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A quick [!] overview of Continuous Integration summarizing the technique and its current usage.

A CSS/HTML/JavaScript framework started as a personal project and then grew into something more. The idea behind it is to reduce the amount of time spent on setting up the basic master HTML template by reusing the same coding techniques.

A beautiful taster of the forthcoming Posthuman DVD.

Syn Emergence is a project which examines my own associative relationships between sound, form and space.

The project is constructed according to a range of specific sonic and spatial scale rule sets (micro, component, meso and macro) which I designed as part of a cross-disciplinary notation/cartographic system.

The processes of the film will be used for the forthcoming Posthuman (myself and Josh Doherty) album entitled ‘Syn Emergence’ released next Spring.

New tool from MSE; checks digital prices across a range of digital stores. Shame it doesn't query more independents, though.

A free, global Domain Name System (DNS) resolution service, that you can use as an alternative to your current DNS provider.

Zend Framework Coding Standard for PHP

Steven Poole: Working for the Man

“What would videogaming look like if it rejected the machine as a model for play, if more games incorporated gratuitous moments of relaxation from their constant, accelerated striving? Or if more games did not treat us as employees but as autonomous co-creators?”

What would videogaming look like if it rejected the machine as a model for play, if more games incorporated gratuitous moments of relaxation from their constant, accelerated striving? Or if more games did not treat us as employees but as autonomous co-creators?

Once HTML 5 becomes a viable option, how can we avoid having teams of web developers spending their time discussing which syntax to use instead of working on the project their clients pay for?

"Let's ruin E-ON's pathetic online attempt to rescue their ailing brand." Oops.

It’s extremely cool to see this pattern being evangelized for such a major piece of the Internet.

This is a list of old game releases. These games were priced at nearly $50 a year ago, now probably a lot less. Why buy a new game when there are plenty of fun games out there worth renting or buying for less?

A creative/eco converted warehouse factory space five minutes walk from both Liverpool Street and Old Street stations. With offices and studios, we offer creative and social businesses an affordable, friendly and relaxed environment to work and collaborate with like-minded people.

It’s not intended to be a fully designed template, but rather a foundation for a design.

Open Knowledge Foundation spoke with Robert about the history of the MusicBrainz project, about the role of community, about the way open licensing helps MusicBrainz work, and about the future he sees for music meta data.

Unofficial thesixtyone forum.

Every so often (Roughly every 1-2 months) the box searches it’s owners flickr account for photos that have been organized in some way and, picking one at random, prints the photo out internally using the small photo printer contained in the lid. You are free to search the box whenever you like but there may or may not be a photo waiting. If there is, there is no way of knowing what it will be.

A good/useful moan about Wordpress. Plus, Delta 9 is back. Yay!

"A PHP5 app that helps you follow several of Yahoo!'s Rules for High Performance Web Sites. It combines multiple CSS or Javascript files, removes unnecessary whitespace and comments, and serves them with gzip encoding and optimal client-side cache headers." Hubba, hubba.

"A general purpose script loader that aims to be able to effectively load any script resource(s), from any location, into any page, at any time. It loads them all as parallel as the browser will allow, but maintains execution order when you express the need to do so in the usage of the API, for keeping dependencies safe." Very pleased this has gone 1.0.

A method of data transfer which uses the FTP protocol to transfer data from one remote server to another (inter-server) without routing this data through the client's connection.

"Bring tech-heads into creative conversations early to color communication ideas with what's possible in web development." But don't call them tech-heads.

"Apple is not evil. iPhone developers are stupid. Their problems with the App Store approval process are entirely their own fault and they deserve no commiseration." Rather extreme viewpoint from PPK (with some merit, though).

Human conversation is the last area of communication to hold out against the relentless march of commercialisation and it’s our duty, as humans, to make sure it stays that way. So, screw consensus. And shame on me for starting to lean towards it yesterday. Give me ad-free conversation, or give me death.

The reason most often cited by technical staff for avoiding debt altogether is the challenge of communicating the existence of technical debt to business staff and the challenge of helping business staff remember the implications of the technical debt that has previously been incurred. Everyone agrees that it's a good idea to incur debt late in a release cycle, but business staff can sometimes resist accounting for the time needed to pay off the debt on the next release cycle. The main issue seems to be that, unlike financial debt, technical debt is much less visible, and so people have an easier time ignoring it.

James built bat boxes. Brilliant.

Bad title, interesting points. "I learned that introverts prefer to think before they speak, while extroverts tend to think /as/ they speak. I also learned what energizes introverts (solo activities) versus extroverts (social activities) [...] They seek out allies as trusted sounding boards and champions who can help spread the word about their quiet strengths."

Sometimes I put my log in information into the register fields.

Me too! I hate that not only do I feel stupid, I have to retype everything again.

Info on the new(ish) embeddable Fan Box for Facebook Pages.

Probably the best cover of Personal Jesus. Like, ever.

A "tiny .app [...] for taking Arduino sensor data and uploading to Pachube."

"We're working on the exact pricing model, but we'd charge for a day's paper, for a 24-hour sign-up to the Times. We'll also establish a subscription price as well." Good luck with that.

only the most well-made, free & open-source, @font-face ready fonts.

This makes me so happy. Bandcamp rock.

"This document aims to lay out the pros and cons of two popular web publishing platforms: The PHP-based Drupal content management system (CMS) and the Python-based Django framework." With a bit of Wordpress thrown in.

"A plugin for jQuery to help you display notices, dialogs, and modal windows in a web browser. It is flexible and tiny, akin to a "Swiss Army Knife", and makes a great base as a general purpose windowing framework."

I think that Piston hits a sweet spot for creating APIs. It has a lot of nice little features, and handles the general use case well. It is also abstract enough that it allows you to provide your own layer on top of it with ease.