January 2012
141 posts
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Google Code Playground & API Browser
brndwltr:
Google Code Playground - http://code.google.com/apis/ajax/playground/
OMGWTFBBQ!! This is GREAT!
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“when you don’t create things, you become defined by your tastes rather than...”
– _why the lucky stiff (via hackedy)
^THIS^
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I know some of y'all are browsing the tumblr on...
hey, no judgment!
In fact I’m gonna publish some extra stuffs just for you!
December 2011
134 posts
Ask Slashdot: Tools For Teaching High School Kids... →
coolcatteacher:
This 189+ question on Slashdot is a great example of how comments become the post. if you eant to teach game peogramming and want the pros and cons and lots of choices, head here for a great, though time consuming, read.
I’m gonna dig into this when I have the time.
You found me.: Generation Github →
finette:
1,205,808… More than 1.2 million people are using Github today.
A whole generation of developers & hackers all around the world are growing up with Github deeply embedded into their developer DNA. This is a whole generation of people for whom sharing code is the default (the vast majority of…
“At least on the Web, you can amend. The ethic of the Web is to say what you know...”
– David Carr: A Media Omnivore Discusses His Diet : NPR (via thisistheverge)
How Did You Learn To Program? Share your story in... →
This is really fun…just keep hitting refresh for the one-line creation stories of coders.
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Scraping Websites for Fun and...well, okay, for... →
Mr. Keller does precisely the kind of thing that I’d like to learn to do: write short programs that take data from several websites to load them into a spreadsheet or database table. In this case, the idea was to get all the contact information for elected officials off their respective web pages to make a central source of that stuff. Source code is included in the post linked below.
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The future of news is the future of tech; and in... →
The 10 Oldest Social APIs: More Than Half Are Dead
splatforms:
After our recent look at the growth of social APIs, we thought we’d look back at the history of the category. We added the Plazes API in September, 2005. In terms of the web, this is recent history. In terms of APIs, we might as well be looking at scrolls. In fact, less than half of the first 10 social APIs are still alive today....
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The first drone journalism crash report? →
dronejournalism:
In the spirit of being as open and transparent with my experiments with the drone, I’m going to write up major crashes like the National Transportation Safety Board writes up real crashes. — Matt Waite
Executive Summary:
At about 5:30 p.m. CST Dec. 28, 2011 during a test flight to gauge the…
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I Love It When People Change Their Mind →
Hey, I have to say, I have a lot of respect for people who show they are willing to change their mind. Kudos.
ilovecharts:
Yesterday we posted a chart to which some people took offense. One person took the time to write us directly with her anger about the chart. I took exception to her tone and disagreed with her assertions and regrettably fell into one of the more simple traps of poor...
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Nick Coleman: Rails Tutorial →
nickcoleman:
Spent the last day or two doing Michael Hartl’s excellent Ruby on Rails tutorial.
I had a vague idea I wanted to learn Ruby, but once I googled for tutorials it became pretty clear that Rails was the way to go for web-based apps. Michael’s tutorial got lots of recommendations, so I jumped…
“Thus programming is basically planning and detailing the enormous traffic of...”
– Can Programming Be Liberated from the von Neumann Style?
by John Backus
(via itdnhr)
WHUT?! One of the things I love about programming: makes me feel stupid. Precious feeling.
UPDATED: Life and Code's Learn To Code Resources... →
Life and Code’s Learn to Code Resource Guide, a learn-to-program guide written with journalists in mind, now has 60+ resources. I concentrate on free resources available to anyone over the web.
lifeandcode:
This is a list of resources you can use to get started writing your own programs, written with journalists in mind. I focus mostly on free resources that are available to anybody...
“Improv aims at the gray area between what a programmer can do and what a web...”
– This kind of thing makes me want to get into Python.
Quick Walk Through the World of Location & Places... →
borismann:
Overview of all the major location / place APIs.
Watchgregmelander:
VISUALIZING 2011
A good video showcasing some visualizations from this year. A great visualization can help us see things in new ways to help us understand more.
Entertained myself today by winning CodeAcademy....
leonsbuddydave:
Now applying to write a course or two for it.
YAY! Thank you!
What a great present!
8th-base:
Gonna actually get some work done on my dad’s Christmas present. It’s a working customized Pay-Roll system, time to start programming it for him..This is gonna be super duper RAW.
I love this. What a great present! I would be so proud of my kid for doing this :)
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“When developers shift from PHP, Ruby or any other platform to Python, the very...”
– “The Python Ecosystem,” Mir Nazim. YES THANK YOU!!
Being Geek Chic: LEGO Friends: A LEGO Fail? →
beinggeekchic:
LEGO announced that they’re coming out with a new line of toys for girls: LEGO Friends. This is their fifth attempt to launch a product for girls, most of the time relying on the very basic marketing idea that girls like pink.
Here’s what’s different: The standard minifig is gone and…
I don’t have a big enough font size of Comic Sans to express how lame I think this is.
DataSheet: Data Visualization for News -- Examples... →
A world-editable spreadsheet of examples and links to data visualizations for news. Link.
“Anecdotal evidence is trickling in that Amazon is turning into a legitimate...”
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Journalism Workshops: Amazon and Long-form Journalism
”Makes money” does not equal “legitimate.” It’s perfectly fine to have an interest in making money, but what legitimizes a work is the quality of the work. Jefferson didn’t get paid to write the...
Simply Statistics: An R function to map your... →
For my friend Andy Hoerner.
simplystatistics:
I wrote a little function to make a personalized map of who follows you or who you follow on Twitter. The idea for this function was inspired by some plots I discussed in a previous post. I also found a lot of really useful code over at flowing data here.
The function uses the packages…
The Best Data Visualization Projects of 2011 →
hackedy:
hey you:
import datetime
def isitchristmas():
today = datetime.date.today()
return today.month == 12 and today.day == 25
if isitchristmas():
print "Merry Christmas!"
J-School Students: Don't Just Look at Traditional... →
This is why journalism students shouldn’t restrict themselves to looking for jobs and internships at traditional newsrooms. Look at web-only publications, startups — and start something yourself. I’m far more likely to hire someone who’s built something themselves…and those that can build are far more likely to get into the profession and stay in it.
You’ll...
Try Again
poeticprogrammer:
Don’t be disheartened.
We still have a lot of time.
Let us try again.
# If it doesn’t work, fix it. # If you need a break, take it. # Then come back and try again.
