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Boxoh universal package tracking: UPS, FedEx, USPS, and DHL with RSS and Maps

Fri, 30 Jul 2010 10:02:44 -0400

Boxoh universal package tracking: UPS, FedEx, USPS, and DHL with RSS and Maps:

A better interface for tracking your packages :)

Good general web app javascript practices. Voices That Matter:...

Wed, 28 Jul 2010 10:00:43 -0400

Good general web app javascript practices.

Voices That Matter: GWT - Security (via GoogleDevelopers)

"To get a longer attention span — even a span long enough to read this article — don’t worry about..."

Tue, 27 Jul 2010 13:01:45 -0400

“To get a longer attention span — even a span long enough to read this article — don’t worry about managing the information. Worry about managing your attention. Paying attention, for long periods of time, is a form of endurance athleticism.”

- How to Focus - A Healthy Information Diet - InfoVegan.com

Experimenting with Node.js - Jeff Kreeftmeijer

Tue, 27 Jul 2010 10:00:43 -0400

Experimenting with Node.js - Jeff Kreeftmeijer

Tab Candy: Making Firefox Tabs Sweet « Aza on Design

Mon, 26 Jul 2010 13:01:44 -0400

Tab Candy: Making Firefox Tabs Sweet « Aza on Design

willhui: StarCraft II: Ghosts of the Past Trailer Looks more...

Mon, 26 Jul 2010 10:00:42 -0400

willhui:

StarCraft II: Ghosts of the Past Trailer

Looks more like a movie trailer…

"I’ve heard from reliable sources that during the development they brought together the best..."

Sun, 25 Jul 2010 14:15:42 -0400

“I’ve heard from reliable sources that during the development they brought together the best console gamers to play mediocre PC gamers at the same game… and guess what happened? They pitted console gamers with their “console” controller, against PC gamers with their keyboard and mouse. The console players got destroyed every time. So much so that it would be embarrassing to the XBOX team in general had Microsoft launched this initiative”

- rahulsood: Console Gamers Get Killed against PC Gamers

ridiculous_fish » Blog Archive » Will it optimize?

Sun, 25 Jul 2010 11:15:42 -0400

ridiculous_fish » Blog Archive » Will it optimize?

World Burping Champion (via diagonaluk)

Wed, 21 Jul 2010 13:01:44 -0400

World Burping Champion (via diagonaluk)

Onlive - Flat Rate Game Pricing Coming to Onlive in the Near Future?

Wed, 21 Jul 2010 10:01:45 -0400

Onlive - Flat Rate Game Pricing Coming to Onlive in the Near Future?:

I’m all up for that. Something like $20-30/month is probably the max I’ll dish out (But I’m a student, so go figure).

Unit Testing 101

Mon, 19 Jul 2010 10:01:42 -0400

Unit Testing 101:

Unfortunately, this is a XUL file. Which requires firefox to view.

(via iheart-photos)

Sun, 18 Jul 2010 10:00:42 -0400

(via iheart-photos)

Google Apps Script

Sat, 17 Jul 2010 13:02:43 -0400

Google Apps Script:

JavaScript programming for your Google Apps.

Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years

Sat, 17 Jul 2010 10:00:42 -0400

Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years :

willhui:

alexainslie:

“Here’s my recipe for programming success:

Get interested in programming, and do some because it is fun. Make sure that it keeps being enough fun so that you will be willing to put in ten years.

Talk to other programmers; read other programs. This is more important than any book or training course.

Program. The best kind of learning is learning by doing. To put it more technically, “the maximal level of performance for individuals in a given domain is not attained automatically as a function of extended experience, but the level of performance can be increased even by highly experienced individuals as a result of deliberate efforts to improve.” (p. 366) and “the most effective learning requires a well-defined task with an appropriate difficulty level for the particular individual, informative feedback, and opportunities for repetition and corrections of errors.” (p. 20-21) The book Cognition in Practice: Mind, Mathematics, and Culture in Everyday Life is an interesting reference for this viewpoint.

If you want, put in four years at a college (or more at a graduate school). This will give you access to some jobs that require credentials, and it will give you a deeper understanding of the field, but if you don’t enjoy school, you can (with some dedication) get similar experience on the job. In any case, book learning alone won’t be enough. “Computer science education cannot make anybody an expert programmer any more than studying brushes and pigment can make somebody an expert painter” says Eric Raymond, author of The New Hacker’s Dictionary. One of the best programmers I ever hired had only a High School degree; he’s produced a lot of great software, has his own news group, and made enough in stock options to buy his own nightclub.

Work on projects with other programmers. Be the best programmer on some projects; be the worst on some others. When you’re the best, you get to test your abilities to lead a project, and to inspire others with your vision. When you’re the worst, you learn what the masters do, and you learn what they don’t like to do (because they make you do it for them).

Work on projects after other programmers. Be involved in understanding a program written by someone else. See what it takes to understand and fix it when the original programmers are not around. Think about how to design your programs to make it easier for those who will maintain it after you.

Learn at least a half dozen programming languages. Include one language that supports class abstractions (like Java or C++), one that supports functional abstraction (like Lisp or ML), one that supports syntactic abstraction (like Lisp), one that supports declarative specifications (like Prolog or C++ templates), one that supports coroutines (like Icon or Scheme), and one that supports parallelism (like Sisal).

Remember that there is a “computer” in “computer science”. Know how long it takes your computer to execute an instruction, fetch a word from memory (with and without a cache miss), read consecutive words from disk, and seek to a new location on disk. (Answers here.)

Get involved in a language standardization effort. It could be the ANSI C++ committee, or it could be deciding if your local coding style will have 2 or 4 space indentation levels. Either way, you learn about what other people like in a language, how deeply they feel so, and perhaps even a little about why they feel so.

Have the good sense to get off the language standardization effort as quickly as possible.”

- Peter Norvig

The Creativity Crisis

Thu, 15 Jul 2010 13:04:42 -0400

The Creativity Crisis:

willhui:

For the first time, research shows that American creativity is declining. What went wrong—and how we can fix it.

willhui: RIAA accounting: why even major label musicians rarely...

Thu, 15 Jul 2010 10:00:42 -0400

willhui:

RIAA accounting: why even major label musicians rarely make money from album sales.

IBM and the Jeopardy Challenge (via ibm)

Tue, 13 Jul 2010 23:01:19 -0400

IBM and the Jeopardy Challenge (via ibm)

Welcome to The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Packaging — The Hitchhiker's Guide to Packaging v1.0 documentation

Tue, 13 Jul 2010 10:00:42 -0400

Welcome to The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Packaging — The Hitchhiker's Guide to Packaging v1.0 documentation

EPICWIN

Sun, 11 Jul 2010 10:00:43 -0400

EPICWIN

ColorPicker.com : Quick Online Color Picker Tool

Thu, 08 Jul 2010 22:07:42 -0400

ColorPicker.com : Quick Online Color Picker Tool:

Handy when you don’t have an image editor handy. Includes color recommended schemes.