The 5 Most Clearly Insane Public Figures Endorsing McCain (8)
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In the arena of politics, celebrity endorsements are everything. Take out mudslinging, avoiding policy questions, rhythmic chanting, photo ops and hollow rhetoric, and what’s left? Just pandering, fear mongering, and celebrity endorsements. Clearly, getting whiny, shallow actors to say they like you is a key part of the process. For example, Obama and McCain both want the all-important Angelina Jolie endorsement, probably to help them nail down the “votes the same as people they want ...
Building better web forms: Validation best practices (5)
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Validation is a very important aspect in web forms development and should be planned carefully. Well designed validation can favorably affect the user experience and can speed up the filling of forms. Poor validation can make considerable damage to the system and user experience. Not having any kind of validation is out of the question. Another important thing that should be clear is that validation relates exclusively to user input. Messages that come from underlying ...
Using Bayeux with Persevere (1)
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Recently I integrated Jetty’s cometD implementation of Bayeux with Persevere. With this new functionality, Bayeux-based Comet communication can be used to route messages through Persevere’s stored objects. The PubSub system provided by Bayeux is powerful paradigm for building Comet applications, but often applications need to make further integrations with the data model for more sophisticated messaging logic. With Persevere, the PubSub messages are delivered through persisted data resources so close integration and data-driven logic for ...
Lizzer: A Copyright/Hotlinking Disaster (1)
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I’ve always felt that improving the plagiarism/content misuse climate on the Web has been a two-pronged fight. First you have to stop the scrapers, plagiarists and other bad guys from ripping off writers and artists. Second, you have to create ways that legitimate users can access and share content that benefit both the artist and the user. As part of the second approach, I make it a point to seek out and highlight services that ...
Illustrator Legends (1)
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One of the more interesting genres of video on Nico are the various videos of CG artists at work, and there are indeed quite a few of these. Here you can see some of the best, surely of great interest to CG art fans and artists alike. The subjects for these illustrations are Hatsune Miku, Nagato Yuki and a headphone musume, so likely nobody will be disappointed (although unfortunately no ero-CG videos are possible on ...
Scalable Real-Time Web Architecture, Part 1: Stomp, Comet, and Message Queues (1)
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What is Stomp? Stomp is an incredibly straightforward message queue protocol. Stomp derives its name from an acronym with the same letters that stand for Streaming Text-Oriented Messaging Protocol. As you can probably guess, Text-Oriented means that the protocol is human readable. Like HTTP, A stomp frame consists of three parts: 1) Frame type 2) frame headers, 3) body. Here is a typical Stomp message frame: MESSAGE\n destination:/queue/a\n message-id: 234\n \n hello world\0 The above ...
Gojko Adzic » Beware of the second worst programmer (2)
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I attended a Domain Driven Design course on Monday at Skills Matter offices. Eric Evans led the course and put forward a very interesting theory that the quality of a software system is proportional to the skills of the second worst programmer. The explanation for the idea is that everyone on the team knows who the worst programmer is, so senior developers are closely monitoring everything that he does and cleaning up problems. The work ...
Checking email can be as addictive as gambling say experts. (2)
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In a study last year, Dr Thomas Jackson of Loughborough University, England, found that it takes an average of 64 seconds to recover your train of thought after interruption by email (bit.ly/email2). So people who check their email every five minutes waste 81/2hours a week figuring out what they were doing moments before. ... Checking email can be as addictive as gambling say experts. Email becomes a dangerous distraction, by Suw Charman-Anderson
14 Tools to Legally Spy On Your Competition (10)
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Have you ever wished you were Bond? James Bond? Here are 007+007 = fourteen ways to spy on your competitors’ web sites, without breaking any FISA laws. 1. Statbrain - Using several sources, Statbrain’s algorithm computes the number of visitors to a website based on offsite factors like backlinks, Alexa Rank etc. Statbrain does not have access to log files or any hit-counter information. Use this as a rough relative benchmark of your traffic to ...
Checking email can be as addictive as gambling say experts. (1)
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In a study last year, Dr Thomas Jackson of Loughborough University, England, found that it takes an average of 64 seconds to recover your train of thought after interruption by email (bit.ly/email2). So people who check their email every five minutes waste 81/2hours a week figuring out what they were doing moments before. ... Checking email can be as addictive as gambling say experts. Email becomes a dangerous distraction, by Suw Charman-Anderson
Linux 上的云计算 (2)
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Scott’s 10 Wildlife Photography Hotspots - TWIP (2)
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Photo by Scott Bourne #1 Bosque del Apache, New Mexico is my number one wildlife hotspot. 18 miles south of Socorro, New Mexico. More than 300 species of birds migrate to the Bosque each year. #2 Grand Teton National Park near Jackson, WY is home to bears, buffalo, pronghorn sheep, moose, birds and more. Watch out for overbearing park rangers though. #3 Northwest Trek Eatonville, Washington is a great place to photograph deer, elk, moose, ...
Flogged Magazine (1)
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A monthly PDF magazine and blog that celebrates great designs that were rejected by clients. Download the September 08 issue here or visit the site.
A Guide to Choosing Colors for Your Brand (16)
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Research reveals people make a subconscious judgment about a person, environment, or product within 90 seconds of initial viewing and that between 62% and 90% of that assessment is based on color alone. - Why Color Matters A Guide to Choosing Colors for Your Brand (via basement)
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Swissmiss: "Research reveals people make a subconscious judgment about a person, environment, or product within 90 seconds of initial viewing and that between 62% and 90% of that assessment is based on color alone."
Mineral Makeup Tools : Rediscovering the Dual Fibre Brush (1)
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I spent the weekend holding a workshop on how to apply makeup to ladies who want to achieve a more polished and made up ( natural look ) for the office. I had so much fun, and of course, I had much more fun introducing to them the concept of mineral makeup. I think I need to plan a mineral makeup workshop soon. I’m getting excited! I just love, love, love teaching. Nothing gratifies me ...
50 Tools to Help you Blogging | Blog Oh Blog (6)
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Blogging is more than just posting your views and any serious blogger would agree to that note hands down. There are many specialized tools available on the Internet that can enhance your website to a whopping extent and the only way to know what is going to work to your profits’ is to just try them out! Here is a list of 50 useful blogging tools (other than brains, creativity and the will to work!) ...
The type Of Person Barack Obama is… (1)
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Saw this story on Digg and thought it would be good to share. As the original blogger said in his/ her post, some people may consider this trivial and/or non-significant, but i think it matters. I honestly think Obama would make for a great president even though, as Peter Espeut mentioned in a Gleaner Editorial dated October 3,2008 that “our national sentiments and national ideology seem to fall with the Republicans”. Most Jamaicans, if you ...
Mega Roundup of 60 Cool Custom Designer Toys (9)
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Designer toys are a common love between many graphic designer and illustrators, as well as the collectable limited edition runs from producers such as Qee and Kidrobot there are many great examples of customised urban vinyl toys. Here’s a collection of 60 fantastic examples of how designers have added their personal mark to their own custom toy! Supplied unpainted in their standard white vinyl form the DIY packages from Qee and Kidrobot such as the ...
Subconscious Warm up: How Brands Have an Effect on Your Behavior (1)
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by: Scott GoodsonIf you ask Rob Walker (who writes about consumer culture for the New York Times Magazine), about the influence of brands on you and culture, he will barely blink an eye before responding: "subconscious behavior." Here is his article from this weekend's NY Times Magazine. Wonderful reading if you're into cultural movements. Here is the link to the NY Times.
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If I’m going to slam a job board because of poor design, it would only be fair to find one that really screams fun and innovation. And I think I’ve stumbled across it. Check out StartUpers.com. I know what you’re thinking - not another job board for start-ups. But this one is so…well…delightfully cheesy that it warrants a visit. This is a glimpse of their home page, for starters: It looks like a child took ...Shared by Bill (8) Gautam (22)Contribute commentdeveloperWorks 中国 : 技术文章 , 教程 AIX , Architecture , Grid computing , Linux , Open source , Security (3) permalink
云计算和存储将物理资源（例如处理器和存储）转换成 Internet 上可伸缩、可共享的资源（“作为服务” 的计算和存储）。虽然虚拟化不是一个新概念，但是通过服务器虚拟化实现的物理系统共享，的确能使资源的可伸缩性大得多，效率也高得多。云计算使用户可以访问大规模计算和存储资源，而且他们不必知道那些资源的位置及其是如何配置的。正如您预期的一样，Linux 在此扮演着极为重要的角色。探索云计算，了解其中的奥秘。Shared by dreamcatcher (13) Yimin (9)Contribute comment
