http://digitalanalog.net Occasional Thoughts on Social Computing, Visualization and User Interface Wed, 04 Feb 2009 13:40:08 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Here is how wikipedia describes a scripting language: ... "Scripts" are often treated as distinct from "programs", which execute independently from any other application. At the same time they are distinct from the core code of the application, which is usually written in a different language, and by being accessible to ... http://digitalanalog.net/2009/02/04/script-v-program/ Long story short, IE 6 is a nightmare. Slightly longer story. If you want to use a sprite technique to reduce the number of roundtrips the browser makes to generate your page, it's fairly straight forward... unless you use IE6. If you're making large sprites, with varied images that might be ... http://digitalanalog.net/2009/01/19/ie6-sprites-and-transparency-a-follow-on/ I just got this in the mail... When I was a kid, I remember going into one of those giant "Hudson News" stores in Manhattan - the one with thousands of magazines. I thought to myself "wow! There is a magazine for EVERYTHING!". Of course, the web opens up the space even ... http://digitalanalog.net/2009/01/03/the-tip-of-the-long-tail/ I got my new iPhone 3G yesterday. I just found out about the wordpress application, so I figured I'd give it a try. Here is a picture from outside my window: http://digitalanalog.net/2008/07/23/the-new-iphone-is-here/ I'll follow the crowd here as well... Thanks for the fun app Johnathan! http://digitalanalog.net/2008/06/28/the-resume-as-tag-cloud-meme/ The IBM GLBT group (Eagle at IBM) had our first event in the new dedicated Second Life space. It was a great time seeing some new people turn up, and exploring all of ThomThom's creative building. We had some conversation in the clubhouse lobby: Then we did a little dancing at ... http://digitalanalog.net/2008/06/20/ibm-glbt-event-in-second-life/ Thanks to Andy and Suz for blogging (and blogging) about the 50 Ways To Leave Your Bookmark article that we co-wrote for developerWorks. Andy's got a great description of the premise, so I'll lift his shamelessly :) A little while ago my colleague Frank Jania posted a crazy thought on his internal ... http://digitalanalog.net/2008/04/10/50-ways-to-leave-your-bookmark/ collision detection: Why solitary workers can be faster workers From the article: "For years, I've worked in isolation -- either sitting alone in my office, or, recently, sitting in a rented cubicle in New York. I haven't had a job that required me to work physically alongside coworkers since 1998. And maybe that's ... http://digitalanalog.net/2008/03/27/why-solitary-workers-can-be-faster-workers/ I've made the cut. Along with unsubscribing to a shockingly large number of newsletters in my personal email account, I've canceled both my MySpace and Friendster accounts. I've had them for some number of years and they've lied fallow in comparison to my activity on Facebook. I have some friends that are primarily active ... http://digitalanalog.net/2008/03/25/done-with-myspacefriendster/ "Sort of" is the new "like".Listen for it. http://digitalanalog.net/2008/03/17/sort-of/