Interesting Snippets from 2013-08-29

• The money is in the Bitcoin protocol | Internet Ganesha

  Mention Bitcoins and people think ‘anonymous currency’. However, that’s only one instance of how the underlying public-key cryptographic protocol can be used. For example, at a conference last week, in my presentation, I said it was an approach that I’m increasingly thinking about as a way to re-frame the discussion between centralised and decentralised systems. I’ll look at some of the basics in this post as well as how people are thinking about using the Bitcoin protocol to do some very innovative things.

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Interesting Snippets from 2013-08-28

• Juju - Deploy, Scale, Integrate Instantly on Any Cloud

  With over 100 services ready to deploy, Juju enables you to build entire environments in the cloud with only a few commands on public clouds like Amazon Web Services and HP Cloud, to private clouds built on OpenStack, or raw bare metal via MAAS.

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Interesting Snippets from 2013-08-27

• adobe/brackets · GitHub

  This is an early version of Brackets, a code editor for HTML, CSS and JavaScript that's built in HTML, CSS and JavaScript.

• jsPDF - HTML5 PDF Generator | Parallax

  A HTML5 client-side solution for generating PDFs. Perfect for event tickets, reports, certificates, you name it!

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Interesting Snippets from 2013-08-26

• Mr. Data Converter

  I will convert your Excel data into one of several web-friendly formats, including HTML, JSON and XML.

• FlowType.JS — Responsive web typography at its finest: font-size and line-height based on element width.

  Ideally, the most legible typography contains between 45 and 75 characters per line. This is difficult to accomplish for all screen widths with only CSS media-queries. FlowType.JS eases this difficulty by changing the font-size—and subsequently the line-height—based on a specific element's width. This allows for a perfect character count per line at any screen width.

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Interesting Snippets from 2013-08-21

• Yo, yo, yo!

  Sheetsee.js is a JavaScript library, or box of goodies, if you will, that makes it easy to use a Google Spreadsheet as the database feeding the tables, charts and maps on a website. Once set up, any changes to the spreadsheet will auto-saved by Google and be live on your site when a visitor refreshes the page.

• Artificial Intelligence and What Computers Still Don't Understand : The New Yorker

  Hector Levesque thinks his computer is stupid—and that yours is, too. Siri and Google’s voice searches may be able to understand canned sentences like “What movies are showing near me at seven o’clock?,” but what about questions—“Can an alligator run the hundred-metre hurdles?”—that nobody has heard before? Any ordinary adult can figure that one out. (No. Alligators can’t hurdle.) But if you type the question into Google, you get information about Florida Gators track and field. Other search engines, like Wolfram Alpha, can’t answer the question, either. Watson, the computer system that won “Jeopardy!,” likely wouldn’t do much better.

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