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."