Anil Dash from Expert Labs spoke recently at the Fast Company Innovation Uncensored event in New York in April.
In addition to introducing the audience to ThinkTank, a tool in which Dash30 has been involved, Anil articulates a great case for using networks for the common good. In this 12-minute video, he talks about how people, [...]
Not only does she make a great point regarding the importance of expanding the process to as many people as possible, but she is spot on when it comes to the idea of using light-weight sketches to explore as many ideas as possible.
Starting with this post, I’ll walk through some of the thinking behind the work Dash30 has done on ThinkTank and our experiences contributing to an open source project. We’ve learned some lessons, met some very talented people and enjoyed contributing in some small way.
Have you ever tried to sort a set of strings programmatically only to be confused by the output? This usually happens with strings that contain a mixed set of numbers and letters.
David Koelle wrote a solution for this problem in 1997 called the Alphanum Algoritm.
March 11, 2010 – 11:07 pm
Have you ever run into the following error message in PHP?
Fatal error: out of dynamic memory in yy_create_buffer()
I ran into this not long ago and had a hard time understanding the problem, though the fix is simple. This is a bug in PHP versions prior to 5.2 on BSD based systems.
Short of upgrading PHP to a [...]
February 10, 2010 – 5:01 am
Sometimes words don’t do a story justice. The amount of effort invested into Python, currently my favorite programming language, is one of those stories. This illustration shows the people who have contributed to the project over time, showing their activity and how they relate to other developers who contributed.
February 4, 2010 – 11:41 pm
This is a highly informative and entertaining look at what makes Amazon.com’s design work. From the synopsis:
On its surface, Amazon.com just seems like a large e-commerce site, albeit a successful one. Its design isn’t flashy, nor is it much to write home about. But deep within its pages are hidden secrets — secrets that every [...]
February 3, 2010 – 9:47 pm
A couple months ago Rupert Murdoch made waves by threatening to pull all of News Corp’s content from Google’s search index. Needless to say, the blogosphere went nuts.
Rupert Murdoch, the media tycoon who has long accused Google of ripping off content from his newspapers, said this weekend that his sites may soon disappear from the search engine’s listings.
Personally, I believe it was a bad idea then and may be an even worse idea now. However, a new voice has entered the debate, and it’s one that surprised me. Mark Cuban, the dot-com billionaire owner of the Dallas Mavericks has echoed Murdoch’s sentiments.
February 2, 2010 – 8:11 am
Taking your Site from One to One Million Users by Kevin Rose from Carsonified on Vimeo.
