- Assessing the value of cooperation in Wikipedia
- Visualizing the Overlap between the 100 Most Visited Pages on Wikipedia for September 2006 to January 2007
- What is Popular on Wikipedia and Why?
- Election bloggers: Methods for determining political influence
- Video, education, and open content: Notes toward a new research and action agenda
- Building an open access African studies repository Using Web 2.0 principles
- Open educational resources in a global context
- Open source athletes
- FM Interviews: Sandra Braman
- Change of State: Information, Policy, and Power
- Acting with Technology: Activity Theory and Interaction Design
Go have a read. Lot’s of high quality articles. And if you haven’t been to the First Monday site before, have a look around the archives.
How to clear CSS floats without extra markup
When using floats in CSS, without a doubt you have encountered the interesting effects it will have on the following content. Here I will show you different ways to clear floats without any extra mark-up.
Robert's Talk — This is such a pain. These three techniques look pretty good, but they do require special casing IE 5 and 6 — look, I have a better way to ‘special case’ IE.
Best of March 2007 | Smashing Magazine
Every month we take a look around and select some of the most interesting web-development-related web-sites. Below you’ll find useful references, tutorials, services, tools, techniques and articles we’ve found over the last 30 days - an overview of web-sites you shouldn’t have missed in March 2007.
Have a look — but set aside some time first.
Guidelines for creating better markup
I’ve mentioned several times here that I feel writing markup (or any other code, for that matter) is a craft. I take pride in writing as lean and clean code as possible. From the looks of things there aren’t a whole lot of other Web professionals that feel that way, but we do exist.
Roger Johansson on 456 Berea Street — And don’t forget to read the article Roger is talking about.
Part 2 now aims to show you how a few design elements can beautify your content.
fadtastic — I mentioned Part 1 a while ago.
25 Code Snippets for Web Designers (Part3)TutorialBlog — There’s a lot of interesting stuff linked to from this page. And there’s Part 1 & 2 as well.
Update to Programming Erlang (version B1.10)
As well as fixing a boatload of reported typos and implementing many of your great suggestions, this release adds five new chapters:
two chapters on OTP, the Erlang framework for building large-scale, fault-tolerant, distributed Erlang applications
a chapter on Mnesia, the Erlang database
a chapter on the new SMP features of Erlang, showing you how to get the best out of multicore processors
an appendix showing the implementation of a socket-based channel library
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What is the opposite of absolute zero?
There is a limit, sort of, but it’s so inconceivably large that nobody but high energy physicists talks about it (although as I think about it absolute zero doesn’t exactly qualify as breakfast table chatter either). The highest possible temperature, called the Planck temperature, is equal to 10^32 degrees Kelvin. For comparison, the center of the sun bubbles along at 15 million degrees K (15 x 10^6); silicon can be created by fusion at 1 billion K (10^9). In short, the Planck temperature is very toasty indeed.
The Straight Dope — 100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 If I counted correctly. Man, I can feel it from here!
Apple Statement: Financial News
we had to borrow some key software engineering and QA resources from our Mac OS X team, and as a result we will not be able to release Leopard at our Worldwide Developers Conference in early June as planned.
Apple Inc — That iPhone thingy had better be really really good.
“IMHO Seaside is the benchmark by which all web frameworks should be measured” — David Pollak
My thoughts exactly. It’s not about the language, it’s about the approach. Seaside is the right recipe for writing real applications, not just fancy websites. No other framework can do what Seaside does, as easily as Seaside does it. Real components with their own state, real objects, no pages, no templates, Ajax in pure Smalltalk by simply wiring events together on the server side, calls to other components are actual method calls rather than hacked up URL conventions.
Ramon Leon
I’m still amazed by how many people think they can grok Smalltalk by seeing syntax examples. Smalltalk isn’t its syntax, it’s its environment. Smalltalk is a living world of running objects, there are no files, no applications, just what’s running. To understand Smalltalk, you have to either actually use it for a while, or have a seasoned Smalltalker demonstrate it to you. Reading sample code just won’t cut it.
For better or for worse, Smalltalk is a world unto itself.
Ramon Leon on Smalltalk — This is worth reading, and read the comments while you’re there.
