September 2008
17 posts
nice buttons without images →
Anyone who has loaded a webpage on a wireless connection can appreciate thoughtful web development that minimizes the use of images.
a new mantra for my list….though shalt not use an image unless it is A. a photograph or B. there is truely no way for even the most godly css programmer to do it in css
some really great art
http://desktopography.net/
http://opencalais.com/tools
machine learning and semantic web
RDF web service
www.uservoice.com
Uservoice has setup a drop in web service that allows your users to provice feedback on how to make your service more useful and get concensus on what that means. Respond to your users.
check it out
www.uservoice.com
‘Secrecy is the badge of fraud’ — Sir John Chadwick (b. 1941), British judge
We should all volunteer for freegeek, enough time to help rebuild however many computers you’ve thrown out in your life. Become computer waste neutral.
http://freegeekvancouver.org/
How close are the elections really?
in 2000, 269 votes would have given us President Gore. In all there have been 12 US Presidential elections that were decided by less than a 1% margin; meaning if less than 1% of the voters in certain states had changed their mind to the other candidate the outcome of the election would have been different.”
—wired magazine
How to tunnel insecure protocols using SSH over...
ssh username@host -N -L localport:127.0.0.1:remoteport
example
ssh ryan@wilson.com -N -L 80:127.0.0.1:81
In the above example i’m mapping port 80 on wilson.com to my local port 81. When I request a page from 127.0.0.1:81 it will be encrypted by the openSSL library on my machine and decrypted by wilson.com and forwarded to port 80 on wilson.com.
useful for accessing MYSQL hosts over...
map reduce pattern
check it out from google to the public domain
Ellen Miller: Make Washington More Like the Web
http://www.sunlightfoundation.com/
The Web is a haven of messy democracy. (Want to see voter engagement and healthy debate? Read any Digg comment thread.) But the ideal of transparency and participation hasn’t yet infiltrated another messy democracy — the US government. That insight led Ellen Miller to cofound the Sunlight Foundation in 2006. The goal was to tap some of the Net’s...
A buddy of mine Greg has a tagline that I really like something like anyone can be an inventor…but…its hard to be an innovator
Seth Godin's Words of Wisdome
The easiest way to grow is to sell to people who share a worldview that endorses your position. The most effective way to grow bigger than that is to inform those that disagree with your position—more data in a palatable form. And, unfortunately, it turns out that the best way to change the world is to open the closed-minded.
Slashdot | Drop-In Replacement For Exchange Now...
http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/09/19/2023252&from=rss Ryan Wilson OnePipe Communications Inc. t.778.786.2222 c.604.716.2222 www.OnePipe.ca
How to make a webpage automatically print when the...
“ // “
Good Shortcuts for textmatee
Go to file: APPLE-T
Search for a method within a file APPLE-SHIFT-T
Switch between tabs: APPLE-OPTION Left or Right
Escape Key: Auto Completion
apple backspace: delete whole line,
control backspace: delete previous word
Linux.com :: Turn your machine into enterprise...
http://www.linux.com/feature/146861 Ryan Wilson OnePipe Communications Inc. t.778.786.2222 c.604.716.2222 www.OnePipe.ca
Apple
65,000,000 unique accounts with credit cards in the iTunes Store.
Largest music retailer in the USA.
Largest online content store in the world.
hmm…glad i made the switch