Selection is Everything
iKnow! Blog is now encouraging users to create their lists. Some good ones will be introduced on their blogs. The user-generated lists are immensely interesting. The vocabulary per se comes from the existing and updated Cerego’s database. Users simply select what they want from there. iKnow! is free of charge, and the item bank is prolific, but Cerego Japan did nothing special to make this user-generated lists possible. No new learning algorithm. They offered the architecture for users to create the lists. Just like each official course has been made. Users select, and now users make a difference.
Selection has been an intriguing topic for me over the couple of years. In Samurai Coder , I don’t always write something new. I simply select what came to my attention. Most of the brief posts on my blog are created in that way. By so doing, do I lose credibility? People stay away from my blog? No. They love my blog for what I select. Selec...
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A Shorthand for Clearing Cache in SymfonyFrom: feeds.feedburner.com
Post Date: 2008-02-05 04:39:17
In developing with symfony, you delete the cache over and over. The symfony command for this is that:
symfony clear-cache
or
symfony cc
The second one is muct shorter, but we can make it far shorter by making an alias for the command.
Open your bash profile file. That would “~/.bash_login”, “~/.profile” or “~/.bash_profile”.
Add the following code: alias cc="symfony cc"
Close the terminal window and reopen. Now the ...
more NetNewsWire TipsFrom: feeds.feedburner.com
Post Date: 2008-02-02 17:05:42
Brent Simmons has written a series of tips: Things you may not know about NetNewsWire 3.1. Worth reading for every user.
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
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more The Worst Icon of the Year 2007From: feeds.feedburner.com
Post Date: 2008-02-02 16:56:18
Welcome back to the annual installment of “The Worst Icon of the Year”. Unfortunately, the winner for 2007 seems to have changed its icon. I was choosing English4Fun as this year’s winner.
The icon of on MacUpdate is shown as below as of today.
But the downloaded app has a tab bit more berable icon.
After all, there’s no winner this year. Takaaki Kato will stay looking for worst icons throughout this year. ...
more Podcast on Yahoo! UI LibraryFrom: feeds.feedburner.com
Post Date: 2008-01-18 20:27:20
Leo talks with Nate Koechley , a guy behind Yahoo! User Interface Library.
From this official website :
The Yahoo! User Interface (YUI) Library is a set of utilities and controls, written in JavaScript, for building richly interactive web applications using techniques such as DOM scripting, DHTML and AJAX. The YUI Library also includes several core CSS resources. All components in the YUI Library have been released as open source under a BSD license and are free for all...
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