Andy Clarke revisits his naming conventions and general markup patterns, within the context of Microformats and HTML5
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20 Nov, 2008
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Recently Twittered:
Relieved to hear that a friend is not, in fact, kidnapped in Belize.
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Recently Twittered:
Relieved to hear that a friend is not, in fact, kidnapped in Belize.
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Recently Twittered:
Relieved to hear that a friend is not, in fact, kidnapped in Belize.
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Recently Twittered:
Relieved to hear that a friend is not, in fact, kidnapped in Belize.
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Recently Twittered:
Relieved to hear that a friend is not, in fact, kidnapped in Belize.
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Recently Twittered:
Relieved to hear that a friend is not, in fact, kidnapped in Belize.
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Recently Twittered:
Relieved to hear that a friend is not, in fact, kidnapped in Belize.
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Recently Twittered:
Relieved to hear that a friend is not, in fact, kidnapped in Belize.
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Recently Twittered:
Relieved to hear that a friend is not, in fact, kidnapped in Belize.
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Recently Twittered:
Relieved to hear that a friend is not, in fact, kidnapped in Belize.
17 Nov, 2008
07 Nov, 2008
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Lessons learned while building and iPhone site
Ross Harmes gives us the lessons he learned while building an iPhone optimized version of Flickr. Ultimately, he was able to reduce uncached page load time from over 90 seconds to under 7 through EDGE network. Impressive.
03 Nov, 2008
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Introducing Python/Django testing
Nice summary on basic doctests with Python and Django.
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Ed Summers discussing the new RDF service from Freebase:
So why is this important? Because following your nose in HTML is what enabled companies like Lycos, AltaVista, Yahoo and Google to be born. It allowed for agents to be able to crawl the web of documents and build indexes of the data to allow people to find what they want (hopefully). Being able to link data in this way allows us to harvest data assets across organizational boundaries and merge them together. It's early days still, but seeing an organization like Freebase get it is pretty exciting.
31 Oct, 2008
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Freebase Redesign
After months of work, we’ve just pushed live the new version of Freebase. This constitutes a massive overhaul to the site; besides a fresh coat of paint and a shiny new logo, we’ve rethought from the ground up ways to get people engaged with the data they care about.
Of particular note is the new push to what we’re calling bases: smaller ecosystems within the Freebase biosphere that allow data enthusiasts to focus on a specific area of interest. I’ve created a handful of bases already, including one on surfing as well as another on scuba diving. Check them all out and make one for yourself!
30 Sep, 2008
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Raphaël—JavaScript Library
This looks like it will come in useful at some point.
18 Aug, 2008
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Grep is a beautiful tool
Another in Eric’s series on learning the command line.
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Find is a beautiful tool
Awesome tutorial using find, the command-line tool. Eric Wendelin provides compelling examples as to why you should integrate this tool into your daily workflow.
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Django inserting and positioning images
Interesting idea for using Django to manage images and insert them inline in articles, blog posts, etc.
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Adding search to a Django site in a snap
If the existing Django search projects are too heavyweight for you needs, Julien Phalip offers a pretty easy alternative.
14 Apr, 2008
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Wilson Miner on being an optimizer:
Once it's out there, there's usually a very short amount of time where I'm actually happy with what I've accomplished.
After that brief moment of satisfaction, I immediately start to see everything that's wrong or missing and start obsessing over what should be different or better. From that point on I'm incapable of being satisfied with the finished product.
28 Feb, 2008
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Shaun Inman in an interview with Perishable Press:
Minimalism is not an aesthetic. You don't ornament a design with Minimalism. Minimalism is an artifact of a design process that favors the rigorous distillation of content. Content is King and Minimalism is the emperor's new clothes.
20 Feb, 2008
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John Gruber in an interview with Shawn Blanc:
What graphic design is to a visual idea, writing is to a verbal idea.
15 Feb, 2008
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Adrian Holovaty :
People can define "journalism" however they'd like. At EveryBlock, what we're interested in exploring is what sort of frequently updated information consumers want at the block level, and how they'd like to receive it. Whether this is called "journalism" or not is strictly academic.