Cuil is a newer search engine, developed by former Google employees. It boasts more extensive page searches, a different search logic from it’s competitors and promises not to record what we are looking for. While I’m not a personal fan of how the information is displayed and can’t see myself defecting from Google, check out Cuil.
I ran across this, I found it useful. I’ll probably be reconsidering some of my Javascript loops in current projects. Check out Gregory Reimer’s loop benchmarking test suite time results.
I learned PHP mainly from learning how to program WordPress blogs and adding functionlity to the blog engine. When I began using other PHP frameworks I noticed one thing that was used a lot. I noticed when these other frameworks like Drupal began to pass function arguments with ampersands (&) before them. I was very confused as to what this actually did. I later found out that this is known as passing arguments by reference, which allows the arguments to changed outside the function.
The PHP website has a nice example function.
This is a cool article discussing some ways to optimize and speed up your PHP. If you are a self taught PHP programmer/design, then you might find some of these tips rather enlightening.
This article is a list of some interesting and widely ignored features of PHP.
I came acrossed this on Digg and couldn’t pass it up, it’s called “The Hello World Collection“. It contains 408 different “Hello World” programs.
I must admit that I’ve never worked with Python in a Django environment. However, I am very excited that this will soon be another offering from Media Temple. I’ve been anxious to give it a whirl to see if it is to Python what Rails is to Ruby or jQuery is to Javascript. According to the progress bar, I don’t have much longer to wait.
I’ve been reading recently, about the application of the MVC pattern in Drupal, and thought I’d share a few of the articles as I go:
MAKE magazine has always caught my attention. Every time I pick up there is something inside that I wish I could build out of my broken toaster and an old USB cable or two. These items that have the ability to be transformed from their original state and have alternative uses inspire me. The most recent one was someone using an Arduino to collect audio and display it visually through the VGA. While professionally I am a developer and occasionally get to delve into some video, the artistic medium of computer programming, lights, and music never loses its appeal.
Some favorites would be Close Encounters of the Third Kind, near the end of the movie the scientists are playing the oversized keyboard which is then lighting up large rainbow lights to communicate with the flying saucer. Warhol’s work with the Velvet Underground. Locally, Jim Campbell’s installations, which always seem to be at Wood Street Gallery. Finally, the company Trafik, based out of France, does fantastic code and light installations, along with a slew of other amazing work. A tour of the Trafik studios and how they utilize Apple products can be seen here.
Tonight I was introduced to another form of artistic programming, Live Coding. Jonbro was kind enough to give a demonstration, as well as give a link to his own Javascript project. While live coding with Javascript seems to be the newer kid on the block and live coding as a performing art did not being with web languages, its roots go back to the 60’s with the inception of computer art.
Here are a few links that he referred to:
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