October 2011
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Privacy & Big Data by Terence Craig, Mary E....
Upshot: If all ‘Big Data’ is to you are two words and you blissfully share away on Facebook…. I’ll be blunt: you need this book. Any downsides? WSJ links go nowhere. Might plod a little for lay folk as the authors decant the issues to English. Even so, stick with it.
To me, the problem with information sharing isn’t ‘the Cloud’…it’s Privacy & Big Data. Whether you’re sharing on Facebook or...
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And you wonder why I'm an O'Reilly DRM-Free(ak)
And THIS is why I get DRM-Free ePubs from O’Reilly and PragProg. From my O’Reilly download page:
You get lifetime access to ebooks you purchase through oreilly.com. Whenever possible we provide them to you in five DRM-free file formats — PDF, ePub, Kindle-compatible .mobi, DAISY, and Android .apk — that you can use on the devices of your choice.
Our ebooks are enhanced with...
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HTML5 Cookbook (Early Release) by Christopher...
Upshot: A great survey of HTML5, relevant examples for all levels. Good documentation of the gotchas, too. No downsides, other than it’s in draft right now.
Even though HTML5 Cookbook is in early draft — seriously, the Introduction is still a template —there is a LOT of good stuff here. If the priority with the authors was to get to the meat first, then they have executed on...
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The HTML5 Sessions: The Best of OSCON 2011
Upshot: If you didn’t make it to OSCON, or never do, here are your lectures on HTML5. The best 11-odd hours that you can spend getting up to speed. With a snag or two.
I was really impressed with the The HTML5 Sessions: The Best of OSCON 2011 videos. If you need an introduction to HTML5, start with the lecture “Refactoring for Mobile using HTML5 and CSS3” by Joseph Lewis of Sandia National Labs....
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Pallet.app & MacPorts on Lion
For anyone else who installed Pallet.app, the GUI for MacPorts on Lion… and doesn’t know where the TCL path is, it’s not in
/Library/Tcl/
..anymore. It actually moved here:
/opt/local/share/macports/Tcl/
And, of course you’ll have to use the Finder > ‘Go to Folder’ to drag the /Tcl/ folder to the ‘Open Folder’ dialog in Pallet.app.
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How to Read DRM-Free ePubs on your Mac
How do you read ePubs on your Mac? Here’s how!
Up until VERY recently there has been no way to read DRM-Free ePubs on your Mac, without the use of the excellent ePubReader Firefox plugin. And while the plugin is great for paging through ePubs, how do you:
Search for code or strings inside that 800+ page ePub on iOS Programming?
Use MacOS technologies like Spotlight or Quicklook to get at...
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