This may be a stretch, but imagine Doom XII over the web. Enter canvascape – 3D walker – a wolftenstein demo using the html element canvas.
Originally introduced by the folks over at Apple, the canvas element is an extension to the HTML standard that allows for dynamic rendering of scriptable bitmap images.
According to wikipedia’s canvas entry, it’s already fully supported in the latest browsers.
Checkout the other demos of the canvas element:
Every wonder what a database schema looks like, before you have to start re-inventing the wheel? The Library of Free Data Models has a decent sized repository of sample database schemas, in UML format.
databaseanswers.org is an excellent resource for learning database modeling.
Thanks to freeengineer.org, their guide to learning UNIX in 10 minutes is available which covers some of the basic unix commands to help you move around the system.
Those who have used DOS back in the day, some of the same basic commands exist:
In my recent decision to leave my current job in search of a more LAMP-friendly environment, I came across opensourcexperts.com.
Some of the postings in categories are over a year old, I’m hoping to revive it a bit by writing about it here.
The job searches are available as RSS feeds as well as via the site.
Jakob Nielsen has an interesting article about the F-Shaped Pattern that occurs when people scan through a web page.
Placement of ads and your most valuable links can be optimized given the “F-shape” pattern, and sometimes an upside down “L-shape” or “E-shape” pattern.
It makes you wonder if using a right-hand navigation bar is better or worse…as you’re going against the learned behavior most people use when scanning a web page.
There’s a great article CLI Magic: Searching with find over at linux.com which has examples of using the command line’s “find” utility.
Examples include:
By size:
find /home -name "*.txt" -size 100k
find /home -name "*.txt" -size +100k
find /home -name "*.txt" -size -100k
By user:
find /home -name "*.txt" -size -100k -user paul
find /home -name "*.txt" -size -100k -not -user paul
By Permission:
find /home -perm -o=r
find /home -perm -o=rw
find /home -perm ugo=r,u=w
The views of proponents of the Open Source model are typified by Eric Raymond’s argument that Open Source software is intrinsically more secure since its open nature lets a greater number of programmers view the source code and uncover potential security threats before they’re released to the wild.
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