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BigShot Camera Educates with DIY
November 13 2009
Shree Nayar, chair of Computer Science at the Columbia University has created BigShot, a digital camera kit for kids from eight years old and up to construct their own digital cameras. The purpose of the camera is primarily education, and testing indicates that it does a good job at that,… read moreRecursively edit files with sed
August 11 2009
Well duh, that's exactly what sed is designed to do. And nowadays most implementations have the handy -i option that makes changes in place without explicitly using an interim file. Which means that I could reduce the work of typing in the Perl script to a single line at the… read moreObscuring Email Addresses Actually Works
July 25 2009
I've always wondered if obscuring email addresses on web pages does any good, for example writing "bob at example dot com" instead of displaying the actual email address. It turns out it does read moreTechnology Innovation Site Will Launch in the Fall
July 23 2009
The Henry Ford, the museum associated with Henry Ford and his company, will be launching a new web site focusing on recent innovation and the people who make it happen. read moreUsing Ajax and Search Referrer Info to Help Users Navigate Your Site
July 22 2009
Using the referrer URL to detect what brought users to your site can let you help them find what they're looking for. The almost magical asynchronicity of Ajax lets you provide additional content for users from search engines. It requires only minor changes to your site and doesn't affect the… read morePostfix Postscreen to Increase Your SPF (Spam Protection Factor)
July 07 2009
Postfix is about to add a new tool to the anti-spam arsenal called "postscreen" for now, but the name is likely to change before it goes into a production release. Among other things postscreen detects when a client starts talking before it's supposed to. It's a daemon that accepts connections… read moreRecent Posts | All Posts

