The 2007 Feltron Annual Report
The 2007 Feltron Annual Report is available now. In a series of elegant infographics, see the ambit of places he walked to in Brooklyn and Manhattan, review how many albums Mr. Feltron bought in the...
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The power of a good visualization
I just found a program called Grand Perspectivethat present your disk usage as an interactive mipmap (see pic on right). Helping web nerds save hard drive space isn't finding hidden heart defects or...
View ArticleCopyright Disputes are usually Failures of Imagination
Hasbro is trying to shut down Scrabulous, a successful online Scrabble game -- perhaps the most successful Facebook app to date. On the one hand, I think that Hasbro is completely within their rights:...
View ArticleParsing Names with Honorifics
In Railscast #16, Ryan Bates goes over Virtual Attributes in Rails, using the standard example of storing first and last names but getting/setting full names. He uses the following simple snippet: def...
View ArticleRails Lessons Learned the Hard Way
Things I've learned the hard way in Rails: Layouts run inside views, not the other way round. Set an instance variable in app/views/monkeys/show.html.erb and it will be defined in...
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