Why the QR code is failing – iMediaConnection.com The current uses of QR codes are just not cutting it. What we’re missing is a killer campaign that will train people to use their phones to scan.
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Google Refine 2.0 – Introduction (by GoogleRefine) This video introduces Google Refine, a free, power [desktop] tool for working with messy data. ( Source: https://www.youtube.com/ )
Mobile Frameworks Comparison Chart Looking for the right mobile Framework? Compare all major Frameworks and choose the one that fits best.
Piwik – Web analytics – Open source Piwik is a downloadable, open source (GPL licensed) real time web analytics software program. It provides you with detailed reports on your website visitors: the search engines and keywords they used, the language they speak, your popular pages… Piwik is GPL, that means that building on top of it as a library must be GPL also but consuming the data from the API as a service doesn’t ( http://piwik.org/faq/new-to-piwik/#faq_56 )
OpenPhoto – A free, hosted, portable and open source photo sharing service OpenPhoto is a way to store and share your photos while keeping control and ownership of them. OpenPhoto works similarly to Flickr, Smugmug and other photo sharing services with one major difference: you retain ownership and give OpenPhoto access to use them . All photos, tags and comments are stored in your personal cloud accounts with companies like Amazon, Rackspace or Google. ...
TAP – Test Anything Protocol TAP, the Test Anything Protocol, is a simple text-based interface between testing modules in a test harness. TAP started life as part of the test harness for Perl but now has implementations in C, C , Python, PHP, Perl, Java and others. Here’s what a TAP test stream looks like: 1..4 ok 1 - Input file opened not ok 2 - First line of the input valid ok 3 - Read the rest of the file not ok 4 - Summarized correctly # TODO Not written yet
The secret of all progress and every virtue is, in fact, to know how to begin again – to learn from a failure and to try once more. Nunc coepi! Begin again! Fr. Georges Chevrotl
TIOBE Programming Community Index The TIOBE Programming Community index is an indicator of the popularity of programming languages. The index is updated once a month.
The Great Prosperity vs The Great Regression (via Opinion – NYTimes.com )
Front-end Code Standards & Best Practices | Isobar North America This document contains guidelines for web applications built by the Creative Technology (front end engineering) practice of Isobar US. (…) This document’s primary motivation is two- fold: 1) code consistency and 2) best practices.
HTML5 Boilerplate – A rock-solid default template for HTML5 awesome. HTML5 Boilerplate is the professional badass’s base HTML/CSS/JS template for a fast, robust and future-proof site. After more than three years in iterative development, you get the best of the best practices baked in: cross-browser normalization, performance optimizations, even optional features like cross-domain Ajax and Flash. A starter apache .htaccess config file hooks you the eff up with caching rules and preps your site to serve HTML5 video, use @font-face, and get your gzip zipple on. ...
OpenClipArt Openclipart is the largest collaboration community that create, share and remix cliparts. All cliparts are released to the Public Domain so they can be freely used in any project for free.
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Notes About Notes: Making Better Notes This site collects ideas about making, analyzing, organizing, and sharing notes.
That’s good that you won a lot of trophies, it’s nice, but you know what? After I sell a bunch of records, I take all the platinum ones off the walls and pretend I haven’t sold a damn one and I’ve got to go do it all again. Lady Gaga (as a guest judge on the American edition of “So You Think You Can Dance”, Season 8 Episode 18)
… innovation comes from people meeting up in the hallways or calling each other at 10:30 at night with a new idea, or because they realized something that shoots holes in how we’ve been thinking about a problem. It’s ad hoc meetings of six people called by someone who thinks he has figured out the coolest new thing ever and who wants to know what other people think of his idea. ...
I think if you do something and it turns out pretty good, then you should go do something else wonderful, not dwell on it for too long. Just figure out what’s next. Steve Jobs (NBC Nightly News, May 2006)