11.30.09
oosah
not sure if I already blogged once. just think they deserved mentioning for disappearing quietly: Michael Duggan and Dan Khasis. Failure of a company is not that bad compared with disgraceful disappearance from the public eyes
11.11.09
DNA
“inside each nucleus is about two meters of DNA”
http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/labs/extraction/
04.17.09
difference between ClassLoader.loadClass and Class.forName
http://blog.bjhargrave.com/2007/07/why-do-classforname-and.html
03.22.09
moron
An organization that treats its programmers as morons will soon have programmers that are willing and able to act like morons only.
Stroustrop, “The C++ Programming Language”. 1997.
suffer
It is only when people become aware of the inescapable reality of pain that they can begin to become fully human.
Karen Armstrong, “Buddha”. 2001.
03.10.09
can you pop up a dialog from non-EDT?
the answer seems not as simple as I wish
https://aptframework.dev.java.net/edt/edtOptionPane.html
03.03.09
Protolize
another page I bookmarked and now gone
Protolize
Web Tools Last Updated: May 03, 2006
General
Tools
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Nifty online tool for setting your browser size while doing Web design
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Very handy cheat sheet for different languages.
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Generates color theme to use for a website.
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HTML to PDF converter
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Create a favicon for you website.
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Publish and manage your feeds.
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Feed icons available for download
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Firefox extension for debugging code.
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Free Icons for your website or application.
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Lipsum(dummy text) generator.
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Download and upload free web designs.
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Over 700 free icons
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Free stock photography.
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Interactive visual font search system.
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Handy tool to compare fonts for the screen.
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Extension
that adds a menu and a toolbar to the browser with various web
developer tools. (firefox, flock, Mozilla, and Seamonkey)
Resources
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All you need to know about .haccess.
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One of the best resource for people who make websites.
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Design elements, trends, and problems in web design.
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Resource for combating incompatibility between browsers.
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Best resources for developers.
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Another famous website for good resources.
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Resource for web designers, developers and entrepreneurs.
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Complete guide to web design.
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The elements of typographic style applied to the Web.
CMS
Tools
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Another popular CMS.
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CMS with many functionalities
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New Ajax CMS that allows easy customization.
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Popular blogging software.
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WordPress Plugin Repository.
CSS
Tools
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40 CSS layouts ready for download.
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Create slash, strip, dot, gradation type background with few button clicks.
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Creating a star rater using CSS.
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Layout generator.
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Optimize your style sheet online.
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Cross browser multi-page photo gallery.
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Showcase of CSS design for tabular data.
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Creates rounded corners without images.
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Printing CSS background images
Solution for printing CSS background images.
Inspirations
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CSS design showcase.
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Simple and straigh to the point gallery.
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The CSS Gallery.
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Screen shots of beautifully done websites.
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CSS gallery.
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CSS gallery.
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Showcase websites created with CSS.
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Good place to get inspired and learn other people’s skills.
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Another nice CSS gallery.
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CSS gallery and website design inspiration.
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Web design inspiration.
Books
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Latest CSS tips, tricks, techniques.
Javascript
Tools
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Javascript library that uses CSS selectors to apply javascript behaviors.
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Allows you to add reflections to images using javascript.
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Another approach to simplify our way of writing Javascript.
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Superlightweight, javascript effects library.
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Javascript framework that aims to ease our javascript development practices.
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Provides easy to use javascript libraries to make cool effects.
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Display text with flash
Ajax
Tools
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Downloadable Ajax galleries, slideshows and effects.
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Ajax loading gif generator.
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Pop up window using idea of light box.
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Another flavor of the popular Light Box.
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Script used to overlay images on the current page.
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Lightbox that can load html and images.
Resources
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Easy to understand and straight to the point lessons.
Books
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Good book to learn Ajax.
PHP
Tools
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Provides many useful development tools.
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Php extension and application repository.
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Provides code examples, tutorials and scripts.
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Php, Mysql, Apache Package for Mac
Php, Mysql, and Apache Package for mac.
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Php, Mysql, Apache Package for PC
Easy to install Apache distribution containing MySQL, PHP and Perl.
Books
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PHP and MySQL for Dynamic Web Sites
Book with nice and easy to follow tutorials.
Flash
Tools
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Open source flash remoting gateway that enables sending data between the server and the client seemlessly.
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Have sounds, snippets, fonts, etc.
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Drawing ulitlity that enables you to draw dashes, circles, stars, just about any shape with ease.
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Event sequencing kit created by Moses.
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Another tween engine created by Zeh. This one has some cool flash 8 filter methods.
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Motion guide class that you can use to dynamically generate movement path.
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Library of many useful prototypes for flash.
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Simple xml parser for anyone who is new to xml.
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Awesome xml parsing class that enables you to do far more than using default flash parser.
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Probably the most famous tween engine there is.
Inspirations
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Showcase best of the best.
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Compact yet does the job.
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Features many beautifully done websites.
Books
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Good book to learn handy flash techniques.
Introducing Protolize
Finding The Juice
Everyone has their own resources and tools they use in their daily
life as a web designer + developer. I too as a web designer, have found
many resources and useful tools that I find really essential when it
comes to creating a website. And we all try to find the most useful,
easy to use, and overall more efficient tools that we can use in our
projects. So I’ve decided to create this small place where we can all
share the resources and the most juicy tools out there that we can use
to raise our productivity.
Share Your Tools
You are always welcome to share your tools. If you find any ones
that should be on the list but are not on this list yet, just email me
and let me know so I can include them on the list.
By knowing what tools are available and which ones are the best we
can all be productive designers and developers. Let’s help each other.
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01.11.09
failed services
Among the online (storage) services I recently (how recent is recently?) used, two quietly disappeared. Omnidrive and photodrop.com. They’re just gone without a noise. Omnidrive seems worse than a business failure – it turned to be a disastrous personal failure, at least a personal reputation failure.
Surprisingly, another seemingly weak service, openomy, is still up and running after at least three years. Great job, openomy!
12.25.08
abstract
abstract is a concept or relationship that applies to more than one specific type of subjects.
for example, 1+1=2 is an abtract. It applies to 1 apple+1 apple = 2 apples the same way it applies to 1 car+1 care = 2 cars. Abstract then can be at different levels, though. For example, algebra is a higher level abstract compared with arithmatics. In a+a=2a, a can be 1, 2, or -1, etc. I believe that human’s intelligence must be limited to certain level of abstract. Beyond that, the abtract still exist, but we as human won’t see it. those things take so-called ‘faith’ to apprehend.
12.01.08
what is ‘learning’?
obtaining functionality from experience instead borned with or pre-programmed. this applies to human, animals, machines – or as a matter of fact, any ‘things’, say, plants. though this question is oftened asked in the context of machine learning