links for 2008-01-02
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In a recent article in the New Yorker, Atul Gawande describes how Dr. Peter Pronovost is decreasing infection rates in hospital intensive care units around the world with a decidedly low-tech device: the checklist. Dr. Pronovost identified those procedure
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The name J.B. Rainsberger is a familiar one for those who frequent Extreme Programming community sites. As the author of JUnit Recipes: Practical Methods for Programmer Testing , he’s frequently found helping teams improve their technical skills. But it’s
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The HTTP protocol is the basis of the web, and provides many powerful capabilities for building Comet communication. In particular, HTTP is built on the principals of Representational State Transfer (REST). The REST concepts that underlie HTTP facilitate
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Representational State Transfer (REST) is a style of software architecture for distributed hypermedia systems such as the World Wide Web. The terms “Representational State Transfer” and “REST” were introduced in 2000 in the doctoral dissertation o
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submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree of
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Easy to customize speech bubbles coded in CSS and valid XHTML 1.0 strict.
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I’ve seen a few instances and explanations of these that go to lengths as extensive as generating images on the fly. That’s totally overkill for what 3 little DIV tags and a couple of CSS classes can accomplish. You also gain the fact that your date infor
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Jeffery Zeldman proclaims that tag clouds are the new mullets. However, as I’m sure you’re aware some people just can’t resist the mullet.
I actually find my tag cloud quite handy because it lists all my tags on one page, and I can see what topics I po
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jsProgressBarHandler is a Javascript based Percentage Bar / Progress Bar, inspired upon JS-code by WebAppers and CSS-code by Bare Naked App. Next to a structural rewrite of the WebAppers code, this javascript progress bar can easily be extended and tweake
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“Flags” are 247 icons — in GIF and PNG formats — representing most countries in the world as small pixel icons. These flag icons are available for free use for any purpose with no requirement for attribution.
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BigDecimal
A Java class that provides a decimal, floating-point arithmetic, which gives the same results as the arithmetic learned at school.Date Posted: November 20, 1998
Overview
1. What
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While many web technologies are getting much cheaper (if not completely free) some services are becoming much more expensive and time consuming. Sending emails is a perfect example.
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A brilliant student, Jonathan sailed through grade school. He completed his assignments easily and routinely earned As. Jonathan puzzled over why some of his classmates struggled, and his parents told him he had a special gift. In the seventh grade, howev
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MyGWT is an open source Java library for the Google Web Toolkit. The library helps developers easily create compelling desktop like AJAX web applications. No messing around with HTML, CSS, or images, all MyGWT widgets look great out the box. MyGWT is 100%
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Have an analytical mind? Like to cook? This is the site to read!
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This plugin is used to compile applications in the Adobe Flex 2.0 system.
The plugin currently supports .swf and .swc compilation (but not RSLs) and .swc dependencies between projects.
The plugin can work with the free flex2 SDK, or with the FlexBui
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Ever needed custom formatted sample / test data, like, bad? Well, that’s the idea of the Data Generator. It’s a free, open source script written in JavaScript, PHP and MySQL that lets you quickly generate large volumes of custom data in a variety of forma
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If you are into tweaking your WordPress Theme or designing one from scratch, here are some HTML/XHTML and CSS Cheat Sheets you might want to add to your resources.
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The Google Chart API lets you dynamically generate charts. To see the Chart API in action, open up a browser window and copy the following URL into it: