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realStorage is meant to create a consistent API for the W3C Web Storage key/value store specification (i.e. work around browser bugs). It also adds some convenience functions to help flesh out the localStorage key/value API. And when Web Storage is not available, a Gears fallback is provided.

There are 200 clones now ,and the number is increasing

realStorage 2.0 is now officially released. For those that don't know, realStorage is a compatibility library that handles browser incompatibilities for the W3C Web Storage API as of August.

Apolis Activism is an independent contemporary brand that began with dreams and thread. Three brothers — Raan, Shea, and Stenn Parton — created a unique bridge between commerce and sustainable development. Through their travels they discovered stories of struggle and survival from visionaries and activists for change. These experiences shaped their perspective, resulting in a union of ideal and action. They anchored this vision in the word Apolis, which translates as a “global citizen” — where there are no flags and no borders, humanity is our common cause and greatest priority.

We just finished DAY 1 and DAY 2 of shooting for the Nufonia live action series…

i am a big fan of Ozu. link.

we can learn a lot from his films. a quick list:

1. life and people are impermanent.

2. slow down.

3. look people in the eye.

4. drink tea.

5. be kind.

6. simple things hold the secret.

Recently I’ve been doing some ‘gardening’. You can see this clearly from these images on NearMap…. What’s really special about NearMap apart from the fact they are updating imagery more often than I am at home is that they have integrated OSM into their viewer and you can use their data to update OSM:

. Imagine a society based on slow farming trees for housing structure instead of the industrial manufacture of felled timber.

Le passage à l’électron rend la machine opaque. Seul le technicien y aura désormais accès. Et les philosophes qui se hasarderont à en invoquer les principes se feront taper sur les doigts.

Designed by Jeff Atwood and Joel Spolsky, Stack Overflow has rapidly become the best place for programmers to get answers to technical questions. Now there's a way to get the same kind of site for your audience.

Square Polygon is a Question and Answer site built for the 3d community. Ask a question or put a solution to a problem someone has, or just browse around for a topic that may interest you.

This is a simple, HTML-based list of the design patterns

transform the DocBook in MarkLogic Server with XSLT

The November issue of Metropolis magazine is on newsstands and I can't think of a better way to ring in the holiday season than with a quote from the piece I wrote on the Deform Courtyard by Thom Faulders. Here's what Thom's client had to say:

Prototyping is a great way to communicate the intent of a design both clearly and effectively. Prototypes help you to flesh out design ideas, test assumptions, and gather real-time feedback from users.

Markdoc is “a lightweight Markdown-based wiki system.”

Google Image Swirl organizes image search results based on their visual and semantic similarities and presents them in an intuitive exploratory interface.

there are in general two sorts of projects:

1. Strategic: Key to business success, and as such important.

2. Infrastructure: Necessary to do, but not seen as particularly vital for business success.

NOAA today released the World Ocean Database 2009, the largest, most comprehensive collection of scientific information about the oceans with records dating as far back as 1800. This product is part of the climate services provided by NOAA.

This imaginative and insightful approach got me thinking about a related problem I’ve been keen to address for some time: data entry. How can we use paper as a more effective channel for information flow during and after humanitarian emergencies?

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I had written something these lines a few years ago… Sorry it is in French.

http://www.la-grange.net/2006/04/14 - Un commentaire de trop

But somehow it is a distributed architecture around comments and blogs. If we really think about it a comment, a blog post, and a tweet have the same features usually.

an author, a url (or url-fragment), a text, a date.

blog posts have usually in addition a title and sometimes categories.

t work we have to manage a ton of Django based sites. Just for our World Company sites, we have over 50 different settings files, and this doesn't take into account the sites that we host for other clients. At this size it becomes basically impossible to test each site in a browser when you push things to production. To solve this problem I have written a very basic server description tool. This allows you to describe sites (settings file, python path, url, etc.) and servers.

The DB layer should return objects that are easy to cache and easy to invalidate. The built-in Django database classes (combined with memcache) should work fine for us here.