Rather scarily detailed list of Ruby HTTP clients
Archive for January, 2012
31 January 2012
Part 1: basics on naming classes, variables, accessors, general methods and abbreviations.
Part 2: more detail on method names, global symbols, the id type, method parameters, etc
31 January 2012
just a simple guide for getting started with git. no deep shit ;)
31 January 2012
"Use heatmaps to see where people touch your application's interface. Find UI controls spacing and size problems. Discover desired and mostly used UI functionality and improve your application's interface design."
Yesterday, LA Fitness were on the receiving end of a concerted Twitter kicking as they acted like bean-counting idiots when dealing with a jobless, soon-to-be-homeless, heavily-pregnant and previously-loyal customer. Rightly so.
A bit of sense and compassion at the outset would have been a lot less expensive than the hit to their brand equity that resulted. And it all ended with a heavily-lawyered press release which reads like fingernails down a blackboard in its grudging repentance.
Today, Tom Watson’s intern has her Clare Swire moment when she posts an ill-advised tweet from his unattended laptop. That goes viral. Tom Watson responds with a post that summarises as “Yes, she was an idiot. We’ve all been idiots. She won’t do that again. Nothing else to see here. Move along.”
One was the end result of faceless cack-handed PR fuckwittery. The other was grown-ups behaving like grown-ups.
I still can’t quite figure out why supposedly professional public relations people automatically fall into faceless press release mode. Don’t they ever read their own words back themselves and think “do we really sound like that?
23 January 2012
"What's this all about?
Long story short: the Irish government plans, before the end of January, to bring in a law which would allow Irish courts to block access to websites accused of infringing copyright (and possibly do other things as well)."
23 January 2012
"You have likely heard about SOPA, PIPA, and maybe even OPEN—but how does this legislation apply to game developers, and why have these pieces of legislation created such dissention? This FAQ clarifies the details about these bills and how they affect game development."
23 January 2012
"I’ve got an idea for a new year’s resolution: Join the sketchnote revolution.
Sketchnotes are a visual form of note-taking that can include drawings, various lettering sizes and styles, color, icons, arrows, boxes and more — whatever works for you. I’d say that sketchnoting is officially a movement — maybe you’ve seen some from SXSWi or other conferences. And the best part? You don’t have to be a creative genius to do it. It’s called Sketchnoting, not Art School."
http://www.dachisgroup.com/2011/12/the-sketchnote-revolution/
23 January 2012
"A port of J Tarbell’s Substrate script to paper and pen
This project was made in about an hour (!) at Papercamp 2 with some card, a scalpel, and some red thread. It was an attempt to create a semi-faithful working representation of J Tarbell’s beautiful, famous, Substrate script — but one that would work with pen and paper instead of Processing."
23 January 2012
"I'm currently experimenting with waking up at 5am to work on personal projects before heading to work.
Someone one Hacker News once mentioned they do this, and it stuck in the back of my head ever since. I've been at this for two weeks thus far."
Nice idea, if a potentially a little anti-social for cohabitees....
