Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

A basic introduction to jQuery and the concepts that you... use it.

Osama Raid Live Tweets
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Helicopter hovering above Abbottabad at 1AM (is a rare e ...
... May 02, 2011, 4:42 AM

A friend of mine called Mark Alexander is in prison, wro...
He’s been in prison for quite some months (good lord, ...
(Andy and I have been discussing related issues of laten ...
Email A Prisoner is a nice service, and has been complem ...
So I was ab

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 ...

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

When we shipped #NewTwitter in September 2010, we built ... application architecture that pushed all of the UI rende... JavaScript running on our users’ browsers and consumed... API directly, in a similar way to our mobile clients. Th...
To improve

Before we delve into the details, here's an overview of ...
First, we monitor for which search queries are curre ...
Behind the scenes: we run a Storm topology that trac ...
For example, the query [Big Bird] may suddenly see a ...
... ckobama

Hashtags become even more useful in a time of crisis or ... can rally around a common term to facilitate tracking, a... today with the San Diego fires (in fact, it was similar ... Bay Area earthquakes that lead me to propose hashtags in... as I’d se

Hashtags become even more useful in a time of crisis or ... can rally around a common term to facilitate tracking, a... today with the San Diego fires (in fact, it was similar ... Bay Area earthquakes that lead me to propose hashtags in... as I’d se

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

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

The annual datasets are free to download and cover eight... period of five years. Each dataset is available for the ... just for applicants from each of the four UK countries. ... supplied in Excel version 5 spreadsheet format and can b... PivotTables

Why does...
[edit]
...my slider, Google Map, sIFR etc. not work when placed ...
Any component that requires some dimensional computation ...
... }

The UK Government has decided that Open Document Format, the OpenOffice-derived file format, is the best choice for a... documents.
The Cabinet Office's Standards Hub explained its thinkin ...
“When dealing with citizens, information should be ...

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:

Our ambition is to become the world leader in open data,... accountability revolution that the internet age has unle...

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

FileChucker is an AJAX-based web application that lets y... uploads on your own website. It's simple to install (ju... packed with features, fully configurable, nice looking, ...
FileChucker can also function as a full-fledged online f ...
To top it a

FileChucker is an AJAX-based web application that lets y... uploads on your own website. It's simple to install (ju... packed with features, fully configurable, nice looking, ...
FileChucker can also function as a full-fledged online f ...
To top it a

Launch Services Framework
he Launch Services Framework is conceptually a sub-frame ...
/System/Library/Frameworks/ApplicationServices.framework\
/Frameworks/LaunchServices.framework
... LSOpenFromURLSpec()

The Twitter users "voluntarily" turned over the internet... when they signed up for an account and relinquished an e...
"Petitioners knew or should have known that their IP inf ...
The fight comes amid widening concerns about online priv ...
"I want eve

Nothing demonstrates the wildfire spread of online socia... MySpace and Facebook better than the experience 73 Stanf... last fall. They were enrolled in the computer science co...
Most of the apps resemble party games or amusements—Sc ...
It's that k

"Life in the vault" explains why Intel's new launch (two... chips, code-named Grantsdale and Alderwood) may actually... digital landscape.

It’s just over a week since my 19 year old son, Kyle M...
As I write we have only a couple of possible sightings a ...
As an HCI academic with an interest in web usability it⠮..
But as a user I am also aware of a certain cognitive ove ...
... is spot

You can use AppleScript to create drag and drop icons fo...
1. Launch Script Editor (Applications -> AppleScript ...
2. Copy and paste this text into a new Script Editor ...
set filecount to 0
... ~/.profile to include the directory which

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.

You may use this tool to create a Firefox extension (.xp... greasemonkey script.

This article explains how to use the headless mode capab... Platform, Standard Edition (Java SE, formerly referred t...
Headless mode is a system configuration in which the dis ...
Where it is applicable? Let's say that your application ...