Samuel L Ipsum

Published on 4 months and 1 week ago

An alternative to the usual Lorem Ipsum: Samuel L Ipsum. It generates text like … Do you see any Teletubbies in here? Do you see a slender plastic tag clipped to my shirt with my name printed on it? Do you see a little Asian child with a blank expression on his face sitting outside on a mechanical helicopter that shakes when you put quarters in it? No? Well, that's what you see at a toy store. And you must think you're in a toy store, because you're here shopping for an infant named Jeb.

Bootstrap, from Twitter

Published on 4 months and 2 weeks ago

Bootstrap is a toolkit from Twitter designed to kickstart development of webapps and sites.
It includes base CSS and HTML for typography, forms, buttons, tables, grids, navigation, and more.

Nerd alert: Bootstrap is built with Less and was designed to work out of the gate with modern browsers in mind.

Initial development vs maintenance costs

Published on 5 months and 1 week ago

“…software maintenance consumes 60% to 80% of the total life cycle costs” (pdf)

“..two-thirds of a software system’s lifetime cost involves maintenance…”

“…CIOs are spending 80% of their budgets on maintenance…”

Source

Stripe payment service

Published on 5 months and 2 weeks ago

Stripe makes it easy to accept credit card payments online. They have a super simple looking API for PHP, Python, Ruby and Curl.

Here is a screenshot of their invitation page

Kendo UI - Setting the New Standard for HTML5 UI

Published on 5 months and 2 weeks ago

Kendo UI is a framework for modern HTML UI. Engineered with the latest HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript standards, it delivers everything needed for client-side, jQuery-powered development in one integrated, compact package.

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Nice jellfyfish

Published on 5 months and 3 weeks ago

Million song dataset and other music hacking stuff

Published on 5 months and 3 weeks ago

Echonest: Our platform powers smarter music applications for leading media companies and thousands of independent application developers.

How to process a million songs in 20 minutes?

A million song dataset to play with. The Million Song Dataset is a freely-available collection of audio features and metadata for a million contemporary popular music tracks.

JPEGmini compression

Published on 5 months and 4 weeks ago

JPEGmini is a patent-pending photo recompression technology, which significantly reduces the size of photographs without affecting their perceptual quality. The technology works in the domain of baseline JPEG, resulting in files that are fully compatible with any browser, photo software or device that support the standard JPEG format.

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Stanford Digital Photography Course

Published on 5 months and 4 weeks ago

An introduction to the scientific, artistic, and computing aspects of digital photography - how digital cameras work, how to take good pictures using them, and how to manipulate these pictures afterwards. Topics include lenses and optics, light and sensors, optical effects in nature, perspective and depth of field, sampling and noise, the camera as a computing platform, image processing and editing, history of photography, and computational photography. We'll also survey the history of photography and look at the work of famous photographers. Coursework is written assignments, exams, and photography assignments.

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Guide to UTF-8 encoding

Published on 6 months ago

Character encoding and character sets are not that difficult to understand, but so many people blithely stumble through the worlds of programming without knowing what to actually do about it, or say "Ah, it's a job for those internationalization experts." No, it is not! This document will walk you through determining the encoding of your system and how you should handle this information. It will stay away from excessive discussion on the internals of character encoding.

http://htmlpurifier.org/docs/enduser-utf8.html

Big Bike Rally Challenge

Published on 7 months ago

http://bigbikerallychallenge.co.uk/

Old Dakar rally bikes

Published on 7 months and 1 week ago

http://www.desertpistons.com/4strokesd/4strokesindex.htm

Tagging systems theory & DB structures

Published on 7 months and 1 week ago

Article about different DB structures used in tagging systems

Performance tests for the different DB schemas

Seduce me

Published on 7 months and 1 week ago

Nice shoes. Source

Business listing APIs

Published on 7 months and 1 week ago

Google Places API: The Google Places API is a service that returns information about Places — defined within this API as establishments, geographic locations, or prominent points of interest — using HTTP requests. Place requests specify locations as latitude/longitude coordinates.

Factual: Factual is creating the definitive database of local businesses and points of interest from around the world. We currently offer 30 million entities in 44 countries to developers and businesses through both data downloads and our API.

Brussels, a new direction for a ship without course.

Published on 7 months and 2 weeks ago

A thought provoking article about Brussels was published in De Morgen. Here is a translation to English.

Adults with imaginary friends are stupid

Published on 7 months and 3 weeks ago