Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

Adding OAuth authentication to your server is very easy....
You will need a couple of controllers:
1. oauth_register.php to let an user obtain a consume ...
2. request_token.php to return a request token.
... xchange an authorized request token for

MySQL was initially chosen as their database of choice b... simple, fast and reliable. All told, they have about 60... runtime experience without data loss or corruption due t... like most megascale services they often end up using MyS... key<->value

Public Sector
Monthly: £9.3 current budget
Graphs showing cumulative public sector finance and net debt
Graphs showing cumulative public sector finance and net debt
... Published on 21 May 2010 at 9:30 am

In a letter to the Sunday Times, a group of economists h... government to "set out a detailed plan to reduce the str... deficit more quickly than set out in the 2009 pre-budget... raises one of my gripes - that the notion of a structura... is unhelpfu

Brief History of Unemployment in UK
Source: Dept for Work and Transport
After the ravages of the Great Depression era where unem ...
It was in the manufacturing recession of 1981 when unemp ...
... ent was fairly close to full employment at just over 3%.

Exhibit
Publishing Framework for Data-Rich Interactive Web Pages
Exhibit lets you easily create web pages with advanced t ...
click on screenshots to see live web sites

Remember M3-neony and M3-synchy, two humanoid robots fro...
Similar to neony and synchy, the purpose of the new robo ...
Weighing 27kg, M3-Kindy (“Kind” as in “Kindergarte ...
Noby (“Noby” as in “New-born Baby), on the other h ...
Noby is sup

Apple’s File System Events API gives applications the ... changes to paths containing relevant files recursively w... directory tree, both during execution and between launch... System Events API tackles the problem of detecting chang... chunk of th

Party Power The Power Wellies use the heat of your feet ... cellphone charged. Gotwind.org
First the British invented waterproof Wellington boots; ...
The European telecom firm Orange, which sponsors the hug ...

I remember, as a kid, enjoying "Smarties" candies, which... hard pill-like tablets of pure sugar that were sold in r... that in the rest of the world, there's a totally differe... Smarties, made by Nestlé, which appear to be something ...
But, yes, i

ZXing ("Zebra Crossing")¶
ZXing (pronounced "zebra crossing") is an open-source, m ...

What Business Card? Just Scan My QR Code
BY Gina TrapaniTue Mar 16, 2010
QR code
Everywhere you look at the South by Southwest conference ...

3-D Typography: Experimental Type Designs That Leap Off ...

there were suspicions that the iPhone 4 had a super-high... Jobs just introduced it; the Retina Display.
While it's in many ways a standard LCD, with 800:1 contr ...
But that resolution, when used by new apps, will equal a ...

Stillness, meditation, reflection, silence. Radio docume... Hall goes in search of refuge from the noise and bustle ... world, looking for moments of peace amid the hurly-burly...

ERYX is both free and open source.
DATABASE MODEL
Unlike many other web content management systems, ERYX i ...
It is written in PHP and uses XPath and DOM to navigate ...

Creativity is akin to insanity, say scientists who have ... the mind works.
Brain scans reveal striking similarities in the thought ...
Both groups lack important receptors used to filter and ...
It could be this uninhibited processing that allows crea

Many lan­guages have an under­ly­ing vir­tual machin... more port­able and con­veni­ent sub­strate for com­... inter­pret­a­tion. For lan­guage research it’s use... to gen­er­ate cus­tom VMs and other lan­guage tools ...
What I have

The Institute for Web Science: Statement by Professor Si...
Issued 17.30, Tuesday 25 May 2010
Yesterday, as part of its £6 billion spending cuts, the ...
The following statement has been issued by Professor Sir ...
... p://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/

UUIDs (related to GUIDs) are used frequently in computin...
7673868d-231e-490d-9c4f-19288e7e668d
This is just an example value--these are usually generat ...
Although the process for generating UUIDs is well-unders ...
... WSDAPI, please use the urn:

An answer to "What is an UUID?" would be "A GUID" this a... most of us any further though.
UUID stands for Universally Unique IDentifier, GUID for ...

In the past few years, performance research has become m... thanks to research by the Yahoo! Exceptional Performance... Google’s Steve Souders. Most of that research studies ... HTML page, but the resources the page requires to displa...
Although bo

Need icons for your new website or web application, at t...
Silk Silk Icon set preview Smooth, colourful icons for a ...
Flags Flag icon set preview Country flags. Small and ple ...
Mini Mini Icon set preview Over 140 pixelicious web icon ...
... better

Waiting for the next e-mail or internet "hit" means we a...
I put down my pen, opened my laptop to write this, and i ...
Then my smartphone rang - it had the e-mails too. Withou ...
I automatically replied to my colleague, and clicked on ...
... tion, b

In less than 18 months there will be no more big blocks ... give out, estimates suggest.
Predictions name 9 September 2011 as the date on which t ...

Commencing February 2009, this study is exploring what a...
* Explore the past — examine prior studies and ana ...
* Define possible future scenarios and assess their ...
* Produce preferred visions for Europe of a Future I ...
The project

WAVING your hand to get the bartender’s attention may ...
Miniature projectors may soon have all kinds of new uses ...
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* Microvision Incorporated
... service industry, but also in video games and robotics.