Two snippets of web lovely for you…
Interactive periodic table:
http://www.touchspin.com/chem/SWFs/pt2k61012.swf
also Wolfenstein… in Javascript. My mind, she is blown.
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Clicky to make biggy…
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Really entertaining presentation on the history of the internet, from the first email sent in 1965 right up to today’s social networking phenomenon. If you’ve ever wondered how the internet came to be (no, Al Gore didn’t invent it), watch this right now. Bonus geek points to Ethan for the 12 inch powerbook.
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I came across G-Archiver, I figured what the heck I’ll give it a try.
It didn’t really have the functionality I was looking for, but being a programmer myself I used Reflector to take a peek at the source code. What I came across was quite shocking. John Terry, the apparent creator, hard coded his username [...]
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Phun is a Master of Science Thesis by Swedish Computer Science student Emil Ernerfeldt. It’s an awesome 2-dimensional physics sandbox, meaning you can create whatever the hell you want and apply some Newtonian goodness to whatever you draw.
I’m strongly guessing Emil Ernerfeldt has read Microserfs
Phun can be downloaded here for both Windows [...]
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There is no need for reducing the set of platforms or languages. It only makes sense for us to continue to support defacto Web development standards like LAMP, as well as emerging ones like Ruby and Eclipse. This deal is about addition, not subtraction.
Hopefully it will be. Gotta say I am delighted for MySQL AB, [...]
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Found a really useful post today for PHP developers who have been thinking about dipping their toes into Ruby on Rails. It features some very simple examples of array handling, class constructors and the like. Well worth checking out if you have any interest in broadening your programming horizons (and if PHP is your bread [...]
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Clinton E. Curtis, ex-programmer tells all during a Congressional hearing on voting fraud. In October 2000, Curtis was asked by Tom Feeney (R), then Speaker of the House in Florida, to write a computer program that would render electronic voting fraud undetectable. Curtis did just that.
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The nice folks at Google have come up with yet another incredibly useful API for us to fiddle with, Google Charts. It allows developers to easily generate PNG format image files in response to a series of URL parameters.
I’ve been wanting a more elegant solution than Libchart for a while. While Libchart does what it [...]
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