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Before or after you’re sharing your own code as open-source, you might find yourself itching to fix someone else’s code. Here is how to do it.
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LiveValidation is a small open source javascript library built for giving users real-time validation information as they fill out forms.
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links for 2007-09-07
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Great summary of the need for data rights. I’m looking at YOU facebook!
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Flash implementation. Removes the least significant bits of images when resizing, compressing it by important pixels. You lose spacing, but it’s better than cropping….
links for 2007-09-06
The Magic of RSS
I use google reader and it just told me the following:
From your 186 subscriptions, over the last 30 days you read 4,589 items, starred 12 items, and shared 10 items.
So that’s why I guess I’m reading fewer books than I used to…
This week in review
Bad news first. My cat is wasting away and it is very sad.
Lots more that is good news. My team’s project at work nears completion. We are in the final crunch of testing and bugfix.
Sam’s brother Roger and his family have moved to New York from London. That’s great as they are fun to hang out with.
I’ve been whacking away at learning Ruby on Rails for a while now. I’ve read a good bit of the skateboard book, and have been hacking away at a site while I ride the subway to work and back. On labor day I put my new scuba dive logging website into production. As I’m getting this thing going, I’m amenable to any good suggestions folks have.
What should the name be?
What features are missing?
Right now, you can log dives. You can see your profile and some statistics for you. This is my scuba profile. Come to think of it, there’s another change I can make right there. The url for a profile should be domain/User/username – is there any reason to have this show business?
Go ahead and create a login and play around. Don’t count on your data being there tomorrow, but it probably will be. I’ll be adding in a way to export your dives back out, add more details in about your dives, etc. Anything in the PADI standard dive log book should be an available field shortly.
Erm. That’s it for now, I’ll let you know when more useful things are added.
I’m off to vegas on thursday for my friend Atari’s bachelor party. Expect no tales and no blogging for a bit.
links for 2007-09-01
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Webistrano is a Web UI for managing Capistrano deployments. It lets you manage projects and their stages like test, production, and staging with different settings. Those stages can then be deployed with Capistrano through Webistrano.
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This poem was made into a song by Gustav Mahler. Later, Goethe recited it upon his deathbed before crying out “More Light! More Light!” Later, Anthony Hecht wrote a poem called “More Light! More Light!” Later, I made www.morelightmorelight.com
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This tool allows you to compare two versions of an assembly, and determine the differences. The tool reports the differences as a combination of ‘removed’ and ‘added’ APIs
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soapUI is a free and open source application for inspecting, invoking, developing, simulating/mocking and functional/load/compliance testing of web services over HTTP. It is mainly aimed at developers/testers providing and/or consuming web services.
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I recently needed to do this. The best tip was in the contents:
subst v: %SystemRoot%\assembly
now you’ve got a v: drive mapped to the gac that doesn’t get the MS viewer.
Microsoft to buy Parlano and Mindalign
Just noticed on Techdirt. Why does this matter?
More corporate environments might get to use enterprise IM. Enterprise IM creates a whole new pattern of realtime communication apart from email or phone. It’s searchable, loggable, linkable, etc.  It’s a better path to voice communication with your systems.
As I commented over on techdirt, it worked really well when I was working at UBS.
Photos from Kenya
My friend Aaron got back from Kenya recently and put up a set of his Kenya photos on flickr. They are really good – he’s a man of many talents. And, I understand, still available for hire through some quirk of fate.
I also recommend viewing it as a slideshow.
Thank you, South Carolina
Via Boing Boing, and my home state.
Content-Aware Image Resizing
Fascinating stuff – they manage to find a way to eliminate the least important, least noticeable pixels in a path from one edge of a picture to another.
via the always excellent alex barnett.