• Signposts for the Week Ending 3/18/2011

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    Work Ideas Events About Contact March 20, 2011 Signposts for the Week Ending 3 18 2011 By Paula Wellings 0 Comments Some activities from the past : week Writing with a little help from our friends with Crocodoc Making our faces really big with the junkyard jumbotron Reflecting on another SXSW via Brian Dolan's thoughts on the mobile health . panel Studying typographic hierarch y with Frank . Chimero Counting the days till Kate Rutter speaks at the Commonwealth Club about creative culture in organizations Enjoying the documentation from frog's recent mobile banking study funded by UC Irvine's Institute for Money , Technology and Financial . Inclusion Considering if a tablet makes a good design tool with Suzanne Ginsburg's evaluations Wondering at Stephen Van Vuuren's IMAX in his basement .

  • Signposts for the Week Ending 3/25/2011

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    Work Ideas Events About Contact March 25, 2011 Signposts for the Week Ending 3 25 2011 By Sheryl Cababa 0 Comments The xkcd radiation dose chart sheds light on radiation levels in relation to the news surrounding the Fukushima nuclear . plant MIT Media Lab has created an infinitely customisable logo The flipbook popular in Holland hits the UK . Look out , . Kindle Robots that milk cows Is your desktop art getting stale Here's some fresh new . wallpaper Turn your handwriting into a personalised font Check out this gorgeous , musical little . timesuck This entry was posted on Friday , March 25, 2011 at 10:48 pm . Add to the . conversation Commenting is not available in this channel entry . About Sheryl Experience Designer Read Full Bio More Ideas from Sheryl Interactive Journalism , The New

  • Signposts for the week ending 03/11/2011

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    Work Ideas Events About Contact March 15, 2011 Signposts for the week ending 03 11 2011 By Kate Rutter 2 Comments Signposts is a little late this week . We blame it on the weather . Realizer introduces a free interactive tool that helps you create presentation prototypes for iPhone and iPad . apps McKinsey Quarterly says most attempts at brainstorming are doomed . But you can sneak around this by asking better questions . Read it all at Seven Steps to Better Brainstorming Registration required to read the whole article . We like this snapshot of Open vs . Closed Prototypes from the D-School News . And we†re thrilled that they give a shout out to the Aurora . project Make Magazine asks is it time to remake rebuild public libraries and build “Techshops” A few of us just started using

  • Technical Debt

    Updated: 2011-03-31 02:24:10
    : , Open Source Bridge The conference for open source citizens June 21 24, 2011 Portland , Oregon Skip to content About Blog Get Involved 2011 Attend Proposals Wiki Sponsors 2010 Sessions Schedule Speakers BoFs Wiki Sponsors 2009 Sessions Schedule Speakers BoFs Wiki Sponsors Proposals Technical Debt Cooking Short Form osb2011-0662 Excerpt Technical debt is something that most project teams or independent developers have to deal with we take shortcuts to push out releases , deadlines need to be met , quick fixes slowly become the standard . In this talk , we will discuss what technical debt is , when it is acceptable and when it isn't , and strategies for effectively managing it , both on an independent and team level . Description Technical debt is something that most project teams or

  • Drupal distributions, an open source product model

    Updated: 2011-03-31 01:16:49
    , : , Open Source Bridge The conference for open source citizens June 21 24, 2011 Portland , Oregon Skip to content About Blog Get Involved 2011 Attend Proposals Wiki Sponsors 2010 Sessions Schedule Speakers BoFs Wiki Sponsors 2009 Sessions Schedule Speakers BoFs Wiki Sponsors Proposals Drupal distributions , an open source product model Business Short Form osb2011-0661 Excerpt Drupal has the ability to bundle contributed modules , configurations and settings , and custom code into a single package that can be easily installed and further configured by end users . The end result is an application-in-a-box focused on a specific set of requirements . Now that you or your business has invested hundreds or even thousands of hours creating your masterpiece , what do you do with it Description

  • Postgres! The Musical

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    Excerpt:An animated musical mini-movie in which our heroine uses open-source software to overthrow the stranglehold of the evil head of IT, and finds true love in the process.Description:This is mostly for fun. Don’t expect to learn a lot, unless you’re completely new to open source software. Expect a few laughs, though.Speaker:Just someone who’s been hacking for about 15 years, including 12 or so of SQL.

  • King of the Data Jungle

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    Excerpt:In this puppet show, a wise lion coaches an eager but inexperienced mouse through the process of normalization and (equally important) denormalization.Description:An experienced DBA who also happens to be a talking lion explains what normalization is, why it’s a good idea, and how to do it. When his pupil complains about performance slowdowns, he goes on to explain about when, why, and how we should denormalize. There are slides as well as puppets.Speaker:Melissa HollingsworthJust someone who’s been hacking for about 15 years, including 12 or so of SQL.

  • Preventing runtime errors at compile time

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    : , Open Source Bridge The conference for open source citizens June 21 24, 2011 Portland , Oregon Skip to content About Blog Get Involved 2011 Attend Proposals Wiki Sponsors 2010 Sessions Schedule Speakers BoFs Wiki Sponsors 2009 Sessions Schedule Speakers BoFs Wiki Sponsors Proposals Preventing runtime errors at compile time Cooking Long Form osb2011-0658 Excerpt Are you tired of null pointer exceptions , unintended side effects , SQL injections , concurrency errors , mistaken equality tests , and other run-time errors that appear during testing or in the field A compile-time tool named the Checker Framework has found hundreds of such errors . Oracle plans to include it in the Java 8 javac , but you can use it today to improve your code and avoid . errors Description Are you tired of null

  • NoNoSQL: Structured lightweight data models for the Web with RDF

    Updated: 2011-03-30 23:01:42
    : : , Open Source Bridge The conference for open source citizens June 21 24, 2011 Portland , Oregon Skip to content About Blog Get Involved 2011 Attend Proposals Wiki Sponsors 2010 Sessions Schedule Speakers BoFs Wiki Sponsors 2009 Sessions Schedule Speakers BoFs Wiki Sponsors Proposals NoNoSQL : Structured lightweight data models for the Web with RDF Hacks Short Form osb2011-0657 Excerpt Publish your data to the Web using the W3C Resource Description Framework RDF Yeah , that . W3C Description Four out of five highly-paid Oracle DBAs agree that rigid Relational data models are fun for everyone . So what if you’re that fifth one Yeah , NoSQL key-value stores may scale , but your crucial , scalable data is complete gibberish without all that work you did writing you own DAO layer from .

  • Qs on Queues

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    : , Open Source Bridge The conference for open source citizens June 21 24, 2011 Portland , Oregon Skip to content About Blog Get Involved 2011 Attend Proposals Wiki Sponsors 2010 Sessions Schedule Speakers BoFs Wiki Sponsors 2009 Sessions Schedule Speakers BoFs Wiki Sponsors Proposals Qs on Queues Chemistry Short Form osb2011-0656 Excerpt Not sure what queuing system to use for your next project How about the differences between broker vs direct queue services What is a good fit for cloud vs your own data center This session gathers information from open source queuing projects to help answer these questions and more . Queues are part of almost every scalable website and application , it's time to find the best fit for . yours Description Why do you even need a queue , and which one should

  • Introduction to OpenStack

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    : , Open Source Bridge The conference for open source citizens June 21 24, 2011 Portland , Oregon Skip to content About Blog Get Involved 2011 Attend Proposals Wiki Sponsors 2010 Sessions Schedule Speakers BoFs Wiki Sponsors 2009 Sessions Schedule Speakers BoFs Wiki Sponsors Proposals Introduction to OpenStack Cooking Short Form osb2011-0655 Excerpt The OpenStack project was launched last summer during OSCON by Rackspace , NASA , and a number of other cloud technology leaders in an effort to build a fully-open cloud computing platform . It is a collection of scalable , secure , standards-based projects consisting of compute , storage , images , and more . This session will introduce the projects , the principles behind it , and how to get . started Description This session will introduce

  • HTML5 and concrete5: Made for Each Other

    Updated: 2011-03-30 21:55:48
    : : , Open Source Bridge The conference for open source citizens June 21 24, 2011 Portland , Oregon Skip to content About Blog Get Involved 2011 Attend Proposals Wiki Sponsors 2010 Sessions Schedule Speakers BoFs Wiki Sponsors 2009 Sessions Schedule Speakers BoFs Wiki Sponsors Proposals HTML5 and concrete5 : Made for Each Other Cooking Long Form osb2011-0654 Excerpt concrete5 CMS has been making it simple to edit websites for years . Now learn how it can take the hassle out of building HTML5 websites , too . Description The web’s future lies with HTML5 and CSS3, but the road is a little bumpy . Between the still-in-development spec , competing syntaxes for certain features and browser bugs and inconsistencies , the average web developer might be content to just sit this one out . But doing

  • CoApp -- An open source package management system for Windows

    Updated: 2011-03-30 21:17:20
    : , Open Source Bridge The conference for open source citizens June 21 24, 2011 Portland , Oregon Skip to content About Blog Get Involved 2011 Attend Proposals Wiki Sponsors 2010 Sessions Schedule Speakers BoFs Wiki Sponsors 2009 Sessions Schedule Speakers BoFs Wiki Sponsors Proposals CoApp An open source package management system for Windows Cooking Short Form osb2011-0653 Excerpt The CoApp project is bringing real open-source style package management to Windows this session demonstrates the basics of creating and consuming CoApp . packages Description Linux has long enjoyed excellent package management systems in the form of RPM DEB EBuild and others—the CoApp project has brought the power of these systems to Windows . Supporting rich features such as side-by-side installation ,

  • Catch Up on the SF Meetup!

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    Home Download Wiki Screencasts Blog Archive RSS Feed Search posts : SproutCore Blog Catch Up on the SF Meetup beardigsit March 30 Catch Up on the SF Meetup A big thanks to everyone who braved the rain and came out to last week’s San Francisco SproutCore Meetup We had a great time chatting with all of you before and after and hope you had your fill of pizza and learned a thing or two If you missed the Meetup , fear not Through some highly experimental webcamming , we’ve put together two talk recordings . It’s not quite as awesome as your very own neighborhood Meetup , but it’s a . start Forgive the audio quality on Tom’s talk— it took us a little while to work out the kinks with our mic . We promise to be better next time P Check out Tom’s talk on the View : Layer The View Layer- Talk by

  • Why I blog with Drupal

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    : , Open Source Bridge The conference for open source citizens June 21 24, 2011 Portland , Oregon Skip to content About Blog Get Involved 2011 Attend Proposals Wiki Sponsors 2010 Sessions Schedule Speakers BoFs Wiki Sponsors 2009 Sessions Schedule Speakers BoFs Wiki Sponsors Proposals Why I blog with Drupal Cooking Long Form osb2011-0652 Excerpt Why do I blog with Drupal instead of say , Wordpress , like everyone else Learn how I use Drupal on my blog at http : xolotl.org to create a highly capable , tailored blogging platform , including customized rich content and . media Description Why do I blog with open-source Drupal instead of say , Wordpress like everyone else Learn how I use Drupal on my blog to create a highly capable , tailored blogging platform , including customized rich

  • Community Source in EDU: Open Source Education

    Updated: 2011-03-30 20:34:11
    : : , Open Source Bridge The conference for open source citizens June 21 24, 2011 Portland , Oregon Skip to content About Blog Get Involved 2011 Attend Proposals Wiki Sponsors 2010 Sessions Schedule Speakers BoFs Wiki Sponsors 2009 Sessions Schedule Speakers BoFs Wiki Sponsors Proposals Community Source in EDU : Open Source Education Culture Short Form osb2011-0651 Excerpt How are educational institutions working together to build technologies tailored to their needs and combine resources using open practices Learn from examples in courseware eg , Sakai multimedia eg , Opencast Matterhorn and administrative systems eg , Kuali Description How are educational institutions working together to build technologies tailored to their needs and combine resources using open practices Explore the

  • Marcin Ignac Video prototyping

    Updated: 2011-03-30 20:16:35
    Marcin Ignac Home Blog Experiments Projects About Video prototyping Last week we had quick introduction to video prototyping . We were given a short description of imaginary service called Keyless that can deliver you a new pair of keys every time you loose them . We started by drawing a few storyboards . After discussing them with other teams and revising our idea we me and Yves shot a were rough video . sketch The last step was to shot one more but more detailed version . You can watch the results . below : Keyless Keyless : 2.0 : Categories process : Tags prototyping video Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License All content 2010 by Marcin Ignac Powered by Base

  • Marcin Ignac Physical computing day 2

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    Marcin Ignac Home Blog Experiments Projects About Physical computing day 2 : Categories process : Tags hardware prototyping : Technologies arduino Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License All content 2010 by Marcin Ignac Powered by Base

  • Marcin Ignac Physical computing day I

    Updated: 2011-03-30 20:16:34
    Marcin Ignac Home Blog Experiments Projects About Physical computing day I So now you wonder what is Arduino It’s a small piece of electronics that can be easily programmed and . extended But what can it do Hmm . Just watch this video . It took me less than 1h to learn how it works and build this tetris game controller . It’s has three buttons for going right , left and rotating blocks and light sensor to send them to the bottom of the . screen : Categories process : Tags hardware prototyping : Technologies arduino Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License All content 2010 by Marcin Ignac Powered by Base

  • Marcin Ignac Computational Design final exhibition

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    Marcin Ignac Home Blog Experiments Projects About Computational Design final exhibition On Friday at DKDS we had an exhibition of all our works completed during Computational Design . course Because of limited exhibition space I had to choose between two of my projects interactive Wiild Life and Greet . poster There was already enough posters for the exhibition so I chose the interactive one . More photos on my Picassa Web Albums For more details on my projects please visit my portfolio These two weeks were a great experience . I would like to thank Dennis and Patrick from The Product for a great time , a lot of fun and inspiration . Thanks guys : Categories Exhibitions : Tags installation interactive print : Technologies processing.org Licensed under a Creative Commons

  • Marcin Ignac Trip to Poland

    Updated: 2011-03-30 20:16:33
    Marcin Ignac Home Blog Experiments Projects About Trip to Poland Today I came back from Poland . I’ve spend several previous days on preparations to Mediations Biennale New updated version of my multitouch table was build . Now software is 100 Flash application , old pc is replaced by Mac Mini , and there is separate power adapter for IR LEDs . I have some problems with performance and touch sensitivity but I haven’t enough time to overcome them all : Categories Exhibitions : Tags installation Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License All content 2010 by Marcin Ignac Powered by Base

  • Marcin Ignac First days in CPH

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    Marcin Ignac Home Blog Experiments Projects About First days in CPH Hmm that’s all There will be no life streaming , no photo blogging , no social news . This blog is about more interesting things so expect posts about my projects at CIID and danish design But for those who like to know what’s going on I’ll be updating my picassa web gallery with comments in . polish : Categories general Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License All content 2010 by Marcin Ignac Powered by Base

  • Marcin Ignac First day CIID

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    Marcin Ignac Home Blog Experiments Projects About First day CIID Today was the first day at CIID The curriculum was presented . There will be courses lead by people like Patric Kochlik and Dennis Paul the-product.org Massimo Banzi tinker.it and Shawn Allen stamen.com just to name a few . What I like most is that we are focusing on doing things instead of just talking or learning how to do them . So there will be a lot of prototyping and working with the industry Intel , Nokia and many others There also was some time to get to know each other . As you can see on the photo there are people from all around . Each of them has very different background so there are programmers , interaction designers , graphics designers but also architects and furniture designers . Diversity and mix of many

  • Marcin Ignac Computational Design course

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    Marcin Ignac Home Blog Experiments Projects About Computational Design course Since last week we are learning or refreshing already existing knowledge about Processing This open source software is very good to do some quick sketches of animations and interactive visualizations . During the course we are using Wii Remote as an input device . There will be two projects . The first one is about creating something interactive that response to the movement of the Wii Remote . The second one is about creating a poster from data recorded previously from the Wii Remote . In my case we were recording movements of people presenting how to greet other person in their country . The picture above is one of my . attempts : Categories process : Tags computational design interactive : Technologies

  • Marcin Ignac Hard disk failure

    Updated: 2011-03-30 20:16:32
    Marcin Ignac Home Blog Experiments Projects About Hard disk failure First my laptop didn’t want to boot . Then while backing up everything to external drive it also failed . I bought new 250GB hdd and replaced the old one but now I’m listening to weird noises from right fan beneath my keyboard . Yyyy Is seems that I’ll have to open my laptop once again . Most of will probably ask Do you have any backups Hmm . Yes I’ve backed up all my projects . But some of my music , videos and photos are lost . We will some how much I can recover from my old . disk : Categories general : Tags hardware Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License All content 2010 by Marcin Ignac Powered by Base

  • Marcin Ignac Copenhagen CIID

    Updated: 2011-03-30 20:16:32
    Marcin Ignac Home Blog Experiments Projects About Copenhagen CIID As most of you probably already know next week I’m moving to Copenhagen . I’m starting pilot year of Interaction Design course at CIID It means that I had to take dean’s leave at my Academy of Fine Arts and suspend my Intermedia course for a year . First meeting is on Friday , September 12th so I’m flying on Wednesday , September 10th . I haven’t found any flat or apartment yet so during several first days I’ll be staying with my . friends This course is what I always was looking for . It’s a great opportunity , a great experience and great a adventure : Categories general : Tags design Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License All content 2010 by Marcin Ignac Powered by Base

  • Marcin Ignac Paris day 4 Cultural Day

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    Marcin Ignac Home Blog Experiments Projects About Paris day 4 Cultural Day Looking for more Check this out : Categories events Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License All content 2010 by Marcin Ignac Powered by Base

  • Marcin Ignac Geeks are everyware

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    Marcin Ignac Home Blog Experiments Projects About Geeks are everyware : Categories general Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License All content 2010 by Marcin Ignac Powered by Base

  • Marcin Ignac Paris day 5,6 finals

    Updated: 2011-03-30 20:16:30
    Marcin Ignac Home Blog Experiments Projects About Paris day 5,6 finals we were 3rd Not bad , huh But given that there were only three teams fighting for the Interop Award we got the last place . So there will be no cash prizes , no trip to Redmond , only one one for the whole team . shiny Imagine Cup . statue But there are still 3 days to enjoy the Paris so our journey hasn’t finished yet . Tomorrow we are moving to much cheaper hotel . Don’t expect updates any time soon because I don’t know if there is any internet connection . available : Categories events Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License All content 2010 by Marcin Ignac Powered by Base

  • Marcin Ignac Paris day 3 first results

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    Marcin Ignac Home Blog Experiments Projects About Paris day 3 first results Ehh . Our team have to wait until tuesday . In about an hour we are going to visit Eiffel Tower and tomorrow we are going to . Louvre I was sure that I’m going back to Poland on Wednesday but today I found out that it’s actually Friday , the 11th So still a week in Paris ahead of . me : Categories events Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License All content 2010 by Marcin Ignac Powered by Base

  • Marcin Ignac Paris day 3 Eiffel Tower

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    Marcin Ignac Home Blog Experiments Projects About Paris day 3 Eiffel Tower More as always here : Categories events Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License All content 2010 by Marcin Ignac Powered by Base

  • Marcin Ignac Paris day 2

    Updated: 2011-03-30 20:16:29
    Marcin Ignac Home Blog Experiments Projects About Paris day 2 Hmm . No photos today . I have some problems with autofocus in my camera . I’m afraid I could have broken it Update Thanks to Darek I have some picture for today post Greetings from Paris : Categories events Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License All content 2010 by Marcin Ignac Powered by Base

  • Marcin Ignac Paris day 1

    Updated: 2011-03-30 20:16:29
    Marcin Ignac Home Blog Experiments Projects About Paris day 1 Our location is very very good . We are living in this red hotel near Eiffel . Tower The travel was very exhausting but after opening ceremony we have much more energy and . motivation So now we are sitting in a lounge and we are finishing our promo movie . Unfortunately we still don’t know when we will be talking with the judges More photos here : Categories events Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License All content 2010 by Marcin Ignac Powered by Base

  • Marcin Ignac Flight to Paris

    Updated: 2011-03-30 20:16:28
    Marcin Ignac Home Blog Experiments Projects About Flight to Paris Tomorrow we are flying to Paris to take part in Imagine Cup World Finals . There are only 3 teams including us in Interoperability Award category so keep fingers crossed I will post some news here , but you can also check out offical 2GetThere . blog : Categories events Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License All content 2010 by Marcin Ignac Powered by Base

  • Marcin Ignac End of Year Exhibition

    Updated: 2011-03-30 20:16:28
    Marcin Ignac Home Blog Experiments Projects About End of Year Exhibition After weekend of hard work i was sleeping 2-3h per day everything was prepared to the final . show You can still visit this exhibition on Thursday and Friday , 10am 6pm , at the main building of Academy of Fine Arts , . Poznan : Categories Exhibitions : Tags installation interactive : Technologies flash multitouch Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License All content 2010 by Marcin Ignac Powered by Base

  • Marcin Ignac More multitouch apps

    Updated: 2011-03-30 20:16:27
    Marcin Ignac Home Blog Experiments Projects About More multitouch apps And here is experiment with flocking behavior . Actually it’s not true flocking boids algorithm but simple one developed by myself . As you can see it performs quite : well : Categories process : Tags interactive : Technologies flash multitouch Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License All content 2010 by Marcin Ignac Powered by Base

  • Marcin Ignac Imagine Cup 2008 World Finalists announced

    Updated: 2011-03-30 20:16:27
    Marcin Ignac Home Blog Experiments Projects About Imagine Cup 2008 World Finalists announced Our project is based on idea of carpooling , but tries to do it right’ by using mobile technologies to enable ad-hoc approach . I’m responsible here for mobile app interface design and website . design More info soon on our website 2GetThere.net Press release at Poznan University of Technology website In Polish Studenci PP w finale Imagine Cup : Categories events Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License All content 2010 by Marcin Ignac Powered by Base

  • Marcin Ignac Syncing multiple screens

    Updated: 2011-03-30 20:16:26
    Marcin Ignac Home Blog Experiments Projects About Syncing multiple screens I’m using Most Pixels Ever library for Processing . There were lags while using Wi-Fi so I had to connect those iMacs via . LAN : Categories process : Technologies processing.org Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License All content 2010 by Marcin Ignac Powered by Base

  • Marcin Ignac Multitouch my first flash app

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    Marcin Ignac Home Blog Experiments Projects About Multitouch my first flash app : Categories process : Tags interactive : Technologies flash multitouch Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License All content 2010 by Marcin Ignac Powered by Base

  • Marcin Ignac Multitouch first tests

    Updated: 2011-03-30 20:16:26
    Marcin Ignac Home Blog Experiments Projects About Multitouch first tests iTunes visualization projected on my 30 inch . screen Test of Piano app bundled with touchlib Test of Smoke app bundled with touchlib : Categories process : Tags interactive : Technologies flash multitouch Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License All content 2010 by Marcin Ignac Powered by Base

  • Marcin Ignac Vjs please I want more sync in your sets

    Updated: 2011-03-30 20:16:25
    . Marcin Ignac Home Blog Experiments Projects About Vjs please I want more sync in your . sets : Categories ideas process : Tags music visualization : Technologies processing.org Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License All content 2010 by Marcin Ignac Powered by Base

  • Marcin Ignac Playing with motion sensor in my MacBook Pro

    Updated: 2011-03-30 20:16:25
    Marcin Ignac Home Blog Experiments Projects About Playing with motion sensor in my MacBook Pro Because SMS works also in a MacBook , I’ve decided to build a toy using this . technology I’m using Processing to capture Motion Sensor data and ActionScript for physics and visualization . I’ll post more details about implementation after finishing my project for Space Transformation . Studio : Categories process : Tags interactive : Technologies flash processing.org Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License All content 2010 by Marcin Ignac Powered by Base

  • Marcin Ignac Multi Touchscreen mania

    Updated: 2011-03-30 20:16:25
    Marcin Ignac Home Blog Experiments Projects About Multi Touchscreen mania Because of the Christmas I have plenty of free time and as always I’m spending some part of it on looking for inspiration on the net . First I’ve came across Delicate Boundaries by Chris Sugrue After following the links I’ve found post about Faking a Multi-TouchScreen The idea seemed so simple that I decided to try implementing it in Processing Here is my : setup Because I have Logitech Communicate STX Plus which doesn’t come with drivers for Mac OS X , I had to use open source project macam to get access to the video . After about 4 hours of programming I ended with this algorithm and results like : these : Categories experiments : Tags interactive : Technologies fla processing.org Licensed under a Creative Commons

  • Marcin Ignac Multitouch making of

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    Marcin Ignac Home Blog Experiments Projects About Multitouch making of This is what i’ve : used Acrylic sheet 635mm x 475mm x 8m 80 PLN 23 EUR 2 wooden frames 120 PLN 37 EUR 42 3x7x2 IR diodes TSHA5502 30 PLN 9 EUR 6 resistors , 6m of cable 10 PLN 3 EUR Old Logitech QuickCam Messenger webcam 20 PLN 6 EUR Mirror NEC VT470 projector borrowed from school Power supply from my old PC More photos can be found in this gallery Multitouch on my Picasa Web . Albums : Categories process : Tags hardware : Technologies multitouch Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License All content 2010 by Marcin Ignac Powered by Base

  • Marcin Ignac English version

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    Marcin Ignac Home Blog Experiments Projects About English version Starting from today I'll write all posts on my blog in . English : Categories process Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License All content 2010 by Marcin Ignac Powered by Base

  • Marcin Ignac Wyjazd na biennale w Wenecji 13-19 listopad

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    Marcin Ignac Home Blog Experiments Projects About Wyjazd na biennale w Wenecji 13-19 listopad Biorę kamerę i aparat więc będzie dokumentacja : Categories events Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License All content 2010 by Marcin Ignac Powered by Base

  • Marcin Ignac Wybory 2007

    Updated: 2011-03-30 20:16:20
    Marcin Ignac Home Blog Experiments Projects About Wybory 2007 Mój pomysł Próba zmierzenia się z problemem nakłonienia widza , odwiedzającego stronę www do interakcji a następnie wizualizacja dokonanego przez niego i jego poprzedników wyborów . Ponieważ nie chce odwiedzających zarzucać 100 pytaniami do inne dane pozyskam bez potrzeby działania z ich . strony Dane , które będę : zbierał ulubiony kolor prosty , niewymagający zbytniego nakładu intelektualnego wybór czas dokonania wyboru adres IP osoby odwiedzającej godzina , pora dnia dokonania wyboru dodatkowo dodam możliwość komentowania strony co też daje odwiedzającemu możliwość wyboru wyrazić swoją opinię czy nie Technologie Flash AS3 PHP : Categories process : Tags interactive : Technologies flash php Licensed under a Creative Commons

  • Marcin Ignac Rysunek

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    Marcin Ignac Home Blog Experiments Projects About Rysunek W sumie jest to druga osoba , którą narysowałem na dużym formacie i nie za bardzo mam pojęcie jak cieniować Jeżeli jesteście ciekawi jak mi idą postępy to zapraszam na http : picasaweb.google.com vorgitsu ASPSem1 : Categories process : Tags drawing Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License All content 2010 by Marcin Ignac Powered by Base

  • Marcin Ignac Init(

    Updated: 2011-03-30 20:16:19
    Marcin Ignac Home Blog Experiments Projects About Init( Pierwszy post i mam nadzieję , że nie ostatni : Categories process Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License All content 2010 by Marcin Ignac Powered by Base

  • Marcin Ignac Hello world

    Updated: 2011-03-30 20:16:19
    Marcin Ignac Home Blog Experiments Projects About Hello world Nie jest to ideał ale inaczej nagrywałbym to w . nieskończoność : Categories process Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License All content 2010 by Marcin Ignac Powered by Base

  • Marcin Ignac About

    Updated: 2011-03-30 20:16:17
    Marcin Ignac Home Blog Experiments Projects About About My name is Marcin Ignac and I’m polish artist programmer designer living in Copenhagen , Denmark . I visualize data create artificial life forms , experiment with technology and combine my passion for graphics with art of programming Contact E-Mail : con SPAM tact marci REMOVETHIS nigna c.c om Twitter : marcinignac Info Education I have a bachelor degree in Computer Science , and I took part in Intelligent Decision Support Systems master program at Poznan University of Technology Poznań Poland I was also studying Intermedia at Academy of Fine Arts Poznań Poland and finished Interaction Design Pilot Year at CIID Copenhagen Denmark Work Currently I work as a computational designer at Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design Copenhagen

  • On a small screen, user experience is everything

    Updated: 2011-03-30 16:58:11
    Building mobile apps around a look or feel isn't always the best strategy. Madhava Enros, mobile user experience lead at Mozilla, reveals three apps that effectively address user experience, not just design.

  • Hardware/Software Integration with Txtzyme

    Updated: 2011-03-30 16:05:20
    : , Open Source Bridge The conference for open source citizens June 21 24, 2011 Portland , Oregon Skip to content About Blog Get Involved 2011 Attend Proposals Wiki Sponsors 2010 Sessions Schedule Speakers BoFs Wiki Sponsors 2009 Sessions Schedule Speakers BoFs Wiki Sponsors Proposals Hardware Software Integration with Txtzyme Hacks Short Form osb2011-0650 Excerpt Hardware running Txtzyme will play well with the shell and other pipelines . We'll show hardware integration examples using bash , perl , ruby , java and . javascript Description Inexpensive 8-bit microcontrollers include many dozens of i o pins backed up by interesting hardware including USB . interfaces We show how a simple interpreter , called Txtzyme , running on an 8-bit controller , generalizes interactions over the

  • Licensing 101 For Open Source Projects

    Updated: 2011-03-30 15:59:39
    : , Open Source Bridge The conference for open source citizens June 21 24, 2011 Portland , Oregon Skip to content About Blog Get Involved 2011 Attend Proposals Wiki Sponsors 2010 Sessions Schedule Speakers BoFs Wiki Sponsors 2009 Sessions Schedule Speakers BoFs Wiki Sponsors Proposals Licensing 101 For Open Source Projects Business Short Form osb2011-0649 Excerpt Just because software is free doesn't mean it comes free of any restrictions Learn about several of the most popular open source licenses , their implications , and how to choose the right license for your . needs Description Decision makers often assume that because the software is free , they’re free to do with it what they please . But the license under which the software is released often contains rules , restrictions or

  • Doing NoSQL with SQL

    Updated: 2011-03-30 14:42:56
    : , Open Source Bridge The conference for open source citizens June 21 24, 2011 Portland , Oregon Skip to content About Blog Get Involved 2011 Attend Proposals Wiki Sponsors 2010 Sessions Schedule Speakers BoFs Wiki Sponsors 2009 Sessions Schedule Speakers BoFs Wiki Sponsors Proposals Doing NoSQL with SQL Business Short Form osb2011-0648 Excerpt How to use the new NO-SQL MariaDB features from . SQL Description MariaDB 5.3, 5.5 and 5.6 has and will have a lot of new and improved NO- SQL features that can help you solve problems that you normally can’t solve easily with SQL The talk will cover the improvements that has been done with the HANDLER interface , the new DYNAMIC COLUMNS interface and how to use the DYNAMIC COLUMNS to create storage engines that can access not relational . data

  • MariaDB 5.3 / 5.5 Update.

    Updated: 2011-03-30 14:38:36
    . : , Open Source Bridge The conference for open source citizens June 21 24, 2011 Portland , Oregon Skip to content About Blog Get Involved 2011 Attend Proposals Wiki Sponsors 2010 Sessions Schedule Speakers BoFs Wiki Sponsors 2009 Sessions Schedule Speakers BoFs Wiki Sponsors Proposals MariaDB 5.3 5.5 . Update Business Short Form osb2011-0647 Excerpt What are the new exiting features in MariaDB 5.3 5.5 and how can you use them to get more of your current MySQL MariaDB . installation Description What are the new exiting features in MariaDB 5.3 5.5 and how can you use them to get more of your current MySQL MariaDB installation In talk we will describe all the new features in MariaDB 5.3 5.5 with examples and . benchmarks Tags mysql , MariaDB Back to list of proposals Speaker Michael

  • Four short links: 30 March 2011

    Updated: 2011-03-30 12:15:10
    Firefox for Android -- faster than stock browser, apparently. Amazon CloudPlayer Needs No Licenses (Ars Technica) -- that's what Amazon claim, anyway. Because users upload the files (rather than accessing a central single copy of the ripped music), Amazon think they need no license. If this holds, expect Google and Amazon to follow suit. Ten Lessons from Github's First...

  • Android 3.0

    Updated: 2011-03-30 09:27:25
    : , Open Source Bridge The conference for open source citizens June 21 24, 2011 Portland , Oregon Skip to content About Blog Get Involved 2011 Attend Proposals Wiki Sponsors 2010 Sessions Schedule Speakers BoFs Wiki Sponsors 2009 Sessions Schedule Speakers BoFs Wiki Sponsors Proposals Android 3.0 Cooking Short Form osb2011-0646 Excerpt Google unveiled Android 3.0 in early 2011. This new release of Android provides an enhanced UI and other features that are suited for tablets . If you are an Android developer or want to be you should attend this session to learn about Android's new platform API's . You'll learn how to write code that can be shared between a tablet app and a phone-based . app Description Google unveiled Android 3.0 in early 2011. This new release of Android provides an

  • The 30 Minute PostgreSQL Tune-Up

    Updated: 2011-03-30 05:37:00
    : , Open Source Bridge The conference for open source citizens June 21 24, 2011 Portland , Oregon Skip to content About Blog Get Involved 2011 Attend Proposals Wiki Sponsors 2010 Sessions Schedule Speakers BoFs Wiki Sponsors 2009 Sessions Schedule Speakers BoFs Wiki Sponsors Proposals The 30 Minute PostgreSQL Tune-Up Cooking Short Form osb2011-0645 Excerpt So , now that your application is in production , the default PostgreSQL settings installed on a generic EC2 VM aren't quite cutting it . What do you need to do to make PostgreSQL perform Description So , now that your application is in production , the default PostgreSQL settings installed on a generic EC2 VM aren’t quite cutting it . What do you need to do to make PostgreSQL perform Don’t dispair You can learn enough in 30 minutes to

  • Six New PostgreSQL 9.1 Features to Get Excited About

    Updated: 2011-03-30 05:08:48
    : , Open Source Bridge The conference for open source citizens June 21 24, 2011 Portland , Oregon Skip to content About Blog Get Involved 2011 Attend Proposals Wiki Sponsors 2010 Sessions Schedule Speakers BoFs Wiki Sponsors 2009 Sessions Schedule Speakers BoFs Wiki Sponsors Proposals Six New PostgreSQL 9.1 Features to Get Excited About Chemistry Short Form osb2011-0644 Excerpt PostgreSQL 9.1 will have even more features than any previous release . While every one of these features is exciting to someone , this talk will give you the six features which should make you consider PostgreSQL even if you never used it . before Description PostgreSQL 9.1 will have even more features than any previous release . While every one of these features is exciting to someone , this talk will give you the

  • Data Warehousing 101

    Updated: 2011-03-30 04:53:16
    : , Open Source Bridge The conference for open source citizens June 21 24, 2011 Portland , Oregon Skip to content About Blog Get Involved 2011 Attend Proposals Wiki Sponsors 2010 Sessions Schedule Speakers BoFs Wiki Sponsors 2009 Sessions Schedule Speakers BoFs Wiki Sponsors Proposals Data Warehousing 101 Cooking Short Form osb2011-0643 Excerpt ETL . OLAP . BIDW . ELT . M R . MPP . Windowing . Matviews . Data Marts . Column Stores . Are you at sea in a tidal surge of arcane terminology , trying to cope with big data problems Description ETL . OLAP BIDW ELT M R . MPP Windowing . Matviews . Data Marts . Column Stores . Are you at sea in a tidal surge of arcane terminology , trying to cope with big data problems While big data may be bigger today , and far more common , and while we have a

  • Kick Asana

    Updated: 2011-03-30 04:48:38
    : , Open Source Bridge The conference for open source citizens June 21 24, 2011 Portland , Oregon Skip to content About Blog Get Involved 2011 Attend Proposals Wiki Sponsors 2010 Sessions Schedule Speakers BoFs Wiki Sponsors 2009 Sessions Schedule Speakers BoFs Wiki Sponsors Proposals Kick Asana Culture Short Form osb2011-0642 Excerpt Yoga for Geeks sometimes known as Yoga for Long-Haul Travelers returns to Open Source Bridge Come with your stiff shoulders , sore wrists , tight hips and aching back . Leave with ideas on how to incorporate 5 minutes of practice into your busy day to care for your body and . mind Description Yoga requires no complicated props or special place to practice . Breathing and physical postures can be done anytime , anywhere . Postures and breath practice are

  • Supercharge Your Website With Nginx

    Updated: 2011-03-30 00:21:16
    : , Open Source Bridge The conference for open source citizens June 21 24, 2011 Portland , Oregon Skip to content About Blog Get Involved 2011 Attend Proposals Wiki Sponsors 2010 Sessions Schedule Speakers BoFs Wiki Sponsors 2009 Sessions Schedule Speakers BoFs Wiki Sponsors Proposals Supercharge Your Website With Nginx Cooking Short Form osb2011-0641 Excerpt For years , Apache , which is currently utilised by more than 100 million active websites , has been the de facto web server . Anyhow , more sites are considering Nginx . This talk will look at features and some benchmark figures of various popular web servers and will cover how a PHP application can benefit from Nginx . awesomeness Description For years , Apache , which is currently utilised by more than 100 million active websites ,

  • So, you want to make a map?

    Updated: 2011-03-29 22:44:11
    , : , Open Source Bridge The conference for open source citizens June 21 24, 2011 Portland , Oregon Skip to content About Blog Get Involved 2011 Attend Proposals Wiki Sponsors 2010 Sessions Schedule Speakers BoFs Wiki Sponsors 2009 Sessions Schedule Speakers BoFs Wiki Sponsors Proposals So , you want to make a map Chemistry Long Form osb2011-0640 Excerpt So , you think you’ve got a great idea for a map , but little to no experience in map-making Have you been making maps , but want to increase your understanding of what’s going on under the hood” Do you think maps are nothing but a bunch of latitude and longitude points Then this session is for . you Description So , you think you’ve got a great idea for a map , but little to no experience in map-making Have you been making maps , but want

  • Oregon, Academia & Open Source: Highlights from the OSU Open Source Lab

    Updated: 2011-03-29 21:28:55
    , : : , Open Source Bridge The conference for open source citizens June 21 24, 2011 Portland , Oregon Skip to content About Blog Get Involved 2011 Attend Proposals Wiki Sponsors 2010 Sessions Schedule Speakers BoFs Wiki Sponsors 2009 Sessions Schedule Speakers BoFs Wiki Sponsors Proposals Oregon , Academia Open Source : Highlights from the OSU Open Source Lab Culture Short Form osb2011-0639 Excerpt You’re likely already aware that the Oregon State University Open Source Lab hosts some of the world’s most high-profile open source projects , from the Linux Kernel to the Apache Software Foundation . But did you know that OSU Open Source Lab releases its own software , teaches university students about open source development and that we’re spinning up a testing cluster for open source

  • Java Creator James Gosling Goes to Google

    Updated: 2011-03-29 19:38:24
    Welcome Register Sign-in Search Jump to a Magazine NET AJAX APACHE CLOUD COMPUTING CMS COLDFUSION CRM ECLIPSE FLEX HP IPHONE JAVA LINUX OPEN SOURCE OPEN WEB ORACLE PERL PHP POWERBUILDER PYTHON RED HAT RUBY SAP SEARCH SILVERLIGHT SOA SYMBIAN VIDEO VIRTUALIZATION WEB 2.0 WEBLOGIC WEBSPHERE WIRELESS XML Home Subscribe Advertise Authors Topics Videos Events Webcasts Java : Email Alerts Newsletters Get Java : Homepage Mobile NET AJAX Cloud Eclipse Flex Open Web iPhone Java Linux Open Source Oracle PowerBuilder Security SOA Virtualization Web 2.0 Java Authors : Michael Kopp Maureen O'Gara Scott Cranton Srinivasan Sundara Rajan AccuRev Communications Related Topics : Java Web 2.0 Open Web Oracle Java : Article Java Creator James Gosling Goes to Google Hiring Comes as Oracle Sues Google Over

  • Open source geocoding in PostGIS

    Updated: 2011-03-29 18:35:49
    : , Open Source Bridge The conference for open source citizens June 21 24, 2011 Portland , Oregon Skip to content About Blog Get Involved 2011 Attend Proposals Wiki Sponsors 2010 Sessions Schedule Speakers BoFs Wiki Sponsors 2009 Sessions Schedule Speakers BoFs Wiki Sponsors Proposals Open source geocoding in PostGIS Cooking Short Form osb2011-0638 Excerpt I will show the basics of geocoding and reverse geocoding using the PostGIS TIGER . geocoder Description Geocoding is the black art of associating a latitude longitude with an address , and reverse geocoding is finding the closest address to a given lat long . This tutorial style presentation will show how to install the geocoder and query the database attendees should be able to use their queries in their applications . later Tags

  • GraphViz: The open-source body scanner for code, systems, and data.

    Updated: 2011-03-29 16:24:35
    : , , . : , Open Source Bridge The conference for open source citizens June 21 24, 2011 Portland , Oregon Skip to content About Blog Get Involved 2011 Attend Proposals Wiki Sponsors 2010 Sessions Schedule Speakers BoFs Wiki Sponsors 2009 Sessions Schedule Speakers BoFs Wiki Sponsors Proposals GraphViz : The open-source body scanner for code , systems , and data . Chemistry Short Form osb2011-0637 Excerpt Do you generate , manage , or analyze a lot of data Do you develop software Do you like pretty pictures If your answer was yes to zero or more of these questions , this talk is for you . Description Do you generate , manage , or analyze a lot of data Do you develop software Do you like pretty pictures If your answer was yes” to zero or more of these questions , this talk is for . you

  • Stone Soup Refactoring

    Updated: 2011-03-29 16:07:05
    : , Open Source Bridge The conference for open source citizens June 21 24, 2011 Portland , Oregon Skip to content About Blog Get Involved 2011 Attend Proposals Wiki Sponsors 2010 Sessions Schedule Speakers BoFs Wiki Sponsors 2009 Sessions Schedule Speakers BoFs Wiki Sponsors Proposals Stone Soup Refactoring Cooking Long Form osb2011-0636 Excerpt Come be a backseat driver at a collaborative pairing session where we'll factor , refactor , and defactor code from open source projects until we make the world a better place , or learn something , or . both Description Come be a backseat driver at a collaborative pairing session where we’ll factor , refactor , and defactor code from open source projects until we make the world a better place , or learn something , or . both In the true spirit of

  • Four short links: 29 March 2011

    Updated: 2011-03-29 15:18:21
    Serve -- American Express mobile payments play. Money on mobiles is a huge potential, look for others to bang around here before the right answer is found. (via Mike Olson) Move Mayonnaise and Ketchup (YouTube) -- I don't know why you'd want to move mayonnaise and ketchup intact, but this is the machine for it. (via Russell Brown) Duplicates...

  • The Impact of Garbage Collection on Java Performance

    Updated: 2011-03-29 15:15:00
    In my last article I explained what a major Garbage Collection is. While a major Collection certainly has a negative impact on performance it is not the only thing that we need to watch out for. And in case of the CMS we might not always be able to distinguish between major and minor GC. So before we start tuning the garbage collector we first need to know what we want to tune for. From a high level there are two main tuning goals.read more

  • PHP 5 MySQL Database Singleton

    Updated: 2011-03-29 09:00:00
    PHP 5 MySQL Database Singleton March 29, 2011 Today I pushed the source code to a MySQL singleton pattern database class into a git repository This post will explain the history of this code , how it can be used , and how you can help make it better . I have gotten a lot of feedback on a very old PHP database class I wrote for PHP4 back in 2004. Frankly , this class is flawed in several ways and very much out of date . I've been promising folks that I would post an updated , singleton pattern MySQL database wrapper for years . Here it is . This is actually 2 PHP 5 classes : MySqlDatabase is the MySQL database singleton and MySqlResultSet is an iterable object representing a MySQL result set . I had meant to do more work on these classes , but , I simply have too much on my plate . So I've

  • Terracotta Tweaks Quartz

    Updated: 2011-03-29 05:15:00
    Terracotta has enhanced the Quartz Scheduler, the de facto standard for Java job scheduling, giving it improved management, greater control and optimal scale and simplifying a key component of cloud orchestration. It’s the first rev of the stuff since Terracotta acquired the open source project in September of 2009.read more

  • NinjaCamp III: Spline Roads

    Updated: 2011-03-29 01:39:46
    Yet another video showing a cool project that was worked on during last week’s Ninja Camp, Spline based mesh extrusion!

  • Django Authentication using an Email Address

    Updated: 2011-03-28 09:00:00
    A custom authentication backend which allows a user to login using their email address in Django.

  • NinjaCamp III: LOD Groups

    Updated: 2011-03-28 01:30:07
    Despite NinjaCamp concluding last friday (25/03/11) We still have plenty of projects that were worked on during the week that we’d like to share with you. Starting with a new component: LOD Group

  • Writing HTML is fun (if you don’t have to deal with IE)

    Updated: 2011-03-27 22:44:32
    HTML and CSS are relatively straightforward languages. Yet there’s a certain amount of elegancy to them – I think you could even call well written markup art. I quite enjoy writing HTML and CSS from time to time. Despite being simpler than programming languages, writing HTML still provides a challenge: How to put a design [...]

  • Django Dynamically Generated Images with Cairo

    Updated: 2011-03-27 09:00:00
    It is fairly simple to dynamically generate images in your Django views using the Cairo 2D graphics library.

  • Inviting Contributors to Open Source Webdev through Virtualization

    Updated: 2011-03-27 08:07:15
    : , Open Source Bridge The conference for open source citizens June 21 24, 2011 Portland , Oregon Skip to content About Blog Get Involved 2011 Attend Proposals Wiki Sponsors 2010 Sessions Schedule Speakers BoFs Wiki Sponsors 2009 Sessions Schedule Speakers BoFs Wiki Sponsors Proposals Inviting Contributors to Open Source Webdev through Virtualization Cooking Short Form osb2011-0635 Excerpt The bar to contribution in Open Source web development projects can be lowered through the use of devops tools and virtual machine . technologies Description Open Source projects are most successful when they attract enthusiastic and capable contributors . But , often the first thing a new contributor to a web development project faces is a README file with a long list of instructions needed to even get

  • Barclays Takes Down PC Projections

    Updated: 2011-03-26 18:00:00
    Trying to get its arms around the possible component shortages, postponed product launches, higher parts prices and the impact of iPad 2 on laptops, Barclays Capital has cut its PC growth projection for 2011 from 8% to 5% as a result of the disasters in Japan and weaker-than-expected demand. It expects Q1 to be down 10% sequentially, Q2 flat with Q1 and a rebound in the second half. The Japanese government calculates the March 11 earthquake and tsunami could cost $309 billion, close to three times the cost of Katrina, making it the costliest natural disaster in history. read more

  • Union and RIM Bringing Games to PlayBook!

    Updated: 2011-03-26 01:23:24
    Happy Friday, folks!  With all the excitement from this week’s Ninja Camp, we have even more exiting news to share on the Union front… In Brian’s last Union post, we shared what we were able to do with Sony Ericsson’s Xperia PLAY launch and several talented studios to implement Xperia PLAY’s unique controls in their games. [...]

  • Sales-fu

    Updated: 2011-03-25 21:28:48
    : , Open Source Bridge The conference for open source citizens June 21 24, 2011 Portland , Oregon Skip to content About Blog Get Involved 2011 Attend Proposals Wiki Sponsors 2010 Sessions Schedule Speakers BoFs Wiki Sponsors 2009 Sessions Schedule Speakers BoFs Wiki Sponsors Proposals Sales-fu Business Short Form osb2011-0634 Excerpt Tricky to master . Sometimes the last thing you care about . Let me code already , dammit . However , a small amount of work on your sales-fu will pay off . So let's do this thing . Description Sometimes , you’re your own sales droid , and you’ll need to put together proposals that say what you do and will get you . money This session is a light-hearted jaunt through the sales cycle for freelancers and small companies in open source , and it’s going to be fun

  • How Mozilla Webdev Stewards Roll

    Updated: 2011-03-25 18:55:37
    : , Open Source Bridge The conference for open source citizens June 21 24, 2011 Portland , Oregon Skip to content About Blog Get Involved 2011 Attend Proposals Wiki Sponsors 2010 Sessions Schedule Speakers BoFs Wiki Sponsors 2009 Sessions Schedule Speakers BoFs Wiki Sponsors Proposals How Mozilla Webdev Stewards Roll Culture Short Form osb2011-0633 Excerpt Mozilla's Webdev team is small , but helps out with over 100+ web properties . We're experimenting organizationally to scale ourselves . Learn about the new Webdev Steward . role Description The Mozilla Community is a large open source community . The Mozilla Corporation has a small group of professional web developers . We’re struggling to help on 100+ web properties We’ve been experimenting with our new Flux team” and a new job role

  • Java EE and .NET Interoperability on the Cloud

    Updated: 2011-03-25 15:00:00
    Java EE and .net continue to be the major enterprise platforms. With their clones taken up the PaaS space on cloud, it is all the more important for the enterprises to think in terms of interoperability. This article analyzes the interoperability between two major PaaS platforms in .net and Java EE respectively.read more

  • Accept Credit Cards in Django with Authorize.Net

    Updated: 2011-03-25 08:00:00
    Accepting credit cards in your Django applications using the Authorize.Net payment gateway is easier than you might think.

  • Major Garbage Collections - Separating Myth from Reality

    Updated: 2011-03-25 01:55:18
    In a recent post we have shown how the Java Garbage Collection MXBean Counters have changed for the Concurrent Mark-and-Sweep Collector. It now reports all GC runs instead of just major collections. That prompted me to think about what a major GC actually is or what it should be. It is actually quite hard to find any definition of major and minor GCs. This well-known Java Memory Management Whitepaper only mentions in passing that a full collection is sometimes referred to as major collection.read more

  • NinjaCamp III: Quick Prefabs

    Updated: 2011-03-25 00:35:00
    Lucas has added a really nice, simple improvement, check out the video to see how it works:

  • NinjaCamp III: Foxes and Penguins Unite!

    Updated: 2011-03-24 19:33:09
    The Ninjas have assembled and we’ve all been hard at work this week.  We’re surprisingly tired at this point, but all sorts of cool things are popping up around the office. For our NinjaCamp project, Levi, Vytautas, and I (Na’Tosha) decided to pursue our passion for GNU/Linux — we thought we would invest our time into [...]

  • NinjaCamp III: Asset Store Game

    Updated: 2011-03-24 16:04:23
    For NinjaCamp, Chris and Rob decided to see if two guys could make an adventure game for under $1000 using only Asset Store assets. According to them, the number of art packages available on the Asset Store made level design fun, fast and easy. With no programming experience, they spent the last few days [...]

  • NinjaCamp III: Vertex Awesome

    Updated: 2011-03-24 14:27:10
    Joe Robins spent a few minutes checking out the coolness Shawn and Jens have been busy with over the last few days. Vertex Color Painting!

  • NinjaCamp III: What references your assets?

    Updated: 2011-03-24 13:10:30
    NinjaCamp ninjas are busy working on small, large and almost impossible projects. This one is tiny in comparison, but should be pretty useful. We’re adding a context menu item in the asset window to “Filter References in Scene”. Selecting it will apply a filter to your hierarchy window to find all GameObjects or their children that [...]

  • OSGi: An Overview of Its Impact on the Software Lifecycle

    Updated: 2011-03-24 08:38:42
    OSGi technology brings a number of much needed benefits to the Java enterprise application market, and is disruptive in that it impacts the software development, deployment, and management practices of many organizations. OSGi impacts deployment given the shared, modular nature of OSGi, meaning application code must be written differently to capitalize on the benefits of OSGi. Equally important, application management processes need to be adjusted, given the highly shared nature of OSGi modules across many applications. This article provides a high-level overview of OSGi, and the impact this framework is having on the software lifecycle.read more

  • "Don't Give that Book Away!": Why Every Project Needs an Open Source Book

    Updated: 2011-03-24 06:08:44
    : , Open Source Bridge The conference for open source citizens June 21 24, 2011 Portland , Oregon Skip to content About Blog Get Involved 2011 Attend Proposals Wiki Sponsors 2010 Sessions Schedule Speakers BoFs Wiki Sponsors 2009 Sessions Schedule Speakers BoFs Wiki Sponsors Proposals Don't Give that Book Away Why Every Project Needs an Open Source Book Cooking Short Form osb2011-0632 Excerpt So your project needs a book Do you write it yourself , or do you approach a publisher This talk walks you through everything that factors into this decision providing real world examples of projects and companies offering open source . books Description Your open source project is revolutionary” , but no one knows how to install your software and new users are complaining about documentation . What

  • 扭曲壁纸

    Updated: 2011-03-23 02:34:27
    IconMoon Online Portfolio of JJ.Ying Portfolio About Blog Twitter Flickr Dribbble Linkedin Blog RSS Feed Message 扭曲壁纸 Mar 23 2011 作品发布 0 Comments 看了 石子儿的教程 之后做了一下 练习 想到有好久没发freebie了于是把这个练习做成了壁纸发布 PS.那个教程很不错 难度也不高 推荐大家去试试看～ 包含以下尺寸 宽屏 2560x1600 2560x1440 1920x1200 1920x1080 1440x900 1280x800 普屏 1600x1200 1280x1024 1024x768 移动设备 iPad 1024x1024 iPhone 320x480 iPhone 4 Retina 640x960 鸣谢 预览图里用到的iMac来自dA上的 Nemed 特此注明 下载壁纸 Related : Posts IconMoon上线随录 UIRSS V2公测版上线 UI Designer 第二期正式发布 IconPackager 5 测试版发布 : Tags 桌面 美化 壁纸 发布 Add Your Comment Password : optional Remember me Name E-mail Optional , will not be published URL Optional Message English My Icon Design My Interface Design My Themes My Other Works Webpicks . Misc Chinese 作品发布 理论教程 设计网摘 生活日记 随意分享 Latest Entries 扭曲壁纸 Wrap Wallpaper 方格本 方格论

  • Baby Steps into Open Source

    Updated: 2011-03-22 22:28:50
    : , Open Source Bridge The conference for open source citizens June 21 24, 2011 Portland , Oregon Skip to content About Blog Get Involved 2011 Attend Proposals Wiki Sponsors 2010 Sessions Schedule Speakers BoFs Wiki Sponsors 2009 Sessions Schedule Speakers BoFs Wiki Sponsors Proposals Baby Steps into Open Source Culture Long Form osb2011-0631 Excerpt At the Apache Software Foundation , we believe in being open . But we also recognize that open isn't enough to draw people in and get them involved . This talk will draw on the lessons learned in the incubation and mentoring projects at Apache to help you understand what's needed to tap the huge pool of potential contributors who already care about your work Description At the Apache Software Foundation , we believe in being open . But we also

  • Using the Allura Platform to Create Your Own Forge

    Updated: 2011-03-22 21:38:30
    : , Open Source Bridge The conference for open source citizens June 21 24, 2011 Portland , Oregon Skip to content About Blog Get Involved 2011 Attend Proposals Wiki Sponsors 2010 Sessions Schedule Speakers BoFs Wiki Sponsors 2009 Sessions Schedule Speakers BoFs Wiki Sponsors Proposals Using the Allura Platform to Create Your Own Forge Cooking Short Form osb2011-0630 Excerpt In late 2009 SourceForge embarked on a plan to rebuild our developer tools on top of an open platform including Python , MongoDB , RabbitMQ , and Solr . The resulting platform Allura was recently released as open source software . This covers what you get with the Allura and the basics of writing an Allura plugin . application Description We will begin with an overview of the Allura platform architecture . Particularly

  • OSWALD: Lessons from and for the Open Hardware Movement

    Updated: 2011-03-22 21:02:55
    : : , Open Source Bridge The conference for open source citizens June 21 24, 2011 Portland , Oregon Skip to content About Blog Get Involved 2011 Attend Proposals Wiki Sponsors 2010 Sessions Schedule Speakers BoFs Wiki Sponsors 2009 Sessions Schedule Speakers BoFs Wiki Sponsors Proposals OSWALD : Lessons from and for the Open Hardware Movement Chemistry Short Form osb2011-0629 Excerpt Envisioned as a cutting-edge computing platform that would encourage students to tinker with all the latest developments in the mobile space without fear of breaking their own gadgets , the initial version of the OSWALD project out of OSU failed in several key areas . In this talk , Tim will explore lessons learned from OSWALD and how they can help the open hardware and open education . communities Description

  • FOSS Tools for Photographers

    Updated: 2011-03-22 20:54:46
    : , Open Source Bridge The conference for open source citizens June 21 24, 2011 Portland , Oregon Skip to content About Blog Get Involved 2011 Attend Proposals Wiki Sponsors 2010 Sessions Schedule Speakers BoFs Wiki Sponsors 2009 Sessions Schedule Speakers BoFs Wiki Sponsors Proposals FOSS Tools for Photographers Cooking Short Form osb2011-0628 Excerpt In this talk , Tim Harder will introduce you to all the crazy cool things you can do with FOSS panoramic photography tools like Hugin , open source viewers and . more Description Love taking beautiful photos Love making beautiful panoramic photos In this talk , Tim Harder will draw on his eight years of experience with FOSS photography tools and panoramic photography to introduce you to all of the crazy cool things you can do with FOSS

  • The Ninja Have Assembled

    Updated: 2011-03-22 13:36:44
    The Copenhagen office is packed with developers who have gathered for NinjaCamp III. As the name implies, we have done two of these experimental weeks before. Each camp has focused on different aspects of development life at Unity. This time NinjaCamp is an opportunity for developers to work on projects that we would normally either [...]

  • ! Advanced Applet Suite 3.0

    Updated: 2011-03-22 06:38:59
    Create cool and exciting java projects in seconds with the amazing Advanced Applet Suite!, (C) Wyka-Warzecha Enterprises! It has an EASY to use GUI interface, plus, you can use it for free!

  • Python Version Poll Results

    Updated: 2011-03-22 06:34:06
    The results are in for the first annual LearningPython.com Python version quiz: By a landslide version 2.6 is the winner, with 3.1 and 2.5 following far behind. A grand total of 1084 people voted and 700 of those still use Python 2.6, 187 use 3.1 and 182 use 2.5. While not the largest sampling of [...]

  • Hacking Fixed, and Python on the Web

    Updated: 2011-03-22 06:34:05
    Hey Everyone, just an update on the last post. I was able to dig through the wordpress files and find where the hack was and it appears to be fixed now. Again if you notice anything strange happening here, redirects to external sites and whatnot, please let me know. Also, does anyone here use any [...]

  • Possibly Hacked 2.0

    Updated: 2011-03-22 06:34:03
    Just to let everyone who still reads this blog that it looks as though I have been hacked again. Please don’t believe the rumours, I am not selling, nor will I ever, levitra online. If you notice anything strange in the text on this blog, or you end up redirected to some strange site, please [...]

  • Forums Forums Forums

    Updated: 2011-03-22 06:33:59
    I just wanted to re-point out the fact that there are some forums associated with this blog. There’s not much happening there, and recently they have become a haven for spammers, but I’m trying to clean them up and if other Python programmers read this blog maybe the forums could actually become useful! Either way [...]

  • AVC: Simplifying your GUI Code

    Updated: 2011-03-22 06:33:57
    Note: This article was first published the April 2008 issue of Python Magazine By: Mark Mruss GUI programming, like many other types of programming, can sometimes prove exhausting because you must repeat yourself over and over again. AVC is one tool available to Python GUI programmers that attempts to simplify things by synchronizing application data [...]

  • How Open Source and Distributed Data Networks Will Power True Enterprise Cloud Computing

    Updated: 2011-03-21 16:20:24
    : , Open Source Bridge The conference for open source citizens June 21 24, 2011 Portland , Oregon Skip to content About Blog Get Involved 2011 Attend Proposals Wiki Sponsors 2010 Sessions Schedule Speakers BoFs Wiki Sponsors 2009 Sessions Schedule Speakers BoFs Wiki Sponsors Proposals How Open Source and Distributed Data Networks Will Power True Enterprise Cloud Computing Business Short Form osb2011-0627 Excerpt A frank discussion on how the world's largest businesses have identified key open source and cloud computing concepts as lynchpins to the next generation of data . management Description Open Source technologies and Cloud Computing are converging in exciting ways in essence , the cloud is powered by Open Source . However , while companies like Amazon and Rackspace have proven the

  • ahh...Fresh Spring Patterns & Palettes

    Updated: 2011-03-21 15:21:41
    . CHROMAom Log In Sign Up Username Password Lost Password COLOURlovers Browse Create Search Community Channels Trends Tools Store Palettes Patterns Colors Lovers Palette Pattern Color Palettes Patterns Colors Lovers Blog Forums Groups FAQ Business Craft Fashion Home Print Web Wedding Branding Handmade Interior Looks Magazines Street Fashion Websites Wedding Invites ColorSchemer Seamless Themeleon PHOTOCOPA COPASO Color Of The Year Software Fabric Art Print Clothing ahh . Fresh Spring Patterns Palettes By evad March 21, 2011 4 comments The days are getting longer , the sun is feeling warmer , and soon we'll be seeing fresh color pop-up everywhere . It must be Spring Here are some spring color palettes and patterns that have recently popped in the the COLOURlovers' color library . We know

  • Windows Azure vs VMware vFabric

    Updated: 2011-03-20 14:00:00
    With Java EE being a major platform on enterprise, a good PaaS platform like vFabric is very exciting. This gives lot of choices for existing Java EE based applications to move to the Cloud. The comparison with Windows Azure is done only for the new Cloud applications or building new SaaS. Again we expect both these platforms to get upgraded to very many new features which will boost the SaaS market. At this time for new applications Windows Azure is ahead, but vFabric is a good choice for migrating existing Java EE applications to Cloud. We will definitely see integration aspects between them for the good of enterprises.read more

  • Composing Software Systems

    Updated: 2011-03-19 08:16:41
    : , Open Source Bridge The conference for open source citizens June 21 24, 2011 Portland , Oregon Skip to content About Blog Get Involved 2011 Attend Proposals Wiki Sponsors 2010 Sessions Schedule Speakers BoFs Wiki Sponsors 2009 Sessions Schedule Speakers BoFs Wiki Sponsors Proposals Functional assembly Cooking Short Form osb2011-0626 Excerpt In technology , if you can't reproduce your work reliably then you can't maintain it . You may get by for a while with ad-hoc build release deployment processes , but sooner or later they'll bite you . We'll present a new practical approach to the software assembly problem , drawing inspiration from sources including the functional programming community , commercial software projects , large IT deployments , and Linux distributions like . Debian

  • Creepers, Zombies, and Skeletons: Minecraft and open-source

    Updated: 2011-03-18 20:20:37
    , , : : , Open Source Bridge The conference for open source citizens June 21 24, 2011 Portland , Oregon Skip to content About Blog Get Involved 2011 Attend Proposals Wiki Sponsors 2010 Sessions Schedule Speakers BoFs Wiki Sponsors 2009 Sessions Schedule Speakers BoFs Wiki Sponsors Proposals Creepers , Zombies , and Skeletons : Minecraft and open-source Culture Short Form osb2011-0625 Excerpt A trek through the history of Minecraft and what we can learn from its interaction with open-source communities Description Minecraft has become an instant favorite game among computer scientists , including open-source enthusiasts and hackers . During this talk , we’ll explore the history of open source communities around Minecraft , and see what we can learn about running communities and writing

  • Mozilla School of Webcraft @P2PU

    Updated: 2011-03-17 04:40:55
    : , Open Source Bridge The conference for open source citizens June 21 24, 2011 Portland , Oregon Skip to content About Blog Get Involved 2011 Attend Proposals Wiki Sponsors 2010 Sessions Schedule Speakers BoFs Wiki Sponsors 2009 Sessions Schedule Speakers BoFs Wiki Sponsors Proposals Mozilla School of Webcraft P2PU Culture Short Form osb2011-0624 Excerpt P2PU School of Webcraft : Web developer training that’s free , open and globally . accessible Description P2PU School of Webcraft : Web developer training that’s free , open and globally . accessible Mozilla and Peer 2 Peer University are creating the P2PU School of Webcraft , a new way to teach and learn web developer skills . Our classes are globally accessible , 100 free , and powered by learners , mentors and contributors like . you

  • JVM goes to BigData

    Updated: 2011-03-17 02:54:41
    : , Open Source Bridge The conference for open source citizens June 21 24, 2011 Portland , Oregon Skip to content About Blog Get Involved 2011 Attend Proposals Wiki Sponsors 2010 Sessions Schedule Speakers BoFs Wiki Sponsors 2009 Sessions Schedule Speakers BoFs Wiki Sponsors Proposals JVM goes to BigData Hacks Short Form osb2011-0623 Excerpt JVM goes to BigData The Open Source Edition Concurrency is the currency of scale on multi-core . We take an in depth look provide hacks to workaround jvm issues in scaling for Big Data NoSQL stacks Description Concurrency is the currency of scale on multi-core the new generation of collections and opensource non-blocking hashmaps are well worth the time taking a deep dive into . We take a quick look at the next gen serialization techniques as well as

  • Pulling the Plug

    Updated: 2011-03-17 00:53:32
    : , Open Source Bridge The conference for open source citizens June 21 24, 2011 Portland , Oregon Skip to content About Blog Get Involved 2011 Attend Proposals Wiki Sponsors 2010 Sessions Schedule Speakers BoFs Wiki Sponsors 2009 Sessions Schedule Speakers BoFs Wiki Sponsors Proposals Pulling the Plug Business Short Form osb2011-0622 Excerpt In order to keep a tree healthy , you have to prune its branches . This too is the case with an organization’s websites and projects . Let’s look at how Mozilla handles the end-of-life portion of a website’s . life-cycle Description The end-of-life portion of a product’s life-cycle is certainly the least glorious , but it doesn’t have to be something approached with sorrow or dread . This talk will be focused on the issues Mozilla is facing with its

  • Managing Brownfield Environments with Puppet

    Updated: 2011-03-17 00:16:08
    : , Open Source Bridge The conference for open source citizens June 21 24, 2011 Portland , Oregon Skip to content About Blog Get Involved 2011 Attend Proposals Wiki Sponsors 2010 Sessions Schedule Speakers BoFs Wiki Sponsors 2009 Sessions Schedule Speakers BoFs Wiki Sponsors Proposals Managing Brownfield Environments with Puppet Cooking Short Form osb2011-0621 Excerpt How to go from unmanaged to managed with Puppet , with devops practices and existing tools where possible and with open source hackery and spackle everywhere . else Description Everyone basically agrees now that server automation is a great idea , and automating greenfield environments is where people usually start , but rare is the organization that can afford to start again on their infrastructure . Even greenfield

  • Best Practices for Using Selenium to Speed Up Cross Browser Testing

    Updated: 2011-03-17 00:12:32
    : , Open Source Bridge The conference for open source citizens June 21 24, 2011 Portland , Oregon Skip to content About Blog Get Involved 2011 Attend Proposals Wiki Sponsors 2010 Sessions Schedule Speakers BoFs Wiki Sponsors 2009 Sessions Schedule Speakers BoFs Wiki Sponsors Proposals Best Practices for Using Selenium to Speed Up Cross Browser Testing Cooking Short Form osb2011-0620 Excerpt When you're in production , with real users and revenue on the line , you can't let a regression bug slip in and ruin your and your users' day . So you have to test . Everything . When you combine dozens of tests in several browser configurations , it takes forever . This session will provide an overview of the open source Selenium project and best practices for keeping up with your tests . Description

  • Starting and Scaling a Startup Outside of the Silicon Valley

    Updated: 2011-03-17 00:04:33
    : , Open Source Bridge The conference for open source citizens June 21 24, 2011 Portland , Oregon Skip to content About Blog Get Involved 2011 Attend Proposals Wiki Sponsors 2010 Sessions Schedule Speakers BoFs Wiki Sponsors 2009 Sessions Schedule Speakers BoFs Wiki Sponsors Proposals Starting and Scaling a Startup Outside of the Silicon Valley Business Short Form osb2011-0619 Excerpt Join Michael Richardson , a cofounder of Urban Airship , as he elaborates on the decisions around creating a startup outside of Silicon Valley , how to keep your head above water , and how to find and manage a team during explosive . growth Description Startups have unique business challenges and goals . It can be a very daunting prospect to try to start one , especially when there isn’t a lot of experience

  • Diary of an Open Source Sysadmin Entrepreur

    Updated: 2011-03-16 23:59:10
    : , Open Source Bridge The conference for open source citizens June 21 24, 2011 Portland , Oregon Skip to content About Blog Get Involved 2011 Attend Proposals Wiki Sponsors 2010 Sessions Schedule Speakers BoFs Wiki Sponsors 2009 Sessions Schedule Speakers BoFs Wiki Sponsors Proposals Diary of an Open Source Sysadmin Entrepreur Business Short Form osb2011-0618 Excerpt Half the story of the building of Puppet Labs and half instruction on how to build your own company , Luke Kanies , the founder of Puppet and Puppet Labs , will tell how he built his company and product and how you can , . too Description Building a great company requires passion and ability focused in an area that can make money . This talk is focused on helping you understand which to start with and which to iterate on

  • Growing food with Open Source

    Updated: 2011-03-16 23:33:29
    : , Open Source Bridge The conference for open source citizens June 21 24, 2011 Portland , Oregon Skip to content About Blog Get Involved 2011 Attend Proposals Wiki Sponsors 2010 Sessions Schedule Speakers BoFs Wiki Sponsors 2009 Sessions Schedule Speakers BoFs Wiki Sponsors Proposals Growing food with Open Source Hacks Short Form osb2011-0617 Excerpt Open source folks are naturally lazy . Anything mundane task they can automate , they will . So what does an open source developer do when faced with planning , planting , and tediously watering a garden Automate Description Lazy hackers will appreciate the Garduino , an open hardware Arduino to automatically water your garden and tweet at you when your plants are thirsty . Want a frost alert on your phone so you know to cover your precious

  • ePUB - What, Why, and How

    Updated: 2011-03-16 23:20:59
    , , : , Open Source Bridge The conference for open source citizens June 21 24, 2011 Portland , Oregon Skip to content About Blog Get Involved 2011 Attend Proposals Wiki Sponsors 2010 Sessions Schedule Speakers BoFs Wiki Sponsors 2009 Sessions Schedule Speakers BoFs Wiki Sponsors Proposals ePUB What , Why , and How Cooking Short Form osb2011-0616 Excerpt ePUB is the open e-book standard . Building on previous open standards , the ePUB format allows for flexible and flowing documentation , perfect for viewing on a variety of devices where the forced page sizing of other formats fails . We'll crack open some ePUB files and take a look at the innards and then we'll check out some tools to make ePUB generation less . painful Description ePUB , the open e-book standard , is recognized by

  • Online Community Metrics: Tips and Techniques for Measuring Participation

    Updated: 2011-03-16 20:59:16
    : : , Open Source Bridge The conference for open source citizens June 21 24, 2011 Portland , Oregon Skip to content About Blog Get Involved 2011 Attend Proposals Wiki Sponsors 2010 Sessions Schedule Speakers BoFs Wiki Sponsors 2009 Sessions Schedule Speakers BoFs Wiki Sponsors Proposals Online Community Metrics : Tips and Techniques for Measuring Your Community Culture Short Form osb2011-0615 Excerpt Every community manager knows that community metrics are important . Having good community metrics for your open source project is a great way to understand what works and what needs improvement over time , and metrics can also be a nice way to highlight contributions from key community members . This session will focus on tips and techniques for collecting metrics from tools commonly used by

  • Control Emacs with Your Beard: the All-Singing All-Dancing Intro to Hacking the Kinect

    Updated: 2011-03-16 18:45:34
    : : , Open Source Bridge The conference for open source citizens June 21 24, 2011 Portland , Oregon Skip to content About Blog Get Involved 2011 Attend Proposals Wiki Sponsors 2010 Sessions Schedule Speakers BoFs Wiki Sponsors 2009 Sessions Schedule Speakers BoFs Wiki Sponsors Proposals Control Emacs with Your Beard : the All-Singing All-Dancing Intro to Hacking the Kinect Hacks Short Form osb2011-0614 Excerpt See The Amazing Future of Human-Computer Interaction Behold The Awesome Power of Open-Source Libraries and Cheap Video-Game Accessories Fake Beards Description Thanks to mad consumer science like the Microsoft Kinect , the future of human-computer interfaces is approaching faster than a jetpack-powered high-speed rail line filled with Phil Dick . novels Watch , dumbfounded and

  • Infrastructure for 21st Century Citizenship

    Updated: 2011-03-16 18:32:08
    : , Open Source Bridge The conference for open source citizens June 21 24, 2011 Portland , Oregon Skip to content About Blog Get Involved 2011 Attend Proposals Wiki Sponsors 2010 Sessions Schedule Speakers BoFs Wiki Sponsors 2009 Sessions Schedule Speakers BoFs Wiki Sponsors Proposals Infrastructure for 21st Century Citizenship Culture Short Form osb2011-0613 Excerpt Oregon faces big problems , and new ways of thinking and engaging need to be created to solve them . There is a pressing need for an open source , easy-to-use online platform where Oregonians can raise issues , identify needs , exchange information , offer support and resources , connect with one another , and take action together toward shared solutions that improve our neighborhoods , our communities and our . state

  • COBOL: No Barriers - The Story of Visual COBOL R3

    Updated: 2011-03-16 08:00:00
    COBOL has evolved and is breaking free. Visual COBOL R3 gives you FREEDOM, CHOICE and MORE: FREEDOM to deploy wherever you want, JVM, .NET, AZURE, CHOICE of development environment, VS2010 or Eclipse and MORE COBOL language enhancements to deliver MORE productivity, faster. Read the Visual COBOL R3 brochure to learn more about COBOL: NO BARRIERS.read more

  • A Rich Desktop Development Environment Based on the Eclipse IDE

    Updated: 2011-03-16 02:00:00
    Micro Focus Visual COBOL delivers the richest development experience for COBOL programmers available on Windows and Linux. Using the Eclipse rich client platform as an integrated development environment (IDE), the needs of the COBOL programmer are the primary focus. In parallel, the enhancements to the COBOL language make it even easier to use to build modern object-oriented applications. The Visual COBOL Development Hub and Visual COBOL for Eclipse solve these problems by providing a rich desktop development environment based on the Eclipse IDE with high-performance server-based tools for managing builds, source code access and debugger engine. read more

  • 方格本 + 方格论

    Updated: 2011-03-15 15:47:03
    IconMoon Online Portfolio of JJ.Ying Portfolio About Blog Twitter Flickr Dribbble Linkedin Blog RSS Feed Message 方格本 方格论 Mar 15 2011 设计网摘 7 Comments 方格本 是由 夏涛 设计的中国版Dribbble 同样用400x300的空间来随时展示设计过程 另外他们最近也推出了一个side project 方格论 一个开放的设计话题讨论平台 PS . 这个网站目前也需要邀请 我目前有一枚 有需要的朋友请留言告诉我你的邮箱 邀请已经发掉了 不过每周都会新增一枚 所以留email的朋友也许下次我可以发给你 为了保证收邀请者质量 请顺带附上作品集链接 PS.又PS.我的方格本地址是 http : fanggeben.com JJYing Related : Posts Dribbble开放评论者注册 Need a Dribbble invite Go Cribbble it~ IconMoon上线随录 Chinese Designers on Dribbble : Tags 方格本 dribbble 网站 404 March 21, 2011 13:04 喜欢那网站 设计很好 我想要个邀请码 . JJ.Ying : Replied 光与影的协奏 March 17, 2011 10:09 求邀请码,li_xin3157 hotmail.com非常感谢 JJ.Ying : Replied ginsento March 16, 2011 12:29 我可以得到一个邀请码吗 谢谢 ginsento gmail.com JJ.Ying : Replied 砍刀刘 March 16, 2011 11:56 求邀请码kandaoliu gmail.com谢谢

  • VMware Hopes to Entice Non-Coders to Build Java Cloud Computing Apps

    Updated: 2011-03-15 14:30:00
    Welcome Register Sign-in Search Jump to a Magazine NET AJAX APACHE CLOUD COMPUTING CMS COLDFUSION CRM ECLIPSE FLEX HP IPHONE JAVA LINUX OPEN SOURCE OPEN WEB ORACLE PERL PHP POWERBUILDER PYTHON RED HAT RUBY SAP SEARCH SILVERLIGHT SOA SYMBIAN VIDEO VIRTUALIZATION WEB 2.0 WEBLOGIC WEBSPHERE WIRELESS XML Home Subscribe Advertise Authors Topics Videos Events Webcasts Java : Email Alerts Newsletters Get Java : Homepage Mobile NET AJAX Cloud Eclipse Flex Open Web iPhone Java Linux Open Source Oracle PowerBuilder Security SOA Virtualization Web 2.0 Java Authors : Maureen O'Gara Srinivasan Sundara Rajan Andreas Grabner Ravi Muthusubramanian Mike Jacobs Related Topics : Java Open Source Virtualization Cloud Expo Java : News Item VMware Hopes to Entice Non-Coders to Build Java Cloud Computing Apps

  • Migrating JEE Applications to SpringSource tc Server

    Updated: 2011-03-13 11:00:00
    Welcome Register Sign-in Search Jump to a Magazine NET AJAX APACHE CLOUD COMPUTING CMS COLDFUSION CRM ECLIPSE FLEX HP IPHONE JAVA LINUX OPEN SOURCE OPEN WEB ORACLE PERL PHP POWERBUILDER PYTHON RED HAT RUBY SAP SEARCH SILVERLIGHT SOA SYMBIAN VIDEO VIRTUALIZATION WEB 2.0 WEBLOGIC WEBSPHERE WIRELESS XML Home Subscribe Advertise Authors Topics Videos Events Webcasts Java : Email Alerts Newsletters Get Java : Homepage Mobile NET AJAX Cloud Eclipse Flex Open Web iPhone Java Linux Open Source Oracle PowerBuilder Security SOA Virtualization Web 2.0 Java Authors : Maureen O'Gara Srinivasan Sundara Rajan Andreas Grabner Ravi Muthusubramanian Mike Jacobs Related Topics : Java Virtualization Cloud Expo Java : Article Migrating JEE Applications to SpringSource tc Server The migration decision process

  • Behind the Scenes of Serialization in Java

    Updated: 2011-03-10 15:45:00
    When building distributed applications one of the central performance-critical components is serialization. Most modern frameworks make it very easy to send data over the wire. In many cases you don’t see at all what is going on behind the scenes. Choosing the right serialization strategy however is central for achieving good performance and scalability. Serialization problems affect CPU, memory, network load and response times.read more

  • Red Hat Introduces JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform 5.1

    Updated: 2011-03-10 09:00:00
    We're beginning to see a real marketplace for open source-based integration and middleware, and in many ways the open source versions are advancing the value and variety of these services beyond where the commercial products can quickly tread. What's more, as cloud and SaaS services become more common, ways of integrating data and applications assets -- regardless or origins -- will need to keep pace. Standardization and inclusiveness of integration points and types may be much better served by a community approach, and open source licenses, than waiting for a commercial product upgrade, or costly custom integrations.read more

  • Oracle Updates GlassFish

    Updated: 2011-03-04 22:37:43
    Oracle Wednesday put out GlassFish Server 3.1, delivering on the roadmap laid out at last year’s JavaOne and adding new high-availability features in the areas of load balancing, failover, state management and centralized administration. There’s supposed to be a 34% improvement in high-availability performance over GlassFish 2.1.1. As the reference implementation for Java EE, GlassFish Server is the proving grounds for the upcoming Java EE 7. Oracle says GlassFish complements its WebLogic Server 11g, designed to run the broader portfolio of Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g and large-scale enterprise applications. read more

  • The API Lab

    Updated: 2011-03-04 14:15:00
    Welcome Register Sign-in Search Jump to a Magazine NET AJAX APACHE CLOUD COMPUTING CMS COLDFUSION CRM ECLIPSE FLEX HP IPHONE JAVA LINUX OPEN SOURCE OPEN WEB ORACLE PERL PHP POWERBUILDER PYTHON RED HAT RUBY SAP SEARCH SILVERLIGHT SOA SYMBIAN VIDEO VIRTUALIZATION WEB 2.0 WEBLOGIC WEBSPHERE WIRELESS XML Home Subscribe Advertise Authors Topics Videos Events Webcasts Java : Email Alerts Newsletters Get Java : Homepage Mobile NET AJAX Cloud Eclipse Flex Open Web iPhone Java Linux Open Source Oracle PowerBuilder Security SOA Virtualization Web 2.0 Java Authors : Maureen O'Gara Pat Romanski Scott Morrison Javier Paniza Elizabeth White Related Topics : Java SOA WOA Java : Blog Post The API Lab Isn’t it about time for more creative solutions around API documentation By Scott Morrison Article :

  • Micro Focus Visual COBOL for Eclipse

    Updated: 2011-03-04 01:56:40
    Micro Focus COBOL for JVM introduces a unique, high-performance COBOL environment for developing COBOL applications to be deployed in a Java framework such as the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) or a Java Enterprise Edition (JEE) application server. In addition to using Visual COBOL for Eclipse for applications deployed as native code, it’s also the IDE for developing COBOL JVM applications with debugging support for both traditional or object-oriented COBOL applications for the JVM. Visual COBOL for Eclipse also includes enhanced compatibility with extend making it easier for many existing extend applications to be migrated to Visual COBOL. read more

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