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“The more and varied the formats in which you can access data, the more accessible that data is. I realise that this flies in the face of programming principle of DRY: Don’t Repeat Yourself. But really, you can never have too much data.”
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If tests are written, and they are relevant to the the functionality of the application, the code base stays smaller, faster, and is more maintainable. But figuring how to help people continue writing tests is what’s really important.
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The swimming and flying robot jellyfish are being shown off at the Hannover Trade Fair this week by industrial automation company Festo.
Very Cool
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A drop-in piece of JavaScript, it’s unobtrusive and allows users to sign in using common OpenID providers
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The API is still underdevelopment none the less it all looks very shinny.
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This is mainly about unifying their 500M user accounts into a centralized profile management system plus allowing users to build their own apps using Google’s OpenSocial and Yahoo’s forthcoming Application Platform. If they get this right is will be huge.
NOTED ELSEWHERE- Introducing the Knowledge Graph: things, not strings [Official Google Blog]The Knowledge Graph enables you to search for things, people or places that Google knows about—landmarks, celebrities, cities, sports teams, buildings, geographical features, movies, celestial objects, works of art and more—and instantly get information that’s relevant to your query. This is a critical first step towards building the next generation of searc […]
- Welcome to the Knowledge Graph [Talis Consulting]"There has been lots of previous work on creating semantic search engines that include natural language parsing to “understand” more about a user’s query and its contents. But what Google are doing is looking at the search results to identify the things that are frequently referenced, and then surface useful summaries of those things from their Knowledg […]
- Using "Punning" to Answer httpRange-14 [Jeni's Musings]This is very good - both in terms of core web architecture principals and an approach to the ongoing httoRange-14 debate.
- Introducing the Knowledge Graph: things, not strings [Official Google Blog]
- Stellar.io favs
- Rebekah Brooks, please don't worry about your trial being a waste of public money - we're absolutely fine with it. Asbury and Asbury
- Feeling bad for my Flickr friends on reading @mat's summary of how Yahoo smothered the brilliance they'd bought. http://t.co/w513rOdZ Nelson Minar
- First step for avoid DoS attack is block 127.0.0.1. DevOps Borat
My name is Tom Scott and this is my personal blog. I currently work at Nature Publishing Group, I previously worked at the BBC. However, these are my thoughts and observations not theirs.
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