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"AppleMasters was a group of selected people from all over the world who used and endorsed the Apple Macintosh computer. According to Apple, AppleMasters were "an international group of educators, artists, designers, writers, producers, architects, inventors, scientists, business leaders, humanitarians, musicians, athletes and others who think different."[1] As part of Apple's "Think Different" advertising campaign, Apple would use the members in various forms of advertising – including company events and commercials. In return, Apple would reimburse the members with free computers and other Apple-logo'd equipment." Hmmm, I had been sure Stephen Fry was one, but perhaps I was wrong. But anyway — Jarvis Cocker?!
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"The songs of whales and dolphins can be beautiful to the ear. Now acoustics engineer Mark Fischer has created a way to make them visually pleasing too. What's more, his technique captures more information about the sound than traditional ways of visualising whalesong."
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"Almost anyone who loves tennis and follows the men’s tour on television has, over the last few years, had what might be termed Federer Moments. These are times, as you watch the young Swiss play, when the jaw drops and eyes protrude and sounds are made that bring spouses in from other rooms to see if you’re O.K." David Foster Wallace on Roger Federer, from 2006.
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"The model that I’m going to present here is essentially no more than a set of procedures that every team member has to follow in order to come to a managed software development process." I read recently that rather than prescribing a particular versioning protocol, Git really allows you to develop entire software development workflows. The more I use and work with Git, the more this is becoming apparent.
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This review of board games of the 2000's starts with Carcassonne and ends with Dominion.
January at paulcarvill.com, the home of Paul Carvill on the web 2010 at paulcarvill.com, the home of Paul Carvill on the web
paulcarvill.com
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 January, 2010
links for 2010-01-31
Sunday, January 31st, 2010links for 2010-01-29
Friday, January 29th, 2010-
"All one-hit wonders sound poignant. Even if you didn't like them at the time they take you back and everybody likes being taken back."
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"A celebration of the life of David Foster Wallace with contributions by Don DeLillo, Jonathan Franzen, Zadie Smith, George Saunders and others."
links for 2010-01-28
Thursday, January 28th, 2010-
"What follows below isn't intended to be a beginners guide to SPARQL here, we're just trying to show you a few of the queries we're using, sharing some of the useful things we've found along the way and highlight a few gotchas that have tripped me up."
links for 2010-01-27
Wednesday, January 27th, 2010-
"app.itize.us is a painstakingly curated presentation of the best produced and designed iPhone applications that are available for download via the App Store."
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"…it’s evident that Google, Microsoft, Apple, and even Yahoo are now competing in numerous different business arenas."
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"A web application used to build and maintain an archetypal, invisible website format that combines text, image, movie and sound." Read more about it at 'default design' exponent Daniel Eatock's website, http://eatock.com/ :
"The first time I made a website was in early 2000, I wanted to publish the works I was making. After experimenting with a number of templates I rejected them in favor of a list of links. This format did not seam like an ‘idea’ or ‘concept’, I had not invented it or copied it, I had made it with the same pragmatic and functional necessity as my shopping list, and my weekly to-do list. Unlike my other lists, my website list was interactive, each link opened a work in the area immediately to its right."
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There are many Continuous Integration systems available. This page is an attempt to keep an unbiased comparison of as many as possible of them.
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"About 200 people gathered in URLs Café at Yahoo! last night to take in the first installment of the Crockford on JavaScript lecture series. Douglas took the audience through a selective history of computer science and programming languages, focusing on the evolution of those features and conventions that would later give shape to JavaScript."
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Coudal.com linked to this, and I can't put it any better than they did: "Back Then They Didn’t Call Them User Interfaces. These Antique Radio Dials are beautiful. Some are backlit and some opaque but they all are attempting to organize the same information in a way that makes physical sense for dial-based tuning while making it easy for users to understand. UI problems are rarely new, and it sometimes makes sense to look back to see the way forward."
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Lovely design work comes out of Weightshift, and there's a real feeling of human endeavour behind it all.
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Lots of gorgeously represented human relationship and interaction data in 2009's Feltron Report.
Apache Continuum error: Provider message: No such provider: ’s’.
Tuesday, January 26th, 2010If you’re trying to use Apache Continuum and get the error “Provider message: No such provider: ’s’.” then you probably haven’t provided the correct SCM Url format in your project information. Importantly, it needs to begin with something like “scm:svn” e.g.
scm:svn:https://example.com/svn/project/trunk
links for 2010-01-26
Tuesday, January 26th, 2010-
"Inspired by the collation and sorting of random data sources, Danish design polymaths Nan Na Hvass and Sofie Hannibal are reinterpreting information and expressing it by way of wooden sculptures, hand-benched silkscreen prints and offset posters. The result is a crafted appearance of layers and textures that belie the hard-edged nature of the raw data." — until 27 February.
links for 2010-01-25
Monday, January 25th, 2010-
"I'm going to propose this as the First Rule of Coding for Drupal: We do not write code for Drupal."
links for 2010-01-24
Sunday, January 24th, 2010-
Interviews with geeks and nerds of all descriptions, about what tools they use to get the job done. It'd fascinating. I could read stuff like this all day long.
links for 2010-01-23
Saturday, January 23rd, 2010-
"BookBook is a one-of-a-kind, hardback leather case designed exclusively for MacBook and MacBook Pro. Available in Classic Black or Vibrant Red, BookBook brings three levels of security to your prized Mac. First, the hardback cover and spine provide solid protection from the rigors of the road. Second, the vintage book design disguises MacBook for superior security. And third, the stylish case protects you from being like everyone else because BookBook is totally original, just like you."
Not surprisingly, due to popular demand they are "Currently experiencing shipping delays…"
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Apparently I had a coorrupted Script Editor on my Mac running OS X 10.5.8. I have no idea why, I just know that Script Editor wouldn't run. It would start, but it wouldn't run. Following these instructions fixed it for me.
Fix for corrupted Script Editor on Mac OS X 10.5.8
Saturday, January 23rd, 2010Apparently I had a corrupted Script Editor on my Mac running OS X 10.5.8. I have no idea why, I just know that Script Editor wouldn’t run. It would start, but it wouldn’t run. Following these instructions fixed Script Editor for me. That link contains a new Resources folder to go inside the application package.
Done!