: "What defines the role of a front-end developer? I have browsed through several job sites and looked at all the listings from companies when they post for the “front-end developer” position and have been absolutely amazed by the amount of qualifications one has to have and the expectations these companies have for someone applying for a “front-end developer” position."

Google Highlights Chrome's JavaScript Savvy with Humor

Google Highlights Chrome's JavaScript Savvy with Humor - PC World: "In the mood for something both technically impressive and silly? Google's new site, Chrome Experiments, brings together an assortment of browser-based JavaScript programs intended to both show off the platform and entertain."

Google lets Gmail users hit panic button with Undo Send tool

Google lets Gmail users hit panic button with Undo Send tool: "Wish you hadn't sent that Gmail e-mail? If you're quick, you can 'unsend' it"

Uh Oh, Exploit code targeting major Intel chip flaw to be posted 3/19/09

Uh Oh, Exploit code targeting major Intel chip flaw to be posted 3/19/09 | NetworkWorld.com Community: "This is the scariest, stealthiest, and most dangerous exploit I've seen come around since the legendary Blue Pill! No, I'm not just trying to sensationalize this or spread fear, uncertainty and doubt. This is serious and represents a massive new security threat for us all."

Bob Dylan on Creativity

Bob Dylan on Creativity: "Assorted things Bob Dylan has said about the creative process. Made as a way to mess around with design, including free fonts and images."

A Perfect Crime?: Twins Suspected in Spectacular Jewelry Heist Set Free

A Perfect Crime?: Twins Suspected in Spectacular Jewelry Heist Set Free - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - International: "Saved by their indistinguishable DNA, identical twins suspected in a massive jewelry heist have been set free. Neither could be exclusively linked to the DNA evidence."

15 Websites to Find People On The Internet

15 Websites to Find People On The Internet | MakeUseOf.com: "In today’s Internet world of booming social networks, it’s easier to find lost friends and colleagues than it ever was before. In fact, the private world of yesterday is now an online world with open access to social networks, government databases, and public records. If you’re looking for a long lost friend, or maybe want to do a background check on someone, consider the following free resources to find people on the internet."

Introduction to Using Dojo

Introduction to Using Dojo: "Dojo is the Open Source, portable JavaScript toolkit that lets you build interactive modules quickly, animate transitions, and construct Ajax requests with ease. We think Dojo is the most powerful and easiest to use Ajax and DHTML toolkit on the planet."

Drunken Gummies (Vodka-Infused Gummi Bears)

Drunken Gummies (Vodka-Infused Gummi Bears): "This Instructable will teach you how to create the most delicious alcoholic treat that will make you the life of any party. (My first instructable!)"

If open source is future proof the test has begun

If open source is future proof the test has begun | Open Source | ZDNet.com: "During most recessions, Perrin writes, you will naturally turn to companies like Microsoft and Adobe, firms you know are stable and will be around when everything settles down. Go with the leader."

RSS Web Widget

RSS Web Widget: "If you're visiting a web page like a blog or news portal which frequently updates its content then you're most likely to see a link for subscribing RSS feed or articles or news. The main purpose of an RSS feed is to provide the latest updates of articles, posts, news headlines, or audio and video, in a standard format—without the need to visit that website. These RSS feeds are stored in specified URLs and can be read using software which are commonly called RSS Readers, Feed Readers or Feed Aggregators. These can be web based applications or desktop based."

If IBM Buys Sun, What Does That Mean For MySQL?

Redmond Developer News | If IBM Buys Sun, What Does That Mean For MySQL?: "Some question why Big Blue would need the open source database, while others suggest the rumored deal could shift the database market."

Microsoft opens Azure to PHP developers

Microsoft opens Azure to PHP developers | InfoWorld | News | 2009-03-19 | By Paul Krill: "Microsoft at the Mix09 conference on Wednesday revealed several moves intended to bolster its Windows Azure cloud computing platform, adding support for PHP application development and native code as well as full trust capabilities."

Overseas credit card scam exposed

BBC NEWS | UK | Overseas credit card scam exposed: "A criminal gang selling UK credit card details stolen from Indian call centres has been exposed by an undercover BBC News investigation."

Zero Rights: Creative Commons License

Zero Rights: Creative Commons License - Linux Magazine Online: "Various definitions exist for the term 'public domain' throughout the world. In the U.S., for example, the general rule is that pre-1923 published works are public domain, unpublished works are under federal copyright for at least the life of the author plus 70 years. In Germany and Austria, the 'Gemeinfreiheit' term generally applies to the lifting of copyright from works (artwork and text) 70 years after the death of the author. Public domain and its equivalent German term are, however, subtly different concepts, as is the case in other international contexts."

How to Create a File Upload Progress Bar in Rails, Passenger, Prototype and Low Pro

Screencast : How to Create a File Upload Progress Bar in Rails, Passenger, Prototype and Low Pro - Rails Ill.: "An upload progress bar is one of the best ways to improve the usability of file uploads in your application. This screencast will show how to create a file upload progress bar using Rails, Passenger, Low Pro and the upload progress bar apache module."

New Kernel Firewall Nftables to Succeed Netfilter

New Kernel Firewall Nftables to Succeed Netfilter - Linux Magazine Online: "The history of all hitherto existing firewall subsystems is the history of struggles over more flexibility and compatibility. The nftables firewall ranks so far as the last revolution after ipfw, ipfadm, ipchains and netfilter. As the same team is working on the code, there is hope for users that there is continuing support for it."

Wiring in to the NYT NewsWire API

NewsAlarm - wiring in to the NYT NewsWire API | blprnt.blg: "Holding a smoke alarm, battery installed, is somewhat like holding an unwound jack-in-the-box. While you know that it shouldn’t go off, there’s still a nagging suspicion that it might. I get a similar feeling when I check news websites in the morning - somewhere in the back of my mind, I suspect that the world might have caught on fire while I was asleep. So, it made at least some degree of sense to me to build a News Alarm - a device that sounds an alarm when specific new stories are detected ‘off the wire’."

IBM Cloud Computing Webinar

IBM Cloud Computing Webinar | Zen and the Art of Programming: "The IBM Toronto Software Lab periodically runs webinars on information management related topics, which are called DB2 Chat with the Lab. These tend to be highly informative sessions, which wrap up with a Q&A time that enables attendees to openly ask questions on the subjects that were discussed during the talks. Best of all, these sessions are absolutely free to the general public and anybody is welcome to attend."

How to Write a Chrome Extension in Three Easy Steps

How to Write a Chrome Extension in Three Easy Steps: "Here’s how to write your own Google Chrome extension in three steps"

USB sniffing on linux

bert’s blog » Blog Archive » USB sniffing on linux: "The linux kernel has a facility called “usbmon” which can be used to sniff the USB bus. It’s been in there for ages, and the output is really easy to collect, even from the command line shell. Simply mount debugfs and insmod the usbmon module"

Home Decor for Absolute Geeks

Home Decor for Absolute Geeks: "So you think you are a perfect geek just because you have a talking Homer and a Space Invaders mug at your desk? No chance.
Maybe a lava lamp or a not-so-exclusive Google mini-fridge? Meh, go away.
To become a respectable geek you should do more than buying used schwags on Ebay for your cubicle. Not to mention that hanging solar system built using old cds is your one way ticket to nerd city.
To become a real geek, just take a look at this gallery of uber-cool home and office appliances, furniture and other decorative elements built just for this purpose.
Most of them are very expensive, and some others are just prototypes. But that shouldn’t be an obstacle in you search for a better geekness. Just be sure to get them now that you are single and free. No wife in her right mind will allow any of these at home!"

Numerical computing in IronPython with Ironclad

Numerical computing in IronPython with Ironclad — The Endeavour: "The purpose of Ironclad is to allow you to use Python C extensions (of which there are many) from inside IronPython without recompiling anything. The secret purpose has always been to get NumPy working in Resolver One, and in release 1.4 we finally achieved this goal. Although the integration is still alpha level, you can import and use NumPy inside the spreadsheet grid and user code: you can see a screencast about the integration here."

Why I don't like PHP

Conan Albrecht's Musings: Why I don't like PHP: "I just finished a three-day project in PHP for the Drupal CMS. While I really like Drupal, I definitely do not like PHP. Just so you know where I'm coming from, I prefer Python when I can use it. I also know Java, Javascript, C/C++, Pascal, Basic, and a few other niche languages. Of all those languages, PHP is near the bottom (very close to Javascript!). Here's a few things that have caused less-than-stellar language from me over the past few days"

Convert Old PC To Network Attached Storage with FreeNas

Convert Old PC To Network Attached Storage with FreeNas | MakeUseOf.com: "One of the biggest problems still plaguing the environment today are the mass amounts of electronics being tossed out on a daily basis. This goes for everything from cell phones to televisions to your outdated stereo system. While stuff like cell phones and iPods can be easily sold, it’s the personal computer that still lacks consistent recycling."

How to Change Your Life in 30 Seconds or Less

How to Change Your Life in 30 Seconds or Less - Dumb Little Man: "Too busy, too rushed or simply too stressed to even think about how you could go about adding a positive spin to your life? Trust me, I know. It all takes so much time: read a book, make a list, talk to this person, etc. If you do have the time, do you have the energy and determination?"

Automatic Language Identification using Python

Cognitive Science and Coding: Automatic Language Identification using Python: "I was playing around with an idea of an automatic language detection script for detection of languages using ngrams. The idea was to use a sample corpus for each language to build language profiles. For a sentence whose language is to be detected, a profile consiting of ngrams with relative frequency scores is built and then compared to the existing language profiles. The output is a normalized ranking score for each language profile, with 100 being the score of the best match."

15 Things Every Web Developer Should Be Thankful For

15 Things Every Web Developer Should Be Thankful For: "With Thanksgiving only a couple days away, it’s appropriate to look back on the things that we appreciate best about our jobs. Let’s face it: Web Developers have the best jobs around, right? We’re incredibly lucky to have the professions we do.

Here are 15 things that we all should be thankful for. These are the technologies that we couldn’t live without, or that have previously paved the way and allowed us to be web developers."

50 Brilliantly Photoshopped Movie Posters

50 Brilliantly Photoshopped Movie Posters - Psdtuts+: "Movie posters are meant to be attention grabbing, captivating, stunning and intriguing. The designers have a large canvas to work from, so their creativity has few limits. Because of this, movie posters can result in some of the smartest graphic design you'll ever see. Here are 50 brilliantly Photoshopped movie posters for your viewing pleasure."

10 Challenging but Awesome Flash Techniques

10 Challenging but Awesome Flash Techniques - Nettuts+: "These days, most Flash developers know how to circumvent the multimedia platform's short-comings and properly utilize its strengths. Here are some very clever Flash techniques that you can apply to your site, making them more useful, beautiful and unique."

Linux Up in Servers, Down in Netbooks; Android to the Rescue?

Linux Up in Servers, Down in Netbooks; Android to the Rescue?: "According to a Novel-sponsored IDC survey, Linux seems to be gaining popularity among businesses implementing servers, and it has a bright outlook for both server and desktop installations in the coming future. On the other hand, netbooks have seen less and less default OEM installations of Linux. Windows now has over 90 percent of netbook sales, quashing any hopes of an open source revolution in the form of netbooks. Android, however, may be able to change things."

Mimicking Twitterfall's Short URL Replacement

Mimicking Twitterfall's Short URL Replacement | InsideRIA: "Due to the size limitations of Twitter, most folks will use a 'Short URL' service (like tinyurl.com) to post links. The problem with this is that it is impossible to tell where these links will take you. I noticed, though, that when I moused over these links in Twitterfall, they actually changed to their full version.

I opened up Firebug and did some digging and noticed that these replacements were being done serverside. With that in mind I decided to see if i could build my own version of this code with jQuery."

Linux use booming in global recession

Linux use booming in global recession: "Businesses are turning to Linux en masse as they face massive budget cuts driven by the economic crisis, according to a new report."

11 Free Mind Mapping Applications & Web Services

11 Free Mind Mapping Applications & Web Services - Stepcase Lifehack: "Mind mapping is a way of taking notes, capturing ideas, exploring concepts and breaking down information into a more readily understood format. It’s a place where visual representations and written representations of things merge to create something that is more natural to the mind; it works with and represents the way we think, where as paragraph-based text is not representative of the thought process at all."

How to Embed Flash Panoramas in Blogger and WordPress

Digital Urban: How to Embed Flash Panoramas in Blogger and WordPress: "Another test of embedding Flash based panoramas into Blogger - this time with the Houses of Parliament at Night, click and drag to look around:"

Builder used Google Earth to pinpoint historic buildings before stripping them of lead in £100,000 raids

Builder used Google Earth to pinpoint historic buildings before stripping them of lead in £100,000 raids | Mail Online: "The 27-year-old, from Sutton, South London, admitting using his computer to carry out more than 30 separate offences."

Teens capture images of space with £56 camera and balloon

Teens capture images of space with £56 camera and balloon - Telegraph: "Teenagers armed with only a £56 camera and latex balloon have managed to take stunning pictures of space from 20-miles above Earth."

Incredible quadruple transit on Saturn!

Incredible quadruple transit on Saturn! | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine: "OK, duh, that’s Saturn. But you can see four moons crossing its face at the same time! Such an event is pretty rare, and very cool. The moons are (from left to right) Enceladus, Dione, Titan, and Mimas. You can also see the shadows of Enceladus and Dione on the planet’s cloudtops, too.

Whoa."

Recover Deleted Files With foremost

Recover Deleted Files With foremost | HowtoForge - Linux Howtos and Tutorials: "foremost is a forensics application to recover files based on their headers, footers, and internal data structures. Foremost can work on image files, such as those generated by dd, Safeback, Encase, etc, or directly on a drive. This short article shows how you can use foremost to recover deleted files."

Creating & Parsing JSON data with Java Servlet/Struts/JSP

Creating & Parsing JSON data with Java Servlet/Struts/JSP: "JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) is a lightweight computer data interchange format. It is a text-based, human-readable format for representing simple data structures and associative arrays (called objects). The JSON format is specified in RFC 4627 by Douglas Crockford. The official Internet media type for JSON is application/json."

Top 10 Java Workflow Engine

Top 10 Java Workflow Engine: "The workflow technology has been developed to streamline the design of information system. The workflow engines interpret the documents in the server and acts according to the computer defined process. They involve a wide range of functions from saving a document in a document management system to issuing new work by sending emails. More precisely, the workflow engines facilitate the flow of information, tasks and events. So here are 10 such java workflow engines for you.
Let's have look into the Top 10 Java Workflow engine"

JavaServer Faces JSF Validation Tutorial: Error Handling in JSF. JSF Validator

JavaServer Faces JSF Validation Tutorial: Error Handling in JSF. JSF Validator: "In continuation with my previous article on Creating JavaServer Faces JSF application in Eclipse, I am posting next article in the series. This time we will cover details about JSF Validation Model and Handling Errors in JSF.

JavaServer Faces technology supports a mechanism for validating the data of editable components. Each component in JavaServer Faces, created Error Messages during the life cycle of JSF and attached them to FacesContext object. Hence each message is attached to a component in the component tree and the message is displayed into the view at the end of JSF life cycle."

Science minister says his evolution views not relevant

CTV.ca | Science minister says his evolution views not relevant: "Canada's science minister said that he didn't answer a question about his views on evolution because he says the question is 'irrelevant' to his portfolio."

12 Man-tastic Man Caves

12 Man-tastic Man Caves | My Bad Pad: "Men are not your “typical’ decorators. They don’t care about the drapes, whether you use lemon, maize or tangerine yellow paint for the kitchen and they don’t care if you get a throw for the sofa. But if you give them their own turf, they’ve got ideas galore, many of which involve the latest hi-tech gadgets, comfy leather chairs and a beer fridge."

Scalable Vector Graphics and bitmap rendering using Flex

Scalable Vector Graphics and bitmap rendering using Flex: "SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) is one of the most important technologies in the graphics arena. Adobe Flash Player and its variant Flex provide full support for SVG. However, creating complex figures using SVG has always been difficult. Making SVG work with bitmap data requires an understanding of complex concepts like matrix rotation, transparency, and so on. Enter Flex. This article introduces you to the fascinating world of SVG in Flex. Create custom graphics and build appealing flashy components just by vector drawing."

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Debugging Development

Debugging Development - techPortal: "Programming, as much as it is about machines, is conducted by humans, and is as susceptible to human error as any process. These bugs can be frustrating, particularly when found by a client, but they can give an insight into underlying problems, and sometime suggest solutions – or at least ways of catching errors early. This article looks at four different classes of bugs: mechanical, mental, social and environmental, their causes, and some preventative steps."

Geo-located malware appears over the horizon

Geo-located malware appears over the horizon • The Register: "Malware authors have incorporated technology designed to find the geographic location of prospective marks as a tactic to enable more convincing social engineering scams."

5 Things You Shouldn't Do On St. Patrick's Day

5 Things You Shouldn't Do On St. Patrick's Day | www.holytaco.com: "When it comes to drinking, St. Patrick's Day is the ultimate amateur night. Follow these five, easy steps and you'll be able to celebrate the world's greatest holiday the way it should be celebrated."

10 Linux and open source developer tools you should not overlook

10 Linux and open source developer tools you should not overlook | 10 Things | TechRepublic.com: "Linux is a great development environment. But without sound development tools, that environment won’t do you any good. Fortunately, plenty of Linux and/or open source development tools are available. If you’re a new user you might not know which tools are there, but worry not. Here are 10 outstanding tools that will help you take your development to another level."

28 Must Read Articles For Growing Your Freelance Design Business

28 Must Read Articles For Growing Your Freelance Design Business | The Design Cubicle: "While attending design school one thing I regretted after graduation was the lack of business and networking classes they offered (seems to be a trend among other design schools as well from what I’ve heard)."

Dev kit teaches FPGAs to run Linux

Dev kit teaches FPGAs to run Linux: "Altera is shipping a development kit for prototyping and developing FPGAs (field programmable gate arrays) for embedded systems. The Embedded Systems Development Kit, Cyclone III FPGA Edition is a tri-board kit that can program NIOS II softcore FPGAs capable of running Linux, says the company."

Let's chat with Ajax

Let's chat with Ajax: "Want to chat with Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (Ajax)? Wish you could have a dedicated, open source Web chat pop up in response to a system event and let you know what's happening—for example, when performance goes below the guaranteed service level? Regular developerWorks author Judith Myerson introduces the idea of a two-panel chat for systems administrators to exchange private messages on one side and broadcast messages to general users on the other side. She offers solutions for chat server overload and talks about the issues of downloading Ajax Chat, how to change configurations, and even how to add as many channels as you want."

The Puzzle of the 3 Hats

The Puzzle of the 3 Hats - TierneyLab Blog - NYTimes.com: "Here’s another puzzle for you to solve, and another chance to win a prize. The puzzle comes courtesy of Elina Seppänen, a master’s student at the Tampere University of Technology in Finland studying energy technology."

Open letter by Jon maddog Hall: Saving Five Billion Dollars a Day

Saving Five Billion Dollars a Day - Linux Magazine Online: "By the way, would you look into the outcome of the Justice Department's law suit against Microsoft? Everything was going fine until your predecessor took office...."

The oddities of being a scientist-programmer

The oddities of being a scientist-programmer | Programming for Scientists: "The scientist-programmer is in many ways a peculiar being. Most of what you do each day is programming, yet the reason for your (professional) existence is to produce good science. We think it’s worth just taking a moment to think about this."

The RoboHorse - Turn Ordinary Animal to a Robot

The RoboHorse - Turn Ordinary Animal to a Robot: "In this tutorial I will show you with an example of horse how to turn an ordinary animal to a robot."

Fantastic Disintegration Effect inspired by Watchmen in Photoshop

Fantastic Disintegration Effect inspired by Watchmen in Photoshop | Abduzeedo - design inspiration and tutorials: "In this tutorial I will show you how to create the disintegration effect using brushes and the blur filter. It's really simple and you will be able to create nice designs using this sort of trendy style of effect."

How to Apply Textures to Uneven Surfaces

How to Apply Textures to Uneven Surfaces - PSDTUTS: "Applying texture to a flat surface, or flatly applying a texture across a whole image (as a means to age it or degrade it) is simple stuff. Realistically applying a texture to an uneven surface is much more hands-on (more so than simply overlaying a texture and changing the Blending mode)."

Near Perfection in a 30-inch LCD

NEC LCD3090WUXi LCD PC Monitor Review - Reviews by ExtremeTech: "Sometimes, you just need a big screen. Maybe you're editing large photos and you need as much screen real estate for Photoshop as you can. Maybe you need a large display for all those menus and flyouts from your favorite video editing package. Or maybe you just want a big display so you can have a lot of windows open at the same time. You could be a gamer, with multiple video cards and an overclocked CPU, looking for that perfect high resolution experience."

Creating pseudo 3D games with HTML 5 canvas and raycasting: Part 2

Creating pseudo 3D games with HTML 5 canvas and raycasting: Part 2 - Opera Developer Community: "This is my second article about creating Wolfenstein-like games with JavaScript, DOM and HTML 5 canvas; the techniques discussed are similar to those used in my WolfenFlickr project. In the first article, I created a basic map for the player to walk around in and a pseudo-3D rendering of the game world using raycasting techniques."

Create a Magic Night Themed Web Design from Scratch in Photoshop

Create a Magic Night Themed Web Design from Scratch in Photoshop - PSDTUTS: "The past days I was looking for inspiration in famous old paintings, and got interested on 'Starry Night' of Van Gogh and thought: Can I apply this to web design? And the answer is Yes! Then after several hours of work, here's my tutorial for you, an artistic web design depicting a 'Magic Night' concept."

Don't Join the "Cult of Done" - Stop Overcommitting

Don't Join the "Cult of Done" - Stop Overcommitting | InsideRIA: "This week some of my co-workers got really excited by the 'Done Manifesto.' If you haven't read it yet, the manifesto is comprised of these 13 rules"

Using Tweener for Scripted Animations

Using Tweener for Scripted Animations | InsideRIA: "Whenever adding effects to Flex applications, I usually user the built-in Flex effects. They work with most flex components, are consistent, and are reliable. However, in cases where you want your application to be very expressive, they don't always act like you want them to. In those cases, I use Tweener, an animation 'tween' library for ActionScript. In this post, we'll walk through a basic example using Tweener."

How the Linux kernel works

How the Linux kernel works | TuxRadar: "In depth: My trusty Oxford Dictionary defines a kernel as 'a softer, usually edible part of a nut' but offers as a second meaning: 'The central or most important part of something.' (Incidentally, it's this first definition that gives rise to the contrasting name 'shell', meaning, in Linux-speak, a command interpreter.) In case you're a bit hazy on what a kernel actually does, we'll start with a bit of theory."

The seven best Linux Foundation contest videos

The seven best Linux Foundation contest videos - Computerworld Blogs: "Linux doesn't have much in the way of advertising. While Apple's wonderful 'I'm a Mac' TV ad campaign is famous, and Microsoft's Bill Gates/Jerry Seinfeld ads are infamous, Linux really doesn't have anything. Now, the Linux Foundation is trying to change that with it's 'We're Linux' Video Contest."

ScanTWAIN, Proprietary Companies, and Free Software

ScanTWAIN, Proprietary Companies, and Free Software - Linux Magazine Online: "Kodak's recent announcement about the release of ScanTWAIN, a desktop application for scanners, was quickly picked up by the free and open source software (FOSS) media. After all, here was another large company now supporting the cause. Moreover, Kodak was doing so with TWAIN, the standard protocol on most operating systems, rather than just SANE, the FOSS protocol developed for scanners when TWAIN support for free operating systems was unavailable. The announcement seemed too good to be true -- and, unfortunately it was. Instead of being a minor cause for celebration, it raises the perennial question: When will traditional companies get serious about porting their products to FOSS?"

Bring a miniplex Home.

Jamis' theater thread! - AVS Forum: "The theater is pretty much done (as of November 2008). Here is an index to the most interesting parts and milestones of the thread. There are other interesting posts and pictures in between each step, but these are the ones that immediately jumped out as worthwhile to mention."

A module to send email simply in Python

A module to send email simply in Python | The GITS Blog: "The email and smtplib modules in Python are very powerful, but they're also a bit complex when you just want to send an email.

I wrote the mailer module as a front end to these two modules, in order to make the task of sending email in Python using SMTP as simple as possible."

10 Tips to help you avoid fake anti-virus software scams

10 Tips to help you avoid fake anti-virus software scams: "This topic is about a scam that's growing very fast and that you really need to be aware of: how fake anti-virus and anti-spyware software is being used by scammers and identity thieves in many cunning ways."

Ways to use public Wi-Fi safely

Ways to use public Wi-Fi safely: "The first thing to do in a public space is find the name of the network to connect to. Hackers sometimes set up similarly spelled networks, such as HavaHouse instead of JavaHouse. This is called an Evil Twin Attack. Once connected to the imitation network, hackers can get information from the computer and internet activity. It is important to verify the name of the intended network before connecting to one."

10 Annoying Habits of a Geeky Spouse

10 Annoying Habits of a Geeky Spouse | Geekdad from Wired.com: "Everyone has annoying habits, and a sizable part of every successful marriage is learning to live with those things each other does that annoy you. I think it's safe to say, too, that geeks have some habits that we think are awesome, but that non-geeks find a little...less awesome."

uTodo: A New GTD App for Windows «

WebWorkerDaily » Archive uTodo: A New GTD App for Windows «: "I’ve been looking for a new GTD app since moving back onto a Windows laptop. Things, the brilliant GTD app I was using on my Macbook, fitted my mental model of what a GTD app should be. For a GTD app to really work, it has to fit perfectly with your working style: using it has to be second nature. Since moving back to Windows, I’ve been looking for a new GTD app."

Open Source Use On The Rise, But Management Policies Lag

Open Source Use On The Rise, But Management Policies Lag -- Open Source -- InformationWeek: "The good news is the deployment of open source is growing. The bad news is that policies managing those projects are an afterthought.

Those are the results of an informal survey of developers at the Software Development West Software Development Conference this week."

Kevin Rose creates Twitter directory

Kevin Rose creates Twitter directory | The Web Life | ZDNet.com: "WeFollow is a simple site that lists top Twitter users by tags."

Twitter use prompts motion for new trial

NWAnews.com :: Northwest Arkansas' News Source: "A Fayetteville man who served as a juror is surprised over the hoopla that has resulted because he used Twitter during breaks and after a trial last month."

Facebook moving into Twitter territory

Facebook moving into Twitter territory: "Increasingly, Facebook and Twitter are overlapping, setting the stage for one of the biggest Silicon Valley rivalries over the next few years."

The Amount And Value Of Twitter Traffic

The Amount And Value Of Twitter Traffic - washingtonpost.com: "Much is being written today about the value of a large following on Twitter. Jason Calacanis wants to pay $125,000 a year to have Twitter recommend him to other users, for example. He thinks that over time accounts with massive followings will somehow be able to pull in $1 million a year or more in incremental revenue, assuming they then have millions of followers."

BBC hacks into thousands of PCs

BBC hacks into thousands of PCs | News | TechRadar UK: "The BBC has deliberately hacked into 22,000 PCs to prove the power of botnets, and the damage that can be done with a network of compromised computers."

Social networks 'are new email'

BBC NEWS | Technology | Social networks 'are new email': "Status updates on sites such as Facebook, Yammer, Twitter and Friendfeed are a new form of communication, the South by SouthWest Festival has heard."

Bozo the Clown creator Alan Livingston dies at 91

Bozo the Clown creator Alan Livingston dies at 91: "Alan W. Livingston, the music executive who created Bozo the Clown and signed the Beatles during his tenure as president of Capitol Records, has died. He was 91."

The Terminator Comes to Wall Street

The Terminator Comes to Wall Street: an article by Joseph Fuller about how computers worsened the financial crisis | The American Scholar: "How computer modeling worsened the financial crisis and what we ought to do about it"

The Untold Story of the World's Biggest Diamond Heist

The Untold Story of the World's Biggest Diamond Heist: "In February 2003, Notarbartolo was arrested for heading a ring of Italian thieves. They were accused of breaking into a vault two floors beneath the Antwerp Diamond Center and making off with at least $100 million worth of loose diamonds, gold, jewelry, and other spoils. The vault was thought to be impenetrable. It was protected by 10 layers of security, including infrared heat detectors, Doppler radar, a magnetic field, a seismic sensor, and a lock with 100 million possible combinations. The robbery was called the heist of the century, and even now the police can't explain exactly how it was done."

5 Features Every PC Game Needs

5 Features Every PC Game Needs - Plugged In by ExtremeTech: "A personal computer is a general purpose device, and it's rare for a PC to be a purely dedicated gaming system. PC systems themselves vary widely in their capabilities, so game developers certainly have their dev-chores cut out for them. Still, we'd like to see a few things standard in every PC game. This is one gamer's take, based on more years of PC gaming than I want to think about."

How to Make an iPhone App: Part Two

How to Make an iPhone App: Part Two | Popular Science: "In the first part of this series, we covered the 'nuts and bolts' for assembling a workable iPhone app development platform. Now that our desktop is cluttered with a mess of cables, it's time to roll up our sleeves and start cobbling some code together"

IBM, MySQL Open Beta for Data Storage Engine

IBM, MySQL Open Beta for Data Storage Engine: "A new pluggable storage engine has been developed for MySQL running in IBM i, V5R4 and V6R1 and is now available in beta. The product, IBMDB2I, works with MySQL 5.1."

'Watchmen' vs. 'Incredibles': no contest

'Watchmen' vs. 'Incredibles': no contest -- baltimoresun.com: "A tempest in an inkpot: That's one way of characterizing the mini-eruption over the relative virtues of the movie Watchmen and Brad Bird's 2004 Pixar smash, The Incredibles. Yet the contrast provides an instructive and entertaining demonstration of the difference between a work of art that inspires timeless love and affection and a cult item that begs for disproportionate devotion because of the impact it had on pop culture."

Pac-Man Power Up Energy Drink

Amazon.com: Pac-Man Power Up Energy Drink: Toys & Games: "Have your nemesis running for the hills after you drink this one."

Office supply model making

MAKE: Blog: Office supply model making: "So much time at your desk, so much raw material in the office supply room. What to do? Make monitor juju, decorate your geekosphere, construct marvelous models that'll delight and confound your coworkers. Here are a few of our favorite projects we've run into over the years for turning office (and corner coffee shop) supplies into ingenious little display models."

An Open Letter From WATCHMEN Screenwriter David Hayter

An Open Letter From WATCHMEN Screenwriter David Hayter - HardcoreNerdity: "You have to understand, everyone is watching to see how the film will do in its second week. If you care about movies that have a brain, or balls, (and this film's got both, literally), or true adaptations -- And if you're thinking of seeing it again anyway, please go back this weekend, Friday or Saturday night. Demonstrate the power of the fans, because it'll help let the people who pay for these movies know what we'd like to see. Because if it drops off the radar after the first weekend, they will never allow a film like this to be made again."

The 5 Graphic Novelists You Should Know Before Hollywood Destroys Their Work

The 5 Graphic Novelists You Should Know Before Hollywood Destroys Their Work : COED Magazine: "The first books to go down in flames will be those with established followings and awards under their belts, because they’re the best bet at turning a profit. So before Fox Searchlight goes stamping their name on some self-indulgent reels of celluloid at the expense of timeless art, there are a few names in the comic biz you should know, before everything they’ve touched their pen to becomes a merchandising exercise."

Amazon invokes DMCA against Kindle e-books from other vendors

Amazon invokes DMCA against Kindle e-books from other vendors | Politics and Law - CNET News: "Amazon sent a legal notice to MobileRead.com complaining that information relating to a computer utility written in the Python programming language 'constitutes a violation' of the DMCA, according to a copy of the warning letter that the site posted. MobileRead.com is an e-book news and community site."

Engineering is about tradeoffs: How hard will you work to save 68KB of disk space?

The Old New Thing : Engineering is about tradeoffs: How hard will you work to save 68KB of disk space?: "One of the recurring themes in the comments to my explanation of the historical reasons why there are two copies of Notepad was to use a hard link (or possibly a symbolic link) to save having to waste the disk space for two whole copies of Notepad. As I like to say, engineering is about tradeoffs. Let's look at the cost-benefit analysis."

Microsoft plans to reduce carbon footprint by 30 percent

Microsoft plans to reduce carbon footprint by 30 percent | InfoWorld | News | 2009-03-12 | By Nancy Gohring, IDG News Service: "The company says it will achieve the reduction by improving energy use in buildings and operations, reducing air travel, and increasing its use of renewable energy"

[STRONG PICTURE AHEAD] Python makes meal of maltese terrier

Python makes meal of maltese terrier - Northern Territory News: "A PYTHON has devoured a Territory woman's 5.8kg pet dog, including the collar and name tag."

Python: Bug Reporting Intergration

Python: Bug Reporting Intergration « DoctorMO’s Blag: "How about I create a python wrapper which is able to look out for exceptions, compile the execution path into a unique id and then lookup that id on launchpad. Obviously you would need to account for python libraries as well, the execution path processing has to be clever enough to pick up on what the last execution file was and what package that was a part of, and if the error was an external api error (defined class)."

Prototypal Inheritance Explained

Prototypal Inheritance Explained: "Newcomers to JavaScript often misunderstand its object oriented style. Inheritance, in particular, seems foreign to people coming from other object oriented languages like C++ or Java. When I was new to JavaScript, I tried to manipulate the language to fit the style I already knew. But there's a better way. In this short tutorial I'll explain how JavaScript implements object inheritance and how you can use it to your advantage."

French police: we saved millions of euros by adopting Ubuntu

French police: we saved millions of euros by adopting Ubuntu - Ars Technica: "A recent report has revealed that France's national police force has saved an estimated 50 million euros since 2004 by adopting open source software and migrating a portion of the organization's workstations to Ubuntu Linux. They plan to roll out the Linux distro to all 90,000 of their workstations by 2015."

Hack Apple TV With a Thumb Drive, Set It Free

Hack Apple TV With a Thumb Drive, Set It Free | Gadget Lab from Wired.com: "A developer on Tuesday released a patch enabling Apple TV to play practically any DRM-free multimedia file with the insertion of a thumb drive into the box."

Tea Vui Huang's Maya On-The-Go Page

Tea Vui Huang's Maya On-The-Go Page: "Tea Vui Huang's Maya On-The-Go mobile phone application lets you draw a NURBS curve by placing CVs. This application lets you draw a NURBS curve by placing CVs. The dotXSI 3.6 files it creates can be imported into SOFTIMAGE | XSI 6.5, while the Maya Scene files it creates can be opened / imported into Autodesk Maya Complete & Maya Personal Learning Edition 8.5 on the Windows, Mac OS X & Linux platforms."

10 Reasons to Avoid Office 2007

10 Reasons to Avoid Office 2007 - Business Center - PC World: "Rollouts of Office 2007 are on the rise, but are there caveats you haven't considered? The folks at ConverterTechnology think so, and although I love Office 2007 and its ribbon interface, I recognize that not everyone does or has even yet made the switch from a previous version."

Protect VBA Code

Protect VBA Code - Free Software Downloads - ZDNet Asia: "Protect VBA Code protects VBA projects from password cracking in MS Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Access, Publisher, Outlook, FrontPage, PowerPoint, and Project files. There are several password recovery tools on the Internet somebody could misuse to get your code if you protect it with a VBA password regardless of its length and complexity. Protect VBA Code offers much better protection than any VBA password. All known (to us) VBA password recovery utilities are unaware of the protection and/or can not remove it. Non-experts can not hack the password with a hex editor. Protect VBA Code takes a VBA protection expert to understand why the project remains locked. The VBA Bypassing/Backdoor technology is disabled. The software supports 2000 to 2003 MS Office file formats of the supported VBA host applications."