The Basement Coders CrashPlan Give Away! Xn--mgbqgp1dive.com. Испытание.com. Vers la fin de l’actualité. La crise du journalisme est l’ébranlement d’un monopole. Le mouvement est déjà largement discuté, mais ses causes et ses effets n’ont pas fini d’ébranler notre manière de voir le monde. C’est que le monopole était bien plus profond qu’on ne l’a souvent écrit. Ce n’était pas le seul monopole du choix, de l’ordonnancement et de l’interprétation d’information; car l’information n’existe simplement pas sans être choisie, ordonnancée et interprétée.
C’était le monopole de la construction de l’information, c’est-à-dire de la construction du fait d’actualité, c’est à dire finalement la construction du concept même « d’actualité ». Il n’existait pas « d’actualité » avant l’invention de l’imprimerie et le développement corolaire du journalisme. Que l’on réfléchisse surtout à la nature profondément monopolistique d’un « choix d’actualité ». Dans la démocratisation médiatique en marche, qui ne porte un regard différent – son propre regard- sur ce que devrait-être l’actualité? Collateral Murder. Do You Like Pain? I have a co-worker who's never happy. Never. But today it's even worse. He just lost an hour or two of his work. He was writing code that deleted a large number of files, and due to an error in the code, it deleted everything- including the script he was writing!
He hadn't checked in for over an hour, so that time was gone and he has started over. Today he's really not happy. Why didn't he check in his code? The team we are working with is a little annoyed by the speed of the tool, but they've largely acclimated to it. So how are you hurting? Once you've lived with pain long enough it becomes your new norm. Open your office to floating workers. And when they come in, listen to them.
You can also bring in exernal help (blatant commercial plug). When you bring in people from the outside, be sure to listen. A third way is to measure what you do. There are a large number of basic software processes that do wonders on all the pain you're having, but you've got to recognize the pain first. Decrease Your Pages Load Time, One Year Later. We Recommend These Resources More than one year ago, I blogged about pages load time and Jawr. Since then, either my projects were intranet applications where load time was not an issue or we had no say in the tools used. So, I had no possibility to use any of the tools I found then. Now, I’m soon to be faced by an application that will be used by people outside our network and I definitely want the application to be as responsive as possible. Armed with my previous Yahoo best practices, I hunted on the web for tools that could help me enforce them.
One rule I hold in high esteem is: minimize the number of HTTP requests. I think this rule has the most impact since browsers only send at most 2 HTTP requests at a time. <button><img src="path/to/my/image" />Label</button> This means that any screen that display more than one button type has the potential to be slow. <button class="update">Label</button> To aggregate the master image requires the right image tool.
Dominique De Vito's Weblog - Two ways to challenge the Facebook leadership The central idea, here, is about building a decentralized Facebook-like. I have mostly already exposed one way here, I am going to resume it and write another idea too. Long-term challenge: the raise of the set-top boxes I am going to resume the previous solution I wrote (according to David Larlet's ideas) One main problem, when building a decentralized Facebook(-like), is hardware-related: it's about hosting. And a connected problem is about offering free use for attracting users, like Facebook, instead of excepting user payment: the problem is about money! Then, building a software solution for a decentralized Facebook(-like) is doing less than half of the trip! Set-top boxes are more and more powerful and, here are an important point: they are quite running and online most of the time! Why Internet Service Providers (ISP) would move to offer such more powerful boxes and associated bandwidth ?
Short-term challenger: the blogs (and the CMS) Prefetch (link rel) - Galerie des extensions Google Chrome. Scale at Facebook. Using Asynchronous URLFetch on Java App Engine « Ikai Lan says. Developers building applications on top of Java App Engine can use the familiar java.net interface for making off-network calls. For simple requests, this should be more than sufficient. The low-level API, however, provides one feature not available in java.net: asynchronous URLFetch. The low-level URLFetch API So what does the low-level API look like? The full Javadocs are here. So it’s a bit different than the standard java.net interface, where we’d get back a reader and iterate line by line on the response. Asynchronous vs. Using java.net has the advantage of portability – you could build a standard fetcher that will work in any JVM environment, even those outside of App Engine. Let’s pretend you, like me at home, are on DSL and have a pretty pathetic downstream speed, and decide to check out a link sharing site like Digg.
Synchronously Synchronously, you click link #1. N = number of links L = loading time per page R = reading time per page N * (L + R) Asynchronously From the Javadocs: Trygve Reenskaug - DCI: Re-thinking the foundations of object orientation and of programming. Steve Case: Entrepreneurs Must Focus on Passion: Tech News and Analysis « Steve Case is a busy man. In the past six months, Case, who is perhaps best known for co-founding AOL, has taken on the role of chairman of the Startup America Partnership as well as a spot on the board of President Obama’s new Council on Jobs and Competitiveness.
Meanwhile, he still works as CEO of investment firm Revolution LLC and chairs his own Case Foundation non-profit. I sat down with Case on Friday at the TiE Silicon Valley conference to get a few more specifics on his newest roles. A short video clip from our talk is embedded below. Startup America is generally focused on “celebrating and accelerating” entrepreneurs across all sectors and geographic regions of the U.S. by providing tools to help them grow, Case told me. Meanwhile, with the Council on Jobs and Competitiveness, he advocates for specific governmental policies that would make it easier for people to start and build companies.
VirtualBox 3.2 Beta - New Features and Re-Branding | Architects. We Recommend These Resources Sun's open source desktop virtualization application for x86 hardware, VirtualBox, is getting an extreme makeover under Oracle. With some slight re-branding and some experimental new features, Oracle released the first beta for VirtualBox 3.2.
Today, "Oracle VirtualBox" (can I call it OVB now?) Is available for download (on Windows, Mac, Linux, and Solaris) and ready for feedback. All references to VirtualBox have been changed to 'Oracle VirtualBox' by Oracle with no impact to compatibility they say. OVB 3.2 also has new CPU hot-plugging features. The beta includes new hypervisor features as well.