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Sunday, September 30, 2012

ajax-performance-testing

ajax-performance-testing: "
dynaTrace AJAX Edition 3 makes building lightning fast Web 2.0 applications easy. Speed your page load times, optimize rendering, tune DOM execution, and compare to competition. Even integrate with Selenium, Watir or QTP to begin automating your performance tests. It's free, it's easy and it's now for both IE and Firefox."

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javascript - UI performance monitoring tools - Stack Overflow

javascript - UI performance monitoring tools - Stack Overflow: "I am looking for a tool that lets you monitor/log page rendering time on client machines. I am not looking for firebug/yslow because i want to know the following type of things:

How does fast do my pages load when the user is in russia?
How long does it take for javascript to run on some pages for everyone who accesses those pages?
So, i actually care what my site feels like to the people who use it. Do there exist tools that already do this?

I should add that my website is a software as a service website, not accessible publicly."

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Channel API Javascript Reference (Python) - Google App Engine — Google Developers

Channel API Javascript Reference (Python) - Google App Engine — Google Developers: "Channel API Javascript Reference (Python)
Use the following reference when building JavaScript clients for the channel API.

Building your JavaScript Client

Include the following in your html page before any JavaScript code that refers to it:

All other JavaScript code must be between the tags of the page. For best performance, place your JavaScript code at the bottom of your HTML markup just before the ."

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Channel API Javascript Reference (Python) - Google App Engine — Google Developers

Barn Owl

Barn Owl: "ADULT MALE Has orange-buff upperparts that are speckled with tiny black and white dots. Underparts are whitish overall, but adorned with numerous black spots. White facial disc is heart shaped and bill is yellowish. In flight, underwings are pure white. ADULT FEMALE Similar, but underparts (including underwings) are variably flushed with orange-buff. JUVENILE Similar to adult.
"

The Music of Nature | One Earth, Many Voices

The Music of Nature | One Earth, Many Voices: "The Music of Nature celebrates the "music" that we hear in our natural surroundings ... the songs and calls of our native birds, frogs, insects and mammals, as well as earth sounds such as babbling brooks, wind and waves.
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Thursday, September 27, 2012

Questions I ask when reviewing a design - (37signals)

Questions I ask when reviewing a design - (37signals): "What does it say?
What does it mean?
Is what it says and what it means the same thing?
Do we want that?
Why do we need to say that here?
If you stopped reading here, what’s the message?
What’s the take away after 8 seconds?
How does this make you feel?
What’s down below?
How else can we say this?
What’s memorable about this?"

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javascript - The "unexpected ++" error in jslint - Stack Overflow

javascript - The "unexpected ++" error in jslint - Stack Overflow: "or just do i += 1"

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javascript - JSLint's issue with 'window' as a global variable - Stack Overflow

javascript - JSLint's issue with 'window' as a global variable - Stack Overflow: "Just make a comment in your script like that:

/*global window */

... your script goes here

This comment will tell JSLint that window is defined somewhere else."

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Cloudant Labs: On Google Spanner | Cloudant

Cloudant Labs: On Google Spanner | Cloudant: "This past weekend Google released the latest in their seminal research publications -- Spanner. First introduced quietly nearly three years ago, Spanner is fully described, from motivation, to execution through operational performance data. The Spanner paper is technically revolutionary for a few reasons (described below), but most importantly it is continued proof that Google is a clear leader in distributed big data systems. In contrast to the original canon (GFS, MapReduce, Bigtable) and more recent replacements (Collosus, Percolator, Pregel, Dremel), I don't predict a Spanner clone will land as an Apache incubator anytime soon. The primary reason is that Spanner's largest design innovation leverages special hardware. Specifically one must install a coordinate network of GPS and atomic clocks in each participating datacenter."

How to Choose Colours Procedurally (Algorithms) » devmag.org.za

How to Choose Colours Procedurally (Algorithms) » devmag.org.za: "In each row, the hue differs by 5%. Notice that certain colours cannot be distinguished. Also notice that it is different depending on the brightness. Lighter blues is more distinguishable than darker blues, while darker magentas are more distinguishable than lighter ones.

This fact becomes important when you try to select colours that look “equally” far apart; in general, it cannot be done without using a perception-based colour space (such as LAB colours), or making appropriate adjustments in other colour spaces."

Nate Silver’s ‘The Signal and the Noise’

Nate Silver’s ‘The Signal and the Noise’: "In fact, the bug was anything but unfortunate for Deep Blue: it was likely what allowed the computer to beat Kasparov. In the popular recounting of Kasparov’s match against Deep Blue, it was the second game in which his problems originated—when he had made the almost unprecedented error of forfeiting a position that he could probably have drawn. But what had inspired Kasparov to commit this mistake? His anxiety over Deep Blue’s forty-fourth move in the first game—the move in which the computer had moved its rook for no apparent purpose. Kasparov had concluded that the counterintuitive play must be a sign of superior intelligence. He had never considered that it was simply a bug."

Very very interesting.

Wednesday, September 26, 2012

corbanbrook/dsp.js

corbanbrook/dsp.js: "
DSP.js is a comprehensive digital signal processing library for javascript.
It includes many functions for signal analysis and generation, including
Oscillators(sine, saw, square, triangle), Window functions (Hann, Hamming, etc),
Envelopes(ADSR), IIR Filters(lowpass, highpass, bandpass, notch), FFT and DFT
transforms, Delays, Reverb.
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SSD upgrade on new macbook pro?: Apple Support Communities

SSD upgrade on new macbook pro?: Apple Support Communities: "When I installed my SSD (Crucial m4 512GB which I highly recommend) I used Lion DiskMaker to create a bootable USB flash drive. You just need to make sure that you download "Install Mac OS X Lion.app" from the App Store (which should be free with a new MBP). Just follow the simple instructions. Then boot from the Lion Install USB drive, reformat your SSD and install your Time Machine back-up (others differ on back-up methods - I just started using Time Machine when I upgraded to SL, but I love it)."

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Crucial M4 SSD 512GB 2.5IN Solid State Disk Flash Drive SATA3 6Gbps

Crucial M4 SSD 512GB 2.5IN Solid State Disk Flash Drive SATA3 6Gbps:

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RAMM124 - Calyx & TeeBee - Pure Gold ft Kemo / Perspectives by RAM Records on SoundCloud - Create, record and share your sounds for free

RAMM124 - Calyx & TeeBee - Pure Gold ft Kemo / Perspectives by RAM Records on SoundCloud - Create, record and share your sounds for free: "The first two singles taken from Calyx & TeeBee’s forthcoming album ‘All Or Nothing’ have been heavily supported by tastemakers across the board. Lining up to drop them are Radio 1 DJs Zane Lowe and Annie Mac, UK #1 artists DJ Fresh and Rudimental, Example’s touring partner DJ Wire and scene stalwarts TC and Matrix & Futurebound, to name but a few. And now the duo is ready to unleash the third single from ‘All Or Nothing’, an incredible slice of D&B funk featuring the vocal talents of Kemo."

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