mislav

Pagination 101

Article by Faruk Ateş, [originally on KuraFire.net][original] which is currently down

One of the most commonly overlooked and under-refined elements of a website is its pagination controls. In many cases, these are treated as an afterthought. I rarely come across a website that has decent pagination, and it always makes me wonder why so few manage to get it right. After all, I'd say that pagination is pretty easy to get right. Alas, that doesn't seem the case, so after encouragement from Chris Messina on Flickr I decided to write my Pagination 101, hopefully it'll give you some clues as to what makes good pagination.

Before going into analyzing good and bad pagination, I want to explain just what I consider to be pagination: Pagination is any kind of control system that lets the user browse through pages of search results, archives, or any other kind of continued content. Search results are the o

grkvlt

#!/usr/bin/env sh

##
# This is script with usefull tips taken from:
#   https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles/blob/master/.osx
#
# install it:
#   curl -sL https://raw.github.com/gist/2108403/hack.sh | sh
#

grkvlt

Tiny_RayTracing.ps by Takashi Hayakawa (h-takasi@isea.is.titech.ac.jp)
is a ray tracing program in only 762 bytes (plus header)!

BEST OBFUSCATED ARTWORK -- 1st prize
  -- The 2nd most coveted prize. These combine obfuscation with great artwork.

Don't send this one to a printer. It will take too long. Display it
on the screen and be ready to wait a while. The picture is well worth it.
If you want to print the picture much faster, use Tiny_RayTracing_Fast.ps instead.

grkvlt

Moog Google Doodle

anigbrowl — 23 May 2012

Posted this earlier today when it turned up on google.com.au, but the thread had falled off the front page by the time I posted it. I thought people might find this interesting now that it's back.

The doodle is reminiscent of a Minimoog, but with several simplifications to make programming easier and more musical.

Mixer section

grkvlt

blogs

• Math ∩ Programming A place for elegant solutions
• http://jeremykun.wordpress.com/2011/08/11/the-perceptron-and-all-the-things-it-cant-perceive/
• Typblography The Adobe Type Team blog
• http://blogs.adobe.com/typblography/2012/09/source-code-pro.html
• http://blogs.adobe.com/typblography/2012/05/myriad_arabic_and_hebrew.html
• DDI Data-driven intelligence
• http://www.michaelnielsen.org/ddi/why-bloom-filters-work-the-way-they-do/
• http://www.michaelnielsen.org/ddi/how-to-crawl-a-quarter-billion-webpages-in-40-hours/

domenic

This article has been given a more permanent home on my blog. Also, since it was first written, the development of the Promises/A+ specification has made the original emphasis on Promises/A seem somewhat outdated.

You're Missing the Point of Promises

Promises are a software abstraction that makes working with asynchronous operations much more pleasant. In the most basic definition, your code will move from continuation-passing style:

getTweetsFor("domenic", function (err, results) {
 // the rest of your code goes here.

jgarzik

This is a review of "Quantitative Analysis of the Full Bitcoin Transaction Graph" by Dorit Ron and Adi Shamir.

There are some incorrect details and analyses that warrant attention.

Oct. 31 UPDATE

The authors have introduced several revisions to their paper, available at the same URL as before.

The criticism below may be outdated in part or in full.

grkvlt

Brooklyn Proposal

Managing Entity Resources

Pull request #528 - Make copyResource and copyTemplate usable by all entity drivers - allows all entities to take advantage of features that were previously present in only the TomcatServer and QpidBroker drivers. It deprecates the copyFile(...) methods and adds copyResource(String, String), copyResources(Map) and other convenience resource handling methods. This makes resources specified as URI strings the preferred mechanism for describing file content that is required by entities at install- or run-time.

Entities can now:

• Pull HTTP resources at the remote location, rather than downloading them locally and transferring across with sftp

dpryden

import java.io.IOException;
import java.net.URLClassLoader;
import java.nio.file.Files;
import java.nio.file.Paths;
import java.nio.file.Path;

/**
 * Example demonstrating a ClassLoader leak.
 *
 * <p>To see it in action, copy this file to a temp directory somewhere,

hfreire

# Install QEMU OSX port with ARM support
sudo port install qemu +target_arm
export QEMU=$(which qemu-system-arm)

# Dowload kernel and export location
curl -OL \
https://github.com/dhruvvyas90/qemu-rpi-kernel/blob/master/kernel-qemu-4.1.7-jessie
export RPI_KERNEL=./kernel-qemu-4.1.7-jessie

# Download filesystem and export location