Architecting Javascript Apps
"a good measure is: how usable from the (Webkit/Firebug) console it is? If you can almost entirely pilot your app from the console, you're on the right track."
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Brisbane Outdoor Gear | Custom handmade outdoor gear
Bag manufacturer in bris vegas. Among other things, they make messanger bags. Recommended by John Barton
Australia Post - Online sales - Pay it @ Post
Payment service provided by auspost so that website users can pay even without a credit card.
Earth, Wind and Rider :: Men's Bamboo Tees
Everything you ever wanted to know about CC's
Anatomy of Credit Card Numbers
digitalBush » Watermark Input Plugin
It's the Latency, Stupid
Dan's Blog - Github service hook for Pivotal Tracker
linking github commits with pivotal tracker stories
ABC News
The Ghetto Mini-Pattern - The Fishbowl
Hide your ugly code inside a Ghetto. The ghetto is a single file or class where issues of code cleanliness do not apply. It is entered by reputable developers with no small amount of trepidation, and left as quickly as possible. On the other hand, it does the job, and it keeps the bad elements away from more cultured code.
YouTube - RSA Animate - Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates us
Computing time offsets between EXIF and GPS
small C app for adding GPS tags to photos
It's official: Software will be unpatentable in NZ -- NZCS News
Despite what appears to be a big-budget lobbying effort by the pro-patent fraternity, Hon Simon Power announced today that he wouldn't be modifying the proposed Patents Bill hence software will be unpatentable once the Bill passes into law.
Where will bookstores be five years from now? – The Shatzkin Files
we’re talking about a brick-and-mortar decline from 72% of the market today to 25% in 5 years! That’s a loss of about two-thirds from today’s sales levels! And that’s across all stores: chain bookstores, independent bookstores, and mass merchants.
Using Inheritance Patterns to Organize Large jQuery Applications « AlexSexton.com
NYS Open Records Discussion Must Recognize Technical Requirements
An open letter on why PDF and PDF/A are the most appropriate formats for long term document storage
Vacation rentals, private rooms, sublets by the night - Accommodations on Airbnb
svn.freebsd.org - Import the Statistical Information For TCP Research (SIFTR) kernel module into FreeBSD.
SVN where Law merged out siftr code into freebsd mainline
keeping track of electioneering | ElectionLeaflets.org.au
Federal Election 2010 | Live election leaflet monitoring
Practical, Visual, Three-Dimensional Pedagogy for Internet Protocol Packet Header Control Fields « Righteous IT
"Holy &^%@! That idiot made a TCP header diagram in Lego(TM)!"
Highcharts - Interactive JavaScript charts for your webpage
Holly Miranda: Enema (by Tool) on Vimeo
How party preferences picked Family First - Election 2004 - www.theage.com.au
No Callbacks, No Threads & Ruby 1.9 « Envy Labs
In the talk he discusses the state of the Ruby VM and why we should standardize an asynchronous Ruby stack which takes advantage of Ruby 1.9, Fibers, and non-blocking database drivers to make Ruby (and Rails) more scalable.
eReaders Aren't The Big Deal They're Cracked Up To Be
Why threads are a bad idea (for most purposes)
Alex Payne — Node and Scaling in the Small vs Scaling in the Large
For my investment of engineering time, I’d rather build on a system that allows me the flexibility of mixing an async approach with other ways of modeling concurrency. A hybrid concurrency model may not be as straightforward and pure as Node’s approach, but it’s going to be more adaptable.
Why Events Are A Bad Idea (for high-concurrency servers)
JustinFrench.com: Pagination Alternatives
Pagination is one of those ubiquitous things on the web. It’s easy to see a pattern like that, apply it to your own “I have too much data to show on one page” problem and take the quick win. Everyone else is doing it, it’s a pattern, you should use it too, right?