As many of you will be aware, a large number of emails from the University of East Anglia webmail server were hacked recently (Despite some confusion generated by Anthony Watts, this has absolutely nothing to do with the Hadley Centre which is a completely separate institution). As people are also no doubt aware the breaking into of computers and ...

During Blackbaud's 2009 Conference for Nonprofits, Melanie Mathos and I lead a two-part social media workshop. Part I of this pairing was a new session we developed called 50 Social Media Tactics Nonprofits Use to Meet Their Mission. It was a real blast delivering this content, and people seemed to react well to it.

What happens when you create a Control? When do overrides get called and events get raised? When do styles get applied? In response to this thread on silverlight.net, I've whipped this simple table up. There are some subtle differences between instantiating a control in XAML, and instantiating it via code that I've called out, but most of the ...

Once your medicines regulator decides it should change the side-effect warnings contained in the patient information of a drug taken by millions of people, how long do you think it would take for that change to be implemented?

Last week we asked you to tell us about the best keyboard you've ever used, and the testimonials came pouring in. Today we've compiled the most popular keyboards into a handy list for your perusal. Consider yourself warned: reading the list may lead to you staring balefully at your generic OEM keyboard and wishing you had a keyboard worth waxing ...

It's true that a signal can come at any time in the day, I usually start looking for signals after 6pm ET. The best signals, however, usually come after midnight so if you just want to be safe then you can start looking then. In addition, my charting software allows me to set alerts which are sent to my phone. I find out my main trend using the ...

Decimos algo a alguien y al día siguiente poco menos que aparece publicado en el tablón de anuncios de la empresa. ¿Cómo podemos gestionar la confianza? ¿Debemos darla a todos por igual? ¿Cómo evitar los abusos?

In einem Topf wird Wasser erhitzt und Rindfleisch mit Knochen (am besten Ochsenschwanz) hineingegeben. Von einer Zwiebel werden zwei bis drei dicke Ringe abgeschnitten und bei einem E-Herd direkt auf der Platte, bei einem Gasherd in der Flamme kurz angeröstet bis sie leicht schwarz sind. Das gleiche wird mit Ingwerscheiben wiederholt und alles ...

After reading a recent post by Steve Souders concerning a free tool called dynaTrace Ajax, I was intrigued. It claimed to provide full tracing analysis of Internet Explorer 6-8 (including JavaScript, rendering, and network traffic). Giving it a try I was very impressed. I tested against a few web sites but got the most interesting results running ...

The human capacity for self-delusion never ceases to amaze me, so it shouldn't surprise me that so many Republicans seem to genuinely believe that they are the party of fiscal responsibility. Perhaps at one time they were, but those days are long gone.

Yesterday we asked what the best mouse you've ever pointed and clicked with is, and hundreds of testimonials later, we're here to report back. From high DPI gaming mice to ergonomic RSI-killers to graphics tablets to portable mice perfect for laptop use, we had a ton of power users extolling the virtues of their chosen input devices. We've ...

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London-based design studio (and previous CR One To Watch) Accept & Proceed has created a new mark for Nike Football Training... The new mark, known as the Nike HyperCube, will be applied to all football training-related products and materials from now on. While the mark will mostly appear printed on product in just two dimensions, it was ...

La vaccination contre la grippe H1N1 a, jeudi 12 novembre, commencé à être proposée à six millions de personnes. Le même jour le ministère de la Santé a annoncé la survenue d'un syndrome de Guillain-Barré, une maladie neurologique assez rare, chez un membre du personnel soignant qui venait de se faire vacciner. Aucun lien de causalité ...

Perhaps in a sign of how the plague of social media has numbed us all to the value of legitimate human connections, the New Oxford American Dictionary has picked the verb "unfriend," or "to remove someone as a 'friend' on a social networking site such as Facebook," as its 2009 Word of the Year.

Even non-football fans probably heard about Bill Belichick's "blunder" of a call on Sunday night. Believe it or not, the call — and the firestorm that followed — has important lessons for innovation managers.

I really like the top navigation implemented on Vimeo.com. First time I saw it I wanted to recreate it. And this is exactly what I am going to do in this tutorial.

2009年11月19日時点の暫定版ではありますが、2009年をまとめたいと思います。このリストは12月某日まで随時追加されていきます！

それぞれプログラミングに対してまったく違ったアプローチをしているので、どれも非常に有益な勉強となるでしょう。

I recently needed to post an HTML form into a popup window instead of targeted to the current document or an existing window. The Javascript for doing this is very simple and in this post I show how to post the form into a popup window with regular Javascript and then with jQuery.

As humans we seem to have an innate desire for structure in our lives. Structure permeates through our societies; it’s found within our families, education systems, governments, etc. I suppose it’s no surprise then that we also seek to force structure upon the work that we, as software developers, do.

SAN FRANCISCO — When Wes Harper's high-definition cable service went on the fritz a few months ago, he hopped on Twitter and tried to reach Comcast's customer service reps.

The popular cross-platform file-syncing application Dropbox is a hit among Lifehacker readers, but it has one major drawback: It only syncs files placed inside the My Dropbox folder. Here's how to get around that limitation.

TEMPLATE_LOADERS = ( 'django.template.loaders.filesystem.load_template_source', 'django.template.loaders.app_directories.load_template_source', # 'django.template.loaders.eggs.load_template_source', )

I frequently get e-mail from people seeking book recommendations. Most messages are like the one Cody sent yesterday: “What is the first book that I should read that tells me how to invest?” These are easy to answer. In January, Bobby asked a broader question:

For the past few days, this has been bugging the Hell out of me and I finally decided today to knuckle down and figure out how the hell Python decorators-with-arguments work.

Now that Pubcon is over I’m going to let you in on a tool that helps me keep track of, organize, find, and use the information I get from conferences, trade shows, and seminars:  Evernote.

Windows 7 officially launches today, but we've been testing, tweaking, customizing, fixing, and writing about this OS for a year now. We present here a guide to everything we've learned about the OS, from first install to final settings change.

mbed is a next-generation 32-bit microcontroller platform. It’s a prototyping and teaching tool somewhat along the lines of Arduino. On steroids. With claws and fangs. Other contenders in this class include the MAKE Controller, STM32 Primer and Primer 2, Freescale Tower, and Microchip’s PIC32 Starter Kit. The mbed hardware has a number of ...

I know there's plenty of backing up/synchronizing software for Mac. I know Time Machine is awesome. But none of the software I tried was able to do it my way . Thus, as I have a Linux/FreeBSD background, I wanted to do it my way and the command line solution seamed to be a good one.

Google Chrome was announced yesterday. As a geek, the first thing I naturally wanted to do was install it. Since I don’t have an extra machine lying around, the easiest way to do so is to run it virtually on my existing machine. So I decided to make a quick screen cast on how to install Google Chrome OS in VirtualBox. (Credit for the idea ...

It was simply a case of the right bulbs going out at the wrong time. But passers-by couldn't be blamed for thinking a smirking prankster, or something much darker, was responsible when they looked up at the neon sign for Elmhurst Hospital in Queens, N.Y., which then displayed the ominous phrase "I'm hurt."

A los ojos de muchos periodistas, Twitter sigue siendo poco más que un “estúpido e innecesario flujo de palabras”, tal y como lo describe el semanario alemán Der Spiegel. La razón reside en que, cuando es aún principiante, cuesta encontrarle la utilidad. Pero sí, Twitter es una herramienta útil para periodistas.

Kayla Rosenblum sat upright and poised as she breezed through the shapes and numbers, a leopard-patterned finger puppet resting next to her for moral support.

No words are more typical of our moral culture than “inappropriate” and “unacceptable.” They seem bland, gentle even, yet they carry the full force of official power. When you hear them, you feel that you are being tied up with little pieces of soft string.

I discovered Ruby fairly recently, through the excellent Ruby on Rails framework1. Although I don’t consider myself a Ruby expert by any means, I read the PickAxe2, I’ve coded a few utilities for my personal use in Ruby and I’m currently developing with Rails during my free time.

The pinhead-sized studs form an intricate pattern on the handle of a dagger, but archeologists failed to realise their significance when they excavated the burial mound in Wiltshire - known as Bush Barrow- in 1808.

Continuing on our review of Leopard Server we turn to something not truly server specific, but one that will have a significant impact on your environments. Many of the tools you might have been using are now dead and gone, but you should get over that pretty quickly as their replacements have been greatly enhanced.

Ever wanted to learn Vim, but weren't sure how to start? No problem. We have you covered! This will be the first of a four-part (possibly longer) series covering how to use Vim and where to start using the world's best text editor.

The term 'Mock Objects' has become a popular one to describe special case objects that mimic real objects for testing. Most language environments now have frameworks that make it easy to create mock objects. What's often not realized, however, is that mock objects are but one form of special case test object, one that enables a different style of ...

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From various bat squeaks I’ve put together a view of what I think lies behind the surprising — and damaging — deficit squeamishness of the Obama administration. So here’s what I think they’re thinking — and why it’s wrong-headed. (Fairly wonkish stuff after the jump).

Since 2006, NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has been orbiting Mars, currently circling approximately 300 km (187 mi) above the Martian surface. On board the MRO is HiRISE, the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment camera, which has been photographing the planet for several years now at resolutions as fine as mere inches per pixel. ...

Today is the Seattle iPhone developer talk event. I’m headed for the ferry in a few minutes and figured I would give the WordPress iPhone app a try. I’ll update this post as I have time today.

Animated short film Live Music looks as slick as anything produced by Pixar or DreamWorks, but there’s one key difference between it and a product from the big studios: Many of the animators who contributed to Live Music have never done professional animation work before.

I’ve been using git for about 18 months now and thought I knew it pretty well. Then we had Scott Chacon from GitHub over to do some training at the company I’m contracting with and I learnt a ton in the first day.

Computerworld - iPhone owners charging Apple and AT&T with breaking antitrust laws asked a federal judge this week to force Apple to hand over the iPhone source code, court documents show.

In computer jargon, when your hard drive becomes overwhelmed with too much information it is said to be fragmented—or “fragged.” Today, the rapid and unsettling pace of change has left us all more than a little, well, fragged.

One danger of writing programs based on threads is the potential for deadlock--a problem that almost invariably shows up if you happen to write thread code that tries to acquire more than one mutex lock at once. For example:

Yet there is something exhilarating about watching web innovation finally explode at the Times, with its KICK ME sign and burden of authority. Elements like the Word Train appear at first glance quite un-Timesian, but at second, they provide a philosophical jolt—what is the Word Train, after all, but a variation on the classic “streeter,” that ...

Sure, click-through rates for general display ads on Facebook have been criticized for being rather unimpressive, but click-through rates for content on brand pages' walls are as high as 6.49%, according to estimates from Vitrue, a startup that helps marketers manage their social-media presences.

A major story is breaking in climate science, after hackers posted a 61 megabyte data file on a Russian server that appears to be confidential emails and climate data hacked from the UK Met Office Hadley Centre.

From today, the headlines of the BBC News website will become longer to make its stories easier to find on search engines. "We estimate that about 29% of BBC News website UK traffic comes from search engines.", says Steve Herrmann, editor of BBC News website.

A researcher collects data from an electronic device to monitor climate change. Photograph: Vo Trung Dung/Corbis Hundreds of private emails and documents allegedly exchanged between some of the world's leading climate scientists over the past 13 years have been stolen by hackers and leaked online, it emerged today.

While user experience is important on all types of websites, it is especially critical for ecommerce websites where visitors will be making purchases. A poor user experience will result in visitors having difficulty finding what they want, frustration during shopping, and many lost sales. In this post we will showcase the design of 35 e-commerce ...

In December of 1944, whilst behind enemy lines during the Rhineland Campaign, Private Kurt Vonnegut was captured by Wehrmacht troops and subsequently became a prisoner of war. A month later, Vonnegut and his fellow POWs reached a Dresden work camp where they were imprisoned in an underground slaughterhouse known by German soldiers as Schlachthof F�

Having a blog that’s snappy & responsive is just one of the many factors that makes a great blog. Even with the best content in the world, a slow blog will frustrate readers & potentially force them elsewhere. In this post we’ll focus on optimising Wordpress, a popular free open source blogging platform that runs on PHP.

Got a BT line? Want to make cheap calls over the Internet but don't want to buy separate phones, don't want to use a headset and don't want to have to leave your PC switched on? Want to use your normal household phones to make VOIP calls whilst still receiving incoming calls on your normal BT number?

Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan is charged with 13 counts of murder in the Fort Hood shootings. Was it a 'killing spree' or 'terrorism,' and is the question more than political?

Hamcrest? No, it isn't a fancy sandwich topping. Hamcrest is a framework for creating matchers, allowing matching rules to be defined declaratively (from Wikipedia). Hamcrest has been used by many popular unit testing frameworks including JUnit and FlexUnit 4. Hamcrest-AS3 is not itself a unit testing framework, but it provides extended ...

Computerworld - By the year 2020, you won't need a keyboard and mouse to control your computer, say Intel Corp. researchers. Instead, users will open documents and surf the Web using nothing more than their brain waves.

Any time there is a poll of the best cinematographers working today, the list will be half-full. By default of being a pop resource, any list of remarkable image-makers is usually missing out on the entire avant-garde film world.

Ben Huh is the first to admit his company could easily have wound up on FAIL Blog. For the uninitiated, that's his wildly popular website to which users submit photos and videos documenting such colossally stupid moves as writing a billboard partly in Braille and using a trash can as a bike helmet. Like the rest of the 20-odd websites Huh owns, ...

Are morning people born or made? In my case it was definitely made. In my early 20s, I rarely went to bed before midnight, and I’d almost always sleep in late. I usually didn’t start hitting my stride each day until late afternoon.

cover of Penguin Books’ (NZ) edition of The Frodo Franchise. The tiny subtitle reads: “How ‘The Lord of the Rings’ became a Hollywood blockbuster and put New Zealand on the map.”

When pitching to VC’s, entrepreneurs hype the heck out of their ideas, years of experience and management teams. But I’ve never heard of anyone touting their luck or connection to God. After reading the posts on TechCrunch, one could easily get the impression that God doesn’t play much of role in Silicon Valley. But ask any successful ...

Verizon Wireless has partnered with iSkoot to launch an application promising easy access to popular social properties including Facebook, MySpace and Twitter in one place. The free Social Beat app lets subscribers view and manage their social network accounts through live feeds and real-time notifications.

Cuando Irma Monreal más necesitó a su país, su país no sólo no fue capaz de ayudarla, sino que se le volvió en contra. Irma tenía una hija de 15 años llamada Esmeralda. El 29 de octubre de 2001, Esmeralda desapareció cuando regresaba a su casa en Ciudad Juárez. Su cuerpo fue encontrado junto al de otras mujeres jóvenes en un lugar ...

Ever since Peter Wayner introduced me to the idea of a translucent database I’ve been thinking about the implications of this powerful idea. In a nutshell, the data in a translucent database service is opaque to the operator of the service, and visible only to sets of users who establish trust relationships. My 2002 review of Peter’s ...

Microsoft's 2009 developer conference wrapped up yesterday in Los Angeles. Not since PDC 2003 has Microsoft talked so much and said so little. As I listened to the keynotes and have reviewed the sessions, words "series finale" repeatedly popped into my head -- like a TV show coming to its end after a long run. Good or bad for Microsoft, a ...

It's hard to justify a trip to the coffee shop in cold weather just to grab fancy-pants java or snacks. Take some time in your kitchen, though, and the bounty of your favorite caffeine dispensary can be had at home for cheap.

Blogs are not going to stop growing. The ease of use and the ability for anyone, anywhere in the world to become a published author is uncanny and will be a driving force for years to come.

Just in case you thought Tom Maly’s speculations about fabrication tech eradicating Fed Ex were a stretch too far, and that the technologies required are no where near ready… well, you might have a point. But even so, 3D technologies are developing rapidly and cheaply, as demonstrated by some people from Cambridge University who’ ...

Istanbul, with its many signs of the time when it was the center of the world, becomes something of a museum in the work of Orhan Pamuk, a writer clearly in love with memory itself, and his hometown, and everything that's been lost there. In his 2003 memoir, Istanbul, the five-story Pamuk Apartments in which he spent nearly all his first five ...

At Hashrocket we use git both internally and in our Agile mentoring and training. Git gives us the flexibility to design a version control workflow that meets the needs of either a fully Agile team or a team that is transitioning towards an Agile process.

Aproveitando a onda do post “Cursos Grátis: 100 cursos na área de tecnologia” vai mais uma dica de cursos gratuítos, agora da FGV, o FGV online.

Wie genau geht so etwas? Das hätte ich vor 6 Jahren zu gerne gewusst. Solche Informationen lassen sich im Internet nur schwer finden, wenn überhaupt. Dennoch lechzen viele –- gerade neue Mitbewerber –- verständlicherweise nach dieser Information. Noch höher auf der Lechzskala ist wahrscheinlich nur noch die Diskussion um Preise. ...

With excess cash in short supply these days, no one wants to feel like a gift given is unappreciated. Ensure the people on your gift-giving list enjoy themselves by giving an experience instead of stuff.

In this article, we are creating a checklist of all the basic but essential tasks which should be done and tested before launching any new website. 1. Loading time. It should be optimal. Check everything from video, flash, image to html, css, javascript.

The biggest news story of the day is one that has barely begun to break and will continue to reverberate for months or years to come. Someone hacked into a computer at the University of East Anglia's Hadley Climatic Research Centre, one of the main centers of anthropogenic global warming research. The hacker downloaded 62 megabytes of data from ...

Updated at 8:39 a.m.: The UC Regents have started to meet, and hundreds of students have surrounded the building, protesting the proposed fee hike.] Students who spent the night were sprawled outside Campbell Hall in sleeping bags. They carried posters and signs that read, “Don’t take our education away” and “Don’t privatize, ...

It was 4 p.m. on a recent Friday—a time of the week when I usually relax and leave the rest of my to-do list to finish over the weekend. But as this recent weekend approached, I kept pushing myself, heart pumping, to get to the bottom of my list of planned tasks for the week.

In this post you will find 10 Awesome CSS Frameworks to create CSS layouts. I don’t want to enter into the debate about the use of these frameworks. If you don’t like CSS frameworks, please, just tell us why? If you think CSS frameworks are not bad, please, just tell us which is your favorite and why?

Many people buy a car (probably their single biggest discretionary purchase) based on slamming a door, kicking a tire and judging the handshake of a salesperson.

It's been a strange year on the Web. In the 12 months since our last installment of Top 100 Web Sites, I'm betting you signed up for a Twitter account (and likely abandoned it), browsed the Web on a mobile phone (if you haven't yet, you soon will), and read 3.4 online news stories about Michael Jackson and watched 5.8 MJ videos on YouTube (I like ...

LONDON – Computer hackers have broken into a server at a well-respected climate change research center in Britain and posted hundreds of private e-mails and documents online — stoking debate over whether some scientists have overstated the case for man-made climate change.

Despite some security-conscious enterprise experts pointing accusatory fingers at the rather bleak encryption story and only-recently fixed ActiveSync policy compliance on the iPhone platform, there's no doubt that IT and network professionals are grooving on the iPhone -- there are many apps designed for administrators to take control of their ...

Web application Shape Collage quickly turns your online photos into embeddable photo collages with nothing more than a few clicks. It's a interesting way to showcase your pictures online without a lot of work.

I'm writing this as I'm eating dinner, which is not something I normally do. But I think this is one of those recipes that a lot of you are going to like, and I'm feeling the need to share it with you now rather than later. It came together as I was riffing off one of Lora Zarubin's recipes from I Am Almost Always Hungry - her Potatoes with ...

Having made Johnny Cash hip again, the producer Rick Rubin applied his less-is-more magic to the squarest crooner of the lot. The result? A set of the most gorgeous, understated, deliciously pained songs you will hear in any decade.

The absurd procedural chokepoints in the US Senate are what is really killing climate legislation. From Grist, part of the Guardian Environment Network

Sometimes you have to take a step down to step up. That’s what Google should’ve done with its open-source PC operating system Chrome OS, which the corporation demonstrated Thursday.

The public debut of Google Chrome OS today has the press abuzz over the potential of the new web-based operating system. And now that it’s open sourced, you have the chance to try it out for yourself. Unfortunately, most people aren’t ready to undertake the daunting task of actually taking Google’s recently open-sourced code and ...