links for 2008-04-21
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Why do so few tech companies devote resources to visualization (Google’s the obvious exception)? Why are there relatively few job postings for visualization
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Processing Hacks is a wiki and contributions are encouraged. You can log-in with your discourse name and password.
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Having played hundreds of games over the years, we have to say true artificial intelligence is rare.
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Seaside é possivelmente o framework Web mais avançado em existência atualmente e muitas das idéias que vão influenciar o mercado nos próximos anos estão sendo testadas na prática no projeto
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“Steps Toward The Reinvention of Programming - A compact and practical model of personal computing as a self-exploratorium”
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the 50 best mobile games that we’ve reviewed this year.
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If you want to build modern web sites, you need to know about Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). CSS gives you the power to style and lay out web sites so they are usable, compact, good looking, well structured, and easy to maintain.
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Inicialmente há uma análise do básico em CSS, e de como criar todas as diferentes partes de sua página web, com seções detalhadas sobre fontes e imagens a usar. Depois, são tratados os layouts de páginas, passando por alguns tópicos confusos como
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This book is your indispensable guide to cutting-edge CSS developmentall you need to work your way up to CSS professional. You’ll learn how to:
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Criando Sites com CSS e XHTML
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The Web Standards Project is a grassroots coalition fighting for standards which ensure simple, affordable access to web technologies for all.
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Has Designing With Web Standards changed the way you understand and develop websites?
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This is Accessify.com - a site dedicated to furthering the cause of web accessibility by offering free tools and other useful resources.
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This book answers two questions. The first question is “Why should I make my web site more accessible?”
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For your style-sheet-switching pleasure, A List Apart offers the Switcher, a piece of JavaScript that dynamically changes page styles.
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Text for the screen is sized with CSS in terms of pixels, ems or keywords. As most of us know, sizing with pixels is easy: get your selector and give it a font-size – no more thought required.
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There’s been a welcome resurgence of interest in web typography over the past year or so, with many articles and conference talks offering techniques and theory.
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Our hero dashes through a crazy terrain of doodles, facing gaps in the road and treacherous obstacles that he can only avoid with the help of your quick-drawing skills!
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This year is going to be a big one for mobile, trust me. I have seen some amazing game concepts and peeked under the hood at some extremely promising alpha builds.
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Sometimes you want Monday to be a Friday, so we have ProtoRPG, a role playing game written by Pierre Chassaing in JavaScript using Prototype and Script.aculo.us.
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Sometimes we just need to get the control without knowing about the parent of the control. In this case we will create our own FindControl method.
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I was chatting with someone about how, in 2008, you could build an application with GWT on the client side, and Rhino on Rails on the server side, and how that would mean flipping the roles of Java and JavaScript. Of course, this would be a flip BACK to t
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The post talks about the new thinking around data in the cloud, and on the Web.
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The example search given in the documentation should give you a quick sense of how to use this part of the API. The following command
curl -e http://www.my-ajax-site.com “http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/search/web?v=1.0&q=Paris%20Hilton”
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Applications MUST always include a valid and accurate http referer header in their requests. In addition, we ask, but do not require, that each request contains a valid API Key
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The majority of crimes that have been registered so far are in Brazil but thanks to coverage from the BBC crimes in other countries are also beginning to be registered.
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. Ela é a primeira e-zine da área no país, feita por várias pessoas que entendem do assunto.
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ProtoRPG is a RPG engine written in Javascript, using the Prototype and Script.aculo.us frameworks. No Flash or any other plugin is necessary, just a modern browser! Usage is free for non-commercial uses (see licence).
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A few weeks ago while walking in a street in the Ipanema neighbourhood of Rio de Janeiro I became another victim of crime in the city after being robbed.
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Finding ways to limit the firehose of information has become a common theme lately.
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I need less data, not more data. I need to know what is important, and I don’t have time to sift through thousands of Tweets and Friendfeed messages and blog posts and emails and IMs a day to find the five things that I really need to know.