I’ve mentioned Stack Overflow before in this post. I just read a fun thread called What was the strangest coding standard rule that you were forced to follow? I gotta tell ya, there are some pretty strange ideas out there about good software development practices. Of course the software development industry is no stranger to FUD.
Here’s an interesting explanation of how our stock market varies in value so wildly while the assets of all these companies remains relatively the same Read on…
I needed to take some images of a website today, and I needed a little more flexibility than a generic screen capture program could offer. I did a FireFox extention search, and came up with FireShot. The big selling point (if you can call it selling, when it’s free) for me was that it can capture pages longer than the screen, which was exactly what I needed. I hear there’s a version for something called “Internet Explorer”, whatever that is.
You can also edit pictures right in FireShot, including highlighting and annotation, save the image as a file, upload it to several file sharing websites, or print them. Big ups to FireShot!
The only problem I had with it is that there are Adobe Flex elements on the page I wanted to capture, and it needed to re-render them to get the image. But those Flex elements were AJAX-driven, which doesn’t work unless called at the right time. But this is not a frequent requirement, and I’m guessing it would be pretty hard to do it any other way.
This. Is. Cool.
io9 (a very cool blog on science, science fiction, media, and equally cool people) has a post about NerdBots: robots-as-art created from recycled component. These are small creations that can be purchased for the low price of a few gallons of gas (around $200).
A later article talks about Jeremy Mayer and his robot art. He seems to have a thing for typewriters. And I found Lewis Tardy’s website myself.
I love SF art, found art, really creative abstractions. And who doesn’t love robots? I, for one, welcome our new robot overlords.
webreference.com just posted this very nice roundup of JavaScript libraries and framework here.