res page 15 - Dave's Blog

Search
My timeline on Mastodon

IFComp 2010 results released

2010 Nov 16, 12:53PermalinkCommentstechnical

Conan O’Brien Presents Show Zero – The Fastest Talk Show Ever

2010 Nov 2, 9:16PermalinkCommentsvideo conan-obrien talk-show humor tv

The Kingfish Cafe — Southern cuisine in Seattle, WA

2010 Oct 28, 9:36Seattle restaurant serving delicious Southern food visited just today for lunch.PermalinkCommentsrestaurant seattle food capitolhill southern

An Analysis of Browser Domain-Isolation Bugs

2010 Oct 28, 7:49PermalinkCommentsdavid-ross security browser research web webbrowser technical todo system:filetype:pdf system:media:document

Yahoo! Accepts OpenID Authentication with Google

2010 Oct 28, 6:32PermalinkCommentsOpenID Second Level Features YDN Theme Categories technical

Urban Speaker, A Remote Public Address Art Installation

2010 Oct 6, 2:31PermalinkCommentsart qrcode qr sign phone cellphone

John Resig - ECMAScript 5 Strict Mode, JSON, and More

2010 Oct 6, 7:35Layman summary of ECMAScript 5 strict mode.PermalinkCommentsecma es5 strict js javascript json reference security technical article john-resig

JavaScript - The Evil Parts

2010 Oct 4, 2:10Billy Hoffman on web securityPermalinkCommentsbilly-hoffman javascript web technical security video presentation

Revision 60.000, first bits of the URL API and pingin’ the anchor « Peter Beverloo

2010 Sep 27, 3:08Adam Barth's URI API draft starts to appear in webkit: "One of the things Adam Barth is currently working on is an URL API. Citing it, the API can be used for constructing, parsing and resolving URLs through scripting, easening up tasks like getting and setting parameters. Today the first part landed in WebKit, which added the “origin” property."PermalinkCommentswebkit adam-barth uri url api javascript dom html html5 browser webbrowser technical

C-SPAN Video Player - House Judiciary Subcmte. Hearing on Immigration and Farm Labor

2010 Sep 24, 8:38"Comedian Stephen Colbert joined the panel of witnesses at a House hearing on immigrant farm workers. Mr. Colbert has partnered with United Farm Workers and their campaign calling on unemployed Americans to take jobs in the agriculture sector. The organization's president, Arturo Rodriguez, also testified at the Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security hearing chaired by Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-CA).
Washington, DC : 2 hr. 10 min."PermalinkCommentshumor video stephen-colbert politics immigration farm labor house

Area Man Suddenly Realizes He's The One Who's Been Killing Off World's Bee Population | The Onion - America's Finest News Source

2010 Sep 8, 2:16'Following a news update on the depopulation of honeybees across North America and much of the world, it suddenly dawned on local bank teller Keith Orlander Tuesday that he, personally, was responsible for the dramatic and theretofore unexplained disappearance of the insects. "Boy, come to think of it, I guess I have been killing millions of bees lately,"'PermalinkCommentsbee bees humor onion

Download a new Radiohead concert film for free | Music | Newswire | The A.V. Club

2010 Sep 4, 8:10"Reminiscent of the Beastie Boys "Awesome; I Fuckin'Shot That", more than 50 Radiohead fans captured the band's Aug. 23 show in Prague on Flip cameras, with the resulting footage later assembled into the new Live In Praha DVD."
PermalinkCommentsradiohead music video youtube

Presentation Zen: A long time ago, before death by PowerPoint

2010 Aug 23, 10:48What if the death star briefing in Star Wars IV had Power Point?
PermalinkCommentshumor powerpoint office starwars presentation communication

DVD Ripping and Viewing in Windows Media Center

2010 Aug 17, 3:05

I've just got a new media center PC connected directly to my television with lots of HD space and so I'm ripping a bunch of my DVDs to the PC so I don't have to fuss with the physical media. I'm ripping with DVD Rip, viewing the results in Windows 7's Windows Media Center after turning on the WMC DVD Library, and using a powershell script I wrote to copy over cover art and metadata.

My powershell script follows. To use it you must do the following:

  1. Run Windows Media Center with the DVD in the drive and view the disc's metadata info.
  2. Rip each DVD to its own subdirectory of a common directory.
  3. The name of the subdirectory to which the DVD is ripped must have the same name as the DVD name in the metadata. An exception to this are characters that aren't allowed in Windows paths (e.g. <, >, ?, *, etc)
  4. Run the script and pass the path to the common directory containing the DVD rips as the first parameter.
Running WMC and viewing the DVD's metadata forces WMC to copy the metadata off the Internet and cache it locally. After playing with Fiddler and reading this blog post on WMC metadata I made the following script that copies metadata and cover art from the WMC cache to the corresponding DVD rip directory.

Download copydvdinfo.ps1

PermalinkCommentspowershell wmc technical tv dvd windows-media-center

Google Prediction API - Google Code

2010 Aug 13, 11:46RESTful machine learning API from Google... "The Prediction API implements supervised learning algorithms as a RESTful web service to let you leverage patterns in your data, providing more relevant information to your users. Run your predictions on Google's infrastructure and scale effortlessly as your data grows in size and complexity."PermalinkCommentsrest ai google programming analysis machine-learning development technical

Gamers beat algorithms at finding protein structures

2010 Aug 4, 2:29Using games for good! Foldit players are solving real biochemistry problems. "Scientists have turned to games for a variety of reasons, having studied virtual epidemics and tracked online communities and behavior, or simply used games to drum up excitement for the science. But this may be the first time that the gamers played an active role in producing the results, having solved problems in protein structure through the Foldit game."PermalinkCommentsvideogame game biology science research

Access Hulu from Outside the U.S. Without a Proxy Server

2010 Jul 12, 7:11How to get around Hulu's physical location filtering: Use something like Fiddler to add the X-Forwarded-For header that HTTP proxies with an IP address associated with a phyiscal location you desire and block your port 1935 which Flash uses for RTMP (see http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/164/tn_16499.html)PermalinkCommentshulu proxy security tv howto technical

Google and Outlook Calendar Sync'ing

2010 Jul 8, 9:00
I previously described my desire to hook my Outlook calendar up to my Google calendar. I just found out that I can do this and the reverse as both support publishing calendars to the Internet. The following are how I set this up under Outlook 2010 and Google Calendar:

In Outlook, I go to the calendar view, right click on my calendar and select "Share Publish to Office.com". At this point I can change the permissions to allow anonymous Internet access, and under Detail change between 'Full details' (full calendar), 'Limited details' (subject lines & availability only), 'Availability only'. Availability only is almost just what I want -- I'd also like to include location but availability only is good enough. After hitting OK here I get a 'Do you want to send an invitation...' dialog box. I hit 'Yes' and I can copy the webcals:// URL out of the email window that opens up. Next, to add it to my Google calendar, I open http://www.google.com/calendar/, and under 'Other calendars', I select 'Add Add by URL', paste in that webcals:// URL but change the 'webcals' at the start to 'https'.

In Google Calendar, I can click on my calendar name under 'My calendars', select 'Calendar settings', and on the new page, look under 'Calendar Address', click the ICAL icon, and copy the URL in the new dialog. Now back in Outlook I go to the Calendar view, right click on 'My Calendars', and select 'Add Calendar From Internet...'. In the new dialog that pops up I paste in the URL from Google Calendar.

In this fashion I can share public calendar data between my personal and work calendars.
PermalinkComments

Great Job, Internet!: Arrested Development as an action movie? Better than no AD movie at all... | Film | The A.V. Club Blog | The A.V. Club

2010 Jul 6, 2:10Parody Arrested Development movie trailer using clips from the show to look like an action film.
PermalinkCommentshumor video arrested-development movie parody

What every programmer needs to know about game networking « Gaffer on Games

2010 Jul 5, 8:38"This way the player appears to control their own character without any latency, and provided that the client and server character simulation code is deterministic – giving exactly the same result for the same inputs on the client and server – it is rarely corrected."PermalinkCommentsnetwork programming game technical quake history
Older EntriesNewer Entries Creative Commons License Some rights reserved.