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dW - Article Archive - Tweet from Opera’s Address Bar 2
A week ago I wrote about tweeting from Opera’s address bar and presented a method for doing so without aid for external scripts or services such as a method given a couple of months ago. Since then my method has made its way across the interwebs even being posted on My Opera, but there’s a better way to do it.
nice hack.
Front to back » Blog Archive » Don’t (just) design what your users want
Both Norman and Hansson agree on one thing: user involvement alone is not enough. Designer vision, expertise and discipline is a vital part of successful innovation.
even if they disagree on who you're designing things for.
What Makes Finnish Kids So Smart?
Finland's students are the brightest in the world, according to an international test. Teachers say extra playtime is one reason for the students' success.
and they use Firefox ;-)
2007
anthonyeden.com ActiveWarehouse Example with Rails SVN Logs
1 commentThis article covers how to build a simple ActiveWarehouse data warehouse using the Subversion logs from the Rails project.
Time to forget about data normalization
scie.nti.st » Hosting Git repositories, The Easy (and Secure) Way
by 1 otherthis article will be a tutorial showing you how to host and manage Git repositories with access control, easily and safely.
to answer the “How do I store a GIT repository” question
Remembering on the web - 5 reasons why social bookmarking doesn’t work
One common task while browsing the web is going sure you will be able to recall a valuable information you are just looking at. This article aims to prove that social bookmarking as in delicious, simpy, magnolia et al. is the wrong tool for that task.
One essay about the failures of actual social bookmarking systems.
Peter's Blog - Lazy Function Definition Pattern
by 1 other (via)This article examines a functional-programming design pattern I’ve been calling Lazy Function Definition. I’ve repeatedly found this pattern useful in JavaScript especially when writing cross-browser libraries that are efficient at runtime.
lazy, lazy, lazy