Underscore is a utility-belt library for JavaScript that provides a lot of the functional programming support that you would expect in Prototype.js (or Ruby), but without extending any of the built-in JavaScript objects. It’s the tie to go along with jQuery’s tux.
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Solving a Sudoku using Recursive Subquery Factoring
Looking to the future with Cassandra
Highly interesting article on Digg The Blog: Digg implemented their new badges feature in Cassandra, a distributed, structured key-value store also used at Facebook. — “When an item is dugg, we asynchronously populate Cassandra. This job fetches the list of followers of the digging user, and places one column in each of their buckets. This …
CSS Nuggets in Scrunchup
SQL Buddy
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS)
“Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) is a web service that makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale a relational database in the cloud. It provides cost-efficient and resizable capacity while managing time-consuming database administration tasks, freeing you up to focus on your applications and business. Amazon RDS gives you access to the …
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Introducing Mozilla Raindrop
Mozilla Raindrop, a new Mozilla project in the making which – as far as I have read/watched (watch the vids) – is a cross communications systems / services aggregator: fetch messages from mail, twitter, facebook, RSS, etc. and show them in one interface. In a way it reminds me of fever° along with some Gmail …
Singletasking
When using the computer at home, I never seem to do anything productive – just follow an endless cycle of checking my feed reader, my e-mail, Twitter, and flicking through my open tabs. Sure, I get things done, but slowly, and piecemeal. My concentration usually feels scattered, my focus divided, my brain like it’s trying …
In Firefox: Add feeds to Google Reader, without 5 clicks
Know Your Type: Part 1 – Anatomy
“In this post series, which will be called Know Your Type, I will share some basic concepts and theories to introduce you to the amazing world of typography. In this first post, let’s find out the main terms used to describe specific shapes used in the characters formation and their surroundings.” — Pinging all my …