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Tyrant alarm clock dials your contacts if you refuse to wake - Engadget
via www.engadget.com by (author unknown) on July 02, 2008
Brilliant. Pure, sadistic, barbarous brilliance.
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REST Anti-Patterns
via Stefan Tilkov's Random Stuff by (author unknown) on July 01, 2008
When people start trying out REST, they usually start looking around for examples - and not only find a lot of examples that claim to be “RESTful”, or are labeled as a “REST API”, but also dig up a lot of discussions about why a specific service that claims to do REST actually fails to do so.Why does this happen? HTTP is nothing new, but it has been applied in a wide variety of ways....
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Testing IE Versions Just Got a Little Easier
via Ajaxian by Rey Bango on May 28, 2008
Testing your sites on different versions of Internet Explorer has always been notoriously difficult mainly due to the fact that Microsoft prevents you from running to different versions of the browser in Windows. Sure there have been solutions to get around this limitation but in my experience, they’ve always caused unexpected results and instability for the operating system or required you to...
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Better Terrain Representation in Google Maps
via Google Operating System by Ionut Alex Chitu on June 16, 2008
Mehmet K. noticed an update of the terrain layer from Google Maps, a feature that lets you view physical features, such as mountains and vegetation, with elevation shading.The fairly recent "terrain" feature in Google Maps now plots contours as well as hill shading. The only problem that I can see is that the contours are in feet in the UK whereas feet are only really used in the States. Even in...
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A clever solution to a critical problem
via Signal vs. Noise by Jason on June 17, 2008
The Ivanhoe Reservoir in LA holds millions of gallons of drinking water. It’s also contaminated with cancer-causing bromate — caused by a reaction between sunlight, chlorine, and naturally occurring bromide.So what to do? They came up with a really clever solution: Keep sunlight away from the water by covering the water with millions of black balls (called bird balls). Watch a video to see...
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An inflationary or an inflammatory letter?
via John Redwood MP by John Redwood on June 17, 2008
The Governor may soon have to write a letter to the Chancellor apologising for the high rate of inflation and saying what if anything he needs to do about it. In a way it should be the Chancellor writing to the Governor, as the Treasury has been at the bottom of the economic mistakes that have led us to higher inflation, and the Treasury has had more power than the Bank in many of the...
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Optimizing your Web server
via W3C Q&A Weblog by Karl Dubost on June 17, 2008
There are many ways of optimizing your Web server performances. It becomes essential when you are dealing with a high traffic Web site, but it usually good practice for giving a better user experience and saving money. A while ago, we published The Way of Web Standards to emphasize good practices around Web technologies. One of them was Use caching capabilities to save time and money. We were...
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Ransomware
via Schneier on Security by schneier on June 16, 2008
I've never figured out the fuss over ransomware:Some day soon, you may go in and turn on your Windows PC and find your most valuable files locked up tighter than Fort Knox.You'll also see this message appear on your screen:"Your files are encrypted with RSA-1024 algorithm. To recovery your files you need to buy our decryptor. To buy decrypting tool contact us at: ********@yahoo.com"How...
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Another Use for C# Using
via DotNetKicks.com by (author unknown) on June 16, 2008
If you are a C# developer you're familiar with the using directive. It appears at the top of every one of your class files informing the compiler what namespaces should be looked at while compiling this code page so that you don't have to fully qualify every object. (This isn't the interesting bit)
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Get Firefox...If You Can
via ReadWriteWeb by Sarah Perez on June 17, 2008
As you may know, today is Firefox's big day: June 17th: Download Day. At Mozilla, they've set a goal to achieve the Guinness World Record for the most downloads in 24 hours. The number they want to reach is 5 million. This may turn out to be tough because as of 1 PM ET, the Firefox download page at www.getfirefox.com was to feature the download for the new Firefox 3 web browser. Instead,...
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