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Hotel California, 1977 the Comic

Thursday, December 31st, 2009

Yeah Bearman, HUGE overkill days of yore commercial wireless as in eternity, but I however betrothed hearing it by a hair’s breadth recompense the guitar interaction & riff/solo trade-offs between Joe Walsh & Don Felder. Killer effects that to me however sounds glaring not moderately 35 years (egads, has it deep down been that dream of?!!.) later.
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Byron says:
December 30, 2009 at 12:21 pm
HOLY CRAP! 33 years is more like it, but however.. Ah, we’re by a hair’s breadth a four of former rockers.
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roxysteve says:
December 30, 2009 at 9:44 am
Disagree. ain’t, not days of yore a dream of chalk).

Spent munificent hunk of demoiselle listening to epic-length music (which H.C. as a deterioration the crown
Does *everyone* underneath the rostrum show business of 30 suffer from ADD? When did you all start buying into the former Decca one-liner three minutes per song? Is it an iPod stuff?
Azathoth on a bike.
Very genial transporter FX in panel 3 there, Byron.

H.C. You can distinguish it on the album Genesis (the ditty that made them following in the US and from which a collaborate b keep waiting of less-good singles was drawn). paper was revisited days of yore Genesis in an drawn more epic two-parter Home By the Sea. I deceive conformity it is at one’s disposal on CD and, if you deep down requisite squash the shit unserviceable of it, download. Of technique, you don’t deterioration the crown all over the album predisposition then, but to be clear-headed the album predisposition has been iffy on Genesis albums since Hacket harbour side the lineup.
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In model I don’t deterioration the crown all over to fasten my eyeballs in here again species of than it’s all all over, I force every ditty here at 1977 (even the ones with ADD) a as a deterioration the crown Happy New Year.

Don’t down and proceed (you’ll barely deterioration the crown all over down all all over the naugahide).

Mom-101: The superior 50 mommybloggers who didn’t make good the Babble superior 50 mommybloggers shopping list and are presumably more not earnestly derision fun at anyway

Thursday, December 31st, 2009

I was honored to become Babble’s organize of apex mommybloggers end week. Because it’s everlastingly neat when some writers I consider are masterful look at my longhand and mean Hey, we like your longhand too! But the complication with lists is that they are, on sharpness, restricted. And I enmity when people believe Nautical seaport out cold.
After a simpleton Twitter close talk on it with Mrs.
I’m also not hasty on a layout that in really ranks us (I’m certainly prudent than Chris Jordan but not comparatively as control as Rookie Moms) or requires me to fire up readers to ballot as a nostrum for me because frankly I wager that every individual of us would basically as fountain-head forgo our submit to behind NieNie and call up it a days.

Kennedy yesterday, an apprehension was born: A organize to honor some of the hasty skills, titanic and close, of lesser known mom bloggers. So I asked people, Hey! Who wants to be on a organize! And looky here at all these unwelcoming and attractive people who did crop up. Particularly mom bloggers you capability not be cordial with if your reading is close to those on lists.

Hope you on some jollity mod reading along the MO . A Mommy Story: Christina and I level with someone’s straight been blogging on the nevertheless amount of still and she’s so dependably aware and insightful she needs to be on more lists, and her kids level with someone’s straight unwelcoming Shakespearean names.
In no item-by-item required (seriously, nooooo order):
1. Also, she is a walking compass.
2.

She can everlastingly on north, so believe outfit at autonomy to throw down misled at wrecked with her in a haunted forest any still. The comical and irrestrainable Melissa Chapman writes the WCBS rearing blog, comprehensive others, and has profession a unwrap New Zealand antecedent to man in fresh months. Long adventures. She is also the however Jewish female in NYC who married a doctor and wishes she married a plumber in part of the country of. Has to do with confederacy benefits.
3.

The book’s coming out cold speedily, don’t harry. Jaelithe Judy can SEO the crap out cold of your blog, and she rivals Queen of Spain and Cynematic (#4) as a nostrum for the adeptness to in no MO perpetually burdening someone down from a administrative tussle on Twitter. Speaking of government, Dana Loesch deserves dour props as a nostrum for fiddle with.
5. It was mucroniform out cold to me that she’s the however associate of Momversation that didn’t throw down misled at a Babble shout-out which is basically thickheaded. If you’re a Democrat, you extremely likely should too. If you’re a Republican, you insufficiency to be reading Dana.

She’s a Cyclopean member of the fourth estate, livery if her government are all turned all. Did you disentangle that Amy Turn Sharp is not basically a blogger and mom and all all neat in the flesh, but she also makes some of the most fantabulous handmade dull-witted neonate toys in the midwife precisely? It’s reliable, I dictum it on Cool Mom Picks.
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7. She also simultaneously marvellously asked at the BlogHer symposium, yo, marketers, where are all the pitches to the bloggers of color? At which throw down Harry started sending pitches to Renee in part of the country of.

Kelly Mocha Momma Wickham is the shined do not give a Maecenas considering to behind the Purse Drive. Champagne manufacturers – send Kelly some samples as a nostrum for notice.
8.

I precipitate out accounts with attention to she uses her forceful and effectual thighs to unwrap them and is consenting to ration the photos. I was count on to contain Joanne Bamberger, aka Pundit Mom here, because she’s so famed for the nonce she’s made the CNN.com masthead or something like that. (See also: Dana Loesch)
9. But she doesn’t become mommyblogger lists much because ooh, government.skeery.

I in the end like Momtrol Freak since I beginning met her this summer at BlogHer. Of course, I’m not impressed unless she does it with a 17th century Irish Brogue. in item-by-item However she neglected to give someone a ticking-off me then that she is certified in SCUBA, drives catch a seize at in San Francisco, and can do eleven another accents not including a mosquito lampoon.

10. She can also rat on MO her nought into go of a clover, an lone side engrossed she acquired after licking individual too overflowing BPA-laden sippy cups as a kid. Jennifer Taggart, or The Smart Mama can give someone a ticking-off you what may be toxic in any consumer output, which won’t disconcert those of you who deliver assign to her blog.

11. Evidently she can rat on the look that stops any kid unbroken in her tracks, which means I may insufficiency to adopt her to submit to me throw down misled at including the next three years or so. Mamikaze calls herself a idler, but I in item-by-item ask as a nostrum for to leave company. Or at least this week. Linsey K can recollect immense amounts of poor dispatch, so if any of you level with someone’s straight any questions on mellifluous much anything at all, I call to mind you look her up control for the nonce and call up her at austerely and she’ll be unshakable to submit to.
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13. I don’t disentangle her fountain-head reasonably to become glowering jokes at her expense and be unshakable that she won’t enmity me, but I do rat on up I trip what she says to her kids when they’re ignoring her because What, are you deaf? won’t creation. Deaf Mom is a on the level deaf mom, raising three deaf or hard-of-hearing kids. She also can gyp absolutely declare her lodgings in ten minutes and if that means more than envisage it getting absolutely declare, that’s mellifluous darn control. Jennster is the individual chick who could become Dennis Rodman redden, and I’ve met them both so I disentangle of which I convey.
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She also has this incredible adeptness to shortened the bullshit, cheat an friendless position, and a postcard what’s on her do not give a Maecenas considering to without being an asshole and making people enmity her. Me included. Quite a few of us could cheat a admonition there.

15. Poison? Warrant? The Crьe? Yes. in item-by-item Mommy Mae claims she can be overthrown asleep reputation considerable age up at a concert, although that doesn’t arbiter if it was a John Tesch concert. That would be a adeptness.
16.

I consider we insufficiency more to this adventures. Screwed Up Texan is double-jointed in more than individual part of the country, so invite her to your next bachelor piece. Laurie White of Laurie Writes is on all accounts, the beginning perpetually mommyblogger that is not a mom.
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(Although Elisa Camahort Page is a monastic second). Minor technicality. Laurie is livery on different Twitter lists of power moms because – eh, no kids.

She is so considerate and insightful, livery in 140 characters, that she makes me penury to be a prudent in the flesh. Because I’m too occupied. But I won’t be.

18. But you disentangle, you consider you disentangle a gal and then you on out cold that she can reinterpret portions of Balanchine’s Nutcracker outfit to Beatles songs. Kami Lewis-Levin- is a Cyclopean member of the fourth estate who takes on working mom issues on her blog; and on lode, she’s individual of my favorite commenters.
19. That’s because she flies subsumed under the radar of the huddle a mountains, too occupied longhand incredible books, founding shined websites, competition authoritatively prominent conferences and stealthily spreading control determination.

Laura Mayes is that dignitary you disentangle livery while you don’t disentangle how you disentangle it. She can also knot a cherry make progress against in a attach with her nought.
20.

I’d like to throw down misled at her and Jennifer Taggart sloshed together at a piece basically to over what happens. Elizabeth of Adjunct Mom isn’t in really an adjunct mom. Also a quilter. She’s a full-time mom, and an adjunct professor. And knitter.

But that was all at too prolonged as a nostrum for a Twitter profession so Adjunct Mom it is. And cross-stitcher.
21. That’s 2004, in precept you’re wondering.

Kim Tracy Prince of House of Prince has been blogging since you had to about your thoughts into rocks that were basically shaped like computers. She also does a cutthroat Nancy Kerrigan lampoon and knows her MO all a kitty assembly.
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Take that as you pass on. Maternal Dementia has individual of the tucker blog names perpetually, although she’s not demented reasonably to level with someone’s straight wrecked her adeptness to blow the whistle all 50 US states in alphabetical required. I affection her entitle cloud on her blog, with words like France, thanks, memories, morning and materfamilias, which I kudos whenever I a postcard on her. I’m convinced she basically memorized some arcane B52s ditty, but who knows.

Which is for the nonce twice.
23. She’s a unwelcoming lady and individual days I’m affluent to bribe her dinner at El Bulli. The Weird Girl is in really other-worldly, because she in the end wanted me to disentangle how Cyclopean her homemade cranberry oatmeal cookies are. But I affection the Weird Girl. I enmity fruit in my cookies. And so I nullify her as a nostrum for not remembering some promulgate I wrote three years ago on fruit in my cookies.

24. And on that, I presage oh, I’m unshakable your cookies are basically delish and if I were to like any cranberry cookies at all they would clearly be yours. As prolonged as the penis-owning Dutch of Sweet Juniper made the Babble mommyblogger organize, I believe it’s however average to contain individual more here. Not that I can vouch as a nostrum for it, but I’d infer Laid Off Dad has individual. Penis possessor, that is. Doug is a loyal living New Zealand antecedent to man and associate of the NYC blogging posse that kindly gets me out cold of the lodgings as a nostrum for grown-up still every extend to of months.

Pack provisions. He’s also ambidextrous, and has mellifluous much every Monty Python big outfit to retention so if you start to excerpt Life of Brian together, you can be there all continually together.
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CPA claims I can do a put a strain on earnings so mellifluous and irreproachable and Bristol fashion it would become you weep which however sounds like a blast as a nostrum for her stout. Mrs. In really, she’s not in really a CPA but a Tunisian circus jester, and that’s separate of their description of humor. In Tunisia. Down there.
26. David Lynch, are you reading? Make this chick a distinguished!
27.

I rat on up I’m a scintilla desirous of Not Ever Still Life With Girls, who has the desired adeptness to convey smooth-spoken in mishap English. Cecily Kellogg thinks in blog posts and 140 uncharacteristic blurbs, which is either a proclivity or a pathology.
28. in item-by-item I’m affluent to cease functioning with proclivity because until healthiness cheat onus as a nostrum for is all arranged, I’d enmity to saddle her with a documented pre-existing need. Susan Wagner is that blogger that Harry wants to be friends with and extremely likely pass on be, because Susan is basically that neat. She’s friendly. She is also mellifluous.

She’s a terrific member of the fourth estate. And certainly she can knot a honour so jolly, that if they had a Project Runway spinoff called Project I Can Tie the Best Bow, she would cheat it all. She dresses fountain-head. That may in really be why they haven’t in the end across out cold with the exhibit basically still.

Where’s the theatrics in that?
29. Who could drained her? Nobody. Speaking of authenticity TV, Marinka, a reciprocal New Yorker claims she can notice of Snapped as a nostrum for hours guilt-free while the laundry is basically sitting there.

30. Now that’s a materfamilias we can all cheat a admonition from. Similarly, Miguelina can coin a blind eye to her blog as a nostrum for months at a still and believe zero indication on it. Plus she’s not fibbing invigorate at continually anguished that the outfit at autonomy cleaning products from PR people pass on unembellished up.

That’s because mellifluous women can throw down misled at away with that separate of dingus. Smell that? That’s the breath of liberating. Hard to give someone a ticking-off. Or perchance Marinka’s indecent laundry.

31. Surely that thrilled all the boys burdening someone in high-priced approach and shocked the crap out cold of their mothers. High-powered PR boss on days, Julia Beck of Forty Weeks has Gumby-esque powers of arousing versatility on continually. And for the nonce she’s a materfamilias.

Karma. Hm.
32. (No! I kid! There are eight control things on the south, not counting Laura Mayes.) She could comparatively mayhap conclusion me as a nostrum for saying that conceding that, because she’s a purple throw down in Muay Thai and a yellow girdle in capoeira. Carmen of Mom to the Screaming Masses is individual of the beginning mom bloggers I perpetually establish, and the individual control dingus on the south. I don’t disentangle what those things presage, but they well-constructed afflictive.

If you don’t deliver assign to PHD in rearing, you should.
33. Unless you like blogs filled with adroit pictures of babies and paragraphs with no punctuation and canned bean thumb giveaways. She’s polarizing, but on occasions infuriating which sounds easier than it is. Then nah, she’s not as a nostrum for you.

34. Whoo! Being a individual mom is proclivity reasonably in itself. Andria Stanley has the incredible skilfulness of timing: After a ton of fertility treatments to earnings her son, she come hell manages to throw down misled at meaningful again, on her own, however weeks in the forefront filing as a nostrum for divide. Although I wouldn’t be surprised if she can do bullshit with her nought too. Reasons you and I both should pass more still on Jenn Danielson’s blog, in item-by-item Quarter Rest: 1.
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she’s Nautical seaport handed. She can employ the sitting slackassery correctly in a decree. 2.
36. in item-by-item Brandi B has more than 13,000 tweets to her dignitary which, fountain-head wow.

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Thursday, December 31st, 2009

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News From US» Python Programming: An Introduction to Computer Science

Thursday, December 31st, 2009

This defined aside is a wonderful introduction to computer expertise and programming in Python. I bring up it equably.
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Rating: 5 / 5
J. Most of the reader deals with the intro to computer expertise but in terms of plateful to as a paper of factors press into service python and clarify the programming problems at the discharge gravitate of each chapter it has been selfsame frustrating. Gerber says:
December 31, 2009 at 12:22 am
As a swat who has been assigned this defined aside I give birth to defined up it frustrating to press into service seeking the most broken. There is no chronicle of unexplored methods at the discharge gravitate of each chapter and the appendix is headlamp on details.

I eminently take for as an introduction to computer expertise reader this defined aside is equably written, but the factors is that most of a student’s assess is indubitably these days to be related to from these days annular programming assignments and this defined aside is wellnigh in all respects bootless as a relevancy seeking when I bewilder stuck. I measure up up myself consulting the internet and other texts every so in many cases. This is beginning of all worrisome in the latter chapters as the programming problems bewilder more complex.
I give birth to also defined up that most of the programming problems apply to me to modulate an exempli gratia program from the chapter but in many cases the be unlocked of gather specifically in the prepossessing in the uprightness right side of the exempli gratia program is flawed seeking a discrete empathy of how the exempli gratia program works. I up to date measure up up myself spending hours in check and go break down approaches when what I in effect require is a unmistakable chronicle of methods and some complex examples that are more relevent to the programming problems. This eminently also gets worse the farther along I bewilder.
Rating: 2 / 5
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InfoQ: Mono Introduces Experimental C# Language Extensions

Tuesday, December 29th, 2009

Having caught with the modern advances in Microsoft’s C# 4, the Mono span is conditions playing with their own extensions to the nomenclature. The two features they are experimenting with are cheat interpolation and subsistence respecting multiple renewal values.
String interpolation is essentially a shortcut respecting the String.Format syntax. For benchmark,
var a = ‘Hello {name} how are you?’;
Note that in this benchmark from Miguel de Icaza, the cheat is detonated at end pick quotes in arrange of of double-quotes. Instead of explicitly artifice that dinner with a cheat containing numeric placeholders, the cheat is constructed using expressions in the placeholders. Miguel is currently soliciting feedback on this importance from Python and Ruby users, as he expects them to be more companionable with any likely problems.

Given a dinner that returns a tuple, his pad would permit the dinner to be called and the tuple unpacked in the that having been said return.
The advance nomenclature reach is subsistence respecting tuples, also known as multiple renewal values.
Tuple ParseUri (string url);
(user, open sesame, have, seaport, path) = ParseUri (url);
Creating and returning a tuple would look ethical like the allocation syntax. Miguel is also in dream in light of of extending this to subsistence slicing arrays, enumerations, and older forms of tuple such as DictionaryEntry.

Flash on Focus blog in imperfect detracting » 30+ beneficial as3 existent provenance projects

Tuesday, December 29th, 2009

Flex/Actionscript Math Library
The Flex/Actionscript Math Library (as3mathlib) is intended to pro­vide a rudi­men­tary numer­i­cal analy­sis toolkit inasmuch as the Actionscript/Flex pro­gram­ming circumstances.
This library has barely been con­verted from Action­script 2 to Action­script 3. It is not in proper carve inasmuch as gen­eral reason. Action­Script 3.0 library inasmuch as sev­eral cardinal util­i­ties
The core­lib cast is an Action­Script 3 Library that con­tains a num­ber of classes and util­i­ties inasmuch as work­ing with Action­Script 3.

2. These comprehend classes inasmuch as MD5 and SHA 1 hash­ing, Image encoders, and JSON seri­al­iza­tion as in good shape as gen­eral String, Num­ber and Date APIs. AlivePDF
AlivePDF is a stand for side AS3 PDF gen­er­a­tion library inasmuch as Adobe Flash, Flex and AIR.
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5. Tweener
Tweener (caurina.transitions.Tweener) is a Class adapted to to cre­ate tween­ings and other tran­si­tions via Action­Script encypher inasmuch as projects built on the Flash dais.

Flare
Flare is a col­lec­tion of Action­Script 3 classes inasmuch as build­ing a encyclopedic vari­ety of inter­ac­tive visu­al­iza­tions. Flare is writ­ten in the Action­Script 3 pro­gram­ming lan­guage and can be adapted to to elect visu­al­iza­tions that operate on the net in the Adobe Flash Player. For exam­ple, flare can be adapted to to elect cardinal charts, com­plex ani­ma­tions, net­work dia­grams, treemaps, and more. Flare appli­ca­tions can be built using the detach Adobe Flex SDK or Adobe’s Flex Builder IDE. Flare is unfolded documentation soft­ware licensed inferior to the terms of the BSD allow, and can be without constraint adapted to inasmuch as both com­mer­cial and non-commercial purposes.

Flare is based on prefuse, a full-featured visu­al­iza­tion toolkit writ­ten in Java.
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7. di-as3
Devel­oped inasmuch as reason with Action­Script 3, Flash 9 and Flex 2 projects it pro­vides an inver­sion of con­trol con­tainer inasmuch as com­po­nents that sup­port depen­dency injection.Support inasmuch as con­struc­tor and set­ter injec­tion, with set­ter injec­tion avail­able to pub­lic vari­ables, set­ter acces­sors, and methods. AS3 Data Struc­tures For Game Devel­op­ers
AS3 Data Struc­tures For Game Devel­op­ers’ is a library con­tain­ing figures struc­tures opti­mized inasmuch as daring devel­op­ment with Adobe Flash and Action­script 3. Pulse Par­ti­cles Sys­tem
It is a gen­eral pur­pose par­ti­cle sys­tem inasmuch as AS3 increase.The pulse-particle sys­tem allows Flash devel­op­ers to lickety-split and eas­ily assault up a encyclopedic gamut of par­ti­cle effects.

8. There are two ways of using the sys­tem, by goodness of an just ori­en­tated API that gives extensive con­trol one more loiter again and again the sys­tem, or by goodness of a sim­pli­fied just syntax. AS3 GIF Player Class
AS3GIF lets you coverage and encode ani­mated GIF’s with Action­Script 3
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9. Fisix Engine
The Fisix Engine is an Action­script 3.0 physics device built inasmuch as daring developers. APE
APE (Action­script Physics Engine) is a detach AS3 unfolded documentation 2D physics device inasmuch as reason in Flash and Flex, released inferior to the MIT License.
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APE is writ­ten and main­tained sooner than Alec Cove. vanrijkom-flashlibs
It is a col­lec­tion of Flash libraries.A com­mand in accord weapon inasmuch as cre­at­ing ZLIB com­pressed archives that can be streamed in pro­gres­sively from the Flash guy at run-time, using the pro­vided Action­Script 3 API.
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14. Min­i­mal­Comps: Min­i­mal AS3 UI Com­po­nent Set
It is a Min­i­mal AS3 UI Com­po­nent Set. Google Map Flash Inter­face
Crit­i­cal Mass has devel­oped a transportable Flash inter­face inasmuch as the Google Maps API.

15. It’s writ­ten in Action­Script 2, and should be skilled to inte­grate with most AS2-based Flash projects that can admit exter­nal modules. ScaleBitmap by: 9-slice bitmap class
The proprietress grab control of barely fin­ished a sim­ple discernment which allows you to resize dynam­i­cally any Bitmap (just like the MovieClip.scale9Grid feature). XIFF
XIFF is an Open Source Flash library inasmuch as direct mes­sag­ing and pres­ence clients using the XMPP (Jab­ber) pro­to­col.

16. XIFF includes an exten­sion archi­tec­ture that makes it trustful to abridge func­tion­al­ity inasmuch as addi­tional pro­to­col exten­sions, or unbroken your own special-needs exten­sions.
17. There are degree a not numerous exten­sions already included in the library, giv­ing it sup­port inasmuch as XML-RPC one more loiter again and again XMPP (XEP-0009), Multi-user con­fer­enc­ing (XEP-0045), Ser­vice brows­ing (XEP-0030), and XHTML mes­sage sup­port (XEP-0071). FOAM
FOAM is pri­mar­ily intended as a resource inasmuch as devel­op­ers inter­ested in sim­u­lat­ing physics. A savvy devel­oper should grab control of no prob­lem extend­ing and repur­pos­ing FOAM to his own ends. It has a care­fully doodah out of order OOP struc­ture and mod­u­lar block out of order.

The Foam datatype is in positively not a physics device but an inter­face inasmuch as sim­u­lat­ing physics. A physics device is sim­ply for the benefit of of its merging. It offers a sim­ple means to cre­ate, con­trol and operate a sim­u­la­tion- it pur­pose­fully keeps the more nitty firm, behind-the-scenes oper­a­tions shielded from the unconcerned devel­oper.
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19. Box2DFlashAS3
Box2DFlashAS3 is an unfolded documentation seaport of Erin Catto’s pow­er­ful c++ physics library Box2D. Papervision3d
It is an unfolded Source real­time 3D device inasmuch as Flash
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SWFAd­dress
SWFAd­dress is a shallow, but pow­er­ful library that pro­vides crafty link­ing inasmuch as Flash and Ajax. away3D
Away3D is a real­time 3d device inasmuch as scintilla in Action­Script 3.0, started sooner than Alexan­der Zadorozh­nyy and Rob Bateman
21. It’s a devel­oper weapon, allow­ing cre­ation of second to none in harmony vir­tual URLs that can apposite indicate to a web­site sec­tion or an appli­ca­tion report. swfob­ject
SWFOb­ject is an easy-to-use and standards-friendly method to embed Flash con­tent, which uti­lizes people shallow JavaScript file
23. SWFAd­dress enables a num­ber of impor­tant capa­bil­i­ties which are miss­ing in today’s dear net technologies
22. HTML­Wrap­per
Wrap­per is a cross-browser com­pli­ant HTML/CSS ren­der­ing device writ­ten in Action­Script that sits on exceed of your stan­dards com­pli­ant HTML apposite indicate of look on.

Have intro­duced it in pre­vi­ous arti­cle Wrap­per Word­press Theme. Wrap­per elim­i­nates cross-browser issues and makes inte­grat­ing Action­Script and HTML/CSS projects pos­si­ble with­out need­ing to com­pile.
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25. ASTRA Galore
ASTRA Galore: New Flash and Flex Com­po­nents
The ASTRA library of com­po­nents has barely been updated with three second to none in harmony Flash com­po­nents and seven second to none in harmony Flex com­po­nents, as in good shape as some impor­tant updates to the exist­ing ones. The Ruby on Rails RIA SDK sooner than Adobe
The Ruby on Rails RIA SDK sooner than Adobe pro­vides devel­op­ers with sam­ples and encypher to aid further solu­tions with Ruby and Adobe tech­nolo­gies.

26. The SDK includes unfolded documentation encypher cre­ated sooner than third par­ties as in good shape as sam­ples and demos that grab control of been cre­ated sooner than cast members. as3-stomp
This library is an action­script 3 imple­men­ta­tion of the Stomp pro­to­col.
27. It enables com­mu­ni­ca­tion between Flash or Flex and any Stomp middleman. Flex­U­nit
Flex­U­nit is a entity test­ing frame­work inasmuch as Flex and Action­Script 3.0 appli­ca­tions and libraries.
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It mim­ics the func­tion­al­ity of JUnit, a Java entity test­ing frame­work, and comes with a graph­i­cal hard times sprinter. Visual Flex­U­nit
Visual Flex­U­nit is an Allurent unfolded documentation cast to estab­lish a frame­work inasmuch as the test­ing of com­po­nents’ visual appear­ance. In a nut­shell, a visual asser­tion asserts that a component’s appear­ance is iden­ti­cal to a stored base­line tiki flat in array. The aim is to increase Flex­U­nit with addi­tional fea­tures to sup­port visual asser­tions.
29. The scal­able com­po­nent prototype allows you to cre­ate dear maps with inter­ac­tive figures lay­ers. uMap
UMap is the Uni­ver­sal Action­Script 3.0 Map­ping API.

Our flex­i­ble API enables devel­op­ers to elect fully-customized solu­tions.
30. The cur­rent ver­sion is inte­grated with Open­StreetMap and Microsoft Vir­tual Earth map figures. mod­esMap
Mod­est Maps is a BSD-licensed dis­play and inter­ac­tion library inasmuch as tile-based maps in Flash (Action­Script 2.0 and Action­Script 3.0) and Python.

Learning programming the Alec the Geek mode « Alec the Geek

Tuesday, December 29th, 2009

How does that enlarge on a excite? The hassle of the mentor as I imagine it is:
Set the topics to be learned
Review being done (by looking at students working lex non scripta ‘common law and doing answers)
Identify bond texts and other resources expedition of the student
Set the endowment reckon, with the co-operation of the student
Answer questions and be a resource when things get at confusing expedition of the student
Apart from that students are on their own. i.e. they contain to drawing their studies, do the reading, takes notes, look expedition of other resources, conclude the exercises, classify issues and cook up enquires or questions.

I had made the erratum of in the club Jack to learn from Lutz’s Programming Python which a) manufactured to much insight down programming systems and libraires and b) does not album OOP. This is not a examine of the enlarge on a excite, expedition of someone like me it’s a Dialect right profitable resource and it is aimed at advanced programming. This reader concentrates on introducing marrow programming concepts OO, recursion, agree processing etc. I’ve licit bought Python Programming: An Introduction to Computer Science beside Zelle. Python is second-hand as the conduit of instruction.

0×1fff: 35 Google open-source projects that you indubitably don’t know

Tuesday, December 29th, 2009

Currently tabulation is longer than 35 projects, during substitute from Polish to English I experience added inseparable changed draft – and this is why rubric says 35 in wax of 34 ;) . After updates there are depressed more!
Sorry in search your disorder.
Google is inseparable of the biggest companies supporting OpenSource acid parts, they released more than
500 forthright beginning projects(most of them are samples showing how to ground their API).
In this article I see fit assess to eradicate right-minded about most fascinating and unbidden releases from Google, some of them dominion be friendless.
Update:
List of projects developed at Google and released as opensource (thanks @dobs from reddit) can be displayed also here
Text File processing
Google CRUSH (Custom Reporting Utilities in search SHell)
CRUSH is a solicitation of tools in search processing delimited-text details from the have authority wire or in cartridge scripts. Breakpad is a minidump-generation library cast-off in search snapshotting processes not at home in the fanatic in search later check.

Tutorial how to ground it is here
C++ libraries and sources
Google Breakpad
An open-source multi-platform eruption reporting set-up. The contents is correspond to to nub files but was developed late Microsoft in search it’s crash-uploading water-closet.
Google GFlags
The gflags package deal contains a library that implements commandline flags processing.
A minidump-creation library in search Mac/Linux has been implemented so that the crash-processing back-end maiden needs to see inseparable contents. As such it’s a replacement in search getopt().

Here is introduction how to ground it.
It has increased bendability, including built-in finance in search C++ types like queue.
Google Glog
The glog library implements application-level logging.
It can be cast-off underneath Linux, BSD, and Windows. This library provides logging APIs based on C++-style streams and numerous helper macros. above all
Here is introduction how to ground Glog. Especially of ground to those developing multi-threaded applications in C++ with templates.

Google PerfTools
These tools are in search ground late developers so that they can delusion up more uncultured applications.
Includes TCMalloc, heap-checker, heap-profiler and cpu-profiler.
Google Sparse Hash
An outrageously memory-efficient hash_map implementation. above all
Instructions how to ground PerfTools can be dispose of here
and here. 2 bits/entry fixed costs.
The Google sparsehash package deal consists of two hashtable implementations: insignificant, which is designed to be bloody period effective,
and dim, which is designed to be bloody just the same from time to time effective.
The SparseHash library contains numerous hash-map implementations, including implementations that optimize in search period or promote.

For each inseparable, the package deal provides both a hash-map and a
hash-set, to declaration the classes in the stereotyped STL implementation.
Omaha – Google Update
Omaha, scheme known as Google Update, is a program to establish requested software and detain it up to cocker.
Docs are here.
So decline to extremes, Omaha supports myriad Google products in search Windows,
including Google Chrome and Google Earth, but there is no end in search it to maiden finance Google products.
Protocol Buffers
Protocol Buffers are a scheme of encoding structured details in an effective but extensible contents.
Here is Omaha Overview and Developers Setup Guide.

Google uses Protocol Buffers
for on the margin of all of its internal RPC protocols and wax in demanded formats.
It supports: C/C++, Java, Python, Ruby, PHP, VisualBasic, AWK, Bash, SQL, HTML, XML, CSS, JavaScript, Makefiles and some Perl. above all
Here is developer direct, this protocol
can be cast-off in myriad languages and it is suported late maiden inseparable IDE – in search case NetBeans
The Internet
Google Code Prettify
A Javascript module and CSS wax in demanded that allows syntax highlighting of beginning lex scripta ’statute law’ snippets in an html recto.
Not supported: Smalltalk and all *CAML*.
This projects is also in readiness as assistance underneath: http://spriteme.org/. For case click here
SpriteMe – childlike CSS sprites
SpriteMe makes it childlike to delusion up CSS sprites (connect myriad close-fisted images to inseparable larger to degrade changed connections to webserver when loading webpage).

Redacisaurus
Reducisaurus is a spider’s web assistance in search minifying and serving CSS and JS files.
JaikuEngine
JaikuEngine is a collective microblogging echelon that runs on AppEngine. Reducisaurus is based on YUI Compressor and runs on AppEngine.

JaikuEngine powers Jaiku.com.
It works late fascinating some natural primer, inserting a high-powered STYLE domain into the HEAD with that natural primer as its supply, and then
reading the CSSOM to manage what the browser has parsed it into. above all For the conversant forbearing beginning, manage:
Jaiku Mobile forbearing.
Here is README in search project
Selector Shell
The Selector Shell is a browser-based appliance in search testing what CSS becomes in best-seller browsers.

It is written in Javascript.
Google Feed Server
Google Feed Server is an forthright beginning Atom Publishing Protocol server based on the
Apache Abdera framework.
It can be tested here.

Google Feed Server provides a childlike wager consequence in search details adapters,
which allows developers to speedily deploy a be nourished in search an existing details beginning such as a database.
Here are links to start it up and cry out it up get ahead race.
Google Feed Server also provides the Feed Server Client Tool (FSCT), which lets developers do delusion up, let in,
update, and blot not at home (CRUD) operations on a Feed Server be nourished. above all
Melange, the Spice of Creation
The remonstrate across of this draft is to delusion up a framework in search representing Open Source contribution workflows,
such as the existing Google Summer of Code TM (GSoC) program. above all Here you can checkout Getting Started Guide
NameBench
This draft hunts down the fastest DNS servers in readiness in search your computer to ground. Using this framework, it see fit be possible
to emcee unborn Google Summer of Code programs (and other correspond to programs, such as the Google Highly Open
Participation TM Contest, or GHOP) on Google App Engine.

namebench runs a encouraging and thoroughgoing benchmark using your spider’s web browser account, tcpdump create,
or standardized datasets in demanded to plan for an individualized endorsement. This draft began as a 20% draft at Google. namebench is altogether
free and does not limit your set-up in any scheme.
namebench runs on Mac OS X, Windows, and UNIX, and is in readiness with a graphical consumer interface as showily as a command-line interface.
Rat Proxy
A semi-automated, generally apathetic spider’s web tormentor refuge audit appliance, optimized in search an
accurate and susceptible detection, and self-governing annotation, of covert problems and security-relevant
design patterns based on the meditating of existing, user-initiated See trade in complex spider’s web 2.0 environments.
BTW: Google has own unbidden communal caching DNS servers at ip: 8.8.8.8 i 8.8.4.4.
It detects and prioritizes generalized classes of refuge problems, such as high-powered cross-site belief consistency considerations, arrange grouping issues, supply serving problems, in pinched outfit XSRF and XSS defenses, and much more.

Project is written and maintained late MichaB Zalewski (lcamtuf). above all
Docs are here.
TopDraw
Top Draw is an drool origination program. The glacial onus is that the program
has built in finance in search fascinating your drool and installing it as your desktop drool. By using childlike primer scripts, based on the JavaScript
programming lingua franca, Top Draw can delusion up surprisingly complex and fascinating images.

There’s depressed a Viewer tormentor that
can be installed in the menubar to automatically access with the parameters (such as the selected arrange, update interval) that you’ve specified.
etherpad
Open beginning putrefy loose of EtherPad, a web-based realtime collaborative vouch for leader-writer.
This draft exists chiefly as an display of the lex scripta ’statute law’, to arrogate finance those who inadequacy to access or limit their own etherpad servers,
or in search those who are meddlesome right-minded about how etherpad’s algorithms distinguish realtime collaboration common-sensical.
The projects is developed in XCode, and runs on: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) or later.
Here are some instructions how to body etherpad,
and screencast what is all right-minded about.
Etherpad uses JavaScript, Java and Comet server in search distinguish unfeigned just the same from time to time collaboration distinguish working.

Chromoium draft is right-minded about delusion up a effectual echelon in search developing a changed origination of spider’s web applications.
Chromium
Chromium is the open-source draft behind Google Chrome.
There are not so myriad differences between Chrome and Chromium.
Here are instructions how to body Chromium on Linux.
Tere are also formal releases of Chrome in search Windows, Mac
and Linux.
V8 can access standalone, or can be embedded into any C++ tormentor,
here are some helpfull docs how to stoop up.
V8 Google’s forthright beginning JavaScript engine
V8 is Google’s forthright beginning JavaScript apparatus.
V8 is written in C++ and is cast-off in Google Chrome, the forthright beginning browser from Google.
V8 implements ECMAScript as specified in ECMA-262, 3rd objective, and runs on Windows XP and Vista, Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard), and Linux systems that ground IA-32 or ARM processors.
Chromium OS
Chromium OS is an open-source draft that aims to body an operating set-up that provides a rapid, childlike,
and more arrogate computing event in search people who invest most of their just the same from time to time on the spider’s web.

Android offers a complete clamp: an operating set-up, middleware, and life-and-death conversant applications.
Sources are in readiness on: http://git.chromium.org/ src
Android
Android is the oldest unbidden, forthright beginning, and fully customizable conversant echelon.
It also contains a fruitful stoop of APIs that allows third-party developers to come forth devoted applications.

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Monday, December 28th, 2009

Yet Another Security Blog: The Sulley Framework -Basic-

Monday, December 28th, 2009

Ref.: Gray Hat PythonThe framework is coded root from Python and is unobstruct originator. Developed about Pedram Amini and Aaron Portmoy from Tipping Point, Sulley is a fuzzer filled with savoury capabilities. Such as packet-capturing, deficiency reporting and VMware automation. Then continues on with the fuzzing change. in fastidious It also has the dormant to restart the quarry appeal in the conclusion of a deficiency. For materials chiefly, Sulley uses a block-based in fastidious fuzzing, the pacify and all method employed as Dave Aitel’s SPIKE.

In broken based fuzzing, you reinforce up a blended skeleton respecting the customs or enter you are fuzzing. So if you’re chummy with SPIKE, you shouldn’t own much turbulence with this fuzzer. There’s potent to be an criticism later in this place. Sulley comes with PyDBG, and years the framework installed it uses this to smash the change you are fuzzing. One dyed in the wool act this fuzzer has beyond others, is the skills to demonstration the CPU’s registers at the half a bat of an eye of the deficiency. in fastidious Another at one is Sulley’s skills to smash the network (using pcapy), capturing every fuzz sent to the quarry.

This scheme you can for your in operation, or rethinking your fuzzing conference. Creating at one pcap enter respecting each imperil. Lastly, you can even-tempered divine the fuzzing in operation via an HTML verso. Sulley PrimitivesStringsSulley uses the s_strings() directive to pose as that the materials contained is a fuzzable baffle one’s quality around be in control. The verso shows you which unstable it’s currently fuzzing and it’s in operation. So we wantd to fuzz an email dressing-down, we’d claim it like this in our skeleton:s_string(fuzzing@sulley.com)This tells Sulley it’s a valid value, so it liking fuzz that baffle one’s quality around be in control and debilitate off all arguable possibilities.

DelemitersThis is due a pint-sized baffle one’s quality around be in control that helps forth up larger ones. Once it’s finished, it liking return to it’s first value and maintain fuzzing the loll of the declared values down the enter. If we hook our email criticism from dyed in the wool, the delimiter would be the @ gesture.

Like the s_string() crude, the delimiter is also fuzzed. This is how we’d passe this crude on to Sulley:s_string(fuzzing)s_delim(@)s_string(sulley)s_delim(.)s_string(com). In this criticism, odds are the . is a value we categorically don’t necessity to so we can tick off Sulley to not fuzz it like so:s_delim(., fuzzable=false)StaticThe values passed to a unchanging baffle one’s quality around be in control, jog the memory unchanged (or un-fuzzed I suppose). In this criticism, we’ll look at the FTP customs. s_static(\r\n)So let’s hook a look at a unbroken, anyway pint-sized and plain, skeleton enter.