John Adams’ views on emerging technologies, software engineering, and various hacks
If your site uses common AJAX libraries like jQuery, jQuery UI, mootools, prototype, script.aculo.us, or dojo, the first thing that you’ll notice is that these libraries are quite large and impact page load time.
For a browser with a completely empty cache, the browser will load the requested library (and block all other requests during the [...]
As someone who takes many photographs of random people in nightclubs and at events, I’m intrigued by the efforts of Columbia University’s team to write software that performs automated face replacement in digital photographs.
The software is able to replace faces within images from a database of candidate images drawn from the Internet and other sources, [...]
I’ve been experimenting with a few things this week while trying to wade my way through Twitter’s infrastructure. One tool that’s been of extreme help in digging through source code and an extensive set of configuration files has been ack!
It’s the only piece of software I know of that has ‘–thpppt’ as an option (Install [...]
Sun Microsystems is hosting CommunityOne, a free tech conference at The Moscone Center, San Francisco. If you’d like to go for free, please register at http://developers.sun.com/events/communityone and use registration ID number W1082146 !
It’s on May 5th, 2008, only three weeks away!
Some info, follows, courtesy of the Sun site:
Join experts and contributors from dozens of free [...]
There’s been some changes in the way that Rails 2.0 processes forms and form interaction with Ajax. Here’s a quick write-up on how to use auto completion in Rails 2.0 without a database connection.
In my case, I was parsing an Apache configuration file and displaying VirtualHost entries, but you can use this for just about anything [...]