links for 2008-04-14
April 14th, 2008
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The brain has a limited capacity for self-regulation, so exerting willpower in one area often leads to backsliding in others. The good news, however, is that practice increases willpower capacity, so that in the long run, buying less now may improve our a
links for 2008-04-13
April 13th, 2008
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This site is designed to be a resource for re-purposing on our own terms the BBC content that we, the licence payers have paid for.
links for 2008-04-09
April 9th, 2008
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RAD is a framework for programming the Arduino physcial computing platform using Ruby. RAD converts Ruby scripts written using a set of Rails-like conventions and helpers into C source code which can be compiled and run on the Arduino microcontroller.
links for 2008-04-04
April 4th, 2008
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Snippets is a public source code repository. Easily build up your personal collection of code snippets, categorize them with tags / keywords, and share them with the world
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Managers today juggle more responsibilities than ever and for many of them networking becomes an afterthought. Herminia Ibarra, INSEAD Professor of Organisational Behaviour says that’s a potentially fatal career mistake. “What you know is who you know
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Weird smart strange bizarre electronic technology resources
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roBlocks is a robot construction kit. By combining sensor, logic and actuator blocks, young kids can create simple reconfigurable robots that exhibit surprisingly complex behavior.
links for 2008-04-02
April 2nd, 2008
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“Discover fundamentals of computer programming by playing a board game! c-jump helps children to learn basics of programming languages, such as C, C++ and Java.”
links for 2008-03-31
March 31st, 2008
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Like that midterm physics test that you didn’t have time to study for, what you really want is a cheat sheet. So, here’s my cheat sheet to you for what to use for the set of values you’ll be asked for:
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Beanstalk is a hosted Subversion system, making it easy to setup, browse, and track Subversion. Beanstalk has built-in integration with your favorite tools such as Basecamp, FogBugz, Campfire and more.
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This presentation puts forward ‘movement’ as a metaphor for the Web, introduces the motivations flowchart design process, and demonstrates Snap, a way of syndicating interactions from websites to the desktop.
links for 2008-03-30
March 30th, 2008
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This article will cover how to install Rails on Debian and how to configure it to work with Apache and a relational database of your choice.
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Key to decoding US-style METAR reports, with notes on how they differ to ISO standards