January 2011
20 posts
“Digital technology is programmed. This makes it biased toward those with the...”
– Rushkoff, Douglas. Program or Be Programmed: Ten Commands for a Digital Age. New York: OR Books, 2010. (via carvalhais)
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The Changelog - Open Source moves fast. Keep up.:...
via the changelog:
Apologies for the loaded headline. It’s a hat tip to the Twitter how-to articlesthat taught us the benefits of setting our avatars, writing a witty bios, setting a location, engaging your audience, and oh yeah, adding value. As a team that digs through a mountain of open source projects each week, so that you don’t have to, we’ve learned some concrete ways to build a community...
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applitude: Elegant DSL to create iPhone apps in...
applitude via thechangelog: While language purists might balk at the growing popularity of projects that compile to Objective-C, the verbosity of the Cocoa framework has many developers looking for a faster way to create iPhone apps. Let’s face it, the vast majority of apps in the App Store follow a familiar pattern of making a network request, showing an activity indicator, parsing a JSON...
The Visualization Cargo Cult
Got this blog post link in my mailbox today sent by Alvin - “The Visualization Cargo Cult” - it is indeed an interesting read (including the comments). Information visualization has grown big, quality is measured in many and also weird parameters (colorful, artistic, entertaining, beautiful, meaningful, beautiful, coffee table viability) The ford fiasco example is definitely a great...
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gist →
Gist is a simple way to share snippets and pastes with others. All gists are git repositories, so they are automatically versioned, forkable and usable as a git repository.
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Redis →
Redis is what is called a key-value store, often referred to as a NoSQL database. The essence of a key-value store is the ability to store some data, called a value, inside a key. This data can later be retrieved only if we know the exact key used to store it. We can use the command SET to store the value “fido” at key “server:name”:
SET server:name “fido”
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“In the emerging, highly programmed landscape ahead, you will either create the...”
– Rushkoff, Douglas. Program or Be Programmed: Ten Commands for a Digital Age. New York: OR Books, 2010.
via anfischer, via purestform, via carvalhais
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Kinect + Projector experiments →
by Mimchi and Chips. “Using Padé projection mapping to calibrate Kinect’s 3D world with a projector. 1. Using the kinect camera, we can scan a 3D scene in realtime. 2. Using a video projector, we can project onto a 3D scene in realtime. Combining these, we re-project images onto geometry to create a new technique for augmented reality”
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vvopensource, osc and midi on osx
vvopensource consists of 3 Objective-C frameworks for quickly and easily working with OSC and Midi data. The ‘Getting Started’ descriptions are straight forward including a ‘How-To’ for iOS.
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websockets
The Websocket API is a new implementation for html5 to support bi-directional communication with server side processes. This is good news since realtime interactions with webservers have not been a very exciting experience so far, although AJAX and XmlHttpRequests have enabled browser based web applications to quickly exchange data with a server. Websockets will be able to keep a direct connection...
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processing webserver, notes
I started to revive an older version of a processing webserver (sHTTP) i wrote a while back which allows to control processing applications through a website based interface. First thing to get replaced was the server implementation with NanoHTTPD by Jarno Elonen and Konstantinos Togias. Works smooth and well, but I am giving my considerations another round of thought and will look into node.js...
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OpenNI
“The OpenNI organization is an industry-led, not-for-profit organization formed to certify and promote the compatibility and interoperability of Natural Interaction (NI) devices, applications and middleware. As a first step towards this goal, the organization has made available an open source framework – the OpenNI framework – which provides an application programming interface (API) for...
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DBpedia
DBpedia is a community effort to extract structured information from Wikipedia and to make this information available on the Web. DBpedia allows you to ask sophisticated queries against Wikipedia, and to link other data sets on the Web to Wikipedia data.
via from tables to 5 star data article
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open data kit
open data kit (ODK) is a free and open-source set tools which help organizations author, field, and manage mobile data collection solutions. ODK provides an out-of-the-box solution for users to: Build a data collection form or survey; Collect the data on a mobile device and send it to a server; and Aggregate the collected data on a server and extract it in useful formats.
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Controlling the Arduino from a browser
via YouTube, Controlling the Arduino from browser. Also see, Control Arduino Remotely through HTML forms (more details).
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Arduino Web Control
via Arduino Forum, Arduino Web Control.
Running a web server on an arduino through an ethernet shield. Open source code by user Haavard GJ.
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Arduino The Documentary
Arduino The Documentary now online. See it on Vimeo in english (or spanish).
“The file is licensed under CC-SA 3.0 and can be redistributed. The makers are working in making a batch of DVDs that will include the full interviews as well as footage of the different locations where the documentary was made (ITP, Parsons, Adafruit, and Makerbot New York; Medialab Prado and IES Miguel Hernandez,...
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