10 UI Design Patterns You Should Be Paying Attention To | How-To | Smashing Magazine
In short, design patterns are solutions to recurring problems. By extension, UI design patterns are solutions to common user interface problems. This article goes over 10 interesting UI design patterns that you can use in your own projects. In fact, you [...]
mobile video portrait of the artist
My good friend and collaborator Rosa Ruey has a new work on display as part of the show Living & Dreaming at the Bronx Museum.
Rosa’s new work, “Chrono-Particle Processor”, is both visually mesmerizing and strangely functional. You see, it is actually a distributed time machine meant for the general good [...]
Firefox 3.5: video demo, SVG, CSS 3 and HTML5 – blog.mozbox.org
(tags: html svg html5 video ogg)
Fed contractor, cell phone maker sold spy system to Iran – Washington Times
Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN), a joint venture between the Finnish cell-phone giant Nokia and German powerhouse Siemens, delivered what is known as a monitoring center to Irantelecom, Iran's [...]
Open Emu
Open Emu is an open source project to bring game emulation to OS X as a first class citizen, leveraging modern OS X technologies such as Cocoa, Core Animation and Quartz, and 3rd party libraries like Sparkle for auto-updating. Open Emu is based on a modular architecture, allowing for game-engine plugins, this means Open [...]
Last Friday, the NY Senate CIO hosted the first ever Capitol Camp in Albany.
Along with Remy DeCausemaker, I led a session on “Open Data for Developers”, discussing the Why?/What?/How?’s of releasing government data in open formats with open tools. Remy demonstrated the scrubbers and scrapers that his organization Civx.us has developed.
Here’s the video…
You can view [...]
DataNucleus Access Platform – DBCP Connection Pooling
When you create a PersistenceManagerFactory / EntityManagerFactory you define the connection URL, driver name, and the username/password to use. This works perfectly well but does not "pool" the connections so that they are efficiently opened/closed when needed to utilise datastore resources in an optimum way. DataNucleus allows you to [...]
api.dc.gov
New! We are glad to introduce DC Government Open APIs. Two APIs are currently available in "beta" mode: Service Requests/311 and Geocoding. Simple registration is required.
(tags: open-gov opengov sunlight api)
tesseract-ocr – Google Code
The Tesseract OCR engine was one of the top 3 engines in the 1995 UNLV Accuracy test. Between 1995 and 2006 it had little work done on it, but it is probably one of the most accurate open source OCR engines available. The source code will read a binary, grey or color [...]