July 2010
26 posts
Last.fm: robots.txt →
... Disallow: /harming/humans Disallow: /ignoring/human/orders Disallow: /harm/to/self ...
Old School Color Cycling with HTML5 →
“Anyone remember Color cycling from the 90s? This was a technology often used in 8-bit video games of the era, to achieve interesting visual effects by cycling (shifting) the color palette. Back then video cards could only render 256 colors at a time, so a palette of selected colors was used. But the programmer could change this palette at will, and all the onscreen colors would ...
Dear Oracle, can we have our nice javadoc URLs... →
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/java/lang/IndexOutOfBoundsException.html
Now, requesting this URL today causes a redirect to:
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E17476_01/javase/1.5.0/docs/api/java/lang/IndexOutOfBoundsException.html
Which is also somewhat cool, but not as much. Factor 10 down in coolness. It makes me assume that you’re serving javadocs from a CD, and that CD’s...
Bad Connection: Inside the iPhone Network Meltdown →
Wired-Redakteur Fred Vogelstein verfasst ein lesenswertes ‘Sitzungsprotokoll’ über die AT&T-Partnerschaft. When an AT&T representative suggested to one of Jobs’ deputies that the Apple CEO wear a suit to meet with AT&T’s board of directors, he was told, “We’re Apple. We don’t wear suits. We don’t even own suits.”
Facebook: Das als weltweite Einwohnermeldeamt →
“Bei dem Ministerium hatte sich ein Psychotherapeut gemeldet, der offenbar seine Patientendaten mit Facebook synchronisiert hat. Anschließend hätten sich seine Patienten gewundert, dass sie andere Patienten als Freundschaftsvorschläge von Facebook bekamen.” (Quelle: Golem.de)
Alien Swarm kostenlos bei Steam →
Die Unreal Tournament 2004 Modifikation Alien Swarm hat den Verantwortlichen bei Valve so imponiert, dass sie die Entwickler der Mod einstellten. Sie fanden trotz anderer Projekte, die Zeit ihr altes Spiel für die SourceEngine portieren. Das Ergebnis wird am Montag, den 19. Juli 2010 um 21:00Uhr kostenlos über Steam beziehbar sein. Zusätzlich zu dem Spiel stellen die Entwickler auch den...
It’s Faster Because It’s C →
“Horizontal scalability” might seem like a euphemism for “throw more hardware at it” and I’ve been conditioned to abhor that as much as anyone, but hyper-optimization is only a reasonable alternative when you have a long time to do it. Especially at startups, VC-funded or otherwise, you probably won’t. Focus on stability and features first, scalability and manageability second, per-unit...
Fake - Mac OS X Web Browser →
“Fake is a new browser for Mac OS X that makes web automation simple. Fake allows you to drag discrete browser Actions into a graphical Workflow that can be run again and again without human interaction.”
OpenBTS on Droid: Running a GSM base station on... →
“Running a GSM base station from a CDMA handset. With minimal work it’s possible to get gnuradio and OpenBTS working on the ARMEL architecture used on the Droid, allowing my Droid to act as a base station to which handsets can connect”
Commit Message Generator →
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June 2010
23 posts
Indiegame: Bob came in pieces
“Bob has crashed on a strange planet, lost a bunch of parts for his ship and above all, is late for work!! Find the lost parts and rebuild your ship along the way to solve challenging, physics-based puzzles. You can build your ship any way you like in the ship builder - try to find the coolest ship-design for the puzzle at hand!”
