Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

UUIDs (related to GUIDs) are used frequently in computin...
7673868d-231e-490d-9c4f-19288e7e668d
This is just an example value--these are usually generat ...
Although the process for generating UUIDs is well-unders ...
... WSDAPI, please use the urn:

Motivating employees isn’t as simple as paying them mo... complex and lots of different factors contribute to thei... job satisfaction, and what motivates people to do their ... Happiness, career aspirations, challenges, money, stress... that contri

For the first time, data scientists can monetize their k... creativity just as app developers do. When this happens,... the dynamics of the industry – essentially, data scien... “self-publish” their domain expertise as cloud servi... be made acc

kids computer
Photo by Lucélia Ribeiro (Creative Commons)
The ‘Fall of Facebook’ seems an odd title given this ...

Almost all British general practitioners use compute... consulting rooms, but most hospital doctors do not
Over 30 years, leaders of the general practitioner p ...
In hospitals computing was treated as a management o ...
The success of th

Together with Morten Frederiksen and Dan Brickley (who i... SparqlPress idea), I've created a WordPress extension (c... that adds an (ARC-based) RDF Store and SPARQL Endpoint t... system. The store is kept separate from the WP tables (i... wrapper), b

I've been semi-silently working on something new. A comb...
* semantic markup
* smart data
* an rdf clipboard
... e is up, and today I created a first teaser/intro video.

Bookshelf Porn is a photoblog showcasing only the best p... bookshelves.

For plugin authors, an API is available for retrieving a...
$role = get_role('administrator');
$role->add_cap('do_foo');
To check if the currently logged in user has this capabi ...
... $role->add_cap('do_bar');

In Western cultures, girls consistently prefer pink, boy... Which academic camp lays claim to this difference? Past ... a case, in terms of the evolutionary advantage of findin... females might be biologically predisposed to prefer pink... colours. Bu

It's a line of research that Google doesn't want you to ...
Now Guillaume Hervet and his team have attempted to addr ...
The results may be of some consolation to Google and the ...
Another aspect to the results is how the participants' b ...
... ritten

Book review
THE FIRST IDEA: HOW SYMBOLS, LANGUAGE AND INTELLIGENCE E ...

Map showing the Modern Distribution of Celtic Languages In The 21st Century by reddit user targumures

Booklet is a jQuery tool for displaying content on the w... layout.

INGREDIENTS:
* 1 lb. spaghetti pasta
* 4 slices bacon
* 2 egg yolks
... and garlic in a medium bowl and beat until well blended.

One of the most popular panels at the 2012 edition of Sn... "Publication Models in Computing Research: Is a Change N... for a Change?" A lively audience of more than 100 comput... occupied the medium-size ballroom in which the four-pers... and the aud

Skinput is a technology that appropriates the skin as an... analyzing mechanical vibrations that propagate through t... Specifically, we resolve the location of finger taps on ... using a novel sensor array worn as an armband.

Regardless of setting, here are the typical steps my col...
Forage: Find existing snippets of code to build my p ...
Tinker: Play with these pieces of existing code to a ...
Weld: Try to attach ("weld") pieces of existing code ...
... repeat

A scientific result is not truly established until it is... confirmed. This is one of the tenets of experimental sci...

a way to store, sync, share, model and back up content
a work in progress
Open Source (Apache licensed)
an acronym for "Content-Addressable Multi-Layer Indexed ...
... neither "Cloud" nor "Local". happily both.

In everyday life we encounter more and more carbon dioxi...
Convert between a CO2 amount to other units as cups of t ...
Compare between two different emissions, for instance ho ...
Use our API to convert CO2 to a more understandable numb ...
Our carbon

NAVIGATE TO THERE WHERE YOU HAVE NEVER BEEN
Design your personal definition of silence, was the assi ...

Truwex Online 2.0 beta, Section 508 and WCAG Accessibili...
Erigami Home Check Web Site Accessibility ...
We are testing the new version of Truwex Online Validati ...
Truwex manages website compliance with web accessibility ...
... of Truw

I believe it’s possible to construct a simple mental f... be used with any language or library and which will lead... code by default.