Archive for January, 2009

links for 2009-01-28

28th January 2009 by eamonn No Comments

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Another way to get a bookmarklet on the iPhone by bookmarking a http: link and then manually editing the result.. (An alternative to dragging the bookmarklet onto the browser bar on the desktop browser and then syncing bookmarks with iTunes.) Either way, a bad user experience for the average user.
(tags: webpageprinting web [...]

Avoid the rational and secularist when selling your innovative product or service?

27th January 2009 by eamonn No Comments

While scanning through the The IIIP Innovation Confidence Index 2008 Report published today by the The Institute for Innovation & Information Productivity I noticed one surprising finding that is illustrated in Figure 6 of the report.

They found that people in countries whose values are more “traditional” are more open to innovation than people from countries [...]

links for 2009-01-24

24th January 2009 by eamonn No Comments

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Satellite view of Obama inauguration crowd.
(tags: politics)

links for 2009-01-21

21st January 2009 by eamonn No Comments

How to Create a Draggable Div
Handy JavaScript tricks
(tags: javascript)

The Illusion of Color

20th January 2009 by eamonn No Comments

One thing that confused me when I learned science in high school was the connection between the spectrum of colors as seen in a rainbow, and the three primary colors. In case anyone else is confused here is my simple explanation.
While light, as you probably know, is composed of a mixture of colors as [...]

links for 2009-01-15

15th January 2009 by eamonn 1 Comment

Slicker Show and Hide » Learning jQuery – Tips, Techniques, Tutorials
JavaScript example code to show or hide some content using jQuery.
(tags: javascript tutorial example web code)

links for 2009-01-14

14th January 2009 by eamonn No Comments

Mountain Goat Software – Advantages of User Stories for Requirements
How user stories are different from use cases and requirements statements.
(tags: programming design agile)

links for 2009-01-13

13th January 2009 by eamonn No Comments

San Francisco 1859 – David Rumsey Historical Map Collection
San Francisco 150 years ago, overlaid on Google Maps.
(tags: sanfrancisco)

Getting Creative With Transparency in Web Design | How-To | Smashing Magazine
How to use PNG alpha transparency, and how to work-around IE6 incompatibility.
(tags: javascript css web code graphics design tutorial)

links for 2009-01-12

12th January 2009 by eamonn No Comments

Contact Info and Upcoming Events
Example JavaScript code that appears as a little minimized tell-tale that can be expanded out to overlay the page.
(tags: javascript webpageprinting example)

33% reduction in public order prisoners in 2002

11th January 2009 by eamonn No Comments

Did the aftermath of 9/11 attacks result in fewer people being imprisoned for public order offenses?
I happened across interesting graph on a page on the US Department of Justice Web Site.

This is of course interesting for many reasons that are already well known, such as the huge increase in prison population and the particular large [...]

links for 2009-01-09

9th January 2009 by eamonn No Comments

http://www.kemblescott.com/most-recent-newsletter.shtml
Literary happenings in SF.
(tags: sanfrancisco books)

links for 2009-01-08

8th January 2009 by eamonn No Comments

San Francisco Chamber Orchestra Home Page
Free chamber music concerts
(tags: sanfrancisco)

What questions should a product requirements document answer?

6th January 2009 by eamonn 1 Comment

I am temporarily putting on a marketing hat and creating a product requirement document (PRD). My first step was to create a template based on a skeleton in a Wikipedia article, together with some valuable details from my colleague Chris. I attempted to make it a bit more “agile” by using “user stories” [...]

links for 2009-01-06

6th January 2009 by eamonn No Comments

PeeDee's webstrip at master — GitHub
Ruby Camping web application to remove unwanted stuff from web pages.
(tags: webpageprinting)

PrintWhatYouLike.com News
The blog for the web page printing web service.
(tags: webpageprinting)

Six Features of a Good User Story – INVEST Model | Agile Software Development
A description of what an Agile user story should look like — more concrete than most [...]

Spash! — Iceberg calving off glacier.

5th January 2009 by eamonn No Comments

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Spash! — Iceberg calving off glacier., originally uploaded by Tolka Rover.

The splash of a new iceberg falling off a glacier in Glacier Bay, Alaska.

links for 2009-01-05

5th January 2009 by eamonn No Comments

Stanford InfoSeminar
(tags: todo)

The inherent unpredictibility of the future

4th January 2009 by eamonn 1 Comment

I am three quarters way through reading Teleb’s “The Black Swan”. What an interesting book! I knew from the reviews about the main thesis that history is dominated by unexpected high-impact events, which we later rationalize as fitting into some post hoc theory. However, there is also a lot of very interesting philosophical backround that [...]

Where the freeway tentacles have withdrawn from San Francisco

2nd January 2009 by eamonn No Comments

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Where the freeway tentacles have withdrawn from San Francisco, originally uploaded by Tolka Rover.

San Francisco in 1991 showing the Embarkadero Skyway and several other stretches of elevated freeway that have since been torn down.
I love maps, and [...]

Rediscovering Audio Signal Processing

1st January 2009 by eamonn No Comments

This Holiday Season our household acquired a tape deck with a USB connection. (Thanks B & J!) Now, finally we can convert some of our hundreds of old cassette tapes to MP3s.
The tape deck came with some allegedly easy-to-use recording software, but it seemed rather limited, so instead I used the excellent open [...]

links for 2009-01-01

1st January 2009 by eamonn No Comments

EXACT DISCRETE-TIME REALIZATION OF A DOLBY B ENCODING/DECODING ARCHITECTURE
I found the graphs in this paper handy when trying to approximate Dolby B decoding in Audacity
(tags: music)