By Nat Torkington
February 7, 2012
Integrated Content Editor (GitHub) -- a track changes implementation, built in javascript, for anything that is contenteditable on the web, written by the NY Times team and open sourced. Data Tables -- featureful jQuery plugin for tables of data. (via Javascript Weekly) Creating a Developer Community (Slideshare) -- treat the problem like a channel conversion funnel: turn visitors into...
By Nat Torkington
January 16, 2012
Computational Science Stack Exchange -- q+a site for data-intensive computation-heavy science. (via Gael Varoquaux) An Open Letter to our Customers, Past and Future (Luma Labs) -- a reminder that poor patent examination hurts innovative startups working in physical goods, just as much as with digital goods. Javascript Performance (Steve Souders) -- JavaScript is typically the #1 place to look...
By @ndros
January 1, 2012
ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock'
here the weird part: I got xampp as the book recommended and it say all servers are go!
when i tried to type the line in 'mysql -u root -p', the machine told me to get the right packages.
so i did sudo apt-get blah blah blah
got the same result
so i checked the director...
By Nat Torkington
December 28, 2011
Terrier IR -- open source (Mozilla) text search engine, now with Hadoop support. s3ql -- open source (GPLv3) Linux filesystem which stores its data on Google Storage, Amazon S3, or OpenStack. (via Adam Shand) Esprima -- open source (BSD) fast Javascript parser in Javascript. (via Javascript Weekly) Hogan.js -- open source (Apache) Javascript templating engine from Twitter. If it...
By Nat Torkington
December 27, 2011
Write Logs for Machines -- argues that services should log in a format suitable for automated analysis, not for humans to read as has been the custom in the past. tmpltr -- Javascript template previewer, open source on github. Dspace Badge -- what my son and I are building this week, our first Arduino project. Prince of Persia C64...
By nuribruner
November 30, 2011
Hey, O'Reilly
I'm interested in building a OS completely cloud based and built with languages that even the worse computer could handle (Jjavascript HTML5 CSS), my goal would be to allow anyone to use it for free.
Heres what I'm thinking
Basically, you'd have a VERY simple suite of apps, maybe a game or two and some word processing or something, and every time you'...
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