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Portable Contacts

jstone — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 11:00:00 -0500

The vision for Portable Contacts has been around for a long time. Sites large and small share the goal of providing users a secure way to access their address books and friends lists without having to take their credentials or scrape their data. Tagged by jstone under email, social.networking, standards, REST, web.services, reference,

Dr Scheme definitions for the Simply Scheme book

jstone — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 07:09:00 -0400

Tagged by jstone under lisp, scheme, education, library, reference, tools, book,

Simply Scheme: Introducing Computer Science

jstone — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 01:52:00 -0400

A sort of prequel to Abelson and Sussman's "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs" Tagged by jstone under programming, lisp, scheme, reference, education, book, open.content, functional.programming, abstraction, computer.science,

Game Programming Patterns

jstone — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 06:20:00 -0400

Tagged by jstone under book, game.development, programming, design.patterns, reference,

Dive Into HTML 5

jstone — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 02:27:00 -0400

Tagged by jstone under book, web.development, standards, html, reference, open.content,

Essentials of Metaheuristics

jstone — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 02:26:00 -0400

This is an open set of lecture notes on metaheuristics algorithms, intended for undergraduate students, practitioners, programmers, and other non-experts. Tagged by jstone under computer.science, algorithms, reference, book, education, open.content, heuristics,

Reversible Markov Chains and Random Walks on Graphs

jstone — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 01:57:00 -0400

Tagged by jstone under math, statistics, graph, theory, book, open.content, reference, random,

Free Software for Creative People

jstone — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 07:23:00 -0400

Tagged by jstone under book, free.software, creativity, tools, reference,

Sigil - A WYSIWYG ebook editor

jstone — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 11:40:00 -0400

Sigil is a multi-platform WYSIWYG ebook editor. It is designed to edit books in ePub format. Tagged by jstone under writing, publishing, tools, standards, xml, book, editing, free.software, open.source,

Networked

jstone — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:33:00 -0400

A networked book for network art. Networked proposes that a history or critique of interactive and/or participatory art must itself be interactive and/or participatory; that the technologies used to create a work suggest new forms a “text” might take. We invite you to participate. You can comment on an entire chapter, but the CommentPress plugin also allows you to comment on individual paragraphs. You are also welcome to translate the chapters into other languages. Tagged by jstone under book, collaboration, reference, digital.art, theory, history, open.content,

Transmaterial

jstone — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 11:07:00 -0400

A companion to the Transmaterial books written by Blaine Brownell and published by Princeton Architectural Press, Transmaterial online is intended to be a clear, concise, accessible, and carefully edited resource that provides information about the latest and most intriguing materials commercially available. Tagged by jstone under reference, research, design, architecture, materials, repository, open.content,

Core JavaScript Reference 1.5

jstone — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 10:32:00 -0400

This book is a reference manual for the core JavaScript language for version 1.5. JavaScript is Netscape's cross-platform, object-based scripting language. Core JavaScript can be extended for a variety of purposes by supplementing it with additional objects. Tagged by jstone under javascript, reference, language, programming, book,

Self Publishing Information

jstone — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 12:07:00 -0400

Tagged by jstone under book, publishing, reference, review,

Atlas Obscura | Wondrous, curious, and bizarre locations around the world

jstone — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 11:41:00 -0400

The Atlas Obscura is a collaborative project with the goal of cataloging all of the singular, eccentric, bizarre, fantastical, and strange out-of-the-way places that get left out of traditional travel guidebooks and are ignored by the average tourist. If you're looking for miniature cities, glass flowers, books bound in human skin, gigantic flaming holes in the ground, phallological museums, bone churches, balancing pagodas, or homes built entirely out of paper, the Atlas Obscura is where you'll find them. Tagged by jstone under travel, inspiration, research, geography, collaboration, reference, repository, open.content,

Well Played 1.0: Video Game, Value and Meaning

jstone — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 10:42:00 -0400

This book is full of in-depth close readings of video games that parse out the various meanings to be found in the experience of playing a game. 22 contributors (developers, scholars, reviewers and bloggers) look at video games through both senses of “well played.” Tagged by jstone under book, reference, videogames, game.studies, research, creative.commons, open.content,

HYPERSEEING

jstone — Mon, 11 May 2009 03:37:00 -0400

HYPERSEEING offers a lively mix of articles, news, reviews of books and exhibits, announcements, and even cartoons. One issue per year is typically the Proceedings of the ISAMA conference. Tagged by jstone under math, magazine, journal, visualization, geometry, reference, inspiration,

Partial Evaluation and Automatic Program Generation

jstone — Sun, 10 May 2009 06:52:00 -0400

The book Partial Evaluation and Automatic Program Generation gives a comprehensive presentation of partial evaluation: theory, techniques, and applications. It is suitable for self-study, and for graduate courses and advanced undergraduate courses on program transformation techniques Tagged by jstone under book, computer.science, compiler, research, reference, generative, open.content,

Touch Book

jstone — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 05:31:00 -0400

Tagged by jstone under hardware, open.source, mobile, design, user.interfaces, linux, laptop, free.software,

calibre

jstone — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 02:06:00 -0400

calibre is a one stop solution to all your e-book needs. It is free, open source and cross-platform in design and works well on Linux, OS X and Windows. calibre is meant to be a complete e-library solution and thus includes library management, format conversion, news feeds to ebook conversion, as well as e-book reader sync features and an integrated e-book viewer. Tagged by jstone under book, literature, tools, mobile, library, collecting, database, free.software, open.source,

Programming Vertex, Geometry, and Pixel Shaders

jstone — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 05:19:00 -0400

This book is intended for people that have some background in DirectX8 or DirectX9 programming and want to upgrade their knowledge to DirectX 10. Tagged by jstone under book, reference, open.content, online, computer.graphics, realtime, rendering, 3D, hardware, gpu, programming,