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http://foobarpig.com/iphone/uicolor-cheatsheet-color-list-conversion-from-and-to-rgb-values.htmluseful for custom drawingalso useful for embedded UIWebView styling:http://lipidity.com/apple/iphone-webkit-css-3

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Of interest:http://vue.tufts.edu/gallery/index.cfmhttp://www.opencalais.com/

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http://www.labpartners-sf.blogspot.com/http://knol.google.comhttp://staff.pubhealth.ku.dk/~pd/ISwR1.htmlhttp://www.visualcomplexity.com

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http://www.storyofstuff.com/ is a good example of how media can be used for good. This is a clip I would show to my children. I doubt this will ever go past marketing, and catalyze real change, but it reminds me that, as an American, to subscribe to such mindless consumption is simply shameful. I'm all for consumption --- of services and ideas and innovation. Consumption with a purpose more

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overall nice blog!http://www.raywenderlich.com/553/how-to-chose-the-best-xml-parser-for-your-iphone-project

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http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/technotes/tn2004/tn2123.htmlhttp://developer.apple.com/tools/xcode/symbolizingcrashdumps.html

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http://wordpress.org/development/2009/12/wordpress-2-9/http://justintadlock.com/archives/2009/05/06/custom-taxonomies-in-wordpress-28http://justintadlock.com/archives/2009/11/09/excerpts-and-taxonomies-for-pages-in-wordpress-2-9http://justintadlock.com/archives/2009/11/16/everything-you-need-to-know-about-wordpress-2-9s-post-image-featurehttp://justintadlock.com/archives/2010/02/02/

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Some great apps:http://icode4iphone.blogspot.com/

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http://www.cloudiquity.com/2009/04/system-hardening-guidelines-for-amazon-ec2/

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http://developer.apple.com/iPhone/library/samplecode/HeadsUpUI/index.htmlalso:http://www.skylarcantu.com/blog/2009/08/14/custom-uialertview-color-chooser/Screen grab:http://www.skylarcantu.com/blog/2009/10/16/saving-a-view-as-an-image/#more-299In general a good read:http://www.skylarcantu.com/blog/category/iphone-development/http://joris.kluivers.nl/iphone-dev/?p=CustomAlert

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http://www.informit.com/guides/content.aspx?g=java&seqNum=273

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http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/entry.jspa?externalID=1601&categoryID=148http://www.dragthing.com/blog/?p=246

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Can't say I like 'em yet since I haven't tried them:http://scribu.net/wordpress/front-end-editorhttp://www.onextrapixel.com/2009/07/17/the-autopsy-of-wordpress-as-cms-with-25-great-wp-plugins-designs/

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http://code.google.com/p/kcalendar-iphone/http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1201285/is-there-any-in-built-calendar-view-in-iphone-sdkNot iphone, but general:http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-googleclndr/?S_TACT=105AGX01&S_CMP=HPhttp://phpicalendar.net/

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Wish I found this before the hour spent:http://code.google.com/p/tweetero/Setting up MGTwitterEngine with YAJL 1.0.6 for iPhone development ...

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Reconciled list of patient medications used vs. prescribed vs. filled Physician alerts for drug interactionsphysician alerts for test resultsphysician prompts at the time of visitalert to chronic illnes risks, and query existing registriespatient review of EMR data --- and updatespredict quality by risk-based scoresmeasure the following which predict success:clinical time savedusability

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Critical areas of focus for Healthcare IT (HIT) include: 1. translating incorporating the results of research into health IT products 2. Creating breakthrough solutions, technologies, and services, which may be applied in health IT in the near- and long-term, and which address identified challenges and opportunities relevant to the adoption and meaningful use of health IT; 3. Identifying a

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Apart from the fact that the PRODUCT_NAME var simply did not work, changing the name:http://www.iphonedevsdk.com/forum/iphone-sdk-development/8962-change-iphone-app-name.htmlalso means you need a new profile for ad hoc! C'mon Apple! Sheesh.

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http://www.morethantechnical.com/2009/08/09/near-realtime-face-detection-on-the-iphone-w-opencv-port-wcodevideo/http://www.morethantechnical.com/2009/05/06/iphone-camera-frame-grabbing-and-a-real-time-meanshift-tracker/video feed grabber:http://github.com/norio-nomura/iphonetest/tree/master/CameraTest/Classes/UIGetScreenImage post:https://devforums.apple.com/message/149553#149553http://

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http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/SNS/cloud-computing/index.html

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http://www.edwardbenson.com/2009/01/10/creating-a-blocking-nag-screen-with-nsuserdefaults/http://iphoneinaction.manning.com/iphone_in_action/2009/09/core-data-part-4-inserts-updates-deletes.htmlhttp://developer.apple.com/iphone/library/documentation/UIKit/Reference/UITextField_Class/Reference/UITextField.html#//apple_ref/occ/instp/UITextField/leftViewhttp://regexkit.sourceforge.net/RegexKitLite/

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http://www.bigspaceship.com/blog/labs/iphone-101-understanding-distribution-pt-i-of-ii/http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1264422/difficulties-with-iphone-ad-hoc-distribution-for-testing

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http://ericasadun.com/AppDEVkit/APIkit%20README.pdfhttp://oobject.com/home/new/developers-now-can-use-private-api-for-screen-capture-on-iphone-says-apple/39004/

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How is Mass Pay Disbursements product different than Adaptive Chained Payments??Their examples of disbursements include several overlapping scenarios:marketplacesrebatescommissionsaffiliatesrewardsgames/gamblingThese are the same ones they discussed in the Adaptive Payments session.Answer: volume --- MassPay up to 5K in one batch and async. Mass Payment API - 250 per API call and async. Pay API (

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One of H.264's most useful features is the ability to choose among many combinations of inter and intra partitions. Pictures are typically in units called macroblocks. A macroblock has typically the size 16x16 pixels and can have different types. If the macroblock type is Intra (I), that part of the decoded image is completely replaced by a new texture, while if the macroblock type is Inter (P)

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For Wordpress Video, right now each format is hard coded, so we'll want to make this more intelligent. Rather than build this from scratch, I'll try this on encoding.com or similar to see if they handle it well:http://www.blackberry.com/btsc/search.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&externalId=KB05482&sliceId=1&docTypeID=DT_SUPPORTISSUE_1_1&dialogID=31002322&stateId=0%200%2031000559

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I think that Google has flown the coop if they think they can drop support for such an important technology:Other Notes and Resolved IssuesThis SDK release adds support for Eclipse 3.5 (Galileo) and deprecates support for Eclipse 3.3 (Europa).We regret to inform developers that Android 1.6 will not include support for RFC 2549The issue preventing adb from recognizing Samsung Galaxy devices (linux

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http://blogs.zdnet.com/Burnette/?p=1133and to see the gory details:http://android.git.kernel.org/?p=platform/external/opencore.git;a=tree;h=refs/heads/release-1.0;hb=release-1.0Typical streams look like this:3GPP - lower quality, H.263, AMR-NB audio, bit rates up to 192KbpsMPEG-4 - higher quality, H.264, AAC audio, Bit rates up to 500KbpsAlso from the SDK 1.6:Emulator Skins, Android 1.6

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BioBrick PartsBBa_K223000 SoxRBba_K223001 SoxS promoterSee http://iai.asm.org/cgi/reprint/73/5/2958?maxtoshow=&HITS=10&hits=10&RESULTFORMAT=&fulltext=coli&searchid=1&FIRSTINDEX=520&resourcetype=HWFIGSoxR belongs to the MerR family of transcriptional regulators and is a sensor for the superoxide anion (O2) that is generated, for example, by redox-cycling compounds such as methyl viologen (

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* for mobile* monitor each individual conditions* reconstitutes content --- adjust frame speed, type for conditions* rebuffer, modify content as needed* smooth the curveIs there an open solution to this?* Link locaton to progressive vs. streaming video - download vs. stream based on link quality predicted vs. location, time

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Pre-scale your viewsUse Adaptorsdon't use invalidate() - use a specific Rect or region. Use Developer Settings, show screen redraw tools on the device/emulatorlook at the view hierarchy in the emulator --- avoid deep trees --- wide trees are preferred.emulator shows the rendering time, layout time, etcCompound drawables - collapse views/levels in the view hierarchy (e.g. images adjacent to text)

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http://www.displays2go.com/product.asp?ID=11444More to come later...

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http://www.biocompare.com/Articles/NewTechnology/2660/Duolink-PQ.htmlhttp://www.olink.webbhuset.com/movie.phphttp://openwetware.org/wiki/IGEM:Stanford/2009/Project_Homeostasis/Experimental_Protocols#AssaysNeed to add protocols for each part in the SiGEM list:http://openwetware.org/wiki/IGEM:Stanford/2009/Project_Homeostasis/Inflammation_Device

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http://www.widgetpad.com/61/

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http://shouldersofgiants.co.uk/Blog/post/2009/08/17/Another-Cross-Domain-iFrame-Communication-Technique.aspx

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http://docs.jquery.com/Plugins/livequeryvs.http://docs.jquery.com/Events/liveSeems the 1.3 live() feature is more limited than the plugin? But will the plugin become deprecated eventually?This seems to be the best thread so far, but I'll have to head over to IRC perhaps:http://groups.google.com/group/jquery-en/browse_thread/thread/432a0d9caae734dbMaybe a benchmark on large DOMs comparing the 2

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This might be completely incompatible, but maybe Processing is a good language for "generative bio assay" design.Some interesting Processing (http://processing.org/) work:http://www.michael-hansmeyer.com/projects/project4.html

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http://ramin.firoozye.com/tag/objective-c/

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Right now the short code doesn't have a way to specify only a thumbnail. So if you want a preview image, but NOT the player, you can't do that. Useful for some theme layouts that want to overlay text or something else on top of the preview (like another image, like NEW!) EDIT: Actually there does seem to be a way to do this: get_the_excerpt(). Unfortunately, it inserts the entire HTML element,

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Met Chris of SimTK.org tonight at Hacker Dojo. Chris is helping on their web site. Very cool site.Especially interested in : https://simtk.org/xml/rna-folding.xmlMight be very useful to carry out simulation after BioBrick part assembly in silico. Also of interest to the synbiolib discussions on licensing:http://www.wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?topic_id=166192&fuseaction=events.preview&event_id=

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Home brew Photolithography - large structures - high resolution imagesetter with plastic transparency for a maskLateral positioning of the mask and substrate, resist material, and distance between mask and substrateexposure process of how to transfer patters to the photoresist layer: contact printing or projection printingdevelopment: dissolution or etching of the resist patternAre there any home

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* in vitro protein expression and interaction analysis * platform based on a highly parallel and sensitive microfluidic affinity assay* exhaustively measured the protein-protein interactions of parts (promoter and gene to express) etc.

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Tabeling, Patrick. Circa 2003-2005Market size for gene chips, lab on chips, sensors, flow controllers, nozzles, valves, pressure measurement, actuators, relays, sata storage, strain sensors $4-8Bln in 2003 USD.(from DARPA estimates, so how good can those be!!?)Look at Burns, Johnson, et. al. Science 282, 484 (1998) for (first?) bio lab on a chip paper.Issues: data acquisition from chip to

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Here's a list of feature I already want to add for my own selfish needs, so vote early and vote often:*Support L10N strings*more examples of CDN usage (maybe a step by step for S3 integration)*implement support for Zend JobQueue or Amazon SQS, or some opensource Q --- any recommendation? I typically use ApacheMQ.*support for players other than Flash (I do a lot of mobile video stuff).*support for

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One issue I hit is that the server for ffmpeg2theora seems to have gone down? Maybe due to traffic from this project? Anyway, I was able to get the source code from:svn co https://svn.xiph.org/tags/ffmpeg2theora/ffmpeg2theora-0.24and from source.UPDATE: it finally came back up! Got the binary and used it.To get a fully functional FFMEG from source: Make sure you have libtheora, ogg, vorbis,

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Well it's not a plugin, per se, but really set of plugins, and some background tasks, and an overall suggested architecture.The basic flow so far is:(Image checked in by Hailin @ Auttomatic)Register an action (remote_transcode_one_video) so that when the user attaches a file, it fires off an exec() to run video-upload.phpin the transcoder (now we are on another server, most likely) it checks the

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http://emboss.sourceforge.net/apps/cvs/emboss/apps/remap.htmlhttp://www.ngbw.org/about_dev.phpAlso to look at:http://www.icir.org/christian/libstree/http://www.cs.ucdavis.edu/~gusfield/strmat.htmlhttp://hkn.eecs.berkeley.edu/~dyoo/python/suffix_trees/

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Of course we came in steerage! record id219405date arrived06-02-1888nameAntonio Ficcagliaaka namesgender, ageMale, 12relationoccupationFarmerdestinationUSAnative countryItalycity fromUembarkation portNaplespurposeStaying in the USAtravel compartmentSteerageship manifest id81199ship nameCachemirerecord id219406date arrived06-02-1888nameMichele Ficcagliaaka namesgender, ageMale,

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Every time I try to get out, they pull me back in...http://www.health.mil/mhscio/downloads/article150544-1.pdfhttp://www.smart.gov/awg/documents/HSPD12sca.pdf

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Got code? http://code.google.com/p/metasyntactic/wiki/NowPlayingMaybe cool - http://carsonified.com/blog/carsonified/web-apps/why-objective-j-cappuccino-and-sproutcore-are-completely-changing-the-web-app-industry/More yummies: http://github.com/jpick/twitterfon/tree/masterhttp://open.iphonedev.com/http://www.cocos2d-iphone.org/wiki/doku.php/http://www.gourmetapps.com/?p=170http://

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I am thinking this might be a good start? I couldn't find anything like StackEngine for Wordpress or WPMU...http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/gregs-threaded-comment-numbering/All the hacking I think it will take is to add a link to add to the number, a "vote", and then sort the comments (grouped by threads of course) by number. Add a dash of Ajax and it should be suitable. I'll try to post an

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http://java.ociweb.com/mark/clojure/article.html?http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tags/cloudfronthttp://book.realworldhaskell.org/read/why-functional-programming-why-haskell.htmlhttp://noeit.wordpress.com/2009/04/28/how-i-finally-understood-the-y-combinator-and-blew-my-damn-mind/http://mixpanel.com/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixed_point_combinatorhttp://alisothegeek.com/wordpress-plugins/

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Draw, label, and in other ways explain this in terms of Clojure:"Clojure is based on the idea that immutability and functionalprogramming are more important contributors to program robustnessthan is static typing." - Rich Hickey

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This is just a post of some links and references I went through as I start looking at Clojure during the HackerDojo Clojure Meetup. Some of these were explicitly discussed, and some were just tangents sparked in my mind by the discussion.Example toy program: n of k marbles problem, how many combinations?NOTE: I think this was the problem under discussion...there was some ambiguity as to exactly

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I was recently putting together a simple app that will fix a small problem. It will no doubt morph into a large app that someone will eventually try to make into a monster and (try to) solve everybody's problems. As such, I always take these as opportunities to revisit my selection of tools, and try to pick the one that not only does the job best, but also recognizes that other people, whom I

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For new Facebook developers, especially those who have never had the need to host their own server, getting started often represents an unwelcome learning curve. MotivePath and GoGrid have created a tool to assist in getting up and running quickly.A Facebook application has essentially 3 ingredients:The configuration Facebook needs to link their site to your application contentThe application

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We can show you how to use interactive video to enhance your campaign. The main features to notice:The watermark overlay of the advertiser, in this case GreatOutdoors.comHighlights on either the action or the productslinks on location to Google Maps custom POIs that show location info (and link back). NOTE: I have no idea if this is Mt. Bachelor or not :)Clearly this is just a simple demo, a more

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I rarely go to web sites, especially Web 2.0 glossy sites ;) and sign up and immediately start using it. But then there's a site like www.razoo.com which adds value to the human condition. Love it!The challenge is to define XPrize ideas. See my previous post in October 2006. Here's another:(see http://beta.razoo.com/acts/YourXPRIZE )Another XPrize should go to the organization that "open sources"

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First: size matters.As I understand it, and correct me if I am wrong, PHP was designed for relatively small, simple web applications and as such is reflected in its small, simple core.Ruby, and RoR, as well as Python are true 3GL languages with applications across web and non-web domains.Then there are frameworks, but that is another post.Second: productivityRelated to size, how fast do you want

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Looking over the open source F8 app by NewsCloud. I may post a UML diagram if I have some time to kill, but essentially it breaks into these parts:init tasksFacebook input processingResponse processingItem 1 is accomplished through some very reasonable ctor code and PHP classes. (They seem to be using PHP4.) This pulls in their underlying libraries for SQL access, templating, formatting, etc.

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Check it out:OnMYList - My Save the Planet listCongrats to Noah and the team for a decent UI and an addictive idea.

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OK, so I looked at RoR and had some fun; now a headlong excursion into the YAML-y goodness of PHP Symfony. http://www.symfony-project.com10:08 PMForgive me if I seem short tempered...I hurt my back this week, and it is excruciating. So I will tolerate very little from the gods of software in terms of framework lunacy. Either it works or it doesn't!10:09 PMDownloaded Symfony already ( http://

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Julia T. Ficcaglia passed away peacefully in her sleep at age 92 during the early morning hours of Tuesday, June 5, 2007 from complications brought about by severely advanced arthritis. Julia was born in Far Hills, New Jersey on September 19, 1914 and came to Phoenix in late December 1942 to marry Raymond Ficcaglia at what is now St. Mary's Basilica in downtown Phoenix on December 31, 1942 and

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Recently stumbled upon:Ficcaglia, MariantoniaFemalecensus date 1/10/1824Parents:Fater - Ficcaglia, ErricoMother - Aspromonte, MariaPaternal gradfather - Ficcaglia, Domenicofather's occupation - water-man (probably a river boat captain!)Record Number: 5Piccirelli, Mariantonia b. ABT 1779 Family:Marriage: ABT 1799Spouse: Ficcaglia, Domenico b. ABT 1770Children:Ficcaglia, Enrico Testa,

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"Architecture is a science, arising out of many other sciences, and adorned with much and varied learning: by the help of which a judgement is formed of those works which are the result of other arts."---Vitruvius, Roman architect circa 40BC (requoted from Wikipedia)Whever anyone asks me to review or define an architecture, the first thing I am reminded of is something Grady Booch said in a

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Of course not, but here's a concern that the very enthusiastic proponents of this (and other) schemes don't seem to worry about.So, if i register as Bill Gates on OpenID, post a blog with a picture I scraped from Wikipedia, and then start blogging on how much I love BSD and how I was forced to work at Microsoft all those years by aliens...then users of your system could detect that this is phony,

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Minute By Minute Log of the Very First RoR Exploration8:00 PMDinner's done; Top Chef on Tivo skimmed. Ready to dive in.8:03Laptop finally Loads. I hate XP. Where's my old Fedora laptop anyway?8:04http://www.rubyonrails.org/docsSeems like a good place to start.Tutorials...hmm, ok. http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2005/01/20/rails.htmlOK, download stuff. No problem.8:12http://rubyforge.org/frs/?

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This is a topic I proposed for Startup Camp: Anti-MashupBuild a new web service from scratch in days...for fun and profit?(a.k.a. Startups for the hyper-impatient)(a.k.a. "Stealth mode" is for weenies!)Topics include:* Which framework(s)* Which language(s)* What skills requiredThe goal is not to lecture but to listen to real-world examples, hear tales from the trenches, and provide starting

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The Second X Prize (http://genomics.xprize.org/) may bring radical new "wet science" breakthroughs; but where does all that data go?A cursory look at ftp://ftp.ncbi.nih.gov/genbank/genomes/H_sapiens/ shows that the latest data weighs in at just over a Gig, compressed! I don't know if that contains annotations, SNPs, STSs, Cytogenetic Bands, etc. (Anyone care to give me some real world figures?)

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As best I can tell from what little info is available (noting that I was not a participant of Hack Day, or in any way part of the Hack cognoscenti), a primary difference between the free and premium API access will be that the free account APIs will not allow full email content access. I can only assume that this is to protect the revenue stream for premium features derived from full content

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