July 2007

153 bookmarks saved in July 2007

Open Authorization, Permissions, and Socially Enabled Security

http://journals.aol.com/panzerjohn/abstractioneer/entries/2007/07/19/open-authorization-permissions-and-socially-enabled-security/1505
"What if you could say, "by default, trust whatever my buddy Pete trusts"? Or, "trust the consensus of my set of friends; only ask me if there's disagreement"? Or more prosaically, "trust what my local IT department says"."

XML.com: Introducing OpenSearch

http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2007/07/20/introducing-opensearch.html?ATT=Introducing+OpenSearch&CMP=OTC-TY3388567169
"You go to your favorite Web 2.0 search engine and set up a query like http://web20.example.com/search=john+doe&ouptut=atom and search for "john doe," but rather than getting back results as the usual HTML web page, you get it back in Atom format."

Wii T-shirt

http://www.wireandtwine.com/store/products/tiishirt.html
"This isometric exploded view was handcrafted and placed on a soft American Apparel shirt with a few hits of teal ink. Game with style."

Template Engines

http://massassi.com/php/articles/template_engines
"In short, the point of template engines should be to separate your business logic from your presentation logic, not separate your PHP code from your HTML code."

about:cmlenz - Logic in Templates

http://www.cmlenz.net/blog/2007/06/logic-in-templa.html
"In my humble opinion, this kind of “dumbed-down” templating results in only one thing: more lines of code in the application modules, lines of code that are really only about presentation, and should be in the templates."

Networking on the Network

http://www.acm.org/crossroads/xrds4-4/network.html
"A great deal of effort goes into technical means for finding information on the net, but hardly anybody has been helping newcomers figure out where the net fits in the larger picture of their careers."

Clickable Culture - Gnomes Rain From Azeroth’s Skies

http://www.secretlair.com/index.php?/clickableculture/entry/gnomes_rain_from_azeroths_skies/=
"The gnomes left behind corpses arranged to spell out the name of a web site dealing in virtual gold sales--an effective means of advertising third-party services Blizzard (creator of the Azeroth setting) is firmly against, allegedly carried out using cli

YouTube - iPhone SMASH

http://www.youtube.com/watch?eurl=http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/iphone-sf-campout/videos-of-the-iphones-guts-both-academic-and-destructive-273996.php&v=Vy20b7pCcrY
"we (me and kethe, that is) were trying to find out what the iPhone is made of. after being gentle with it for some time, we got a little frustrated and decided to just smash the damn thing"