Posts Tagged ‘ Web ’

Blogs that sort of make fun of others

I have recently been exposed to several different blogs which make fun of others. I am unsure as to what this genre signifies. Perhaps I shall ask a sociologist. In the meantime, here is my list so far. Additions are welcome and will get you a mention and a link. People of Walmart (classic) Dear [ READ MORE ]

Continuity Control presents at Finovate

Pleased to say that Continuity Control has gotten some rather positive feedback while presenting at this year’s Finovate! While not the only feedback, some of my favorites here: Tweets: one – two – three – four – five Photos: one – two Truly proud of be part of the team[ READ MORE ]

HTML5 has custom data attributes

So, I know that the Microformats project has has varying degrees of success in their endeavor to embed data in HTML such that it does not violate web standards.  As John Resig pointed out, others have used things like XML namespacing in XHTML to achieve similar goals. The most notable usages of this technique are [ READ MORE ]

Rails + Merb = Rails 3

I’m rather excited about this. Saw this talk right here. Oh, and then there’s this[ READ MORE ]

Neato article about NoSQL on Ars Technica

I am very excited by some of the NoSQL stuff out there and enjoyed a recent Ars Technica article. The first page is some neat background and the second page has a good overview of some NoSQL options out there. http://arstechnica.com/business/data-centers/2010/02/-since-the-rise-of.ars[ READ MORE ]

Cool Free/Open Source Software from Google

As has been spoken about endlessly (OStatic, OSnews), there is a great blog post from 0x1fff with many (started at 35, is now many more) open source projects from Google. In fact and indeed, there is some cool stuff on there. I knew about Caja and Protocol Buffers (wish there was a JS port of [ READ MORE ]

ES5 is finally here, JavaScript geeks rejoice!

So, earlier this week, it was announced that ECMAScript 5 has finally been released. This is a good thing and I caught the highlights on InfoQ. The full draft is a 252 page PDF  beast of a document which covers basically about everything there is to cover. The things which strike me as interesting are [ READ MORE ]

Messing with OpenStreetMap

Some people might not see the reason for a project like OpenStreetMap when there are plenty of good mapping products and services laying around. I am not one of them. Whenever I use a GPS, I think quite a bit about it’s inner workings. How does it figure out which route is best? How does [ READ MORE ]

Data visualization on a web page

Quickie: Two of my favorite ways to get data visualized on a web page are the Google Chart API and flot, the amazing canvas-based plotting library built on top of jQuery. The Google Chart API provides a rediculously clever way to get high-quality information graphics which are generated on the back of the clearly-amazing Google [ READ MORE ]

A good Debian package caching system

I’ve got several servers on my network and I’m ok with that. Honestly, I am. The problem I run in to is that I end up wasting bandwidth by keeping them all up to date. In the past, I’ve tried apt-proxy (not the only one who’s had problems) and, most recently, debtorrent but they inevitably [ READ MORE ]

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Jonathan E. Magen is a passionate developer who loves cooking and writing clean code. Star Trek is cool, too. Also, books. Many things are actually really great and Jonathan likes them as well.

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