If you are a software developer who likes knitting, you need to take a look at documenting your knitting patterns in XML.
(via Boing Boing)
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PDP-8 front panel No, I didn’t own a DEC PDP-8, but when I studied Engineering at university, this was the first computer I ever wrote a program for. The PDP-8 was one of the first mini-computers produced (from 1965 onwards); it had 4096 12-bit words of main memory. And with a list price of . . . → Read More: My first computer No, the title’s not mine. It comes from Don Reisinger, writing at CNET news.com. I get asked by friends occasionally what PC to buy or whether to upgrade their existing PC to Vista. I haven’t bought a Windows PC for over 5 years now and although we do have a old PC in . . . → Read More: Why Microsoft must abandon Vista to save itself This is very neat stuff – Shai Avidan and Dr Ariel Shamir have developed a method to shrink or stretch an image so that it fits in the space available. Particularly interesting is shrinking the image, which involves selectively removing parts of the image . . . → Read More: Retargeting images There’s a short article by Ken Fisher on Ars Technica about how AACS DRM (the way film studios protect high definition video recordings, e.g Blu-ray and HD DVD) involves adding a hugh amount of complexity to computer operating systems. Microsoft is already suffering from the problems involved, having released Vista; Apple will have similar . . . → Read More: AACS DRM – what it means to your operating system NeoOffice can now print at higher resolutions than 300 dpi. This makes a big difference if you want to print graphics, and if you want to print text documents which include fine lines (e.g. tables). Quoting from the release note: Due to some restrictions in NeoOffice’s underlying OpenOffice.org code, printing resolution has always been . . . → Read More: NeoOffice patch provides hi-res printing For years we have used remote control units that allow you to control more than one device in the TV/hi-fi rack, thus avoiding the need to have 4 or more controllers in the lounge. I probably don’t read the right magazines, because it was pure chance that we recently bought the Logitech . . . → Read More: Useful device BigString has implemented a useful service. If you regret hitting “send” after you’ve sent an e-mail, you can recall it, so long as it was sent with their e-mail service. That is something I have wished I could do a number of times over the years. At work, I can – so long as . . . → Read More: Self-destructing e-mail Brilliant – A guide to modern programming practices: Abject-oriented programming is a set of practices for encouraging code reuse and making sure programmers are producing code that can be used in production for a long time. The number of lines of code in the application is a common measure of the importance of the . . . → Read More: Abject-Oriented Programming Well, only a few months ago when Apple announced the Apple TV, I really wasn’t convinced it was a good idea. I still think it is under-featured if you want to use it to handle TV programs and films that have not been bought via iTunes, although people have been busy hacking the . . . → Read More: On order |
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