links for 2008-10-31
Posted in General on Oct 31st, 2008
A N I M O T O creates animated videos from your images. very neat [...]
Monthly Archive for October, 2008
links for 2008-10-30
Posted in General on Oct 30th, 2008
Stefano’s Linotype » Blog Archive » Why Programmers Suck at CSS Design good tips for novice CSS designers. [...]
Ballard and Fremont in the New York Times
Posted in General on Oct 30th, 2008
Ballard (and our neighbors in Fremont) get the in-depth treatment from the New York Times travel section. Very cool to see a photo of Ballard farmer’s market on the homepage of the Gray Lady!
links for 2008-10-29
Posted in General on Oct 29th, 2008
Hostile takeover of Open Source Project TWiki Very sad. A good object lesson in what can happen to open-source projects that don't have [...]
Plone Code Swarm
Posted in General on Oct 28th, 2008
Chris “cbcunc” Calloway has put together two great video visualizations of Plone’s community activity over the past eight (!) years.Check out:Plone core code swarm — a visual representation of the evolution of the Plone core from 2001 to 2008.Plone collective code swarm — same idea, only this time it analyzes the universe of Plone add-on [...]
links for 2008-10-27
Posted in General on Oct 27th, 2008
Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: What Tim O'Reilly gets wrong about the cloud [...]
links for 2008-10-26
Posted in General on Oct 26th, 2008
Plone Code Swarm amazing visualization of the plone codebase history [...]
links for 2008-10-24
Posted in General on Oct 24th, 2008
Calliflower fairly nifty phone + web conference calling tool [...]
links for 2008-10-23
Posted in General on Oct 23rd, 2008
Transactional Email and Confirmation Messages (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox) [...]
Socialst? Not.
Posted in General on Oct 18th, 2008
Obama’s no socialist, but McCain and Palin are acting more and more like fascist demagogues all the time. I’ll be glad when this election ends in a blowout that sends them both scampering back to their caves with the last remanants of the revanchist right.
Failed authoritarian movements needs scapegoats the way fecal coliformbacteria need a steady supply of raw sewage, and this one has a lot offailures that need explaining.
links for 2008-10-06
Posted in General on Oct 6th, 2008
Keating Economics Obama takes the gloves off. (tags: politics [...]
links for 2008-10-04
Posted in General on Oct 4th, 2008
Clean Energy 2030 – Google's Clean Energy Plan [...]
links for 2008-10-03
Posted in General on Oct 3rd, 2008
Wordle – Beautiful Word Clouds a bad idea, absolutely beautifully implemented [...]
Manage Infomration Overload by Blogging
Posted in General on Oct 2nd, 2008
Michael Gilbert has an interesting notion: becoming a knowledge blogger is a good way to practice managing information overload. The experience of “information overload” has many causes, among which are these three important ones: (1) We don’t know what to do with the information we are getting. (2) We don’t know how to filter and select amongst all that [...]
Flexible external redirects in Plone: a brainstorm
Posted in General on Oct 2nd, 2008
Sam Dorman of the League of Young Voters just tickled my funnybone with a really nice idea for how to elegantly handle external redirects in Plone. I think this would be really easy to roll up into a nice user-friendly product that would have tremendous, wide-ranging re-usability. I’d love your thoughts on it. The problem Lots of [...]