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The Web That Wasn’t

Friday, November 9th, 2007

Excellent video from the Google engEDU series.
A talk given by Alex Wright; excellent history of Information Theory: The Web That Wasn't, especially hyperlinking.
Spend an hour and listen. Good history. I am probably going to Amazon his book, Glut

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Faceless to Face-ful on Flickr.

Wednesday, September 12th, 2007

Toolmantim, the wonder-super-rock-god-of-Ruby-on-Rails in Sydney has released I Work On The Web.
If you feel inclined, add yours to the Flickr Group
Show your real face. More than text.

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Web Directions South : Tickets Going Fast!!

Tuesday, August 28th, 2007

Web Directions South is going to have about 600 attendees this year according to John Allsopp. Wow. This internet thing must be good.
Discount pricing of $895, $100 off, ends this Friday at midnight. Hurry up and grab your tickets. http://www.webdirections.org/
Nominations for the second McFarlane Prize for Excellence in Australia Web Design also end Friday http://mcfarlaneprize.com/

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Follow the Eyeballs. And the Money.

Thursday, May 24th, 2007

At the Hill and Knowlton "Surviving and thriving in the next decade - Technology Publishing" Breakfast Bytes this morning, a group of eminent panelists in picture above, from the left:

James Tuckerman – Publishing Editor, AntHill. New relatively magazine about ideas, money and skills. Previously more print than online, but adding new online projects later in 2007.
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Gadget Geek Journey; Desintation 1: live.com

Thursday, January 4th, 2007

Time to get serious on my resolutions. Well, at least one anyway; I'll start the waist shrinking/walking later. It's Thursday Geekout time!
Inspired by Robert Scoble's Podtech.net live.com gadget posting, and a general feeling that gadgets are where it is at for non-professional programmers like myself.
So, first port-of-call http://gallery.live.com/ then on to the Developer center
Decision time: [...]

Moore’s Law and Compounding Interest

Sunday, December 24th, 2006

In deploying the small Ruby on Rails application on an old Dell 8200 running Debian-sarge, I decided to see how the application would perform under load.
Apache comes with a great little application meekly called ab. ab is a small command-line tool that slashdots your web application, and gives you a nice measure (in pages per [...]

Frankinstall Tweaking Ruby Mongrels

Saturday, December 23rd, 2006

What a fun few days! I reported earlier I was in the midst of Ruby on Rails. The small project is coming along fine. Even though I could quickly build in Python or PHP, its time to learn and immerse myself in a new language - and more importantly, a new platform.
This platform is more [...]

App after App

Sunday, September 24th, 2006

Interesting read about the future of Web Applications; and specifically their archetypes, by Matt Webb.
From application design, to application size, location and other bits.

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Amber Mac

Tuesday, August 29th, 2006

Looks like a loss for the AU world as Amber MacArthur is leaving Call For Help (which she is a co-host with Leo Laporte) for some obscure Canadian TV channel. (as seen 6.30pm on the Foxtel How To Channel).

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Javascript, DOM

Saturday, February 22nd, 2003

I should have learnt this fully years ago. A good source of info is here: Javascript and Level 1 DOM manipulation of HTML. There are some "things" I want to implement that can only be done using these methods. Looking into the history, it looks like there are many deep dark secrets. [...]

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