A couple weeks back, I put up a post on Testosterone Levels, Top Dogs,and Collective Confidence, which described a study showing that groups enjoyed more collective confidence when the people with higher levels where at the top of the pecking order and those with lower levels are at the bottom (compared to "mismatched groups" where the ...

insertion sortは配列の要素が少ないときや、ある程度整順されていることがわかっているときにはとても有用なアルゴリズムであり、この関数の高速化はとても重要なのだ。(高速化が不要ならそもそも何も考えずに最初から言語ライブラリにあるqsort関数でも呼び

In digital media, as in fortune-telling, the future is pretty much treated as part of the present. "What is the next big thing?" is a question everyone who works with the internet asks continually. But after several years of boom, the question of what comes after social platforms is no longer so remote.

In todays news we have some resources to show you were to download and how install Chrome. And then decide for yourselves how good… or bad… it actually is.

Where to watch free movies online? Here’s a list that will get you started. We’ve listed 20 sites that feature a wide range of films. Classics, international, film noir, documentaries, indies — they’re all here. Most of these films should be available in every geographic region. However, there will be some exceptions. This ...

Ever had to modify a WordPress theme, and struggled to find your way around the CSS or template files? Or, have you ever had to update a theme, just to lose all you modifications? Use child themes to modify your blog design.

Photoshop is a magical tool for digital artists and photographers, and it rules the digital imaging world. It is not just a tool, though; Photoshop is a blank canvas that invites you to perform magic with your creativity. It gives you room to creatively manipulate photos and explore the artist in yourself.

Alright, alright, so it's local news, but still, come on. I wonder if the newscaster even bats an eye as he's reading the numbers off the teleprompter:

It's been almost a week ago already that we indulged ourselves with a 48 hour period of full-on NoSQLness. About time to report on that, no? It all started last Sunday meeting up with Lars George, self-proclaimed EU HBase ambassador to talk shop about HBase and our decision to use HBase as the underlying foundation of our next-generation content ...

The Smashing Network is one of the ideas that we've come up with in order to motivate designers and developers to put more original high quality content out there. The network is very young, but we will do our best to present only the best articles around in the network, so it's already being done. Again, thank you for the brilliant post - it ...

class User < ActiveRecord::Base has_many :interests, :as => :interested has_many :topics, :through => :interests end class Interest < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :topic belongs_to :interested, :polymorphic => true end

In web application or software, very often we will need to present collected data to the users. Back in the olden days, data such as traffic statistics and clicking hits were presented through simple numbers or words, this method is plain and simple.

What, you mean to tell me you’re not already loading your scripts with the new hot thing, LABjs? Just kidding, you’re probably just now starting to hear about it. But let me tell you, it is the next big thing. I mean, when was the last time someone found a way to completely revamp the plain ol’ boring <script> tag and give ...

Mr. Joiner additionally gave kudos to Ms. Jordan for including in her document a variety of key words—terms that recruiters are likely to search for when combing their résumé databases. Job seekers can identify important keywords for their fields by looking at the language used in job descriptions. Words in Ms. Jordan's résum&#

Nowadays, using jQuery effects is getting  increasingly popular within web templates and if you check some of new designed themes on themeforest , you probably can’t find a popular theme without any kind of jQuery effects. One of those effects that designers use it widely is jQuery image slideshow or image gallery which can be implemented ...

Today designing a unique, compelling portfolio has become a crucial task for designers, studios, companies and everyone whose business is on the Web. Not only does it help one stand out among the numerous competitors, but it is also a great tool for self-expression and demonstration of skills.

If you establish and oversee the commission package for your company's sales force, you should consider numerous components to create a plan that both fairly compensates and adequately motivates the sales team. Ultimately, your plan should keep your salespeople happy while supporting and advancing company goals.

Ah, the curse of the groggy morning. You may have followed all the rules: no caffeine before bed, an early bedtime, and all the rest. But your best efforts are oftentimes for naught, foiled by the mysterious ways of sleep cycles. There may be an answer: WakeMate, a Y Combinator-funded startup that’s launching today, is looking to help you ...

Denk je dat je het meeste wel weet op het gebied van webmarketing? Lees dan vooral verder. Hier vind je 10 veelvoorkomende fouten op het gebied van webmarketing – die ook door gevorderden nog steeds gemaakt worden. Het betreft een selectie uit de Web Marketing Checklist, waarin 37 pagina’s vol tips in 23 verschillende categorieën te vinden ...

Are you in the market for a laptop or netbook this holiday season? Then check out the hot deals below. I've scoured the Web looking for the best Black Friday laptop and netbook deals priced less than $400. I've found offers from many major retailers, as well as some handy tips to help you map out this year's shopping strategy.

“The adoption of a relational model of data, as described above, permits the development of a universal data sub-language.”– E.F. Codd, 1969

Today is Thanksgiving in the U.S. Traditionally we take stock of the things that we’re thankful for on this day each year. And I realized that one of those things is Steve Jobs. I’m thankful that he returned to Apple in 1997 and did the things he has done since. It wasn’t at all a certainty that he would ever return to the ...

SQL-Injection-Schwachstellen sind eine weitere, weit verbreitete Art von Schwachstellen in Webanwendungen. Ab dieser Folge erfahren Sie, wie Sie diese in About Security #11 beschriebenen Schwachstellen in Ihrer Webanwendung finden können.

Last week, I gave a talk at Web2.0 Expo. From my perspective, I did a dreadful job at delivering my message. Yet, the context around my talk sparked a broad conversation about the implications of turning the backchannel into part of the frontchannel. In the last week, I've seen all sorts of blog posts and tweets and news articles about what went ...

A genealogist's challenge under the Freedom of Information Act could unlock records providing a unique snapshot of UK families as World War II broke out.

Freenet means controversial information does not need to be stored in physical data havens such as this one, Sealand. Photograph: Kim Gilmour/Alamy Fourteen years ago, a pasty Irish teenager with a flair for inventions arrived at Edinburgh University to study artificial intelligence and computer science. For his thesis project, Ian Clarke created "

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Only a year ago, the conventional wisdom was that blogs were dead and microblogging would soon replace them. Twitter was supposed to kill blogs because it’s so much simpler to publish one sentence fragment at a time rather than whole thoughts bunched together into what is known in the trade as “paragraphs.”

レシピ投稿サイト「クックパッド」が、iPhone・iPod touch向けの公式アプリ『クックパッド 』を無料で公開しています。

As we prepare to stuff our faces with a bountiful Thanksgiving feast, we turn our Thanksgiving spirit to the gobs of free software we love to say thank you to the developers, and to give our computers a feast of their own.

I am Economics Editor of The Telegraph newspapers and website. Come join in as I try to get my head, and hopefully yours, round what on earth is happening in the financial crisis. I also blog occasionally on music, literature and anything else that takes my fancy. I have written a guide to economics - 50 Economics Ideas You Really Need to Know - ...

I am a big fan of chilies! When I heard that Zantac was holding a Canadian Chili Challenge I immediatly set to creating a new chili recipe. Chili, like bolognese, is one of those dishes that I just can't resist playing with and trying something new each time. When I find something that I like, it gets carried forward to the next version, etc. ...

As we prepare to stuff our faces with a bountiful Thanksgiving feast, we turn our Thanksgiving spirit to the gobs of free software we love to say thank you to the developers, and to give our computers a feast of their own.

As we prepare to stuff our faces with a bountiful Thanksgiving feast, we turn our Thanksgiving spirit to the gobs of free software we love to say thank you to the developers, and to give our computers a feast of their own.

While many people are still waiting for swine-flu vaccine to become available in their area, there is a lot they can do in their own kitchens to help fight off disease and build a strong immune system.

Motivation and goal setting go hand in hand. No matter how much time you put into the goal setting process, if you’re not motivated by your goals, you’re unlikely to keep after them. Motivation keeps you focused and makes you  more confident.

Comments that include profanity or personal attacks or other inappropriate comments or material will be removed from the site. Additionally, entries that are unsigned or contain "signatures" by someone other than the actual author will be removed. Finally, we will take steps to block users who violate any of our posting standards, terms of use or ...

It’s the social web now. We share everything, from our musical tastes, to the bacon avocado burger we ate for breakfast , to the very funny things we say and do. With amazing APIs such as the ones offered by Last.fm, Twitter, Flickr and more, we can now put them all on our sites, showing close to real-time updates of the music we are ...

Chris Messina, designer e cocriador do conceito de Barcamp, não trabalha diretamente no Twitter, mas faz parte da história do serviço de microblogging. Foi ele quem sugeriu a implementação de #hashtags para facilitar a busca e categorização de mensagens no Twitter.

When the concept of "Mommyblogging" first hit big, scoring a payday meant getting a book deal, and the only scandal was how some of the novels produced pumped up the sex content over the spit-up.

At Ruby Manor on Saturday Alex MacCaw gave a great introduction to his acts_as_recommendable plugin for Rails. acts_as_recommendable simplifies collaborative filtering for Rails models, automatically generating recommended items, at an on-line store for example, based on a database of user preferences.

HTML5 this, HTML5 that! There’s been plenty of HTML5 talk around the blogging world recently. It’s no longer a tiny spec on the horizon, it’s due to arrive soon! Some have already embraced it and are using it on their latest sites. Want to join in on all the fun? Check out this collection of some of the best resources from ...

It takes a lot of resources to host the world’s largest online games. One of the largest players in this niche is Blizzard, which operates World of Warcraft and the Battle.net gaming service for its Starcraft and Diablo titles. World of Warcraft (WoW) is played by more than 11.5 million users across three continents, requiring both ...

It's easy to forget about your body's needs when you're deep into your work or the net—until your body offers a painful reminder. Save your physical shell some strain with these cheap, customizable ergonomic workspace upgrades.

Whether you've got a 10-foot cord that only needs to stretch one foot or you simply want to store your cords without worrying about opening your closet to a knotted mess, daisy-chaining your cords solves your problems with aplomb.

We are always in search of great free resources for our valued readers. Every day we work hard to find new resources and inspiration for designers. Today, we list down 300+ High Quality and Most Popular Fonts for Designers to Discover In 2009, We obviously cannot cover all the best from the web, but we have tried to cover as much as possible.

ECサイトで働いてるWebデザイナー。アクセス解析（Google Analytics）とかハイパフォーマンスWebとか興味ありまっす。

Are you building a site that will require a pay wall that generates revenue? If so, this interview by Andrew Warner is a must watch. Andrew Warner at Mixergy conducts many great interviews with entrepreneurs such as this interview with Wil Schroter. Wil Schroter is the founder of Affordit.com, goBIGnetwork.com, GotCast.com.

Email is antiquated. We need a better way to get things done online than hitting “reply all” to long message chains and sending constantly updated attachments.

日本でTwitterを運営するDGモバイルが、Twitter向けに課金プラットフォームを用意していることを明らかにした。2010年1月からの提供を予定している。

【目指せ「クイズマスター」！！】（QMA好き必見！今すぐに出来るやりこみ要素満載のオンラインクイズゲームです）

From a male point of view, the only redeeming feature of the Twilight books and movies is the ammunition they provide against female claims of innate moral superiority over men.

　米Googleおよび同社と連携している複数の作家団体は13日、ニューヨーク南部連邦地裁に対して、Google Book Search（Googleブック検索）集団訴訟に関連した和解修正案を提出したと発表した。最も大きな注目点は、修正案では集団訴訟の参加者を米国、英国、オース

Using Facebook-connect for iPhone SDK to post stories to Facebook is a great feature to add to your iPhone application. But what happens if the user has no access to the network? If you don’t check the network, the answer is nothing. This leads to user confusion, and it will prevent your app from being approved for the App Store.

To summarize a decade’s worth of brilliant design with 20 covers is little more than an exercise in futility. We can all agree, however, that the best part of passing into a new digit bracket is the lists that come with it. This collection is little more than a representation of my own tastes, but I tried to choose works which were ...

iPhone development can be intimidating, especially to someone who’s unfamiliar with Macs, or the way iPhone apps work. But with currently more than 100,000 apps officially available from the App Store, it’s kind of hard for a developer to ignore the potential market the iPhone provides.

These days, everyone is trying to figure out how to connect with other people. It used to be simple, you just placed some ads in whatever newspaper that was most suited to your product, but now that world is becoming ever more irrelevant. So how do you connect with other people today? And more importantly, how do you do it tomorrow?

Twitter is amongst new media channels that are challenging how we communicate, with whom we communicate and perhaps most fundamentally how we (Marketers) influence people.

「Internet Explorer（IE）9」の開発を明らかにしたマイクロソフトは、ブラウザでの主導権奪還を目指している。IE 9には、パフォーマンスの向上や標準へのさらなる準拠が盛り込まれる予定だ。

Here, now, the newly updated version of the Eater 38, your answer and ours to any question that begins, “Can you recommend a restaurant…” This highly elite group covers the entire city, spans myriad cuisines and, collectively, satisfies all of your restaurant needs, save for those occasions when you absolutely must spend half a ...

El ranking de los 50 blogs europeos más citados del último mes ya está en línea. En el podio de los tres primeros lugares no ha habido cambios, el blog alemán Netzpolitik sigue en el primer puesto, seguido del británico Iain Dale's Diary y Nerdcore, también alemán.

Some feel it is wonderful because it is the spiritual home of a band that was once cool, the Cardigans. But now all committed social networkers will think Malmo is wonderful because of its IKEA. You see, the Swedish purveyor of fast-food furniture decided to open a new store in Malmo and didn't really have a lot of money to let people know about ...

Seven years ago, while working in an upmarket Dutch restaurant, Bart van Olphen observed something curious. Though most Dutch people barely touched fish at home, more than half the meals they ordered when eating out were fish. Looking around the local fishmonger it wasn't hard to see why; while the restaurant was serving fresh seabass and monkfish,

In the world of relational data, many-to-many relationships are one of the hardest concepts to understand and implement correctly. Quite likely the scenario will arise for a developer to decide whether to support a one-to-many or a many-to-many schema, and out of fear we crumble to an "easy" design. This article will use real world scenarios to ...

In the SharePoint User Interface, I want to create a base content type with a few columns and then a number of child content types which extend the base content type and add a few more columns to each. Whilst using the child content type on a list, I want a couple of the columns in the base content type not to be visible in forms but available ...

According to Matt Ross of Tribal DDB, Monopoly City Streets now ranks as the world’s 12th-largest example of the genre. After less than three months in existence, the game is attracting 15 billion page views a month.

普段あまりニュースを見ないような人でも「公正取引委員会」という名前は聞いたことがあると思います。この組織は、名前の通り経済で自由な取引が行われるように独占禁止法を運用すべく設置された機関で、ソフトバンクモバイルやイー・モバイルが行っ�

Trotz Spams, altbackener Benutzerschnittstellen und ähnlicher Widrigkeiten: E-Mail ist nach wie vor einer der wichtigsten Dienste im Netz. Mit neuen Systemen wie Google Wave und Mozillas Raindrop wollen Entwickler die verschiedenen Formen der interpersonalen Online-Kommunikation neu bündeln und damit die klassische E-Mail langsam verdrängen. ...

Comment Rules: Remember what Fonzie was like? Cool. That's how we're gonna be -- cool. Critical is fine, but if you're rude, we'll delete your stuff. Please do not put your URL in the comment text and please use your PERSONAL name or initials and not your business name, as the latter comes off like spam. Have fun and thanks for adding to the ...

A new study shows that the use of social media is particularly prevalent among Inc. 500 companies and provides new insight on the role social media plays in running a business.

When you look at Enterprise 2.0, you can see the hype pretty clearly but what is not so evident is how social computing efforts are faring within corporations and large organizations.

Many e-commerce sites aren’t the most attractive websites. There’s often a lot of clutter with little to distinguish the design from any other site. Of course, selling products is more important to an e-commerce site than having a pretty design, but these 50 examples show that some e-commerce sites display excellent design.

Werbung aus aufgezeichneten Fernsehsendungen entfernen oder selbst gedrehte Aufnahmen bearbeiten - für Hobbyfilmer und Filmliebhaber stehen mittlerweile einige kostenlose Videoschnittprogramme mit einfacher Bedienung bereit.

I have been inspired by a post by Soon Hui to write about my mistakes. I have evolved much on the programming side during these years, but my biggest mistakes have been social and economic: dealing with other people. Thus, I have collect a list of my errors committed as a php freelance developer.

The British Museum and the BBC today announced what they called an unprecedented partnership for a project that cannot be said to lack ambition: they want to help to construct a history of the world using objects collected from 2 million years of human history.

Closures are reusable code blocks in Groovy. The code of the closure is executed against the delegate of the closure. By default the owner of the closure is the same as the delegate, but we can change this. We can define which object is the delegate for a closure, so we can change the object the closure is executed for.

The grid is a commonly used component in both web and graphic design, promoting organization and alignment in the final output. Better alignment and order can, of course, lead to a more effective design, whether it is for print or the web.

LASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan (Reuters) - After the Taliban made nine threatening phone calls and fired a Kalashnikov outside his house, Shah Mohammad Mir left his hometown for months before returning with a new car and a new telephone number.

Eclipsing Einstein? A solar eclipse confirmed gravitational lensing and Einstein's concept of spacetime. But a new quantum gravity theory now generating excitement separates time and space.

2010 is going to be an incredible year for marketing. Now, of course I don’t have a crystal ball (or do I…insert creepy music here) but the shift is unmistakable and can’t be ignored.

"3. All promotions must be hosted on a third-party site and through an opt-in application developed specifically for the promotion. Promotions using general Facebook features such as photo uploads, wall posts or discussion boards are not acceptable."

(This post uses formatting and features not visible in the Tumblr Dashboard. If anything below doesn’t make sense or looks plain ugly, consider viewing the post on my website. I love the Dashboard, I hate the Dashboard.)

A few days after leaked e-mail messages appeared on the Internet, the U.S. Congress may probe whether prominent scientists who are advocates of global warming theories misrepresented the truth about climate change.

Gina Trapni, Adam Pash写了一本The Complete Guide to Google Wave，里面介绍了从Google Wave入门到进阶的指南，浅显易懂，对Wave初学者和想了解这个应用的人很有帮助，易IT也有幸参与了几篇的翻译。

Well-designed e-commerce sites can provide a more enjoyable user experience, and they can also be excellent sources of design inspiration. Of course, usability is far more important than appearance when it comes to creating a user-friendly e-commerce website, but having an attractive and usable site is a great combination. This collection is ...

個人向けソフトの設計・プロデュースがお仕事。エンジニアリング×マーケティング両方の視点からデザインします。

A blog hosting an offensive image of Michelle Obama with monkey features has removed it and posted an apology. The image, which has been appearing at the top of search results when the words "Michelle Obama" are put into Google Images, was posted on a blog called Hot Girls, which is hosted by the Google-owned blog service, Blogger.

Why are the latest touch-screen devices often larger than the push-button gadgets they replace? It has long been assumed the culprit is the so-called "fat finger" problem – when touch targets are packed too close together, a fingertip may be too wide to hit the right one.

When I was old enough to care whether I won or lost at games, but still too young to be any good at them, I decided RPGs were better than action games. After all, I could play Contra for hours and still be terrible at it - while if I played Dragon Warrior III for the same amount of time, my characters would gain levels and be much more capable of ...

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama plans to announce a redrawn battle plan for Afghanistan, including what the military says could be a roughly 50 percent increase in U.S. forces, in a national address Tuesday night from the U.S. Military Academy.

So it seems all we ever speak about is WordpressWordPress, but don’t forget that you have options when choosing a blog platform. Here are 40 free ways to get started.

本日の自作サーバカンファレンス、申し込みして楽しみにしていたのですが、体調がよろしくなかったので泣く泣く不参加・・・にしようとしていたところ、なんと！Ust(USTREAM)配信されているようだったので、そっちで視聴しました。感謝！！

In today’s article from the “Webdesign Gallery Week” series, we will look at the most useful CSS showcase galleries. What makes them most useful is their search/sorting features - some of them let you search by colors, by layouts, by categories. And as a bonus they all are sorted by Google PR and current Alexa rating.

Windows 7とUbuntuは向かっているところがまったく違うOSですが、一つのパソコン上でも仲良くやっていけるのです。Windows 7とUbuntuのデュアルブートシステムの設定方法をご紹介。一度設定してしまえば、二つの世界のいいとこどりが可能です！

Internet domain names: Customers surf the web at an internet cafe in Beijing. Icann, the body that oversees web addresses, is opening up domain names to non-Latin languages. Photograph: Greg Baker/AP

I got given jQuery In Action for Christmas. By nature, I'm kind of a late adopter, and I'm already regretting this fact. jQuery has been around for some time, and I wished I had looked at it sooner. It's a fantastic library that really simplifies Javascript development, and is already attracting a goodly number of plug-ins. JCrop is one such, and ...

　はてなやサイバーエージェントなど、5社の担当者が自作サーバーに関するメリットやデメリット、ノウハウなどを紹介する「自作サーバカンファレンス」が11月25日に開催された。

Hysterical news, stats and their new Onion News Network video section make this site one of the best around. Check out The Onion Store and marvel at the ingenious Gotcha Box.

With all the visualization options out there, it can be hard to figure out what graph or chart suits your data best. This is a guide to make your decision easier for one particular type of data: proportions.

As I explained in the previous post, replacing my notebook's hard disk with an SSD significantly improved the overall system performance -- even without any additional tweaking. But there are also a couple of simple tricks that can boost performance even further. The first one is to disable the sreadahead service. The sreadahead tool helps to ...

After reading Ned Batchelder's post on his experience hunting a memory leak (which turned out to be a reference counting error) it occurred to me that even tough I have a script to check memory usage I should also really be checking reference counts with sys.gettotalrefcount(). And indeed, after adding this to my script I found one reference ...

現在Beta版でメールアドレスを送るとダウンロードリンクが送られてきて、無料で試せます。

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Proximity in design simply means that objects near each other are seen as a unit. It really is that simple and it’s something you see every day. On your web page or your business card, related information is placed closely together and it forms a visual unit.

So everywhere you look, you see “jQuery this” and “jQuery that”. For the last year or so, this library has been the darling of the Javascript world. But do you feel that you just can’t seem to learn the dang thing? Do you hate how the existing tutorials assume that you know WAY more than you actually do? If this ...

Tutorial muito bom de aplicação de efeito cromado em texto, feito pelo pessoal do Tutoriais Photoshop, o tutorial é bem simples e fácil de acompanhar, nem precisa ser expert em Photoshop para aplicar o efeito. Caso não fique do jeito que gostaria, experimente ajustar os efeitos, normalmente dá certo. Confira abaixo o passo-a-passo:

Running after the best performance for your web application, one of the biggest improvement you can do is to use compression. Page, Stylesheet & Javascript files (images are already compressed format). There are few compression modules out there, all you needs to do is just 'goolge' for it, and the implementation is really very simple.

Non-compliant selectors can be used and a valid way to target individual browsers. Chrome supports every selector, just like Safari 3.1. My recommendation is to use the body:first-of-type hack, the CSS hack/filter for Safari as a filter for Safari 3+ and Chrome. There should be no reason to target Chrome with the exclusion of Safari 3.1, but if ...

Back in July, “Power Tips for WordPress Template Developers” presented 8 basic techniques for adding popular features to the front end of a WordPress-powered website. The premise was that WordPress has become an elegant, lightweight content management solution that offers the fundamentals out of the box, atop a modular core that ...

The support for Actors is one of the features that attracts many new developers to Scala. It is not the only concurrancy construct in Scala but it is one of the most recognized.

How cool is it when you have a product or service that lends itself to people shooting videos for you! As a marketer or business owner, how amazing is it when people are eager to spread your ideas and share stories for you.

A few weeks ago I spoke to Andy Beckett of The Guardian in the UK, he was writing an article about "the darknet", and wanted to talk to me about Freenet. I was quite pleased about this because when I'm in the UK the Guardian is by far my favorite newspaper.

先日書類を保存してから気がつきました、そのファイルは上書きしてはいけなかったことに...。一瞬青くなりましたが、「Time Machine」でバックアップをとっていたことを思い出し、無事保存前に戻すことができました。あの時ほど、バックアップのありがたみ�

Much like the Depression-era demagogue Father Charles Coughlin, the Fox News personality is promoting a mass movement. Should his bosses be pulling the plug?

The average American wastes more than half a pound of food each day. Meanwhile, millions of people are going hungry in our own cities. Here are a few ways to cut down on your food waste. Our video is after the jump.

Why is the average income of Canadian and Japanese residents so much higher than that of North Koreans or Ethiopians? Daron Acemoglu offers his answer in a recent commentary for Esquire magazine. He argues that differences in institutions, or rules, are the key driver behind global inequality.

With more than 7000+ plugins, WordPress is the most extendable Content Management System available; in fact, "WordPress is infinitely extensible" as Matt Mullenweg says. In this post, we'll examine twenty-one really useful plugins to take your blog to the next level.

Jack Balkin invited me to be on a panel yesterday at Yale’s Information Society Project conference, Journalism & The New Media Ecology, and I used my remarks to observe that one of the things up for grabs in the current news environment is the nature of authority. In particular, I noted that people trust new classes of aggregators and ...

場合によっては文字列だけが更新されていて、重い画像はブラウザのキャッシュにあるからいりません、なんていう場合もありますよね。毎回ブラウザのニーズに合わせてzipファイルを生成していては負荷が高いでしょうし、キャッシュにあるデータまでzipさ�

Imagine that you’re in a competition to overhaul an information-heavy course so it creates a real change in the world. What changes would you make? Check out this story-based presentation to see what one fictional company did.

National Geographic's International Photography Contest attracts thousands of entries from photographers of all skill levels around the world every year. While this year's entry deadline has passed, there is still time to view and vote for your favorites in the Viewer's Choice competition. National Geographic was kind enough to let me choose a ...

Che differenza c’è tra unit test e acceptance test? In quali occasioni è opportuno scrivere uno unit test e quando invece è meglio scrivere un acceptance test?

It has probably happened to you: you're reading articles or watching videos on the web, and you come across some unrelated, gibberish comments. You may wonder what this is all about. Some webmasters abuse other sites by exploiting their comment fields, posting tons of links that point back to the poster's site in an attempt to boost their site's ...

It’s called ProFORMA, or Probabilistic Feature-based On-line Rapid Model Acquisition, but it is way cooler than it sounds. The software, written by a team headed by Qui Pan, a student at the Department of Engineering at Cambridge University in England, turns a regular, cheap webcam into a 3D scanner.

As you already seen in our previous posts about Single Page Website Designs that showcase your work in single page design is a hot trend now days. It’s kind of ironic to see what designers can do with single pages as modern age designers love to experiment with things and observe how people interact with their work. Even though this is not ...

Depois de ter divulgado 30 templates gratuitos para Magento, é agora a vez de saberem como instalar a melhor solução de eCommerce da actualidade. A NetTuts+ disponibilizou um screencast Easy E-Commerce With Magento onde explica detalhadamente como instalar e configurar a Magento.

The British have long enjoyed food with a bit of bite. And 200 years ago, an Indian migrant opened Britain's first curry house to cater for the fashion for spicy food.

Windows only: Most laptop owners have experienced the frustrations of a spastic cursor when your wrist grazes the touchpad. Free, open-source utility TouchFreeze disables your touchpad as soon as you start typing, re-enables it when you stop.

President Barack Obama recently announced that he was determined to "finish the job" in Afghanistan, and aides signaled to allies that he would send as many as 25,000 to 30,000 additional American troops there. Obama will formally announce his decision in a national address at 8 p.m. Tuesday from the Military Academy at West Point. As casualties ...

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For a while I’ve been meaning to do a post on document collaboration, especially as working on documents with the client is such a key part of a lawyers work. In a typical law firm this collaboration is through backwards and forwards emailing of the document to the client.

Ever since launching my Information Portfolio, BrianHoff.net, I’ve received many emails with similar variations to the question “How do I become better with typography on the web?” or “Why does your type look nice on your site?”

Self-promotion may appear revolting, but it’s the only promotion that’s guaranteed in this business. Do it right, and only haters will hate you for it. To get, you must give.

As part of its push to go more social, Google has been attempting to unify its various account profiles into one Google Profile. And now it’s more useful. Google’s Brad Fitzpatrick has just tweeted out that Google Profiles can now be used as OpenIDs.

If you don�t want your visitors to see ugly meaningless error messages, then you�ll have to implement some kind of error handling in your ASP applications.

Lorsque nous commençons à utiliser la ligne de commande sous Linux, voir l’utilisation des disques durs et l’espace disque disponible est « primordial ».

As part of its push to go more social, Google has been attempting to unify its various account profiles into one Google Profile. And now it’s more useful. Google’s Brad Fitzpatrick has just tweeted out that Google Profiles can now be used as OpenIDs.

제가 인터넷에 댓글좀 달았다고 했더니, 지인들이 무슨 내용인지 묻지도 않고 그냥 난립니다. "그러다가 잡혀가시면 어떻게 하려고 그래요" ㅎㅎ 저는 지금 제가 "언론의 자유가 있는 민주국가" 대한민국에 살고 있는가 헤깔릴 때가 있습니다.

Controversial legislation to bring in minimum-pricing for alcohol in Scotland will be blocked by MSPs. Although the SNP government believes the move is needed to tackle Scotland's problems with drink-fuelled violence, it does not have enough backing.

Browsers these days are actually pretty good. Most of the time, if I have built and validated something and it works in Firefox, I can be pretty sure that when I do my testing in the latest versions of Opera, Safari, Konqueror and yes even IE8, everything will be fine. This is what we asked for, back in the early days of the web standards movement,

If you're creating a rich content website, read this post. I have gathered 12 multimedia supported lightboxes and plugins that help you to embed all sort of videos, audios and images.

　１９９２年当時のソマリアは最悪の状況だった。内戦で無政府状態が続き、武装集団が国連の援助物資を略奪。全土で１８０万人が飢えに苦しんでいた。

In this tutorial we are going to create an awesome image gallery which leverages the latest CSS3 and jQuery techniques. The script will be able to scan a folder of images on your web server and build a complete drag and drop lighbox gallery around it.

The main reason web sites are built is so that they are functional to be USED. It’s a simple as that. They are tools, references and resources, nothing more. And as web designers, we need to always remember that.

Artists that produce photorealistic sculptures, for the most part, aim to show us our bodies and life as it really is. Technically, artists who strive for a high resolution level of detail in painting or sculpture are called “hyperrealists”, although all hyperrealists are also considered to be photorealists.

The ’00s were a turbulent time for the comic-book business, as mainstream publishers like DC and Marvel suffered the sales declines affecting nearly all print-purveyors, while publishers of what used to be known as “alternative” comics saw some of their products hitting bestseller lists and turning up on the front page of The ...

Google dominates the search engine market for a large part thanks to its spartan, no-bells-nor-whistles interfaces. But also thanks to its incredible speed (which is partially thanks to that spartan interface, of course).

The science of osteoporosis and its resultant fractures has long been plagued by some vexing observations. Why, for example, are osteoporotic fractures relatively rare in Asian countries like Japan, where people live as long or longer than Americans and consume almost no calcium-rich dairy products? Why, in Western countries that consume the most ...

Wikipedia.org is the fifth-most-popular Web site in the world, with roughly 325 million monthly visitors. But unprecedented numbers of the millions of online volunteers who write, edit and police it are quitting.

Germany] Several federal and regional government officials in Germany are trying to put a ban on Google Analytics, the search giant’s free software product that allows website owners and publishers to get detailed statistics about the number, whereabouts and search behavior of their visitors (and much more).

우리나라 대학생들은 자신의 외모에 대해서 어떻게 생각할까? 한 웹사이트에서 실시한 설문조사 결과, 설문 응답자의 무려 94%가 자신의 외모에 콤플렉스를 갖고 있는 것으로 나타났다.

　　我最近重新负责易购网，主要是产品和运营两个部分，产品不是容易很快见效的，我的意思是说，不是想到立刻就能做到的；而运营则是想到就可以做；

Kevin Lipp of Grand Island, N.Y., was diagnosed with MS in 1999, but 11 months ago he travelled to Italy as a part of an international project trying to find ways to treat people with MS. In Italy he was treated by Dr. Paolo Zamboni, who uses a revolutionary surgery to treat vascular disease that he believes causes a lot of the neurological ...

Are there any studies on how much 3D stuff could potentially kill your eyes? If I watched 3D TV like I watched regular TV when I was a kid, I swear my eyes would be even worse than they are now. All that refocusing and straining has to do something...

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Few topics interest me more than space. Though I'll admit that I don't know nearly as much as I would like, it has always been my goal to learn about the universe. I bet I'm not alone. That's why I'm sharing this list of 18 space sites. They all offer something neat. And they're all informative.