Category: Science
How To Make Your Open Source Project Really Awesome
If you plan on releasing a library as open source, please make sure it has Clear dependency/installation instructions At least one brief documentation guide A change log and tags in the repo Some information about supported language/runtime/tool versions and project maturity A mailing list where users can ask questions and help each other Doing anything […]
Users’ Pagination Preferences and ‘View All’
When providing a choice of display options, the computer should almost always respect the user’s stated preference and employ it as the default the next time around. I am amazed at how many sites and applications don’t do this and instead force users to repeat their choices again and again. In short do pagination but […]
DataGenetics – The Two Egg Problem
Like brain-teasers and computer science algorthims, read on indeed.
Mailinator(tm) Blog – How Mailinator compresses email by 90%
A fun journey through algorithms to find a solution to getting some awesome compression stats.
Frankie Roberto – Responsive Text
In agreement, nifty idea, but defiantly unsure of the practical application.
Backups, Automated and Off Site
One of the biggest issues in running a server is making sure if everything disappears you can be up and running as quickly as possible. So how do I do it?
Incubaid Research – Rediscovering the RSync Algorithm
The right way to synch two remote file systems.
Tinycon – Favicon Alerts
Pretty sure I could count the number of times I actually looked at a favicon alert on one hand, that being said nice work.
Michael Tsai – PDFpen and iCloud
My largest long-term fear of OSX is that Apple will slowly turn off the ability for applications to be useful without using the App Store and thus some Apps may just not exist anymore (SuperDuper is the easy example).
whatwg – Requests for new elements for comments
Want to do comments on your new spiffy HTML5 site, use an article element inside your main article element.