December 2007
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Open Source Food | a Social Network for Food... →
Delicious Food. Beautiful Photography. Created, rated and improved by you and fellow food-lovers from all over the world. Open Source Food is your gastronomic hub where every visit will bring inspiration and a rumbling belly… Saved By: Paul Lomax | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: None assigned
@PJWilkinson differs depending on starting or joining… 3 years isn’t long as a founder unless you’re flipping. Have to factor time and …
A Shining Ruby →
Yes, so this company is all hot to trot on Ruby on Rails. Or rather, the CTO is. I can sum up my experience to date as follows: Stage 1: Loved It Stage 2: Hated It Stage 3: Tolerating It I’ll do a longer post in a little bit, but here’s the preview skinny. Stage 1: Loved It Ruby on Rails is a very smart framework. Ruby _is_ really a fun language to use. Ruby is great for little...
Got Sarah a special Xmas pressie - a diamond ring! She said Yes! :)
Happy Christmas!
Christmas Back Home →
Nice to be home for Christmas. Had a dusting of snow up here when we arrived but melted now. Shame i have a stinking cold…
Heading for the train to Manchester! Yay for Christmas!
Packing my suitcase, ready to head up to Manchester for xmas tomorrow night.
Top Ten Mistakes in Web Design (Jakob Nielsen's... →
The ten most egregious offenses against users. Web design disasters and HTML horrors are legion, though many usability atrocities are less common than they used to be. Saved By: Paul Lomax | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: None assigned
E-commerce User Experience: Usability Research and... →
Report from Nielsen Norman Group with 207 design guidelines for making e-commerce sites easier to use. Covers design strategy, selling strategy, category pages, product pages, search, checkout & registration, trust, and international users, as well as the methodology of the extensive usability study behind the recommendations. Saved By: Paul Lomax | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: None...
Web 2.0 Can Be Dangerous (Jakob Nielsen's... →
AJAX, rich Internet UIs, mashups, communities, and user-generated content often add more complexity than they’re worth. They divert design resources and prove that what’s hyped is rarely what’s most profitable. Saved By: Paul Lomax | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: None assigned
Good AJAX: An Example (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox,... →
E-trade’s stock charts update quickly while making it clear to users both what they can do and what the consequences of their actions are. Saved By: Paul Lomax | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: None assigned
Facebook Launches Friend Lists - Still Not Ready... →
Facebook finally rolled out their long awaited friend lists feature today. The feature allows users to create groups of friends and has been seen as a necessary step for Facebook to be able to compete with professional networks like LinkedIn, but Facebook’s implementation seems incomplete. According to Facebook, lists are for “for messaging, invites, and more.” Indeed, by...
working late as usual…
Svnmerge.py - SubversionWiki →
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Semi-genius →
Ideeli has a terrible name - way too easy to misspell - but a sharp business model: they take discounted women’s luxury goods and they make them available woot-style through an invite-only network. Write up in the NYT today, found it via SAI. But neither source plays up the sharpest part of the model - to get in on the deals earliest, you have to pay $7.99 a month for the privilege.
In an online...
Sorting for Humans : Natural Sort Order →
The default sort functions in almost every programming language are poorly suited for human consumption. What do I mean by that? Well, consider the difference between sorting filenames in Windows explorer, and sorting those very same filenames via Array.Sort() code:
Explorer shell sort
Array.Sort()
Quite a difference.
I can say without the slightest hint of exaggeration that this...
Licensing the Facebook Platform →
In the next step of opening up Facebook Platform, Facebook is now making its platform architecture available as a model for other social sites. Facebook will even license the Facebook Platform methods and tags for use by other platforms, which means that the 100,000 developers currently building Facebook applications can make their applications available on other social sites with no extra work.
Bebo Adopts Facebook Platform; Facebook Opens Up... →
Back in October Read/WriteWeb got the scoop that social network Bebo was about to announce a developer platform. This was pre-OpenSocial, which Bebo joined at the beginning of November. Then in mid November Bebo announced Open Media, which we described as not terribly open and “like a white listing of professionally produced, big media content.” [see also last100’s take on it] At...
Movable Type Goes Open Source Today →
Today Six Apart is officially making its Movable Type publishing platform open source, just under four months after the launch of Movable Type 4 and six months after the open sourcing announcement in June. This means that as of today, MT users can freely modify, redistribute, and use Movable Type for any purpose they choose.
Importantly, it also means that Six Apart has finally removed the one...
G.ho.st (ghost) Virtual Computer (VC), Web OS... →
G.ho.st - Your complete Virtual Computer (VC) in the browser, running the Global Hosted Operating SysTem from Ghost Inc. Saved By: Paul Lomax | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: None assigned
symfony, Propel, and Doctrine →
As a lot of people ask me the same question over and over again, so here is some information about the state of the integration of ORM tools in symfony. Even if symfony can use any ORM tool, or none at all, two libraries are tightly integrated with the symfony core: Propel and Doctrine. Propel has been bundled with symfony since the first release two years ago. Doctrine is a younger but a very...
Facebook's marketing bible -- the 100-word version... →
From the looks of things, pornographers are the only people who have really figured out how to advertise on Facebook. No worries, Inside Facebook’s Justin Smith is on the case. He’s written The Facebook Marketing Bible: 24 Ways to Market Your Brand, Company, Product, or Service Inside Facebook. But, as you can tell from the title, conciseness is not Smith’s strong point. Here are...
101 Link Building Tips to Market Your Website :... →
B List SEOs Andy Hagans and Aaron Wall team up to write about 101 ways to build link popularity in 2006. Saved By: Paul Lomax | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: None assigned
FireShot :: Firefox Add-ons - screen capture →
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Apparently the people behind The Times Podcasts are now stalking me on Twitter. Shit, I’d better try and be interesting. Er, Murdock Rocks!
Twenga raises £2.6 million to enter the crowded... →
Twenga is the latest in a log line of shopping search engines that aim to act as a personal shopper.
3i has invested €2.6 million in Twenga.
Twenga don’t think of ourselves as just a price comparison website, but instead as a shopping search engine. So as well as compare prices, they also show you every available product, and every available price, so that you can make the most...
Skimbit announces beta and first customer →
Skimbit, described as a social decision-making tool, launches it’s formal beta trial this week. The free service is designed to let you manage the results of web searches, say for a holiday, wedding or shopping trip, and aggregates the feedback from friends and family to make it easier to come to a group decision. Notionally Skimbit is meeting a need, since about 88% of adults conduct some sort of...
Marie Claire Online relaunches →
Marie Claire has relaunched with a bit of a design-tart up. But the real news for me is that it’s built on the Symfony Framework using IPC’s ‘Exemplar’ system.
Other sites on Exemplar include VolksWorld, Shoot and Park home and holiday caravan
I might talk about Exemplar in more detail some day - it was my brainchild and the last project I initiated there before leaving...
VibeAgent: Hotel reviews, meta-search, and social... →
VibeAgent - VibeAgent - Hotel reviews from people you trust. Hotel deals from sites you know. Saved By: Paul Lomax | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: None assigned
Programming Tips #8 “Non Coding” →
Next up on my programming tips series we have another guest post. This one is written by Dordea Cosmin.
There are a lot of things that can make you a better programmer, but unless you are a freelancer , coding skills are not enough to succeed in a company. Probably you already saw a lot of post about how people administrate&motivate their programmers but ,still , those articles were written...
How to Get Good Offshore Developers →
This article is part of a regular series by Matt Rogers, co-founder of Aroxo, on the topic of bootstrapping a startup. See also his previous posts: How to bootstrap your startup and How to create a web app. A really effective way of bootstrapping your start-up is to offshore and outsource your development. But doing this also carries risks, how can you be sure that you are going to get a...
Cityshrinker →
Cityshrinker is a project by Australian born photographer Ben Thomas. It employs a photographic technique I’ve seen elsewhere (notably from The Bittergirls) which results in images that make urban scenes appear as if they were tiny, intricately produced models. Says Ben:
“You see amazing things every day…My aim is to give that feeling of newness with each shot I take. My method...
The Troubles With OpenID 2.0 →
Portland, Oregon’s JanRain, leaders in the OpenID movement, put on a PR push this week to promote what … Saved By: Paul Lomax | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: None assigned
Creating Sexy Stylesheets →
Lately, I have taken interest in discussing methods of creating sexy stylesheets. While CSS can be used to create sexy websites, writing CSS can actually be an artform by itself. The way in which CSS is created, structured, and maintained can be a thing of beauty.
So how does one create sexy stylesheets? What characteristics would your stylesheets have?
A few months ago, I had the opportunity to...
Facebook Messages: Small Change, Big Impact. →
Dear Facebook: Thank You. Thank You. Thank You.
In August Facebook opened up their messaging system to allow people to add normal email addresses. I wrote a post praising the change, but I specifically asked for more:
Facebook makes you log on to the site to read messages/emails from your friends. They’ll send a note to your normal email address when a new message comes in, but they make you...
Christian groups confused: should you boycott The... →
A viral message is doing the rounds from a Dr. Bryan Cutshall calling for The Golden Compass to be boycotted…
But the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops has rated The Golden Compass as “intelligent and well-crafted entertainment.”
I’m pretty sure the Council of Bishops outranks a Senior Pastor ;-)
Writing code documentation like you're explaining... →
PHP Advent Calendar Day 2
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Perl on Rails - Why the BBC Fails at the Internet →
The real story about why the BBC created ‘Perl on Rails’
Beijing restaurant serves "Wikipedia" →
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Crop & Resize with JavaScript, PHP, and... →
This demo was put together in an effort to make very basic image editing easier for less technically inclined users. The main intention is to provided it as a component to include in a variety of applications including custom content management systems or Web applications. Saved By: Paul Lomax | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: None assigned
sorgalla.com - jCarousel →
sorgalla.com - Personal weblog about Programming, JavaScript, PHP. Saved By: Paul Lomax | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: None assigned
24 ways to impress your (web development) friends →
“24 ways” is back for it’s third year of juicy web development and techie tips! A new tip every day until Christmas…
Idea Week - Building a product in one week →
Today was the first day of Idea Week here at Carsonified and we had a great time!
Gill and I felt that everyone was working extremely hard and needed a creative break so we decided to turn off our email, activate the auto-responders, and ‘close’ the office for one week.
(Ryan writing down product name ideas)
Everyone is still coming in to the office, but instead of working on our current...
Ensuring your HTML emails look great and get... →
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Is RockYou now the Internet's leading widget... →
RockYou, the company behind popular Facebook applications and Myspace Flash widgets, may soon pass Slide to be the largest widget-maker in the world.
RockYou’s “SuperWall” Facebook application has just passed Slide’s “FunWall” application in number of daily active Facebook users — 3,186,833 versus 2,951,078. Like Facebook’s own Wall feature but with a few bells and whistles, these...