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June 2010

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Hydorah - Locomalito

http://www.locomalito.com/juegos_hydorah.php
"Hydorah is a game designed for classic shoot em up players, who still love clean designs and challenging adventuresThe whole game takes obvious influence from Gradius, Castlevania or R-Type, but also from other classics treated worse by the time: Turrican, Enforcer, Space Manbow, Hellfire, Guardian, Hydefos, Armalyte and many others..."
#freeware #gaming #hydorah #indie #retro #shmups
archive.org #13654

CiteSeerX — A Standard Framework for Web Personalization

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.59.8287
"personalization framework for the web are discussed, and contrasted with the requirements for a federated digital identity system. A set of design goals for personalization frameworks is developed and discussed. User identification requirements for personalization are isolated and found to be more limited than in the digital identity arena. Privacy implications for personalization frameworks are discussed. Based on all of this an architecture is proposed for detailed design and implementation."
#personalization #privacy #webdev
archive.org #13647

Persistent Trees in git, Clojure and CouchDB « EclipseSource Blog

http://eclipsesource.com/blogs/2009/12/13/persistent-trees-in-git-clojure-and-couchdb-data-structure-convergence
"This is a tale of three images. I found these images while investigating the internals of several different applications. There are some really neat software projects emerging at the moment, and as a developer I always find it interesting to take a look at the implementation details, because there is often a lot to be learned. It’s not always something you might need right now, but maybe a few years down the line you may be confronted with a similar problem. Plus – in my opinion – knowing a bit about the internals of a program helps reasoning about its behaviour."
#clojure #couchdb #data #distributed #git #persistence #trees
archive.org #13641

PHP and Memcached: The state of things

http://brian.moonspot.net/php-memcached-issues
"Memcached is the de facto standard for caching in dynamic web sites. PHP is the one of the most widely used languages on the web. So, naturally there is lots of interest in using the two together. There are two choices for using memcached with PHP: PECL/memcache and PECL/memcached. Great names huh? But as of this writing there are issues with the two most popular Memcached libraries for PHP. This is a summary of those issues that I hope will help people being hurt by them and may bring about some change."
#memcache #memcached #php #webdev
archive.org #13638

The New Lens Flare · David DeSandro

http://desandro.com/articles/the-new-lens-flare
"By abusing the text-shadow property, you can turn any ho-hum bit of text into a magnificent, radiant beacon of allure and awe. But getting your bling-bling on has never been for the cheapskates. Expect to pay a boatload in refresh rates, as your browser buckles under the weight of rendering that glorious halo."
#css #css3 #textshadow #webdev
archive.org #13619

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http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ClientsFromHell/~3/HureIVRDKeo/725306849
archive.org #13601

A browsable, searchable archive of tweets | stopdesign

http://stopdesign.com/archive/2010/03/02/browsable-searchable-archive-of-tweets.html
"In the past, I’ve wanted to browse or search through my own tweets. Viewing my Twitter profile is one way to do that. But if I want to browse back through history, it’s a chore to go back very far. And forget about searching through my own tweets on Twitter since Twitter Search currently only goes back about a seven days."
#archiving #social #tutorial #twitter #webdev
archive.org #13592

Sugar Within Human Bodies Could Power Future Artificial Organs: Scientific American

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=glucose-body-fuel-cell
"Now there is hope that future implants might be powered not by batteries but by the fuels in our bodies that are used for energy. Scientists have shown that fuel cells implanted in rats can successfully generate electricity from sugar in the rodent's bodies. The devices kept going for months at a time."
#biology #fuelcells #future #gadgets #implants #medicine #power #research #technology
archive.org #13527

Saxon diaries :: The ten most common XSLT programming mistakes

http://saxonica.blogharbor.com/blog/_archives/2010/6/11/4550606.html
"In response to a user recently, I told him he had fallen into the most common elephant trap for XSLT users. Rather than being annoyed, which I half expected, he thanked me and asked me if I could tell him what the next most common elephant traps were. Although some of us have been helping users avoid these traps for many years, I don't recall seeing a list of them, so I thought I would spend half an hour compiling my own list. "
#tips #xml #xslt
archive.org #13526

How to grill potatoes

http://www.grillingcompanion.com/grilled-potatoes
"This grilled potatoes recipe is a great alternative to a boring baked potato. In this recipe, we give the standard starch a flavor boost. We redo this dinner staple by simply adding onions, garlic, salt, pepper and butter. The result is a crispy, delicious potato side dish that is hard to beat."
#cooking #grilling #recipes #veggies
archive.org #13509

Everyone dials in · Nat Friedman

http://nat.org/blog/2010/04/everyone-dials-in
"On the SUSE Studio team, we had a “level playing field” rule for our weekly meetings. Even though a lot of us were clustered in Nürnberg, Germany, everyone dialed in to the meeting, putting every single person on an even footing. There’s no “local” and “remote.” Everyone has to speak clearly into the telephone. When we instituted this rule, we noticed the “remote” participants joining in the conversation a lot more often, and the calls went a lot smoother. This worked well for us. It might help you too. Let me know how it goes."
#communication #conferencing #lifehacks #meetings #phone #telecommuting
archive.org #13486

Craftzine.com blog : Recipe: Satay-Spiced Peanut Butter Sandwich

http://blog.craftzine.com/archive/2010/05/recipe_satay-spiced_peanut_but.html
"I'm a big fan of grilled peanut butter sandwiches and it has nothing to do with Elvis Presley (no bananas for me). I'm also a big fan of Thai food, especially the gingery, peanut-buttery goodness that is called satay. One night, while foraging around the fridge for some dinner fixins, I thought I would make a grilled peanut butter sandwich when I spied some bean sprouts and cilantro, and an idea was formed. Trust me, this is good stuff. Makes 2 sandwiches."
#cooking #food #peanutbutter #recipes #sandwiches
archive.org #13483

NGINX + PHP-FPM + APC = Awesome

http://interfacelab.com/nginx-php-fpm-apc-awesome
"The following guide will walk you through setting up possibly the fastest way to serve PHP known to man. If there is a faster way, I’ve not yet found it climbing through zillions of blog posts out there on the subject. In this article, we’ll be installing nginx http server, PHP with the PHP-FPM patches, as well as APC. The end result? Pure awesome."
#apache #apc #nginx #performance #php #webdev
archive.org #13479

MultiBasing revisited

http://blog.seanbonner.com/2010/04/27/multibasing-revisited
"If you aren’t familiar with MultiBasing you can read more about it on my wiki. It’s a term I coined a few years back to try and describe a lifestyle that a few friends and I were increasingly inching towards where rather than living in one single place, we frequently traveled between several global locations, all of which were home in one way or another. In an essence we had multiple bases. Initially there was a lot of discussion about how to enable more of this but over the years it’s become more of a descriptive term for things we were already doing. Some more than others of course."
#life #multibasing #travel
archive.org #13465

Mark Bernstein: Bitter End

http://www.markbernstein.org/May10/BitterEnd.html
"It turns out that the “bitter end” of a rope is the end you secure or bend to the bitts of a ship, while the other end secures the anchor. If you are hoping to anchor in very deep water, you pay out more and more line and hope that the anchor will hit the sea floor. Instead, your line runs out all the way to the bitter end, and then you are up a creek without a paddle. Thanks, W.H. Smyth, The Sailor’s Word Book, 1867."
#bitterend #idioms #language
archive.org #13446