10 UI Design Patterns You Should Be Paying Attention To | How-To | Smashing Magazine In short, design patterns are solutions to recurring problems. By extension, UI design patterns are solutions to common user interface problems. This article goes over … Continue reading
mobile video portrait of the artist My good friend and collaborator Rosa Ruey has a new work on display as part of the show Living & Dreaming at the Bronx Museum. Rosa’s new work, “Chrono-Particle Processor”, is both visually mesmerizing … Continue reading
Firefox 3.5: video demo, SVG, CSS 3 and HTML5 – blog.mozbox.org (tags: html svg html5 video ogg) Fed contractor, cell phone maker sold spy system to Iran – Washington Times Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN), a joint venture between the Finnish … Continue reading
Open Emu Open Emu is an open source project to bring game emulation to OS X as a first class citizen, leveraging modern OS X technologies such as Cocoa, Core Animation and Quartz, and 3rd party libraries like Sparkle for … Continue reading
Last Friday, the NY Senate CIO hosted the first ever Capitol Camp in Albany. Along with Remy DeCausemaker, I led a session on “Open Data for Developers”, discussing the Why?/What?/How?’s of releasing government data in open formats with open tools. … Continue reading
DataNucleus Access Platform – DBCP Connection Pooling When you create a PersistenceManagerFactory / EntityManagerFactory you define the connection URL, driver name, and the username/password to use. This works perfectly well but does not "pool" the connections so that they are … Continue reading
api.dc.gov New! We are glad to introduce DC Government Open APIs. Two APIs are currently available in "beta" mode: Service Requests/311 and Geocoding. Simple registration is required. (tags: open-gov opengov sunlight api)
tesseract-ocr – Google Code The Tesseract OCR engine was one of the top 3 engines in the 1995 UNLV Accuracy test. Between 1995 and 2006 it had little work done on it, but it is probably one of the most … Continue reading