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"Polypage was designed to ease the process of showing multiple page states in html mock-ups. By adding simply adding class names to a document you can imply state and conditional view logic."
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The UK’s only Web 2.0 accessibility conference. This is a conference for all web professionals who want to create web applications and sites that work for everyone.
September at paulcarvill.com, the home of Paul Carvill on the web 2009 at paulcarvill.com, the home of Paul Carvill on the web
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Hi, I'm Paul Carvill and I'm a web developer. I am Head of Interface Development at LBi, Europe's largest digital agency.
I also like walking, cooking, Bollywood and rock 'n' roll.
Archive for September, 2009
links for 2009-09-06
Sunday, September 6th, 2009links for 2009-09-05
Saturday, September 5th, 2009-
Asking important questions of the Industrial Age of the web — the age of web frameworks. "It’s a well-recognized fact that web applications are getting more and more complex, and the list of things you need to successfully develop, deploy, and scale a web app is getting longer and longer."
links for 2009-09-04
Friday, September 4th, 2009-
"The first thing she found is that young people today write far more than any generation before them. That's because so much socializing takes place online, and it almost always involves text. Of all the writing that the Stanford students did, a stunning 38 percent of it took place out of the classroom—life writing, as Lunsford calls it. Those Twitter updates and lists of 25 things about yourself add up.
It's almost hard to remember how big a paradigm shift this is. Before the Internet came along, most Americans never wrote anything, ever, that wasn't a school assignment. Unless they got a job that required producing text (like in law, advertising, or media), they'd leave school and virtually never construct a paragraph again."
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TimeAPI is an API to get dates/times from RESTful natural language URLs like "http://www.timeapi.org/pdt/in+two+hours"
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"In the late 1990s Finer started writing a piece of music that was 1,000-years long. [Its] first notes sounded at the dawn of the new millennium. It's been playing away continuously ever since in a lighthouse near Canary Wharf, and at various other listening posts around the world. It's a beautiful piece of ambient music that uses the chimes and harmonics of a series of standing bells played back in a changing sequence by a group of Apple computers. It takes 1,000 years to complete itself."
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Digg's DUI JavaScript library, at github
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Starts with "Myth #10: If the Design is a Good One, You Don’t Need to Test It"
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Some handy info about Python and the its various versions and locations on WebFaction machines
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Alexis Petridis reviews the mono-mix reissue of the Beatles oeuvre. "Plenty of 60s British bands covered material by black US artists: they tended to bowdlerise it, but the Beatles made it more visceral. There's something authentically deranged about their covers of Twist and Shout and Money."
links for 2009-09-03
Thursday, September 3rd, 2009-
Pentagram, with a project team led by Michael Bierut, discuss reworking the original, idiosyncratic Guitar Hero logo to be the basis of a new, extensible brand architecture
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Huge, long NYTimes magazine article on Spike Jonze and his adaptation of 'Where The Wild Things Are'. "Where the Wild Things Are” is arguably of a piece with Jonze’s earlier works; it features moments of transcendent beauty and moments of profound silliness. Just as in “Jackass,” characters smash things and throw things at one another. But it is clearly Jonze’s most personal film to date, and it is also his most ambitious. To bring Sendak’s characters to the screen, Jonze used a complicated mix of computer animation and giant monster suits. He shot in the forests of southern Australia, which required convening a crew of more than 150. The costume department alone was larger than the entire crew of “Being John Malkovich.”"
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There's an "apparent contradiction" in the HTML5 Web Storage spec, and Brady Eidson of Apple and Linus Upson of Google are arguing about it (is it 'precious' or is it volatile? Does the browser control it, or the user?)
links for 2009-09-02
Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009-
Kottke's MacBook hardware, iPhone 3G and Snow Leopard OS X upgrade went smoothly and almost completely seamlessly. The only problem? It went so smoothly and seamlessly that even after a couple of thousand dollars spent, none of it feels 'new'…
Channel 4 announce autumn 2009 Hindi cinema season
Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009Channel 4’s annual autumn Hindi cinema/Bollywood film season will this year have the theme “Movie Mahal: The Golden Age of Indian Cinema”.
The season starts with a documentary of the same name on Sunday night/Monday morning at 0:45am, focussing on the ‘glory years’ of Indian cinema from the late 1940s to the early 1960s. Indian cinema was at the peak of its glamour during this period, a time when it most closely resembled the movie industry in Hollywood. At this time the two cinemas also had the shared characteristics of the studio star system and the rise of the independent auteur such as Chaplin and Raj Kapoor. Since then the two industries have diverged considerably, perhaps never to so closely resemble each other again, but many commentators regard that period as the one in which Indian cinema was at the height of its power and creativity.
The season showcases some of the most popular, most critically admired and most successful Hindi films ever, featuring some of India’s most enduring actors and directors, including Nargis, Raj Kapoor, Dilip Kumar, Guru Dutt, Waheeda Rehman, Vyjayanthimala, Johnny Walker and, although coming much later than the others — in 1975 — Amitabh Bachchan. Most of the season’s films appear in Rachel Dwyer’s BFI book “100 Bollywood Films”.
Channel 4’s movies will be shown on Sunday and Monday nights on Channel 4. The full list is:
Mother India (Sunday 6th September)
Andaaz (Monday 7th September)
Mahal (Sunday 13th September)
Mr & Mrs 55 (Monday 14th September)
Pyaasa (Sunday 20th September)
Madhumati (Monday 21st September)
Awaara (Sunday 27th September)
Shree 420 (Monday 28th September)
Junglee (Sunday 4th October)
Mere Mehboob (Monday 5th October)
Gunja Jumna (Sunday 11th October)
Sholay (Monday 12th October)
links for 2009-09-01
Tuesday, September 1st, 2009-
For some reason features the first paragraph: "Britney Spears. Online poker. Lindsay Lohan sex tape. David Beckham. Pornography. Get rich quick schemes. eBay bargains. Michael Jackson. Free money. Manchester United. Tom Cruise. Gay, Tyson. Tyson, Mike. Viagra. Milfs. The X Factor. The war in Iraq. Barack Obama." Could it possibly be a bit of over-enthuiastic SEO?
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"I was amazed. Here is a new way of representing amounts of data that would be utterly incomprehensible as bare numbers or spreadsheets and a room full of developers and web designers were saying that it’s all very well making fancy graphics but that won’t put potatoes on the table, will it."
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"Instead of closing the title, the paper’s owner, the Newhouse family’s Advance Publications, has decided to relaunch the title online as Annarbor.com and publish a paper of the same name on Thursdays and Sundays. The Newhouses also own the ritzy magazine group Condé Nast and have a reputation for taking big bets — albeit not always successful ones."