February 2009
35 posts
New Media Douchebags Explained →
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10 Papers Every Programmer Should Read (At Least... →
Michael Feathers:
We’ve taken an interesting turn in the industry over the past ten years. We’ve come to value experiential learning much more, and we’ve regained a strong pragmatic focus, but…
Action Types | 3 Dimensional Typeface →
Action Types is a fantastic student project. Marcus Schaefer was trying to create a typographic toy to show children different types of fonts. The 3 dimensional letters consist of three…
Christian Faur →
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OCR Terminal →
An online Optical Character Recognition service where you can upload scanned images, multi-page PDF documents or even screenshots and convert them into searchable text documents. …
Buh-Bye CS4 →
So today, I tried to use Acrobat Pro 9. I get the stupid “This was installed as part of a suite, please run one of the other applications in the suite first” message. bad feelings start…this…
Adobe's Licensing Sucks
John C. Welch has been bitching today about how he can’t get his CS4 license installed. It’s been going on for a few hours now, and it’s pretty funny. Until it happens to you.
Yesterday, Apple replaced my MacBook Pro because of an issue I was having. The Genius took my old and new machine into the back room and transplanted the hard drive from my “broken” machine...
Counters in partials, a little-known rails... →
I don’t normally post rails tips that are New To Me, because I always feel like I’m late to the party and everyone knows the tip already. This one however, I vetted through some very experienced…
Cufón - sIFR alternative →
Cufón aims to become a worthy alternative to sIFR, which despite its merits still remains painfully tricky to set up and use. To achieve this ambitious goal the following requirements were set:
DoubleTwist →
DoubleTwist, the universal media hub from a team led by Jon Lech Johansen, is now available as a public beta for Mac OS X. Interesting and ambitious: DoubleTwist acts as a sort of universal digital…
WatchHoly crap this looks awesome! I can’t wait to give this a go. Great job, Ross and everyone else at 280North.
Asynchronous Downloading of Images in a Table View →
Mark Johnson, who is (among other things) an iPhone developer and also teaches iPhone programming classes, has posted a great blog entry on asynchronous downloading of images into a table view….
Anti-RDBMS: A list of distributed key-value stores →
Anti-RDBMS: A list of distributed key-value stores: Richard Jones is one of the developers at Last.FM, there are a lot of non-RDBMS out there these days. It’s nice to see so many of them compared.…
You. Visualized. →
Let me state, up front, that I am not really sure where I am going with this post. This is just a general observation I have noticed lately. Something that peaks my interest. I am sure that this is,…
This post over at Get Rich Slowly got me thinking about how I’m currently consuming video entertainment, i.e. television, movies, etc.
J.D. Roth:
To save money, we cut our cable to just the basic channels, which reduced our bill to $11.30/month. We also began to use the iTunes Music Store to subscribe to the shows that we wanted to watch. And over the past year, I’ve become a fan of...
Hotspot Login Fail
This morning, I’m sitting in Starbucks with my latte in one hand and my other on my keyboard going through my RSS feeds in NetNewsWire. (What, you didn’t know it was designed that way?) So, as is my habit, I began opening longer, more interesting articles in tabs in NetNewsWire and moved on through the headlines. A few minutes later, I looked up and noticed this:
That’s...
Watch“Better if we encourage our great creative minds to live.”
Twitter’s “Don’t Click” prank, explained →
[This information originally appeared here, where I also included an inert copy of the attack code.]
Fig. 1. A common sequence of tweets this morning.
Quick explanation of today’s…
Quick Tutorial: Gradient Strokes →
After reading Lensco’s comment “Cool tip, all we need now are gradients on strokes. Pretty please, Adobe?” on the previous tutorial Quick Tutorial: Adding Gradients to Text, I decided…
QuickLook Preview for Markdown at Fiat... →
SQLite Tutorial - Saving images in the database →
There maybe times when you need to save more than just text in the database, like a file or an image. SQLite versions 3.0 and later allows you to store BLOB data in a column. Using the data type…
MDK : Quicklook for markdown →
MDK : Quicklook for markdown
Quick Tutorial: Adding Gradients to Text →
I’m sure a bunch of you have seen this technique before in other blogs or are already aware of how to add gradients to text, but it is worth mentioning for those that don’t know this…
Super Bowl XLIII: A Week Later →
Some random thoughts about the Super Bowl that was…
Anyone talking about the refs doesn’t watch enough football. There were lots of penalties (almost all of which were deserved) as well as…
“What Next?” The Third Stage of Personal Finance... →
This is something I’ve been thinking about a lot from another perspective, that of personal organization, productivity, time management, whatever. I think a lot of people are really scared to get done with all the stuff they have to do because then they’ll be left alone with themselves and what it is they really want to do and who they really are and want to be. I’d like to say...
7 Things You Might Not Know About Me
Brett Kelly (@inkedmn for those of you scoring at home) tagged me in his post of a similar ilk. So, without further ado or superfluous linking…
1. I collect Pez dispensers
I have photographed (where by “I” I mean “@slb”) a bunch of them, but some of the pictures are kinda blurry as the battery got weaker. My collection is currently around 400 unique dispensers, plus...
The Shipwrecked HMS Victory Is Found →
The HMS Victory, which mysteriously disappeared along with its crew of 1,100 men on a stormy night in 1744 has been found. It’s the solution to one of the most intriguing naval mysteries in…
Some Comcast subscribers get XXX interlude during... →
Some people watch the SuperBowl for the game, some watch it for the commercials, some watch it for the halftime show, and some watch it for… porn? Forget Janet and Justin’s unfortunate…
Concerning "Everything Buckets"
Alex Payne (@al3x) recently wrote a post about what he calls “Everything Buckets.” You know the kind. Digital junk drawers that go by a variety of names such as Yojimbo, Evernote, and ShoveBox. In this age of ubiquitous capture and GTD’s emphasis on getting everything out of your head, this is an opinion that goes against much of the sentiment of computer users, programmers, and...
