Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

Modeling Interaction Techniques
* C. Appert, M. Beaudouin-Lafon, and W. Mackay. (200 ...
* C. Appert, M. Beaudouin-Lafon and W. Mackay. (2003 ...
* C. Appert. (2003). CIS : Evaluer les Techniques d' ...

Asked to picture a computer programmer, most of us descr... computer geek, a brilliant but socially-awkward male. We... largely noctural creature, passing sleepless nights writ... According to workplace researchers, this stereotype of t...
It may be s

I was recently talking with Jeff Barr, creator of syndic... chief web services evangelist. He let drop an interestin... has both SOAP and REST interfaces to their web services,... usage is of the REST interface. Despite all of the corpo... SOAP stack,

A while back (September 2014) I ran a very short 5-minut... at UX professionals to elicit thoughts on the links betw... that of academic HCI research.
The survey was framed in the following way: "This survey ...

I’ve now finished the Coursera Human Computer Interact... await my final grade, I reflect on my experience, on the... student numbers, and on how the platform can develop.
It’s been a wonderfully wide-ranging course, spanning ...

Internet technical specifications often need to define a... are free to employ whatever notation their authors deem ... years, a modified version of Backus-Naur Form (BNF), cal... (ABNF), has been popular among many Internet specificati... compactness

Standard for ARPA Internet Text Messages
6. ADDRESS SPECIFICATION
6.1. SYNTAX
address = mailbox ; one a ...
... ef = atom ; symbolic reference

Sinister or not, its use at Baja Beach Club seems in kee... surroundings. "It's very suitable for this kind of place... body-aware," says René Lönngren, who runs the Barcelon... cool. "In an atmosphere where it is all muscles/tits/bod... attracted b

RGraph is a HTML5 canvas graph library. It uses features... available in HTML5 (specifically, the CANVAS tag) to pro... variety of graph types: bar chart, bi-polar chart (also ... frequency chart), donut chart, funnel chart, gantt chart... chart, LED

Berlekamp et al quote G. W. Leibniz:
The game called Solitaire pleases me much. I take it in ...
This quote fills my heart with humility as I find it by ...

RIPS is a static source code analyser for vulnerabilitie... webapplications. It was released during the Month of PHP... (www.php-security.org).

It's no secret to that our society is getting older. Mor...
The solution, the robotics industry hopes, is technology ...
Japanese Nursebots can lift up elderly patients and brin ...
In recent years, Japanese tech giant Panasonic has creat ...
In the next

Technology is starting to behave in intelligent and unpr... even its creators don’t understand. As machines increa... events, how can we regain control?

Riya is a new kind of visual search engine. We look insi...
Use Riya to:
* Find similar faces and objects on many images acro ...
* Refine the results, using color, shape and texture.
... look forward to your feedback via email or via our blog.

rjerome / citeproc-php
This is the home of citeproc-php, a PHP implementation o ...
Clone this repository (size: 1.2 MB): HTTPS / SSH
hg clone https://bitbucket.org/rjerome/citeproc-php

Everyone knows Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken”... everyone gets it wrong.

Director Jake Schreier talks about his new film, which e...
Frank Langella on Robot & Frank: 'I'd rather make love i ...
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This class is used to generate native system input event... of test automation, self-running demos, and other applic... control of the mouse and keyboard is needed. The primary... is to facilitate automated testing of Java platform impl...
Using the c

We have posted pics of some truly messy data center cabl...
Artful cabling 1
Courtesy of Digital:Slurp.
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... re this is practical or not, but it LOOKS impressive…)

Walking machines
Walking machinesIf all the signs are to be believed, the ...
Walking machines will influence all areas of daily and i ...

Ireland’s State broadcaster RTÉ, as part of its strat... memories of a nation in digital form, is to collaborate ... recently announced mega CSET the Insight Centre to emplo... semantic web to make hundreds of thousands of hours of a... content ava

"The Moving Finger writes: and, having writ,
Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it."

Rails is a full-stack framework for developing database-... applications according to the Model-View-Control pattern.
From the Ajax in the view, to the request and resp ...
To go live, all you need to add is a database and ...

Ruin Lust, an exhibition at Tate Britain from 4 March 20... to the mournful, thrilling, comic and perverse uses of r... the seventeenth century to the present day. The exhibiti... widest-ranging on the subject to date and includes over ... artists suc

q is a command line tool that allows direct execution of... on CSVs/TSVs (and any other tabular text files).
q treats ordinary files as database tables, and supports ...