“These little cameras are the future of digital. Big SLRs will still stick around for action, news, and sports, but for most of us, micro 4/3 is it. This kind of camera is half the size of old-fashioned mechanical DSLRs, with a complete range of interchangeable lenses.”– Ken Rockwell in his PMA 2010 Report
Browse your Git Repository locally! Way Cool!
cd [your git repo] git instaweb --httpd webrickSourceWatching a lighting talk of the Mountain West Ruby Conf, and this guy walked up and demoed this one command!
git instaweb --httpd webrickautomatically launch a web server and browser to your get repository!
Way Cool!
Pretty cool indeed!
Sizzling Keys lets you control iTunes from the keyboard.
One of my favorite little apps. I have it running all the time.
RSA Animate - Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates us (via theRSAorg)
could it get *any* sweeter? :-]
“Try to avoid burdening your users with choices on how to perform an action. Giving them lots of options may seem like a good idea but it isn’t. It ends up bloating an interface and burdening your users with decisions they shouldn’t have to make.”– How To Critique An Interface « Aza on Design
You wouldn’t drink 9 year old milk.
So why use a 9-year-old browser?
When Internet Explorer 6 was launched in 2001, it offered cutting–edge security – for the time. Since then, the Internet has evolved and the security features of Internet Explorer 6 have become outdated.
Efficiently Rendering CSS
So we know that ID’s are the most efficient selectors. If you wanted to make the most efficiently rendering page possible, you would literally give every single element on the page a unique ID, then apply styling with single ID selectors. That would be super fast, and also super ridiculous. It would probably be extremely non-semantic and extremely difficult to maintain. You don’t see this approach even on hardcore performance based sites. I think the lesson here is not to sacrifice semantics or maintainability for efficient CSS.
Good to know.
Here’s a little making of the ‘Children of Men’ ambush scene.
Sir Ken Robinson: Bring on the learning revolution! (via TEDtalksDirector)
In this poignant, funny follow-up to his fabled 2006 talk, Sir Ken Robinson makes the case for a radical shift from standardized schools to personalized learning – creating conditions where kids’ natural talents can flourish.
So much good stuff in this talk. Sir Ken Robinson is one of the best speakers I’ve seen.
Here’s the 2006 talk, which is also excellent: Sir Ken Robinson: Do schools kill creativity?
Additionally I can only recommend subscribing to the TEDtalks.
nikf.org: An Observation
I’m all for pointing out the iPhones flaws: it may be polished, but we’d all agree it has some. But to sting it in reviews based on the promise that a third-party will ship a media plugin at a yet-to-be-determined date, seems petty. […]
I guess judging a device based on actual features and user experience, instead of its ‘inability to run a hypothetical, hither-to-unseen media plugin’, isn’t particularly exciting…
I so share this observation…
Duncan's Journal: Android VM Performance is not a Factor
A faster VM will certainly help things out. But Android’s eventual fate will have little to do with how fast the VM is or how long method dispatches take on the iPhone. Instead, it’ll have to do with harder things like user experience, service plans, interoperability, and excellent applications.
A lot of developers - and tech folks in general - seem to be so obsessed with benchmarks and raw, measurable execution speed: ‘The new Android OS will be faster than the iPhone’, 'How fast does this piece of code run compared to this one?’, 'The new version is much faster.’, 'Ruby is slow!’, etc., etc.
Do these people actually choose their platforms/gadgets like this, without also looking at other not-so-easily-benchmarked factors? I don’t know. But I believe the whole 'speed’ discussion is way overrated.
Bonus: I wrote this on my almost 6 year old PowerBook G4. ;-)
Now go, read the article.
Pictured Fences 1 by Mntl Gassi (via rebel:art)
Incredible!
Most of us photographers have a few ‘worst nightmare scenarios’. One of them is losing our cameras. Andrew McDonald has a strategy just for you that will increase the chance of getting your camera back. He took the following series of images and leaves them on his camera so that anyone who finds it and scrolls through his pictures will see them.
I should probably do that, too. Click the photo to see the whole series.
5v3n:
“A nine-minute history of corporatism.”
OK, so “digital renaissance” was a bad catchphrase for my recent post. Apart from that sad insight - great thoughts on taylorism / scientific management & the resulting social disconnection.
5v3n.com: A Digital Renaissance?
Is programming our era’s equivalent of literacy?