Monthly Archives: June, 2008

Another Reason I hate ie6

Written by David Ehlers on June 25, 2008 — Leave a Comment

I recently had a ie6 that only broke when using digest authentication, all other browsers worked fine. Hence, yet another ie6 specific hack… From Apache: The Digest authentication implementation in previous Internet Explorer for Windows versions (5 and 6) had issues, namely that GET requests with a query string were not RFC compliant. There are [...]

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Edward Tufte on the iPhone UI

Written by David Ehlers on June 18, 2008 — Leave a Comment

Video here: Edward Tuft on the iPhone UI My favorite line: computer administrative debris Interface design and the iPhone “The iPhone platform elegantly solves the design problem of small screens by greatly intensifying the information resolution of each displayed page. Small screens, as on traditional cell phones, show very little information per screen, which in [...]

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s3 backup + mySql dump

Written by David Ehlers on June 14, 2008 — Leave a Comment

These two open source scripts are very useful when combined with cron: s3 Tools : http://sourceforge.net/projects/s3tools/ OpenSource tools to access Amazon S3 file storage. s3cmd – unix-like tools to manipulate stored files from the command line, s3fuse – driver to mount the S3 storage locally. and automysqlbackup : http://sourceforge.net/projects/automysqlbackup/ A script to take daily, weekly [...]

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2D ActionScript 3.0 Physics Engine

Written by David Ehlers on June 13, 2008 — Leave a Comment

2D ActionScript 3.0 Physics Engine   APE (Actionscript Physics Engine) is a free AS3 open source 2D physics engine for use in Flash and Flex, released under the MIT License. APE by Alec Cove. 

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2D Multi-Physics Simulation Application

Written by David Ehlers on June 13, 2008 — Leave a Comment

This thing is more fun than Gears of War. Heck, it even has Mochi as an element http://www.octaveengine.com/en/ ” OE-CAKE! is demonstration software for 2D-based multi-physics simulation.  In a way similar to drawing images using paint software, users create objects and can see them move according to the laws of physics. This software supports various physical materials [...]

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Social Reputation Design Pattern Described by Yahoo

Written by David Ehlers on June 10, 2008 — Leave a Comment

  Reputation Design Pattern “A person participating in a social structure expects to develop a reputation and hopes for insight into the reputations of others, but each designed model of participation and reputation embodies its own set of biases and incentive structures. Balancing these forces determines in large measure the success or failure of a [...]

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google via shell

Written by David Ehlers on June 2, 2008 — Leave a Comment

I love this “shell” interface to google. http://goosh.org/

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