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Benjamin Myers

50 Brilliant CSS3/JavaScript Coding Techniques | Smashing Coding - 1 views

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    Really cool article (and magazine more generally) for thinking about things you can do with css and javascript (and getting advice/code). The options include: an analog clock; dynamic, layered index cards; creating perceived depth and 3d ribbons; newspaper layouts; navigation bars; and more.
Jessica Murphy

Codecademy -- Free Programming Lessons - 0 views

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    Codecademy is the easiest way to learn how to code. It's interactive, fun, and you can do it with your friends.
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    I have messed around with this, and I think I came near graduating the free class that they offer. It was useful, but I didn't find that it got me too far into javascript. I did find that I liked the points and badges. Did you see the pay option alternative site (I think linked off Code Academy somewhere ... or it comes up when you search Google for Code Academy) where you can learn various coding languages as you play games? One of them teaches you CSS or Javascript as you fight zombies. If you didn't have to pay ... I would totally get into that. :)
Aaron Dawson

HACKER TYPER - 0 views

shared by Aaron Dawson on 14 Apr 12 - No Cached
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    Ok-- so maybe this doesn't DIRECTLY apply to a reading on the syllabus, but this is a kind of joke site and will make you look super important and busy on the job or wherever. Kind of interesting to try to decipher what this code is doing. I certainly can't figure it out.
Mikenna Pierotti

The Official Cory Arcangel Website - Super Mario Clouds (2002-) - 0 views

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    Interesting idea from Bogost. Although he labels it as game art, I might consider this a multimedia piece as the code itself, the process of "re-soldering" and essentially rebuilding the game cartridge, and then the finished project performed online with DIY functionality seems much more complex than the book describes. Personally I think it's a brilliant but I'm not sure I know what (if anything) it means...
Benjamin Myers

Jennifer Pahlka: Coding a Better Government - 0 views

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    Below you'll see a link to Code for America. Here is a related TED talk.
Martina Helfferich

Publishers Gild Books With 'Special Effects' to Compete With E-Books - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    Very interesting article about publishing houses' efforts to keep up with the e-book world. Ties in nicely to some points Hayles made in "Print is flat; code is deep." 
jessi lew

Jack Kerouac Tailgates T.S. Eliot Into the App Store - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    Here is a new way literature is moving into technological applications. I've been looking for a better article on this, but most seem a bit too brief. Here the author discusses How works of T.S. Eliot and Jack Kerouac are becoming Apps. This is a really interesting move of taking flat print to deep code.
anonymous

Microsoft Word is cumbersome, inefficient, and obsolete. It's time for it to die. - 0 views

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    The author argues that Word has too many workarounds, and especially when it comes to publishing on the web. There's another nice example of the code Word throws in there, too.
dibyadyuti roy

Zork I walkthrough - 2 views

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    Get zorky! Zork cheat codes.
Aaron Dawson

Webmonkey - The Web Developer's Resource | Wired.com - 1 views

shared by Aaron Dawson on 27 Apr 12 - Cached
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    Google's New Search Algorithm to Crack Down on 'Black Hat Webspam' By Ars Technica By Matthew Braga, Ars Technica Nefarious search engine optimizers be warned. Google is coming for you-again. Following previous changes to Google's ranking and page layout algorithms, the search giant is pushing yet another update to its algorithm this week with the hopes of curbing "black hat webspam" from creeping into search results. * Google thinks that by increasing the complexity of its algorithms, it can weed out malicious intent. Funny thing about complexity is that it tends to breed more complexity. This reminds me a bit of Bogost's book on games. This cat and mouse scenario between Google and fake SEO creators seems to lead to ever evolving code much like in natural systems where the adaptations of the prey animal to take advantage of an environment are eventually matched by a predatory animal with adaptations designed to match or exceed the prey's abilities...
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    A neat -WIRED- blog documenting new developments in software (mostly Internet based), also offering some tips-and-tricks kinds of features too.
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Ben Bishop

30+ Awesome Free and Open Source Audio Applications List - 3 views

  • Free and Open Source Audio Applications List
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    A list of the heavy open-source hitters for audio playback and editing.
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    I thought I just commented on this but maybe I commented on the wrong thing because I don't see my original comment! I'm definitely new to Diigo. Ben, this post made me wonder...are you familiar with SoundCloud, and if so, do you know of any free online software like it that take mp3 files and convert them to HTML code that can be embedded into a webpage?
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    Sound cloud looks really interesting, but they host all of the content and you just send out links to share it. In order to play content on your page, you need a mess of java script commands and I have no idea how to link that to your content... Guess that's why all the bands pay big bucks to have someone build their site for them.
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    Alright. Thanks, Ben.
Benjamin Myers

Connect With Your Creation Through a Real-Time Editor - 0 views

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    I thought this might be interesting, especially as we head toward the section of the class where we discuss games. Here is an excerpt from the default blurb: "Victor has worked on experimental UI concepts at Apple and also created the interactive data graphics for Al Gore's book, Our Choice. In the talk Victor showed off a demo of a great real-time game editor that makes your existing coding tools look primitive at best."
Benjamin Myers

Code for America | A New Kind of Public Service - 0 views

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    From about page: "We make it easy and attractive for the web generation to give back through our Fellowship, which connects technologists with cities to work together to innovate; our Accelerator, which will support disruptive civic startups; and our Brigade, which helps local, community groups reuse civic software."
Benjamin Myers

HTML Codes - Special Characters - ASCII Table - 0 views

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    Useful if you find yourself using a lot of special characters on your website. For example, in reading responses to the ELO works, it can be useful for some authors' names).
Benjamin Myers

Useful HTML, CSS, and JavaScript Tools - 2 views

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    Another article from Smashing Magazine ... the title gives the sense of what the article is all about.
Jessica Murphy

How Red Hat Killed its Core Product-and Became a Billion-Dollar Business - 0 views

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    This article examines how Red Hat transitioned from free open source software to a system they sell through a subscription with updates, patches, and bug fixes. Red Hat still provides free code, though; a community project called Fedora provides "a testing ground for the enterprise features delivered to Red Hat's paying customers," allowing both the company and the users to benefit from collaboration. This article shows the balance of sustainability between free and paid access. It also echoes Kenneth Goldman's claims in Uncreative Writing because the CEO says, "If you believe in the concept of modular innovation where a lot of different people add to works that came before them, patents clearly slow that down."
Jessica Murphy

Ask Stack: Should I learn a new programming language? - 0 views

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    This article addresses whether or not learning new programming languages is worth the time and energy. According to the article, learning new languages (1) expands your ability to use several different approaches to solve problems, (2) might teach you techniques that carry over to old languages, (3) exposes you to new communities, (4) provides additional marketable skills, and (5) stimulates your mind. At the end, one user stipulates that he only learns a language when it "has enough maturity, has a good developer base, and offers significantly different outcomes from the others I know."
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