links for 2008-11-29
29th November 2008 by eamonn No CommentsBooks Borrowed
This cartogram is an inspiration to support public libraries in Africa.
“The future is already here. …” *
Books Borrowed
This cartogram is an inspiration to support public libraries in Africa.
ACM Ubiquity – The Fallacy of Premature Optimization
How blind adherence to the maxim "premature optimization is the root of all evil" can lead to slow bloated software systems.
(tags: programming design code)
Main Page – OpenSocial
List of currently active OpenSocial container sites.
(tags: social code)
Image collection taxonomies for photo-book auto-population with intuitive interaction
A demo at ACM DocEng that I helped build.
(tags: my)
google-collections – Google Code
This library from Google extends the standard collections class in a useful way.
(tags: programming library java design code)
A. Sundararajan's Weblog
A Java-Scala cheat cheat
(tags: programming reference java scala)
Effectively Using Git With Subversion | Web Development Blog: Web Development Insights, Best Practices, Tips & Techniques : Viget Labs
How to create a Git child repository off a Subversion parent repository.
(tags: tutorial programming)
CEDICT: Chinese-English Dictionary
downloadable Chinese character/pinyin/English dictionary/database.
(tags: mandarin)
SurfPinyin
Web service to modify Chinese language web site to annotate characters with pinyin and English.
(tags: mandarin)
Create your own Ranking | Gentoo : Intel® Pentium® 4 Computer Language Benchmarks Game
Performance comparison of different languages. C/C++, Java and Scala are generally within a factor of three of each other. Ruby, JRuby, Python, and Groovy are all an order of magnitude or more slower.
(tags: java ruby scala c++)
WebMags – Portfolio
Online-only magazines. [...]
Print Smart
A few simple print-CSS examples.
(tags: printing css webpageprinting)
PrintWhatYouLike.com {beta}: Save money and the environment printing only what you like.
Web service (with convenient bookmarklet) for printing web pages. Has interactive editing to add or remove page components.
(tags: webpageprinting tool printing web service)
HP Smart Web Printing
browser add-on for IE and Firefox
(tags: printing hp web [...]
The Typesetting Area
Guidelines for book margins and text block widths. For example "In order to make life easier for the reader, one should try to make the average line length some 40 to 70 characters long – including spaces."
(tags: printing webpageprinting design)
Five simple steps to designing grid systems – Part 1 : Journal : Mark [...]
Well I could not go to the Web 2.0 Summit but, thanks to my Irish connections, I did get to attend one interesting event on the periphery, a panel discussion called “Web 2.0 in Action”.
Tom Foremski moderated the discussion very effectively. Unlike many panel discussions, it did not devolve into just a series of [...]