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ActiveRecord.js makes it easy to begin working with databases in JavaScript on the client or server, with Google Gears & Chrome, Aptana Jaxer, Adobe AIR or any platform supporting the W3C HTML5 SQL Specification (currently Webkit and iPhone).
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The world wide web, and the sites it consists of, are living things. Not quite like you and I are living, but in their own, digital way – evolving, growing, changing. This kind of dynamism means I can never be still, there are always new things to learn, and I love knowing I'll never know it all; it's definitely an exciting field to be a professional in.
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With the Best Sellers API, you can get data from all New York Times best-seller lists, including rank history for specific best sellers.
Category: Awareness
Something Extraordinary is Possible!
My friend Ben Rigby, co-founder of The Extraordinaries project that I am contributing some time to, wrote a great post on TechPresident last week that lays out the premise for a new approach to volunteerism. These ideas are both what inspired The Extraordinaries (“Why is it so hard to get people to volunteer?”) and also drivers for its theories (“Why don’t we have a new approach to volunteering?”).
- Volunteerism has a problem. Most people don’t do it
- People have a problem with volunteerism.
- Volunteerism excludes most of us.
- We’re trying to woo “Last Mile” volunteers.
- Volunteerism is modeled for the Industrial Economy.
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 74.6% of the U.S. population did not volunteer in 2007. Why? Because we’re too busy. We’re driving to work in bumper to bumper traffic, shuttling kids to after school sports, studying for class, and working at Starbucks to pay for college. We’re a nation with a lot to do. And when asked, we cite “lack of time” as the reason for not volunteering.
Fortunately, Ben’s got some ideas on how to improve the situation:
- Let’s find new ways to do volunteerism.
- Perspective shift experiment
- Support Information Era volunteerism
“In addition, we can start thinking about how we can use these inspired models to inform the field of volunteerism. The private sector is quickly coming up with brilliant new ideas that take advantage of the amateur’s passion for participation. Threadless, Innocentive, iStockPhoto. These are companies that have dominated their niches by relying on loosely structured peer production. These models work. Let’s explore them deeply.”
Make sure to read the post and check out the main theextraordinaries.org site as well for information on you can get contribute or get your organization involved in a new approach to getting people to help you get things done.
links for 2009-02-07
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Perhaps PhoneGap needs a "playMovie()" js function! – A MPMoviePlayerController object defines a full-screen movie player. You can use this class to play back movies stored in your application’s bundle directory or support directories. You can also use it to play movies loaded from a network-based URL.
links for 2009-02-06
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This version contains… *drumroll* multi-touch support! Thanks to lukehutch, zinx and ryebrye, this build allows android applications to receive multi-touch events. The built-in browser now supports multi-touch zooming! It also includes an "Auto-Rotate" setting that you can enable, to allow it to change screen orientation, based on the orientation of the phone. You can turn on auto-rotate in the browser settings (it's off by default).
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The Prize
* Present the winning app at the New York Tech Meetup in front of many of your peers
* You will get posted about on www.engadget.com
* If its really good you will get to pitch it to our VCs
* A big wad of cash
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The PRAGMA statement is a special SQL statement used to modify the operation of the SQLite library or to query the library for internal (non-table) data. The PRAGMA statement is issued using the same interface as other SQLite commands (e.g. SELECT, INSERT) but is different in the following important respects:
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Based on the experience I gained while developing my Zaurus media player, here is a short compendium of optimization rules, tweaks and hints when using SQLite on an embedded system (may apply to other systems as well)
links for 2009-02-05
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The narrated walking tour led by Bob Diamond, who rediscovered the tunnel in 1980, lasts approximately an hour and a half.
The tour meets at the old Independence Bank building at the SW corner of Atlantic Avenue & Court Street, under the clock. These tours are usually held on a Sunday.
* Please wear Sneakers or Boots (no high heeled shoes).
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Treehouse is a creative, sustainable, and energetic hive for design professionals. Located at 33 Flatbush Ave, in downtown Brooklyn, the space aims for dynamic interconnections between product, graphic, industrial, and web designers. Treehouse provides coworking tables, office space, a wood shop, a proto-lab (comming up in spring), and sustainable community events with other organizations in the building. Our goal is to provide affordable work space for design students, freelance designers, and small design businesses. Become a member of Tree house and explore your creativity in an engaging community.