Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

A future filled with smarter devices and robots means a ... programming. As people's devices get more complex, they'... things that are now mostly the domain of professional co... They might need to program in behaviors for personal rob...
Now, severa

A global community of friends and strangers answering on... What are you doing? Answer on your phone, IM, or right h...

A group of Cambridge computer scientists have set a new ... openness and reproducibility in research by sharing the ... data and 20,000 lines of code behind their latest result... unprecedented degree of openness in a peer-reviewed publ... researchers

A meta-study carried out by the American Psychological A... claimed that playing computer games has many positive ef... and, in some cases, the more violent the game the more b... effect.
The research, published in the latest issue of American ...

A recent post by GigaOm’s Imran Ali on the field of Da...
Following through on that thought, I decided to try to c ...
Here’s what I came up with:
* Data Markets: Services that make it easy to find d ...
... or Data” might in fact describe thes

A smart city is an open city. It runs on data, so public... demonstrate a presumption of openness, making data freel... in an accessible format. Data connectivity needs to be s... a privilege and as ubiquitous as water from the tap.

A SUICIDAL teen was miraculously saved after one of his ...
The 16-year-old boy from Oxford had sent a private messa ...
The girl then alerted her mother who contacted local pol ...
UK cops then searched electoral roll websites and found ...
... ort but

A Theory of Objects (Monographs in Computer Science) (Ha...
Martin Abadi, Luca Cardelli

a way to store, sync, share, model and back up content
a work in progress
Open Source (Apache licensed)
an acronym for "Content-Addressable Multi-Layer Indexed ...
... neither "Cloud" nor "Local". happily both.

a XUL Periodic Table (zipped up here), which only works ... browsers

ABU DHABI // A dramatic fall in traffic accidents this w... directly linked to the three-day disruption in BlackBerr...
In Dubai, traffic accidents fell 20 per cent from averag ...

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

Adobe's Extensible Metadata Platform (XMP) is a labeling... allows you to embed data about a file, known as metadata... itself. With XMP, desktop applications and back-end publ... gain a common method for capturing, sharing, and leverag... metadata

AjaxPatterns.org began as a collection of design pattern... basis of the book, Ajax Design Patterns, and grew into a... wiki on anything and everything Ajax.

Alan Wood’s Unicode Resources
Test for Unicode support in Web browsers
Currency Symbols
U+20A0 – U+20CF (8352–8399)

Among the little features I like there's the tag cloud w... tags metadata (each time two tags appear in the same pos... relationship stronger) to highlight other tags while you...

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 ...

An Anthropologist Explores Video Blogging
Michael L. Wesch, an assistant professor of cultural ant ...
Within just a few weeks, the video had been viewed more ...
This semester Mr. Wesch is leading a class of nine under ...

And that’s OS X, Apple’s minority operating system n... is no file explorer — let alone one with 19 toolbar bu... Because in Apple’s view, the concept of a “file” i... saving of them and the transferring of them is something... should neve

Anyone who’s dealt with browsers’ implementations of...
Background for anyone who’s not familiar with it. Ther ...
Now, from JavaScript, let’s look at how to get those t ...
var selection = window.getSelection();
... implementation of selection

Anyone who’s dealt with browsers’ implementations of...
Background for anyone who’s not familiar with it. Ther ...
Now, from JavaScript, let’s look at how to get those t ...
var selection = window.getSelection();
... implementation of selection

Apache Shindig, a word meaning party, was originally sta... 2007 as a reference container for hosting OpenSocial com... any website. Originally a port of Google's iGoogle gadge... Brian McCallister's PHP code, Apache Shindig through off... and showed

Apache Shindig, a word meaning party, was originally sta... 2007 as a reference container for hosting OpenSocial com... any website. Originally a port of Google's iGoogle gadge... Brian McCallister's PHP code, Apache Shindig through off... and showed

API providers can list their JSON APIs, which using Mash... in turn auto-generate five client libraries - PHP, Ruby,... Objective-C, and Java. The new billing tool lets develop... monthly price, API call limits, and the price per additi...
Consumers c

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

As everyone here knows, the TAG has spent a great deal o... the httpRange-14 issue, as described at http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/issues.html#httpRange-14 I am... that we came up with a reasonable compromise solution at... f2f meeting at MIT. <TAG type="R

As Java technology becomes more and more pervasive in the telecommunications (telco) industry, understanding the b... garbage collector becomes more important. Typically, tel... are near-real-time applications. Delays measured in mill...
Critics usuall

As Phillip indicated Print Center is an out of date util...
give absolutely do specs it's impossible to give you spe ...
Make sure your version of OS X is up-to-date
Make sure your version of Office is up-to-date
... > Help

As pointed out by TechDirt’s Mike Masnick, last week N... two-part blog post on its recommendations system, one of...
Whilst they acknowledge that the work that went into the ...
“This is a truly impressive compilation and culminatio ...
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