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Things worth reading. Or not. At least, I thought I'd rather keep them when I encountered them.1316 links so far, newest first.
youtube.com
From "Jazz-in Concert"<br><br>Mike Mainieri - Vibraphone<br>Billy Cobham - Drums<br>Eberhard Weber - Bass<br>Warren Bernhardt - Keyboards<br><br>This song is from album "
kuvaton.com
Side-by-side photographs of a Kabul public garden in 1970 and of the same spot in 2010, where the path, bridge and water are labelled on bare rubble.
youtube.com
A cyclist goes up against a business man on the busy streets<br />http://www.failpost.com
ootips.org
One recommended book per topic, across object-oriented design, programming languages, components and databases, and software management.
area51.phpbb.com
Fifth page of the phpBB Area51 thread on the accepted RFC to build phpBB 4 on Symfony 2, where developers weigh footprint and rival frameworks.
martinfowler.com
Canonical account of continuous integration: everyone merges to mainline at least daily, and an automated build with tests verifies each integration.
acm.timus.ru
Problem set of the Timus Online Judge, over 1,200 competitive-programming problems browsable by difficulty, topic and originating contest, with online submission.
howto.landure.fr
Tutoriel d'installation de Redmine, gestionnaire de projet écrit en Ruby on Rails, sur Debian 4.0 Etch, de la base de données à la configuration du serveur.
docs.python.org
Official rundown of the language, standard library and performance changes in Python 2.7, the last major release of the 2.x series.
smashingmagazine.com
Guide to rapid prototyping of user interfaces: what to mock up, at which fidelity, and how to run feedback rounds before development starts.
tech.blog.aknin.name
Argues that mailing lists cannot carry large open-source design debates, and sketches a code-review-like tool structuring positions, arguments and who holds them.
w3.org
W3C Recommendation defining the DOM event model: listener registration, capture and bubbling flow, and the UI, mouse, mutation and HTML event sets.
youtube.com
This is gameplay footage from the original game "Starcraft" as it was released in 1984. My uncle worked as an assistant programmer for Blizzard/Activision i...
github.blog
GitHub wires an Arduino-driven stoplight to its CI Joe build server so the office can read the build status at a glance.
slideshare.net
Slide deck cataloguing distributed-systems patterns: scalability and consistency trade-offs, fail-over and replication, then caching, sharding and NoSQL for state.
