Archive for December 2009
links for 2009-12-31
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boston horizon solo radio owner manual
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LÖVE is an unquestionably awesome 2D game engine, which allows rapid game development and prototyping in Lua.
links for 2009-12-30
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Scripts can be run interactively in a terminal, started as a long running service, or started via Locale. Python, Lua and BeanShell are currently supported, and we're planning to add Ruby and JavaScript support
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We've put together a list of what we think are the most essential PC apps for every Maximum PC reader. These are all free programs (except one) that should be immediately installed after a fresh build or reformat; 32 indispensable programs and utilities that we couldn't imagine computing without. From the best IM client to FTP browser and Notepad replacement, these essentials truly enhance the Windows experience (much more so than Microsoft's own Windows LIVE Essentials). We're not saying you'd use all 32 entries in our list on a daily basis, but if you are at all serious about utilizing your PC, we promise our picks will not go unused.
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Free open-source disk encryption software for Windows 7/Vista/XP, Mac OS X, and Linux
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regex (regular expression) cheatsheet
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By basing the compensation on continuous rating by your peers, it becomes possible to start out by just participating a bit in your free time, and then gradually, as your ratings increase, spend more and more time on the project.
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We were in the holiday spirit last week so we created a drop of the Web Client Guidance – so go check it out. The goal of the drop was to reduce the technical debt we had for the project. We need you to help us figure out what other technical debt we need to address.
links for 2009-12-28
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This is a basically a repeat of last night's talk. We're at an important moment now with JavaScript, and I think it's a good time to look at how we got to where we are and where we're going to go next, and how we're going to get there. I'm talking about JavaScript, but I really should be talking about ECMAScript. JavaScript is a trademark that's owned by Sun Microsystems, or possibly by Oracle — I'm not too sure what the status is today. The thing that describes what this language really is, the thing that's common that we all own and that we all share, is ECMAScript. We really should be calling it ECMAScript, which I find really difficult because it's such an awful name. But that's really what it's called, and that's what I'm going to be talking about tonight.
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A developer key is a file containing cryptographic information tied to a specific XO laptop.
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Installation onto the XO's build-in NAND flash memory
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Brian's Brain is a cellular automaton devised by Brian Silverman, which is very similar to his Seeds pattern. It consists of an infinite two-dimensional grid of cells, but unlike Seeds, each cell may be in one of three states: on, dying, or off. Each cell is considered to have eight neighbors (Moore neighborhood), as in Seeds and Conway's Game of Life. In each time step, a cell turns on if it was off but had exactly two neighbors that were on, just like the birth rule for Seeds. All cells that were on go into the dying state, which is not counted as an "on" cell in the neighbor count, and prevents any cell from being born there. Cells that were in the dying state go into the off state.
links for 2009-12-25
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There are many ways, you pick which is the most elegant for you.
links for 2009-12-24
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What mistake has caused more grief, more bugs, more workarounds, more endless hours consumed, etc., than any other? Many people would say null pointers. I don't agree. C's biggest mistake is:
Conflating pointers with arrays.
links for 2009-12-23
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Lua has very good integration with C/C++ but not so straightforward with .Net.
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Traditionally natural theology is the term used for the attempt to prove the existence of God and divine purpose through observation of nature and the use of human reason. Seen in a more positive light natural theology is the part of theology that does not depend on revelation.
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The online Gifford Lectures database presents a comprehensive collection of books derived from the Gifford Lectures. In addition to the books, the Web site contains a biography of each lecturer and a summary of the lecture or book. The Web site also contains a biography of Adam Lord Gifford, a copy of his will bequeathing money to the four major Scottish universities to hold the lectures, a brief description of natural theology, an introduction to each of the four universities and news about forthcoming Gifford-related events.
links for 2009-12-21
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Dell's ubiquitous Inspiron line of laptops is getting a few new additions today
links for 2009-12-18
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The Extech Heavy Duty Light Meter
links for 2009-12-17
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OpenRasta is a resource-oriented framework for .NET enabling easy ReST-ful development of web sites and services. OpenRasta is designed to run on .net 2.0 and above, and can co-exist peacefully with your existing ASP.NET and WCF deployments.
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FubuMVC is a an open source framework for web development using the Model View Controller pattern (like just about every other web development framework in existence minus WebForms). Fubu is built in C# and depends on the System.Web.Routing subsystem of the base CLR, but has no dependency whatsoever on the ASP.Net MVC framework.
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The UK MSDN Flash developer newsletter contains great short technical articles written by UK developers both inside Microsoft and in the broader developer community. This eBook pulls together these great articles in one place. There are thirteen articles in this second edition covering Python, Inversion of Control, Behavior Driven Development, Silverlight and more.
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Microchip’s PICkit 3 In-Circuit Debugger/Programmer uses in-circuit debugging logic incorporated into each chip with Flash memory to provide a low-cost hardware debugger and programmer. In-circuit debugging offers these benefits:
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