Why the internet can harm your reputation

What goes around on the internet, comes around in google.: "Be nice to your clients or you may suffer the consequences on forums such as Whirlpool, with complaints often appearing high on Google search results' front page."

Using the Twitter API with Python

Using the Twitter API with Python: "Twitter provides the Twitter API which can be used by developers to perform all the functions provided by a Twitter client such as update the twitter status, check the home timeline or the public timeline, retweet, update your profile etc.

To access all the twitter functionality, there are already user libraries created in most of the programming languages. You can find these libraries here.

Twitter API consists of three parts: two REST API and a Streaming API. The REST API are used to perform the user functionality like update status, view timeline, etc. The Streaming API are used for search and trend data. This tutorial is an attempt to explain in a simple way how we can use the Twitter REST API. I will be showing three examples for this. All of the other Twitter REST API can be used in a similar way."

Flight Attendant Makes Rap to Airline Rules

Southwest Airlines may suck but it's flight attendants know how to rap: "If these guys weren't happy at work they wouldn't walk the distance to keep costumers entertained"

PHP fluffed to suck data from Microsoft's cloud

PHP fluffed to suck data from Microsoft's cloud: "Zend Technologies has updated its developer framework to improve the way PHP applications float on Microsoft's Azure cloud."

Tether your Android phone to your Linux laptop

Tether your Android phone to your Linux laptop: "Picture this: Your working on a client’s machine running a complicated registry edit you found on a web site. You are working on said client’s network, when all of a sudden the network goes down. You’re not sure what to do next because you have no network connection. Ah ha! You have your trusty Android phone. So you fire up your phone’s browser only to find the web site is simply not functional on your phone. What can you do?"

How to Copy or Duplicate an entire Folder or Directory in Linux using a simple command

How to Copy or Duplicate an entire Folder or Directory in Linux using a simple command – SoftSailor: "For some reasons, Linux users are not still familiarized with the graphic interface yet and prefer to perform different tasks, administrators especially, using the command- line shell. For some tasks the command line does the job better and with more ease."

China's Next Supercomputer is using Linux

Can you say Linux Supercomputer in Chinese?: "China is on its way to make a new indigenous supercomputer build with custom microprocessors developed at the Institute Of Computing Technology. This supercomputer, the petascale Dawning 6000 is a successor of the current fastest supercomputer China has, the Dawning 5000a. The Dawning 5000a has been running on AMD powered microprocessors and Windows HPC Server as it’s OS. The Dawning 5000a ranks 11th in the world. Apart from that, China also holds the #5 supercomputer in the top 500 list."

Divining useful XML structure: An address record in XML

Divining useful XML structure: An address record in XML: "Examine a common information set—an address record—and consider the possible requirements to encode the information set and how to satisfy those needs with an appropriate tagging scheme. This article describes the three basic information analysis questions and applies those considerations to the decomposition of a typical name-and-address record."

iPad gives Netbooks breathing room

By th3 3rd generation and $1500 later, the ipad will be what it is supposed to: "As this tweet succinctly put it: 'What has no webcam, no multitasking, no HDMI port, and (possibly) no Flash, and costs $500? Hint: Not a netbook.' This tweet, of course, is referring to the Apple iPad. And, by the way, you can eliminate the parenthetical; the iPad definitely does not support Adobe Flash video. (Also see this post at Gizmodo.)"

Low On Budget? Consider A Desk Lamp + Softbox

Cheap light box for kick -ass photography: "If you read this blog long enough, you know I am a big fan of small strobes. They are portable, relatively cheap, can squeeze some intense light and great for on the go. Key words for this post are relatively cheap."

7 Free Things That Will Shove Success in Your Face

Things that you won't find at work but will lead you to success: "Here are seven things that will help you succeed, and they don’t cost a penny.
You see, success is not the result of good luck, being born in the right family, or intellectual superiority. Success is neither the property of the elite nor the possession of the privileged; success belongs to the brave soul who is willing to chase it down."

TV Shows You Should Be Watching

mental_floss Blog » TV Shows You Should Be Watching: "In tonight’s Late Movies, we take a look at a few educational, _flossy programs that deserve a spot in your TiVo Season Pass list."

Challenger Disaster Anniversary and the End of the Shuttle Era

Challenger Disaster Anniversary and the End of the Shuttle Era - Popular Mechanics: "Twenty-four years ago today—the space shuttle Challenger launched and exploded, killing the seven crew members on board less than two minutes after liftoff."

The 5 Worst Decisions Ever Made by TV Executives (Twice)

The 5 Worst Decisions Ever Made by TV Executives (Twice): "Your television doesn’t always learn from its mistakes. For example, giving the Tonight Show to Jay Leno again… we all agree that’s a terrible mistake. Jay Leno sucking is such a universal truth that typing it on the Internet is like screaming to a concert crowd that you like to get high. People will act like they’ve been waiting their entire lives to agree with you. Anyone who thinks it’s a good idea to bring Jay Leno back either A) doesn’t exist, or B) rapist."

6 of the best desktop search tools for Linux

6 of the best desktop search tools for Linux | News | TechRadar UK: "Tools such as grep, find and awk have often come to the rescue of gleeful Bashmongers searching for files buried beneath gigabytes of other items. But when a typical Linux distro takes up a couple of gigs of disk space, it's not hard to imagine that finding your files will only become trickier over time."

Methods for Animation Effects with jQuery 1.4

Methods for Animation Effects with jQuery 1.4: "The jQuery library provides several techniques for adding animation to a web page. These include simple, standard animations that are frequently used and the ability to craft sophisticated custom effects. In this article by Karl Swedberg and Jonathan Chaffer, authors of jQuery 1.4 Reference Guide, we'll closely examine each of the pre-packaged effect methods, revealing all of the mechanisms jQuery has for providing visual feedback to the user."

Top Websites for Sharing Programming Knowledge

Improve your programming knowledge with this great online resourses: "Whether you are trying to drive traffic to your own blog or are looking for assistance when developing – it’s sometimes useful to participate in programming forums and blogs by sharing knowledge.
I’ve compiled a list of websites where you can share your own knowledge or search for help on a problem."

Better Off Deadbeat: Craig Cunningham Has a Simple Solution for Getting Bill Collectors Off His Back. He Sues Them

Sue your creditors and have fun: "Unlike his neighbors' homes, Craig Cunningham's house in Northeast Dallas looks abandoned. The grass is dried out. The concrete slab under the front door is lopsided and cracked. The green exterior has faded to a toxic-looking shade. Yellow Pages pile up near the front door, and the black mailbox is stuffed full. Maybe the home has been foreclosed on. That wouldn't be a surprise in this economy."

Installing the Elgg Social Networking CMS

Installing the Elgg Social Networking CMS: "Open Source CMSes are the latest rage it seems, and we've tried out dozens. One that stands out above the rest for small businesses and personal networks is the Elgg open source 'social engine,' which can be used to create social applications. In this article we'll take you through the installation of Elgg, and show you how to get started with this social networking CMS."

Accessible HTML5 Video with JavaScripted captions

Accessible HTML5 Video with JavaScripted captions: "It’s great that HTML5 allows us to embed video into web pages that can then be displayed directly by browsers, without having to rely on third-party plugins. In the Opera 10.5 pre-alpha, this functionality has been added to Opera (on Windows and Linux; the Mac build is in development.)"

8 Powerful Awk Built-in Variables – FS, OFS, RS, ORS, NR, NF, FILENAME, FNR

8 Powerful Awk Built-in Variables: "Linux Awk Tutorial - Awk Built-in Variables ExamplesThis article is part of the on-going Awk Tutorial Examples series. Awk has several powerful built-in variables. There are two types of built-in variables in Awk."

Why the Apple iPad is a huge disappointment

Let the angry rants against the iPad begin: "I was there along with everyone else watching the live stream and reading the live blogs of the Apple iPad being unveiled today by Steve Jobs. And I was impressed, for a time. Then reality kicked in, and it became more about what was missing and what was bad than what was present and good. Once again, Apple is offering style over substance."

How to Work When You're Tired

What to do if you are tired at work: "We all have days when we just don’t feel with it. Maybe we were up late the night before, maybe we slept badly, or maybe we’re simply tired for no clear reason. But when you’ve got work to do – whether in your day job, on your small business or around the house – then you can’t just go back to bed. You want to stay alert, make the most of your time, and avoid getting distracted or making silly mistakes."

Movie made by chimpanzees to be broadcast on television

Welcome to the new Monkey movie business: "The world's first film shot entirely by chimpanzees is to be broadcast by the BBC as part of a natural history documentary."

In the Next Industrial Revolution, Atoms Are the New Bits

Atoms YES! Bits NO!: "The door of a dry-cleaner-size storefront in an industrial park in Wareham, Massachusetts, an hour south of Boston, might not look like a portal to the future of American manufacturing, but it is. This is the headquarters of Local Motors, the first open source car company to reach production. Step inside and the office reveals itself as a mind-blowing example of the power of micro-factories."

The Food System and Resilience

Let's talk about what's REALLY important, FOOOOD!: "For something as critical as food, it is common sense that society should design for resilience. Reliability in food production in the face of change requires a system capable of rapid evolution. Resilience is therefore a core principle of sustainability. Unfortunately, our daily bread relies on a food system that is not resilient. As I have explained before, this state of affairs is an outcome of government policies, financial pressures, cheap fossil fuels, and market forces in play over the past several decades. The result is a food system dominated by relatively few large actors, which creates conditions of rigidity and brittleness."

Get to know Apache Click

Java web development without MVC or Java Server Faces? Yep, just click: "Get introduced to Apache Click, a Java™ Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE) Web application framework that enables the creation of Web applications without using Model-View-Controller (MVC) patterns or JavaServer Pages (JSP). This article provides examples of displaying a simple Web page and creating a Web form that submits data that is displayed on a different Web page."

Anatomy of an Asterisk rick roll

Rick Roll on VoIp? Yep is possible: "I was inspired by a friend (EFNet - steve nash aka oz) on IRC - he (or his friend(s)) had setup an incoming phone number that would just rickroll you. Nothing else."

Ralph Bakshi: THE STREETS

Mighty Mouse producer street art: "Ralph Bakshi will return to Animazing Gallery in SoHo for a reception where his altogether new series of fine art paintings will be debuted in an exhibition entitled The Streets. This bold series of mixed-media construction/paintings was inspired by the gritty and colorful neighborhoods of Bakshi’s youth in lower Manhattan and Brooklyn."

The Reason You’re Stuck (and the one best way to avoid the six ways that will keep you stuck)

Don't get stuck in a rut: "Steven Pressfield first wrote about the resistance a few years ago. The resistance is that little voice in the back of your head, the one that tells you that it will never work, the one that insists you check your email one last time, the one that worries that people will laugh at you."

Apple's Tablet Computer Might Be a Flop

Apple fans will buy anything with the apple logo on it: "Interest in Apple's upcoming tablet computer, which is widely expected to be unveiled on Wednesday, has reached fever pitch. Despite all the hoopla, there are plenty of reasons why this device could go down in flames."

Learning To Learn

The best explanation to the structure of learning: "I loved drawing as a kid. A recent 'aha!' was realizing how similar the process of good drawing is to good learning -- they depend on recognizing and mastering underlying structures. My philosophy in 3 words:"

How to Filter Lists in Python

Learn how to manage lists in Python and you'll get hooked: "One of the very important things that Python offers to programmers, is the great lists handling functions. Lists are one great data type that you can utilize for lots of different tasks. Since Python is a high level language, it makes our handling lists a real breeze."

Face Tracking with the X10 Camera Turret

Easy way to build a surveillance turret system: "Whether it's for security, convenience, or even just fun, home automation is worthwhile—and it doesn't have to be too complicated. With some creativity and a little scripting or programming, you can put almost every element of your home at your beck and call. Appliances, fans, radios, or anything that can be plugged into a wall socket can be turned on and off via remote control—and that's only the beginning."

That 50's pc

Best retro PC mod ever: "What do you get when you combine one part 1950s TV with two parts of a vintage typewriter? A fantastically retro Philco PC, but of course!"

Lego- mindstorms nxt - CNC machine

DIY Lego cns machine: "Although in german, this page has all you need to build your own Lego CNC machine."

Storage Under the Stairs: 3 DIY Solutions

Storage Under the Stairs: 3 DIY Solutions - DIY Life: "Tight on space? If your home has a staircase, you might be overlooking some square footage that's right under your nose -- or more accurately, right under your steps! The area beneath your stairs is a common household dead zone, but it's actually the perfect place to stash your stuff. Here are three brilliant DIY building projects that let you convert this neglected nook into a smart storage solution."

Swinging and Tweeting with Java and NetBeans

Swinging and Tweeting with Java and NetBeans: "In this article by Alfonso Romero, we will discuss how to go about building a custom application for Twitter using java and NetBeans, instead of using the standard web interace. We will learn how login into Twitter using our application and also see the last tweet."

Packaging a Python Project using doit

Packaging a Python Project using doit: "The article won't attempt to reproduce doit documentation, but will explain how it could be used to solve a specific problem in a practical way. For a complete introduction of doit, and a description of all its features, please refer to the project documentation. Debian packaging or bazaar knowledge isn't required to follow the discussion, but it would be helpful."

Sony's First Linux Phone!

Sony's Iphone runs on Linux!: "Linux is gaining popularity in the mobile phone industry, thanks to Android. Sony Ericsson has also joined the Gnu-Linux club and announced the launch of their first Android-powered phone -- The Xperia X10."

Connect to a remote Linux desktop with x11vnc and Gtk VNC

Remote Linux administration made easy: "Being able to do remote administration is crucial to many system administrators. And there are plenty of tools available for this job. You can use command line tools and full-blown GUI tools. Of course many users prefer to do things as simply as possible. Fortunately Linux has the right tools to make such a task simple. The ability to do graphical remote desktop administration is just a matter of having the vnc server running on the target machine and then running the desktop viewer on the local machine."

10 scripts to create your own Linux distribution

Create your own Linux distro the easy way: "The best tools to create yourself a custom Linux distro"

48 best free apps from Microsoft

48 best free apps from Microsoft? ORLY : "Great free software doesn't necessarily mean open source"

Building a Twitter Bot

Creating your own twitter bot is not that hard:: "Meet Jason Thorton. To the people who know Jason, he is a successful entrepreneur in San Francisco who tweets 4-5 times a day. But Jason has a secret, he’s not really a human, he’s the product of my simple algorithm in PHP."

Super Mario - Why Don't You Get A Job?

Everybody should be able to pull their own weight: "Super Mario gets tired of doing all the work."

LEGOS under X-Rays

Best use for a X-Ray machine ever: "A medtech friend of mine xrays a lot of Lego in kids stomachs, and got interested in just xray of the Lego by themselves. These are the results."

TSA Employee Thought It Would Be Hilarious To Plant Fake Drugs On You

If you joke about bombs with the TSA they'll put you in jail :(: "So, a TSA employee allegedly planted a small bag of white powder in a college students carry-on, then pretended to 'find it.' As a joke! Or something! He's such a kidder!"

More Than Fit to Sit: 15 Clever Bench Ads

Sad people don't use benches to go and sit at the starbucks: "A bench is a bench – except when it’s also a platform for a surprising, thought-provoking, memorable advertisement that sometimes even functions as urban art. The best bench ads turn ubiquitous public furniture into interactive displays that entreat the public to get fit, go on vacation, try a new product and even conserve resources."

8 Harsh Truths that Will Improve Your Life

Life without pain is death: "There is no doubt that life has its ups and downs. However, how we deal with them can sometimes make all the difference. Today I want to share eight harsh truths that I've come to learn from life. There's also a message in each that I think we can all learn from, and when applied, will improve our lives infinitely."

How To Fall in Love With Your Job Again

Wally may want to read this: "When you first signed up for the job were you thrilled, excited and full of passion? Were you thinking 'finally I'm in a position where I can stretch out and really make a difference'? Did that all change the minute your boss started micromanaging? Or when you found out the guy you share an office with chats way too much? Or was it when the thing that initially got you excited lost its flare? Maybe it was the first job you were offered and thought 'well I better take it I don't know if anything else will come along'."

How to kill yourself slowly

Challenging might work sometimes: "You need to distance the few who care about you. Shove them away. Isolate yourself, and wrap yourself up in your pain. Refuse therapy of any kind even when your mother forces you to go as a child and attempts to bribe you with $50 as an adolescent. Don’t trust the friends who swear they won’t leave, promise they aren’t scared off by your insanity, and tell you that you really do matter. You must never talk or cry out no matter how desperately the words of a thousand expressions press on your teeth and try to escape off your tongue. Restrain your tongue; bar your mouth. Let it all fester and grow silently like a cancer inside you, killing you slowly."

The Ultimate How to Get Lean

When everything else falis, this might work: "At the moment, I’m in the last phase of my Bellyfat Challenge — I’ve lost a good amount of fat but I have about 10 pounds to go (or so).

I’m enjoying getting lean, but those last few pounds are always the toughest."

Flashier Great Tit Birds Produce Stronger Sperm

Damn nature, you are funky: "Male great tits with brighter breasts have stronger sperm, according to the first study to find a link between flashiness and sperm strength."

3 Simple Tips for Effortless Writing

3 Simple Tips for Effortless Writing | Write to Done: "I feel writing should be effortless. To some that may sound ridiculous, and a few months ago I may have agreed with you, because syphoning thoughts from your brain into a coherent structure is mighty difficult, but alas, I love writing too much for me to be content with its inherent difficulty."

Awk Tutorial: Understand Awk Variables with 3 Practical Examples

Awk Tutorial: Understand Awk Variables with 3 Practical Examples: "This article is part of the on-going Awk Tutorial and Examples series. Like any other programming languages, Awk also has user defined variables and built-in variables."

Solar Hot Water Heating

The Oil Drum: Campfire | Solar Hot Water Heating: "We often hear that solar thermal is quite cost effective, but if a person looks into the situation, it appears that solar thermal's primary use is for heating swimming pools and hot tubs"

Touchscreen Game Boy Advance is Really Just a Fancy iPhone Case

Touchscreen Game Boy Advance is Really Just a Fancy iPhone Case « Albotas: "Goteking thought it would be a good idea to turn his old Game Boy Advance into an iPhone case. He was right."

Six strategies for extending XML schemas in a single namespace

Six strategies for extending XML schemas in a single namespace: "The W3C XML Schema Definition Language allows several powerful techniques for extending schemas to include or redefine elements and attributes. In this article, learn six techniques to extend and redefine your schemas to enable development of robust information architectures that can accommodate enterprise information needs."

DSLR Suction Clamp Camera Support

Suction Clamp Camera Support » Curious Drake - What's bad for a cat is good for a drake: "This is a camera support gadget that can be used to support a camera or a flash on any even surface. Glass and polished metal work fine with it. I use it to shoot from my car by attaching it to the driver-side window. This attachment makes my car into a camera support. More than that, by rolling the window up and down I can change the hight of the vintage point. The main element of this design is a general purpose suction cap used for repairing dents on cars. I attached a Manfrotto ball head to it and, voila, I have a camera support. Neat, isn’t it?"

Unittest in Python

Unittest in Python: "Learn how to write and execute tests in the unittest framework"

Take Cool Car Photos With A DIY Specialized Car Rig

Take Cool Car Photos With A DIY Specialized Car Rig | DIYPhotography.net: "This tutorial will show you how to build a DIY suction cup mounted automotive rig on a budget. This is not necessarily the best way to do it, and there are many other methods. I feel this tutorial was very important, though, because it is easy enough for the average photographer and won't put too much of a dent in your wallet!"

Make your own map-based mashup

Make your own map-based mashup: "Map-based mashups abound these days. Mashups require services that can be mashed up. Location-based mashups need services that provide boundary information. With Web-based mapping providers, you can easily create a map-based mashup with little or no capital investment. In this article, learn how to create a KML boundary service from an ESRI shapefile to be used in mashups."

Ultimate Genesis: Sega's Official Console Emulator for iPhone

Ultimate Genesis: Sega's Official Console Emulator for iPhone - Ultimate genesis - Gizmodo: "Apple's finicky about emulators in the App Store, but most of the candidates have been unofficial, and dubiously legal. Sega's Ultimate Genesis, though, is official, and looks like a full virtual console for your iPhone."

Who are the Chinese? 5 Questions

Who are the Chinese? 5 Questions - Global Trade Best Practices Org || GTBP.org: "The genesis of this article, which is the beginning of an ongoing series, came out of a conference this fall at Bard College titled The Intellectual Origins of the Financial Crisis. Drucilla Cornell, from the University of Cape Town, stated her prediction for the future of the United States. 'The USA will become like Switzerland but without the banks, making chocolate and cuckoo clocks for the Chinese consumer.' Dr. Cornell went on to ask, 'Who are the Chinese? Does anyone here know anything about them or their culture?'"

Aliph Jawbone Icon

Aliph Jawbone Icon | Wired.com Product Reviews: "What would you say if we told you that the best thought-out product we saw at CES this year was a Bluetooth headset? After you stopped laughing, of course."

NSFW The Adult Entertainment Expo 2010: Adult Tech at its Finest

NSFW The Adult Entertainment Expo 2010: Adult Tech at its Finest: "The Consumer Electronics Show is all about being the first to see the hottest new technology and trends for the coming year. And the Adult Entertainment Expo is no different. Ok, it’s a little bit different just because instead of nerds in suits, there’s a bunch of naked girls there… but that’s just an added bonus because the premise is basically the same: what’s new and different in the industry. You walk into the Sands Expo Center in Vegas to music blasting, girls oil wrestling, some seriously talented strippers hanging upside down from poles, and well, technology. Aside from the noise and novelty of the main floor there is a B2B business section highlighting new vendors and affiliate programs. There are up and coming toy designers showing their goods and major production companies there, complete with talent in tow."

Film - The Coming Revolution in Indie Distribution

Film - The Coming Revolution in Indie Distribution - NYTimes.com: "LAST November inside a conference room at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, a film consultant named Peter Broderick was doing his best to foment a revolution. Mr. Broderick, who helps filmmakers find their way into the marketplace, was spreading the word on an Internet-era approach to releasing movies that he believes empowers filmmakers without impoverishing them economically or emotionally. Mr. Broderick divides distribution into the Old World and New, infusing his PowerPoint presentation with insurgent rhetoric. He has written a “declaration of independence” for filmmakers that — as he did that afternoon — he reads while wearing a tricorn ha"

5 Great OEM Linux Servers

LinuxPlanet - Reports - 5 Great OEM Linux Servers - Rackmount, Cube: "When you're pricing server systems, keep in mind that real server hardware is more durable than PC hardware, so it costs a bit more. Also keep in mind that because Linux is so flexible and chock full o' features, you can adapt these machines for all kinds of different purposes."

Build a dynamic organization tree using GWT and RESTful Web services

Build a dynamic organization tree using GWT and RESTful Web services: "This article shows you how to use GWT Tree widgets to display an organizational structure of a company, and how to implement an RPC proxy to integrate with RESTful Web services that provide organizational data and employee data. The article also discusses a lazy loading strategy to ensure a faster start up, to reduce the data download time, and to minimize memory usage."

Developers Join Cloud Bandwagon

Developers Join Cloud Bandwagon - BusinessWeek: "Is mass acceptance of cloud computing inevitable, given that most major IT vendors are shouting it from the rooftops and IBM even talks about the cloud in a TV commercial? The debate rages on. For software developers, however, it has become clear that cloud platforms such as Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Windows Azure are expanding options for their application deployments. (Windows Azure currently is in beta preview and moves to a full production stage on Feb. 1.)"

Essential Cougar Terminology

Essential Cougar Terminology: Pics, Videos, Links, News: "Going on a cougar cruise anytime soon? Here's a list of words you need to know."

DIY "Team Conan" T-Shirt!

Vickie Howell | Blog: I Love to Create: DIY "Team Conan" T-Shirt!: "Ever since I was a guest on Late Night with Conan O'Brien in 2005, I've had a bit of a soft spot in my heart for ol' Coney. Ok, I wasn't actually a guest, but I was still 'on' his show. Ok, I wasn't actually on his show, but a magazine that I happened to be on the cover of was briefly held by him during the broadcast of an episode. The details aren't really important, are they?"

Creating Dynamic RSS Feeds with Ajax

Creating Dynamic RSS Feeds with Ajax: "RSS has been around for quite awhile now. (The acronym stands for 'Really Simple Syndication' or 'Rich Site Summary,' depending on who promotes it.) It's great for publishing news feeds, comments and other types of information. It's also used to syndicate material to other Web sites."

JavaScript and HTML Tricks

JavaScript and HTML Tricks: "Here are some of my favorite JavaScript and HTML tricks. There are a wide variety of options: from storing and using hidden data to making HTML forms and lists look great. Each topic has a brief introduction showing you how it will improve your Web site. Then I'll go into each technique in detail."

Rich Internet applications using ZK

Rich Internet applications using ZK: "ZK, an open source Asynchronous JavaScript + XML (Ajax) framework written in Java™ code, lets you write a Web 2.0-enabled, rich Internet application without writing a single line of JavaScript code. Typical Ajax frameworks like Dojo have JavaScript libraries that expose certain API's for making 'Ajaxified' calls. ZK, on the other hand, uses a meta-definition based on XML to define the user interface. Translation to HTML code then occurs when this page is requested by the client. This article introduces you to ZK and gives you a real-world example of its use running on Apache Tomcat and connecting to a MySQL database."

Large-scale attacks exploit unpatched PDF bug

Large-scale attacks exploit unpatched PDF bug - Network World: "The SANS Institute's Internet Storm Center (ISC) reported Monday that they'd received samples of a new rigged PDF document that hijacked PCs using a bug Adobe acknowledged Dec. 14 . Later last month, Adobe said it would not patch the bug until Jan. 12. In his write-up of the sample, ISC analyst Bojan Zdrnja called the attack PDF 'sophisticated' and its use of egg-hunt shellcode 'sneaky.'"

The Futuro House: Space Age Architecture Comes Home!

The Futuro House: Space Age Architecture Comes Home! | Design + Ideas on WU: "Evoking images of flying saucers, interplanetary space pods and science fiction futurism, the Futuro house offered homeowners a chance to live in the future without ever leaving their front yards. Finnish architect Matti Suuronen designed the Futuro house in 1968 but only 96 of the fiberglass-reinforced polyester plastic pods were produced over a 5-year period – killed by the 1973 Oil Crisis that tripled the price of plastics. Today, roughly half of the ellipsoid structures have been accounted for and their iconic design has made them a favorite of pop culture collectors, retrofuturism fans and all those who appreciate the impact of 1960s Space Age style."

The rising importance of cross-platform applications

The rising importance of cross-platform applications | The Open Road - CNET News: "Martin Luther King Jr. dreamed of a day when we would 'transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood.' In the technology world, perhaps that notion might be applicable to the dream of a day when we'd get beyond incompatible operating systems to have a truly interoperable software application industry."

The 9 most important events in Open Source history

The 9 most important events in Open Source history | Royal Pingdom: "Have you ever wondered about those key moments in time that made open source software such an immense success story? We just did, and here below is our list."

The Avatar Movie and the Mining of Oil Sands

The Oil Drum | The Avatar Movie and the Mining of Oil Sands: "The movie Avatar gets the mining bit wrong. And not by just a little – but then us villains are rarely understood, so what should we expect? OK so what is a popular, nay perhaps even genre changing movie got to do with technical talks about fossil fuel production? Well, fairly early in the movie it is made clear that the sole purpose for the plot is to mine “unobtainium” which is a mineral with all sorts of value. Now I’m not going to give away much of what goes on in this movie (and I agree with most of that review by the way) but the fallacy over how they mine the deposits on the planet is one of the lessons learned from the mining of the oil sands in Alberta, which is actually what I want to discuss a little today. In the movie they use a variation on a bucket wheel excavator – which in today’s world looks like this:"

Twitter joke led to Terror Act arrest and airport life ban - Home News, UK - The Independent

Kiss you damned liberties goodbye: "When heavy snowfall threatened to scupper Paul Chambers's travel plans, he decided to vent his frustrations on Twitter by tapping out a comment to amuse his friends. 'Robin Hood airport is closed,' he wrote. 'You've got a week and a bit to get your shit together, otherwise I'm blowing the airport sky high!!'"

How to Properly Create a Website Index Page

PHP Design Patterns - How to Properly Create a Website Index Page | Programming Tips That Help You Become a Better Programmer: "If you are a newcomer to PHP programming but an experienced programmer overall, chances are that you find PHP pretty simple to program with. PHP is actually a combination of C++ and Perl, created so that we can write our websites along with database management and more."

Osama Bin Laden is parodied in toy form

Osama Bin Laden is parodied in toy form | The Sun |News: "A RANGE of Lego-style fighting figures - including an al-Qaeda terrorist - has been slammed by religious leaders."

Lego Router (WRT54GL)

Lego Router (WRT54GL) « Luke’s Weblog: "So, I got the urge to build something again. As I looked around my room, I noticed the five Linksys WRT54GL routers I had bought from Amazon.com when they were on sale. Of course I immediately thought, “I wonder if that would fit nicely in a Lego case?”. So I opened one up and measured the circuit board. It looked like it would be a good fit, so I decided to go ahead and design a case for it. This is the result."

5 Ways Foursquare is Changing the World

5 Ways Foursquare is Changing the World: "Sometimes the smallest changes in the status quo can have the greatest impact on the world. So while Foursquare may appear to be nothing more than a mobile application getting excessive buzz, it’s actually fueling the location-based mobile space with unique creativity that competitors can’t copy fast enough."

Secrets of Successful Self-directed Work

Secrets of Successful Self-directed Work: "We all know that working for yourself can be lonely, rewarding, challenging, exciting — and just plain hard. But if you haven’t worked for yourself before, and you’re considering it, it can be difficult to imagine exactly what it’ll actually be like. It can be even harder to understand what some of the lesser-discussed pitfalls of the process will actually mean to your daily schedule, your productivity and your attitude."

German government warns against using MS Explorer

BBC News - German government warns against using MS Explorer: "The German government has warned web users to find an alternative browser to Internet Explorer to protect security."

Camera Rocket - 1st Flights

I Build Rockets - Camera Rocket - 1st Flights: "With the rocket season here very quickly coming to a close, I had a chance to launch this weekend just gone. I have a number of electronic payloads I really want to get into the air at the moment (including a BeeLine tracking transmitter, altimeter and a beeping locator beacon). As time was short, I decided to try out the new 'Gum stick' camera I recently purchased on eBay. I managed two flawless launches on Sunday and here's the footage:"

Could You Achieve More By Doing Less? - by Dumb Little Man

Could You Achieve More By Doing Less? - by Dumb Little Man: "How many different goals are you chasing at the moment? Are you trying to get fit, cut your caffeine intake, write a novel, start a business, learn to draw, become an early riser, volunteer, get a promotion ... all at the same time?"

Dealing with data in XML

Dealing with data in XML: "Normally, when you store data in an XML file, you need to be careful about encoding it in a way that's safe and won't confuse the XML parser. The special XML markup characters need to be translated into entities, which can be cumbersome if you're writing the XML yourself in a text editor. To avoid this, you can use the CDATA section to store the data directly without having to worry about encoding. This article will tell you about XML CDATA sections and show you how to use them when you need to ship marked-up data along with your XML file."

Conan Puts The Tonight Show for Sale on Craigslist

Conan Puts The Tonight Show for Sale on Craigslist: "it appears that the listing itself is no joke, and can be found under the for sale/wanted > collectibles category in Los Angeles. Titled “4 SALE: BARELY-USED LATE NIGHT TALK SHOW,” Conan’s looking for your best offer, but also “willing to trade for Coldplay tickets.”"

Researchers use PC to crack encryption for next-gen GSM networks

Researchers use PC to crack encryption for next-gen GSM networks: "'We can all agree that's a bit disturbing,' says researcher"

Sailing the Caribbean - Learning the Ropes for $55 a Day

The Caribbean Issue - Sailing the Caribbean - Learning the Ropes for $55 a Day - NYTimes.com: "CONSIDERING that none of us newbies had any idea what we were doing, the voyage south from St. Lucia was going well. At 10:30 a.m., amid gray but not ominous skies, the S.V. Illusion — the 75-foot, two-masted schooner on which I and two others were novice sailors — had weighed anchor off the coast of Vieux Fort, a sleepy city at the island’s southern tip, and steered into deeper waters. The sea was mild, with five-foot swells rocking us just enough to make walking a conscious effort, and when Norman Garnett, the Illusion’s 61-year-old English captain, gave the order, we scrambled to pull, feed, winch and cleat a series of ropes that unfurled our three sails, which caught and tightened in the wind. We were sailing!"

Ryubin's Flash Panorama

Ryubin's Flash Panorama: "'Spherecam' is the name of an omni-directional image shooting system developed by Dan Slater in 1992.The basic idea of the system is to put together two fisheye-mounted cameras back to back, so that a full 360x180-degree ultra-wide still image covering all possible viewing directions can be simultaneously captured at a single instance."

Pixar Has a Worthy Oscar Competitor in ‘Fantastic Mr. Fox’

Pixar Has a Worthy Oscar Competitor in ‘Fantastic Mr. Fox’ - NYTimes.com: "Figuring out which film will win the Academy Award for best animated feature is usually the easiest part of filling out a ballot for your Oscar pool. Go down the list of nominees — often only three, because so few make the cut — and find the one produced by Pixar. Circle it."

Earthquake in Haiti in Pictures

Earthquake in Haiti - The Big Picture - Boston.com: "Tuesday afternoon, January 12th, the worst earthquake in 200 years - 7.0 in magnitude - struck less than ten miles from the Caribbean city of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The initial quake was later followed by twelve aftershocks greater than magnitude 5.0. Structures of all kinds were damaged or collapsed, from shantytown homes to national landmarks. It is still very early in the recovery effort, but millions are likely displaced, and thousands are feared dead as rescue teams from all over the world are now descending on Haiti to help where they are able. As this is a developing subject, I will be adding photos to this entry over the next few days, but at the moment, here is a collection of photos from Haiti over the past 24 hours."

Integrate Google Book Search into a PHP application

Integrate Google Book Search into a PHP application: "Google Books allows Web application developers to access book lists and metadata through its REST-based developer API. The Zend Framework's Gdata module is able to process the XML feeds generated by this API and use it in the context of customized Web applications. This article introduces the Google Book Search Data API, demonstrating how you can use it to search for books by keyword, author, and title; retrieve book thumbnails and previews; and add reviews and labels to user libraries."

Zamboni Desk Vacuum For Office Daydreaming

Zamboni Desk Vacuum For Office Daydreaming: "Much like a real Zamboni cleans blood and teeth off ice at a Hockey arena, this mini Zamboni vacuum will clean dust and crumbs off the surface of your desk. Finger drive this baby around and you’ll get a much needed mental vacation away from the pressures of the office and indulge in the magical world of a corporate Zamboni operator. When you return to reality, laughs, a denied promotion and a thumbs up from the cleaning crew will be waiting for you."

Yet Another Sudoku Puzzle Solver Using AWK

Yet Another Sudoku Puzzle Solver Using AWK: "We have seen in a previous awk introduction article that awk can be an effective tool for everything from small one-liners up through some interesting applications. There are certainly more complex languages at our disposal if a situation calls for it; perl and python come to mind. Applications requiring networking support, database access, user interfaces, binary data or more extensive library support and complexity are best left to other languages with better support in these areas."

Servers in the enterprise: Windows beating Linux 2 to 1

Servers in the enterprise: Windows beating Linux 2 to 1 | Royal Pingdom: "According to a new data center survey, Windows-based servers are more than twice as common in the enterprise as Linux servers.

The Symantec-sponsored survey included answers from the IT departments of 1,780 enterprises in 26 countries. It included small, medium-sized and large enterprises from a wide variety of industries, with the lower limit being companies with at least 1,000 employees."

How to use Diffing to Make Cheats for Games

How to use Diffing to Make Cheats for Games | Programming Tips That Help You Become a Better Programmer: "More than 6-7 years ago, i’ve written a small tutorial for the great and well known Krobar’s website that featured thousands of reverse engineering tutorials at the time. This essay was about diffing, a technique that, among other things, can be used to make cheats for games. Unluckily, in today’s games there is a high chance that this one will not work, due to serialization, encryption or compression."

Guerilla Marketing: 22 Ads from Bizarre to Brilliant

Guerilla Marketing: 22 Ads from Bizarre to Brilliant | Design + Ideas on WU: "Guerilla marketing is about using a small budget for big results. Some guerilla ad campaigns are completely waged on the social media front. Others are creatively brilliant, while still others are simply strange. Here are guerilla marketing campaigns, 22 ads from bizarre to brilliant."

20 Killer Perl Programming Tips for Beginners on UNIX / Linux OS

20 Killer Perl Programming Tips for Beginners on UNIX / Linux OS: "If you are a Linux sysadmin who writes occasional perl code (or) a developer who wants to learn perl program language, these 20 basic perl programming tips and tricks explained in this article will give you a jumpstart."

10 free iPhone apps for effectively managing your website

10 free iPhone apps for effectively managing your website | Royal Pingdom: "If you are a webmaster and you have an iPhone then prepare yourself, because here is a list of ten of the very best iPhone apps for webmasters. These apps will help you to manage your website, on the go and with ease. Best of all these apps are free to download. With the exception of Chartbeat and Analytics Agent Lite, these apps are fully functional versions, and each is useful in its own unique way."

3 Main Causes of Kernel Errors

3 Main Causes of Kernel Errors: "A kernel error is a failure in some code critical to Windows. If you have ever encountered a Blue Screen of Death (BSoD), then you have seen a kernel error. Windows is actually several layers of programs made to work together. You can think of Windows as if it were your body, with many pieces working together to make a whole, and, like your body, some parts of Windows are more important than others."

Why Twitter is Digg’s biggest threat

Why Twitter is Digg’s biggest threat | Royal Pingdom: "The launch of the social news site Digg in 2004 was the perfect example of a good idea at the right time. That was the year the term “Web 2.0″ started being thrown about to describe the rise of new web technologies that allowed for more interactive sites, and an increased focus on user collaboration. Back then, the notion of a news site that was driven almost entirely by users was completely new and innovative, and Digg quickly rose in popularity. It sparked the rise of many similar social news sites, and was also the beginning of founder Kevin Rose’s move from television personality to web entrepreneur."

Manage your business documents with Kraft

Manage your business documents with Kraft: "If you run, own, or work for a business you know that communication is the key to success is successful communication. And to keep communication working well you must have a means to manage communication. Of course communication breaks into numerous categories. The Documents category is one that can not be overlooked. Documents can be invoices, letter heads, form letters, offers, and more. For many the managing of these documents means dumping them in a folder and hoping for the best. For small to medium sized businesses this is not the best means to manage the amount of documents that come and go. A better way is to use a software designed just for this purpose."

Weird Military Innovations: 10 Crazy Weapons of War

Weird Military Innovations: 10 Crazy Weapons of War | Design + Ideas on WU: "In war, innovation can mean the difference between a glorious victory and a world shattering defeat. When research and development departments have the funding of a desperate nation behind them, and are faced with a long and brutal campaign, the ideas that are spawned can turn the tide of battle. It’s inevitable that some of the wilder ideas would later seem ridiculous. Here are 10 of the most extreme, and odd, military weapons created in the 20th century"

Mirror, Mirror Syndrome

Mirror, Mirror Syndrome | Psychology Today: "Why we can't (or won't) move on from bad jobs, bad relationships, and bad habits, and how we can all move ahead."

Step-a-sketch Powered By Nerd

Step-a-sketch | Powered By Nerd: "This little number sure is a treat. It would work considerably better on a new Etch-a-Sketch, but my son had one laying about, just itching to be “borrowed.” This one had already been subject to the abuse common to childrens toys, and as such, has some rough spots that result in uneven movement of the stylus. That being said, it can still match the skills of the Etch-a-Sketch Elite. Hooked yet? Here’s what you’ll need."

And the most engaging social network is…

And the most engaging social network is… | Royal Pingdom: "Figuring out how engaging a site is can be tricky. We could look at the number of page views per visit, but that number alone doesn’t really tell us much. We also need to take into consideration how often visitors come back to a site. After all, if we return frequently to a site and also view many pages when we do, it’s likely that find the site engaging."

Best Graphics Cards For The Money: January 2010

Best Graphics Cards For The Money: January 2010 : January Updates - Review Tom's Hardware: "So, if you don’t have the time to research the benchmarks, or if you don’t feel confident enough in your ability to pick the right card, then fear not. We at Tom’s Hardware have come to your aid with a simple list of the best gaming cards offered for the money."

Online Calendar Management Roundup: How Do You Plan Your Days?

Online Calendar Management Roundup: How Do You Plan Your Days? - by Dumb Little Man: "Calendar management software has moved in a couple different directions in the last few years, and the crowded field is filled with solutions that offer a wide range of benefits and features. The list below is a partial list that I put together top help you navigate the field. To make it on the list, multiple calendars must be a feature and the ability to share or publish those calendars to others was a must."

Cartooning: What's Wrong With This Picture?

ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive: Cartooning: What's Wrong With This Picture?: "Whenever I see straightforward, appealing cartoons like this, I wonder... Why are CGI designs are so needlessly complex and realistic? And why are Flash characters so flat that it limits their ability to be posed? Here are cartoony, stylized designs that have volume and work well within the perspective of a three dimensional environment. These sorts of characters would be easy to animate expressively using just about any technique- hand drawn, CGI, puppet, clay or Flash. Naturally, the subject matter here is dated, but the basic proportions and shapes could easily be applied to a more modern context. I'd love to see contemporary cartoons that are this simple and fun again."

8 Unconventional Ways to De-stress and Release Tension

8 Unconventional Ways to De-stress and Release Tension: "As we move through our daily routines we are often faced with obstacles and challenges which can lead to some degree of stress and anxiety. So to become more relaxed and free of tensions it is important to break away from your ordinary routine and find ways to de-stress. This process can be very simple or more in depth, but why not try something new and different? Here are 8, not your everyday ordinary, ways to de-stress and release tensions."

Manipulate CSV data with Python and pureXML

Manipulate CSV data with Python and pureXML: "IBM® DB2® pureXML® allows you to store XML data natively in a relational database management system, giving you the power and flexibility to report on this data without disturbing the advantages that its XML format offers. In this tutorial, you will learn how to connect to a DB2 database from the Python programming language, importing data about population from the United States Census Bureau. You will use Python to convert this CSV file into XML, before inserting this XML data natively into DB2. Finally, you will use Python to create a command-line application that produces some informative tables that you can access through a menu system."

Creative Billboard Advertising Campaigns

Creative Billboard Advertising Campaigns | Design + Ideas on WU: "Billboards are so ubiquitous in the modern world, many people barely even notice them anymore. So, some advertisers have gotten ultra-creative with their outdoor advertising, relying on eye-catching imagery and unusual proportions to grab the attention of the public. From shocking props like sliced pigeons to a billboard you can eat, these 15 clever advertising campaigns expand outside the box to interact with the world outside."

Back from a vacation? Don't waste a precious clear mind.

Back from a vacation? Don't waste a precious clear mind. | Psychology Today: "Many people today think for a living. If you are one of these people, then like me you've probably noticed just how much better you are able to think after a break of some sort, especially a break where you haven't thought about work for a while."