June 2011
Handy Reference Sheet for Matlab Plots →
When plotting in Matlab it’s useful to quickly pass a plot strong to a plotting function (plot, plot3, etc). plot(x,y,'.r') plot3(x,y,z,'xb') plot(data,^g') are all acceptable symbol and…
Jun 30th
2 customers, 2 jobs, 2 lives →
Your company has clients with conflicting needs, and you can serve one, the other, or neither: One customer is a small company which is incredibly satisfied with your current product. Their…
Jun 29th
Beware The Buzz About Google →
parislemon: The author here smartly looks back at some of the initial buzz surrounding Google Buzz to see what it may mean in terms of today’s buzz for Google+. My initial Buzz post is one of the examples, as I stated the line (which was also my title), “If Google Wave is the future, Google Buzz is the present.” And while the author gives me credit for a “healthy dose of skepticism” as well,...
Jun 29th
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David Noël: So You Want A Job At A Startup →
david-noel: So you want to join a startup? That’s awesome, startupland always needs hungry, driven, smart and scrappy women and men to come help out. Let me rewind a little bit: back in 2009 when Alex was out hustling to raise our series A, things didn’t look too well. I’ll overly simplify here but pretty…
Jun 29th
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Continuations: Curious About Circles →
continuations: I am excited on many levels to see Google release Google+. First, it was about time that Facebook faced some head on competition. If nothing else it will make Facebook better. Competition is a healthy thing. Second, I like the idea of trying a different cut on how to organize people and…
Jun 29th
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Jun 29th
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Adapt
A coworker handed me Adapt: Why Success Always Starts with Failure by Tim Harford. So far I’m absolutely loving it, had trouble putting it down at work but I have a tight schedule. Goes great with What Technology Wants by Kevin Kelly.
Jun 29th
Tupper's Self-Referential Formula -- from Wolfram... →
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Jun 28th
How to bind class methods to global functions in... →
This morning’s post is about a sticky piece of syntax I came across in CoffeeScript this weekend. I presume the problem arose due to several causes including my weekend laziness, the disconnect of…
Jun 27th
Photographs, windows into our personal history →
This morning’s brief riff is about the priceless nature of personal photographs. In particular, I’d like to pay homage images which serve as keys to the most beautiful moments of our lives….
Jun 26th
HTML5 Rocks - The Basics of Web Workers →
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Jun 26th
Redis or: How I learned to stop worrying and love... →
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Jun 26th
TechCrunch →
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Jun 26th
Visualization layered like music tracks →
The past couple weeks I’ve been fascinated by the html5 canvas element. My interest in graphics goes decades back, yet only recent experimentation with CoffeeScript showed me how fun and addicting…
Jun 25th
Excellent html5 TextMate bundle  →
jessedodds: Fantastic bundle for TextMate which has a HEAP of built in functionality that is only a tab away. Just made my day! git clone http://github.com/johnmuhl/html5.tmbundle.git You’ll thank me later!
Jun 25th
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Using web workers - MDC Docs →
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Jun 25th
Cocoa with Love: An RSS-feed and location-based... →
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Jun 23rd
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Missives for Developers & Founders: Freemium is a... →
jaredbrown: I want to talk about freemium for a moment. The freemium business model, for those not familiar, works by offering basic features for free while charging a premium for access to advanced features. It creates a low barrier to entry, offering free sign ups, so that users have no reason to not…
Jun 23rd
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Fishing for help using Client Side CoffeeScript... →
As my client side CoffeeScript hacks grow larger1, I’m finding the constraint of keeping all the code in html script tags wrapper on page to be awkward. One little project that I’m hoping to have…
Jun 23rd
Researchers: Amazon cloud users leave security... →
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Jun 22nd
Blinded by VC tinted goggles, we missed the birth... →
Oceans of Kool Aid If like myself you enjoy reading a bucket full of venture capitalist blogs, then you’re apt to develop a distorted view of the world. The blogs I explore capture a mix of…
Jun 22nd
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Finding a Designer: a Practical Guide | Attack Of... →
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Jun 19th
China warns U.S. debt-default idea is playing with... →
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Jun 19th
GIANT ROBOTS SMASHING INTO OTHER GIANT ROBOTS: The... →
thoughtbot-giantrobots: We recently blogged about our experiences and ongoing efforts to discover and improve tools for Javascript testing. In closing, we mentioned that we were fairly happy with Akephalos, but we didn’t believe the quest was over. Today, the quest continues. Akephalos Akephalos is a…
Jun 18th
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Selenium web application testing system →
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Jun 18th
Demarchy and probabilistic algorithms →
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Jun 18th
DiogeneX: The iPad Challenge →
diogenex: At a glance, the iPad is the simplest product to duplicate. After all, it’s just a sheet of touch-sensitive glass with a logic board and giant battery attached. So why is it proving so difficult for competitors to capture its magic? Simply put, the iPad challenges the technology industry to…
Jun 17th
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Jun 17th
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Mastering Node - Open Source Nodejs eBook →
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Jun 15th
CoffeeScript →
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Jun 14th
My Month of New Technology: Day 1: Vim →
I decided to kick this thing off by spending an hour with Vim. I’ve been a loyal TextMate user for about five years, but I’ve always wondered what it’d be like to be a full-time Vim guy. Some of the top Ruby shops use Vim, and one of our new guys at Viget is a big fan. Even if I don’t end up…
Jun 11th
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twilson63/cupcake - GitHub →
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Jun 11th
HTML5 Rocks - A resource for open web HTML5... →
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Jun 11th
DailyJS: Let's Make a Web App: Nodepad →
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Jun 10th
How CoffeeScript makes jQuery more fun than ever -... →
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Jun 10th
Dr. Alan Kay on the Meaning of "Object-Oriented... →
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Jun 9th
Pandora is leaving money on the table →
I dig music. I adore Drum and Bass. For the past few weeks I’ve been listening to Pandora’s Drum and Bass station non stop. My listening habits are an odd juxtaposition of spacing out while…
Jun 9th
Infinity Blade for iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPod... →
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Jun 9th
Fred Wilson, Chris Dixon, And David Lee On High... →
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Jun 9th
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Don’t you think she looks tired →
For background on this post scan the 5 minute guide and MG Siegler’s nuanced feature spin for WWDC coverage. For an opposing perspective this story paints a not so rosy look…
Jun 8th
What You'll Wish You'd Known →
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Jun 7th
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Scott Adams Blog: Psychics 06/06/2011 →
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Jun 7th
What Safari’s Reading List means for Instapaper –... →
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Jun 7th
What Safari’s Reading List means for Instapaper –... →
stoweboyd: Beware of any prognostications that end with ‘time will tell’. I have to admit, when I heard the announcement about Reading List, I said ‘that’s the end of Instapaper’ but on reflection, it won’t be. There are many other browsers out there, and it remains to be seen if Apple is providing an API to the Reading List service of Safari. If they do provide that service, I think Instapaper...
Jun 7th
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Closing the action gap on the social web  →
awaldstein: New post digging into how a natural language for social communications based on your company’s passion points is at your fingertips. And some examples of companies that really get that “Being genuine is more powerful than being professional”.  
Jun 7th
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“I have always observed that good design can normally only emerge if there is a...”
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Jun 7th
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