Archive for April, 2009

A system for classifying typefaces.

28th April 2009 by eamonn No Comments

VOX-ATypI classification – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

(tags: reference webpageprinting)

The Mystery of Wolfram Alpha

28th April 2009 by eamonn No Comments

So far, there have been two main approaches to the problem of organizing the world’s information: (1) throw machine-learning techniques at vast quantities of unstructured information, as Google does or (2) create complex networks of interrelated ontologies and apply inference techniques, as the Semantic Web community does.
As a fan of both the tool Mathematica and [...]

Wolfram alpha webcast

25th April 2009 by eamonn No Comments

Live Webcast | Berkman Center
Wolfram alpha webcast here on April 28 at 3pm eastern , noon pacific
(tags: web2.0)

links for 2009-04-19

19th April 2009 by eamonn No Comments

tecosystems
GPL code can be used freely in cloud apps.
(tags: Code webservices)

StockLayouts® Graphic Designs: Brochure, Flyer & Newsletter Templates!
Applying the business model of stock photography to graphic design layouts.
(tags: graphics printing business layout ideas design webpageprinting)

Handy comparison of URL shortening services (via @timoreilly)

18th April 2009 by eamonn No Comments

URL Shorteners: Which Shortening Service Should You Use?

(tags: web2.0 web technology seo reference)

The API reference for the Scala library.

13th April 2009 by eamonn No Comments

Scala Library

(tags: scala language library programming reference)

One of the more useful guides to the Scala programming language.

11th April 2009 by eamonn No Comments

A Tour of Scala | The Scala Programming Language

(tags: programming tutorial reference guide language scala)

Python scripting API for the Scribus page layout tool

9th April 2009 by eamonn No Comments

.:Scribus:. GPL Desktop Publishing and More

(tags: python webpageprinting)

links for 2009-04-07

7th April 2009 by eamonn No Comments

Facebook's photo storage rewrite
An overview of Facebook's photo storage architecture, Haystack, highly optimized for their particular access patterns.
(tags: photo design web architecture scaling network technology facebook)

links for 2009-04-01

1st April 2009 by eamonn No Comments

Lessons Learned
Currently listening to this guy talking at web2expo. Mostly obvious stuff, but some insightful anecdotes.
(tags: programming business agile startup)