Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

Modern classrooms aren’t working for kids, according t... Remu, the director of Partners in Learning at Microsoft ... schools are like jails--brick walls, colorless, not very... exciting,” she tells the Georgia Straight, days before...
This grim d

I wish I could end this with a heroic call-to-action. ‮.. Do YOU want to fix our broken government?? Click here to... But I can’t. My fellowship year clarified more problem... Instead, I’ll offer a question: How can we build empat...
Well, first

Perceived usefulness, ease of use, and usage of informat...
Source MIS Quarterly archive
Volume 16 , Issue 2 (June 1992) table of contents
Pages: 227 - 247
... Peter A. Todd

Performance comparison of distributive and mergesort as ...
Source Journal of Systems and Software archive
Volume 10 , Issue 3 (October 1989) table of contents
Pages: 187 - 200
... Elsevier Science Inc. New York, NY, USA

Peripheral vision is whacked.

Midata - access and control your personal data
BIS is working with leading businesses and consumer grou ...
The three main objectives of midata are to:
secure broad private-sector participation in the pro ...
... omers create rich, new ‘person-centr

What are Personas?
Personas are easy-to-install, easy-to-use themes that ch ...

At Backblaze, we provide unlimited storage to our custom... month, so we had to figure out how to store hundreds of ... customer data in a reliable, scalable way—and keep our... looking at several overpriced commercial solutions, we d... our own cus

oundary Object: %u201CArtifacts, Documents and perhaps e... can help people from different communities build a share... Boundary objects will be interpreted differently by the ... communinities, and it is an acknowledgement and discussi... differences

The project deals with data from a list of the social re... the Danish people. The list is the result of an opinion ... consultancy company in Denmark. I have used the context ... opinion polls within each interest to shape and design d... so the rece

Archiving digital photos is hard if you want to do it ri... change. When Phanfare started back in 2004, Flash 7 was ... format on the web. Now H.264 is the standard for high qu... resolutions are always increasing. Phanfare can change w... carrying yo

On Sept. 13, 1848, at around 4:30 p.m., the time of day ... start wandering, a railroad foreman named Phineas Gage f... with gunpowder and turned his head to check on his men. ... normal moment of his life.
Other victims in the annals of medicine are a

Many of my customers hold data in Excel files. Then, whe...
Since the PHP allows you to create an OLE compatible COM ...
Before we start, let’s introduce input parameters of t ...
* $file – (string) absolute path to the Excel data ...
... 36.}

This class can be used to edit and save a paragraph of t... page.
It associates the necessary Javascript event handling co ...
When the user finishes editing the generated Javascript ...

Name: DOMIT XML parser
Base name: domit
Description: A Document Object Model (DOM) compliant xml ...

Name: PHP Scraper
Base name: phpscraper
Description: Extract structured data from remote HTML pages

Microdata is a proposed feature of HTML 5 that allows se... information to be embedded within the markup of a web pa...
Why PHP Microdata?
One of the most interesting features of the Microdata sp ...
The library allows one to parse out the structured Mi

PHP SandBox
Run and Edit PHP/HTML/JS with this online interpreter

I’ve been thinking about individual features of variou...
To start with we’ll redirect all requests to a single ...
view source
print?
... _route_) that contains the directory portion of the URL.

Chapter 34. HTTP authentication with PHP
The HTTP Authentication hooks in PHP are only availab ...
running as an Apache module and is hence not availabl ...
In an Apache module PHP script, it is possible to use the
... header() function fo

Javascript files can be included and executed on the fly... loading the page or in run-time. This means that HTTP re... without the use of XMLHttpRequest or iframes. This post ... of my experiments with the inclusion of external javascr...

This scripting language interpreter is implemented in PH... execute user-supplied JavaScript-lookalike code server-s... compromising security because everything runs safely in ... of course much slower than a real interpreter, but is us... integration

This scripting language interpreter is implemented in PH... execute user-supplied JavaScript-lookalike code server-s... compromising security because everything runs safely in ... of course much slower than a real interpreter, but is us... integration

Recent advances have made it possible for computers to l... physical objects via small sensors. At the same time, di... has developed to the point where the standard desktop di... the only computer display. Computer displays may range f...
A physical

Pi Land
by Eve
Fun Activities:
... Source: xkcd

”Take the stairs instead of the escalator or elevator ... is something we often hear or read in the Sunday papers.... actually follow that advice. Can we get more people to t... the escalator by making it fun to do? See the results here

take advantage of the pic2shop: custom URL scheme to lau... the barcode, and get the barcode digits back in your app...