Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

Today's coders may know how to whip up a PHP script or a... create a mobile app for both the iPhone and Android, and... car's GPS (which has been done, it turns out). But there... predecessors knew that today's programmers don't.

Today, a story on Techmeme caught our eye. It was entitl... Wikipedia for data," and the article, written by X-Googl...
In Bret's story, he mentioned some of the common data so ...
In addition, as CNet and Ryan Stewart's blog spread the ...
So what did

Together with Morten Frederiksen and Dan Brickley (who i... SparqlPress idea), I've created a WordPress extension (c... that adds an (ARC-based) RDF Store and SPARQL Endpoint t... system. The store is kept separate from the WP tables (i... wrapper), b

Traditional health systems serve a key role in protectin...
Novel Internet-based collaborative systems can have an i ...
Mobile Internet usage is growing rapidly worldwide, maki ...
We present a brief summary of some promising mobile appl ...
These early

Traditional health systems serve a key role in protectin...
Novel Internet-based collaborative systems can have an i ...
Mobile Internet usage is growing rapidly worldwide, maki ...
We present a brief summary of some promising mobile appl ...
These early

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twhirl Documentation
Introduction
twhirl is a desktop client for the popular microblogging ...
There were different reasons for me to start developing ...
The decision to go the Flex way was easily made. I do XH ...

Twine it.
Don’t just share it. Twine it.
Don’t just organize it. Twine it.
Don’t just find it. Twine it.
... iscover things, and be found by others, more relevantly.

Twitlonger is a way to let you post to Twitter when 140 ... isn't enough.
With Twitlonger, you can write what you need and a link ...

Twitter tells software developers not to try to mimic fu... 'timeline' apps - but missteps by official apps suggest ... alternatives still needed

Twitter's old hat if you've used The Notificator
Social networking, 1935-style
* Digg it (53)
* Buzz up
... More features

Types and Programming Languages (Hardcover)by
Benjamin C. Pierce

Ultrawideband (UWB) technology offers great opportunitie... wireless multimedia networking. The WiMedia Alliance is ... open industry association that promotes and enables the ... regulation, standardization and multi-vendor interoperab... wideband (U

Underneath the surface of the BBC World Cup web site the... going on in the technology and workflow being used to ma... our content. To some extent we have been doing this in s... figure out a lot of challenges, but as we approach the W... we'd like t

Underneath the surface of the BBC World Cup web site the... going on in the technology and workflow being used to ma... our content. To some extent we have been doing this in s... figure out a lot of challenges, but as we approach the W... we'd like t

Underscore is a utility-belt library for JavaScript that... the functional programming support that you would expect... (or Ruby), but without extending any of the built-in Jav... It's the tie to go along with jQuery's tux.
Underscore provides 60-odd f

unoconv converts between any document format that OpenOf... It uses OpenOffice's UNO bindings for non-interactive co... documents.
Supported document formats include Open Document Format ...

Unpublished rules and clarifications from Apple's App Re... cause your iPhone app to be rejected.

Update: New blog entry: Introducing S4
S4 is a general-purpose, distributed, scalable, partiall ...

Usage patterns of collaborative tagging systems
J. Inf. Sci., Vol. 32, No. 2. (April 2006), pp. 198-208.
Authors
* Golder SA, Huberman BA
... * HighWire: View article online

User Interface Scripting
by Benjamin S. Waldie
As we have seen in the past, AppleScript is a great tool ...
Many scriptable applications offer enough AppleScript su ...
... ing, or UI Scripting, which can be used to do just that.

Uses the new File API supported by Firefox 3.6. Enables ... html element and turn it into a hotspot for receiving fi... explorer!
Each file will be sent as a binary AJAX-request with cus ...

UUIDs (related to GUIDs) are used frequently in computin...
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This is just an example value--these are usually generat ...
Although the process for generating UUIDs is well-unders ...
... WSDAPI, please use the urn:

W3C has launched a new HTML validation site, the Nu Mark... Service. From a Semantic Web point of view it is importa... default setting of the validator validates HTML5 with RD... with microdata, the two simpler syntaxes to add structur... Furthermore

WAI-ARIA, the Accessible Rich Internet Applications Suit... make Web content and Web applications more accessible to... disabilities. It especially helps with dynamic content a... interface controls developed with Ajax, HTML, JavaScript... technologie

Want to create your own semantic search engine, but just... PhDs? Semantic search engine Hakia is opening up APIs to... their own semantic search application on top of its tech... looks at the meaning of Web pages and matches search que... quality ind

Want to find the latitude/longitude of any UK postcode? ... Wales, and Northern Ireland? Read these first:
The problem with code point open from ordnance survey
Code point open northern ireland addendum
Then follow these instructions:

Wanted: 12 programmers to live on a remote tropical isla... to do nothing but write code.

Was 2010 the year of the API? Some have claimed this eac... years, with the next always eclipsing the previous. Ther... APIs added to our API directory in 2010, two times the n... 2009. Greater trends on the web are being played out, as... the most po