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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

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.

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/

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.
Heather Craven — […]

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 second, […]

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.

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).

DOM">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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