ProjectX Blog

Xlinks is a collections of links as discovered by the ProjectX team.

NZ govt details HTML switch off plans
Added on 07/30/2008 at 02:19PM
The website is down heh 🙂
Added on 07/30/2008 at 09:06AM

Techcrunch on Cuil
Added on 07/29/2008 at 08:37PM

Dark Knight and Game Theory
Added on 07/28/2008 at 04:30PM

Firebug lite – Firebug for other browsers
Added on 07/27/2008 at 03:35PM

Ruby / Rails books for all programmer levels
Added on 07/26/2008 at 11:07PM

Paul Graham – Ideas we’d like to fund
Added on 07/26/2008 at 01:20PM

Batman sets new box office record in US
Added on 07/22/2008 at 07:42AM

Startups and the role of capital and investments
Added on 07/20/2008 at 08:32PM

Four reasons why most startups fail
Added on 07/20/2008 at 08:32PM

Does genuine tech innovation happen in a recession
Added on 07/20/2008 at 08:30PM

Why Silicon Valley should be worried
Added on 07/20/2008 at 08:29PM

GPS tracking device beats Radar gun in court
Added on 07/19/2008 at 12:53PM

AMD loses US1.2 billion and its CEO: Ouch
Added on 07/19/2008 at 12:53PM

Yahoo hires Blaine Cook
Added on 07/18/2008 at 11:23AM

Amazon / McDonalds a lesson in awful cross marketing
Added on 07/18/2008 at 11:22AM

15 resources to get you started on jQuery
Added on 07/18/2008 at 11:04AM

JQuery plugin for smartlines
Added on 07/18/2008 at 10:38AM

What to eat to make you smarter
Added on 07/18/2008 at 10:37AM

Radiohead data visualisation using canvas and javascript
Added on 07/18/2008 at 09:45AM

The Xlinks digest is a interestig collection of links as discovered by the ProjectX team.

Yahoo Boss – an insiders view
Added on 07/11/2008 at 10:12AM
Google Lively
Added on 07/11/2008 at 09:42AM

What good is collective intelligence if it doesn’t make us smarter
Added on 07/11/2008 at 09:39AM

Economics of Software
Added on 07/11/2008 at 09:37AM

37 signals on Pixar’s tight knit culture is its edge
Added on 07/11/2008 at 09:35AM

Scaling on EC2
Added on 07/11/2008 at 09:34AM

Amazon and Google discover erlang
Added on 07/11/2008 at 09:32AM

Live full text search on ruby on rails
Added on 07/11/2008 at 09:30AM

First fullscreen demo of Android
Added on 07/11/2008 at 09:23AM

Why Project Management is important to Start-ups
Added on 07/11/2008 at 07:41AM

Auckland University rolls out gmail to 50k
Added on 07/10/2008 at 08:48AM

Understanding YSlow
Added on 07/10/2008 at 08:46AM

State of the web Summer 2008
Added on 07/09/2008 at 05:09PM

B-Trees – Balanced Search Trees for Slow Storage
Added on 07/08/2008 at 02:08PM

Google Zen Master of the Market
Added on 07/07/2008 at 05:57PM

Easy Development setup with mod_rails
Added on 07/05/2008 at 04:41PM

Sparklines – Theory and practice
Added on 07/05/2008 at 04:20PM

LBS developers wary of iPhone
Added on 07/05/2008 at 04:14PM

Rat proxy test out those security issues in your web app
Added on 07/04/2008 at 09:38AM

Why the Helio didn’t connect
Added on 07/03/2008 at 09:33PM

Here are a selection of interesting links as discovered by the ProjectX team.

Average age of TV viewer in US is 50 years old: Times they are a changing
Added on 07/02/2008 at 02:00PM
Visual thinking is 32000 years young
Added on 07/02/2008 at 01:59PM

Saying thanks in a conference presentation
Added on 07/02/2008 at 01:51PM

The merge of SaaS and Open source
Added on 07/02/2008 at 01:43PM

37 signals on the Bang and Olufsen design process
Added on 07/02/2008 at 01:42PM

Read Write Web on Collaborative filtering
Added on 07/02/2008 at 01:41PM

Extreme programming explained
Added on 07/02/2008 at 01:40PM

Top 10 hiring mistakes for startups
Added on 07/02/2008 at 01:39PM

10 brilliant social networks that you don’t know about
Added on 07/02/2008 at 01:39PM

37 signals – Features are a one-way street
Added on 07/02/2008 at 01:38PM

Working with developers in India Why whom and how
Added on 07/02/2008 at 01:37PM

Tech crunch – the crisis in Venture Captial
Added on 07/02/2008 at 01:36PM

100 vim commands every programmer should know: Ahh vi Editor of champions insane
Added on 07/02/2008 at 01:35PM

Parallel Computing – Why the future of computing is non algorithmic
Added on 07/02/2008 at 01:34PM

MooWheel and MooCirclepack for visualisations
Added on 07/02/2008 at 01:32PM

USC created TIE fighter hologram
Added on 06/28/2008 at 11:25AM

Bill Gates exit interview
Added on 06/28/2008 at 11:23AM

Paul Buchheit – The first thing you need to understand about humans
Added on 06/27/2008 at 05:50PM

Apple Oz to release downloads for Apple TV
Added on 06/25/2008 at 09:46PM

Virtual reality via your phone
Added on 06/23/2008 at 11:18PM

Xlinks is a selection of interesting links as discovered by the ProjectX staff:

Study proves Bad boys really do get the girls
Added on 06/23/2008 at 03:15PM
The Pixar Touch – The Making of a company – NY Times
Added on 06/23/2008 at 03:11PM

Happiness as your business model
Added on 06/23/2008 at 03:09PM

Hacking TCP/IP to support location awareness
Added on 06/23/2008 at 12:44PM

Bootstrappers beware
Added on 06/21/2008 at 01:01PM

Ajax Avenue no exit
Added on 06/20/2008 at 10:51PM

Subversion 1.5.0 released – simpler branching and merging
Added on 06/20/2008 at 04:36PM

17 mistakes that startups make
Added on 06/20/2008 at 08:48AM

The power of remarkable
Added on 06/20/2008 at 07:02AM

Web browsers and Memory Fragmentation
Added on 06/20/2008 at 07:01AM

Visualisation of the Code swarm for Python: AWESOME
Added on 06/19/2008 at 05:35PM

The Google User experience
Added on 06/19/2008 at 03:13PM

Adaptive path behind Myspace re-launch
Added on 06/19/2008 at 09:42AM

Open Cell Id database
Added on 06/19/2008 at 09:21AM

Value of a College Education for Ajax Developers
Added on 06/18/2008 at 11:24AM

Cooking for engineers
Added on 06/18/2008 at 10:15AM

Web design trends 2008
Added on 06/17/2008 at 11:28AM

VC’s Angels or bootstrapping
Added on 06/17/2008 at 10:19AM

Create more value than you capture.

– Tim OReilly
Added on 06/17/2008 at 09:23AM

Modules.js – a standalone dynamic javascript loader
Added on 06/17/2008 at 08:58AM

Xlinks is a collection of interesting links as found by the ProjectX staff.

15 things you can do with YUI
Added on 06/08/2008 at 05:01PM

50 things you can do with Google Charts API
Added on 06/08/2008 at 04:59PM

Hadoop use at Facebook
Added on 06/06/2008 at 09:27PM

How google plans to win the wild west of the mobile web
Added on 06/06/2008 at 06:47PM

37 signals – Why we skip Photoshop
Added on 06/06/2008 at 07:43AM




Added on 06/05/2008 at 09:49PM

Cities and Ambition
Added on 06/05/2008 at 08:43PM

Brits get iTunes movie downloads
Added on 06/05/2008 at 08:40PM

Why Tiered Broadband Is the Enemy of Innovation
Added on 06/05/2008 at 08:33PM

Firefox 3 still a memory hog
Added on 06/05/2008 at 11:16AM

Techcrunch brings us Pitches – start-up HOT or NOT
Added on 06/05/2008 at 11:15AM

Malcolm Gladwell on hiring
Added on 06/05/2008 at 11:13AM

2D driving simulator in Google maps
Added on 06/05/2008 at 11:11AM

Testing IE8 connection parallelism
Added on 06/05/2008 at 11:06AM

Introduction to Mobile Ajax for developers – Whitepaper
Added on 06/05/2008 at 10:54AM

CSS sprites – What are they why are they cool and how to use them
Added on 06/05/2008 at 10:49AM

CSS sprites – How to improve performance
Added on 06/05/2008 at 10:48AM

When to use a jpg and when to use a gif
Added on 06/05/2008 at 10:48AM

Goosh – Unofficial google search shell
Added on 06/03/2008 at 02:16PM

Firefox on track to hit 20 market share in July
Added on 06/03/2008 at 10:43AM

Xlinks is a digest of interesting links that have been found by the ProjectX staff.

How to pick up a VC – Guy Kawaski
Added on 05/31/2008 at 07:03PM
Google release Google Earth Plugin for Browser: 3 months ahead of when I predicted
Added on 05/31/2008 at 05:14PM

New iPhone rumoured to have GPS
Added on 05/31/2008 at 03:13PM

Prototip2 – Create beautiful tooltips with ease
Added on 05/31/2008 at 03:09PM

‘Help me Obi Wan Kenobi’ – Musion make Holograms a reality
Added on 05/31/2008 at 11:45AM

Findability Orphan of the Web Design Industry
Added on 05/30/2008 at 12:45PM

Zebra Stripping – does it help
Added on 05/30/2008 at 12:28PM

Improve Page performance with lazy loading
Added on 05/30/2008 at 12:17PM

Bill Gates – Windows 95 was a nice milestone: Seesh. That was a long long time ago
Added on 05/30/2008 at 08:54AM

Maps and iPhone
Added on 05/29/2008 at 04:38PM

Times machine – Browse NY Times archives from 1865
Added on 05/29/2008 at 04:25PM

Difference between a fifty-year-old carpenter and a novice

A novice needs multiple projects to learn how to able to build iteratively without mucking up the whole project
Added on 05/29/2008 at 12:04PM

Heroku – Rails hosting management system: WOW
Added on 05/28/2008 at 11:44PM

Earthmine – 3D maps are coming
Added on 05/28/2008 at 11:20PM

The art of not finishing
Added on 05/28/2008 at 10:47PM

OK / Cancel or Cancel / OK
Added on 05/28/2008 at 10:29PM

Cool big scary metal statues
Added on 05/28/2008 at 07:45PM

Yodeler – YUI extensions
Added on 05/28/2008 at 10:00AM

Google Ajax Libraries API
Added on 05/28/2008 at 09:30AM

Buses as mobile sensing platforms
Added on 05/27/2008 at 01:41PM

Here is a digest of interesting links as discovered by the ProjectX staff.

This Is Funny Only if You Know Unix
Added on 05/27/2008 at 12:00PM
OMeta – Object oriented Language for pattern matching
Added on 05/27/2008 at 11:57AM

Rolling with Rails 2.1 – part 2
Added on 05/27/2008 at 11:55AM

Rolling with Rails 2.1 – part 1
Added on 05/27/2008 at 11:53AM

21 ruby tricks
Added on 05/27/2008 at 11:52AM

Javascript information visualisation toolkit
Added on 05/27/2008 at 11:52AM

Super Mario Cart in Javascript
Added on 05/27/2008 at 11:49AM

Faster Wireless Networks
Added on 05/26/2008 at 09:55PM

Web users getting more selfish
Added on 05/26/2008 at 02:24PM

Advice to Twitter – Think ahead
Added on 05/23/2008 at 03:30PM

2nd gen OLPC is an e-book
Added on 05/22/2008 at 09:39AM

Top 10 worst entry level tech jobs in US
Added on 05/22/2008 at 09:36AM

Hash Functions – Theoretical basics mixing and evaluations of Algorithms
Added on 05/22/2008 at 09:26AM

Seth Godin – How to read a business book
Added on 05/22/2008 at 09:22AM

Geohashing comic – its easy really
Added on 05/22/2008 at 09:20AM

A selection of awesome business cards
Added on 05/22/2008 at 08:37AM

Doloto – splitting up ajax calls
Added on 05/22/2008 at 08:33AM

How to deploy a skunkworks application
Added on 05/21/2008 at 09:17AM

PC World – Top 50 Technology visionaries
Added on 05/21/2008 at 08:51AM

Evolutionary algorithms now surpass human designers
Added on 05/21/2008 at 07:33AM

Xlinks is a digest of interesting links from internet that ProjectX staff have found in the last week.

Atomisation of Conversations
Added on 05/19/2008 at 10:40AM
20 ways to fix Google Analytics
Added on 05/19/2008 at 10:38AM

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Yahoo and Microsoft back at the table
Added on 05/19/2008 at 10:36AM

UK Shops secretly track shopping habits by mobile phone
Added on 05/19/2008 at 10:35AM

Facebook chat powered by Erlang – scales to 70 million users
Added on 05/19/2008 at 09:13AM

YAWS vs Apache – performance test
Added on 05/19/2008 at 09:12AM

YAWS – Yet another webserver
Added on 05/19/2008 at 09:12AM

Performance Testing Data Delivery Techniques for AJAX PDF
Added on 05/19/2008 at 09:11AM

Why Generation Y is going to change the web
Added on 05/16/2008 at 10:35AM

Web performance – Splitting your payload:

There is more push to make your javascript load on demand
Added on 05/16/2008 at 09:40AM

Firefly – chat with people on the same site
Added on 05/16/2008 at 09:30AM

Shuttleworth calls for co-ordinated release cycles
Added on 05/16/2008 at 09:28AM

Google releases Flash API for maps
Added on 05/16/2008 at 09:26AM

GPS crimefighting in US
Added on 05/15/2008 at 12:50PM

Nokia sees half of cellphones with GPS
Added on 05/15/2008 at 12:49PM

Build your own fonts
Added on 05/14/2008 at 12:34PM

Can you catch up on lost sleep
Added on 05/13/2008 at 03:38PM

Cuzillion – Shows how webpage performance is affected by script loading
Added on 05/13/2008 at 12:20PM

High performance websites part 2 book coming soon
Added on 05/13/2008 at 12:04PM

Teaching Kids Programming by Nat Torkington
Added on 05/13/2008 at 12:02PM

JSON – The Fat free alternative to XML
Added on 05/12/2008 at 04:29PM
Processing visualisation language in javascript
Added on 05/12/2008 at 01:44PM

Google’s street view meets resistance in France
Added on 05/12/2008 at 01:43PM

‘Back to Mac’ catches a thief

Smile – Youve just be photod with a stolen laptop
Added on 05/12/2008 at 01:27PM

Gmail as an open relay spam server

Crap
Added on 05/12/2008 at 01:25PM

Rescue Time aggregated data
Added on 05/12/2008 at 12:58PM

Old java sorting algorithm demos
Added on 05/12/2008 at 12:57PM

Entrepreneurial Proverbs
Added on 05/12/2008 at 12:50PM

Unobtrusive Javascript with jQuery
Added on 05/08/2008 at 11:32AM

The art of testing web applications
Added on 05/07/2008 at 05:39PM

Larry Page on how to change the world
Added on 05/07/2008 at 05:38PM

How to explain RSS to normal people
Added on 05/07/2008 at 05:19PM

What postgres can learn from MySQL
Added on 05/07/2008 at 05:17PM

Malcolm Gladwell: Who says big ideas are rare
Added on 05/07/2008 at 05:16PM

Joel Spolsky: Architecture astronauts
Added on 05/07/2008 at 05:16PM

Vi editor written in javascript: Why??????
Added on 05/07/2008 at 05:13PM

How little do users read on a webpage
Added on 05/07/2008 at 05:05PM

Mongrel-esi – For those you want to push caching out to CDN’s
Added on 05/07/2008 at 05:03PM

Buttons Padding
Added on 05/07/2008 at 03:54PM

Firefox has 30 share in Oceania
Added on 05/07/2008 at 10:26AM

Google APP Engine: Google take on Amazons EC2
Added on 04/08/2008 at 04:35PM
Lazy websites run faster
Added on 04/08/2008 at 04:24PM
How to raise angel capital – a US site looks at the process
Added on 04/08/2008 at 04:23PM
iPhone Optimisation script
Added on 04/08/2008 at 04:21PM
High performance websites best practices by Yahoo
Added on 04/08/2008 at 04:17PM
BigTable for use
Added on 04/07/2008 at 02:58PM
scalr – Google Code
Added on 04/04/2008 at 01:52PM


paroxetine overdose

http://adsense.blogspot.com/2008/04/introducing-adsense-for-conversations.html
Added on 04/03/2008 at 05:33PM
Legacy web development that doesn’t hurt
Added on 04/03/2008 at 11:32AM
Taggin for Tagcow with Mechanical Turk
Added on 04/03/2008 at 11:28AM
Top 100 Rails sites
Added on 04/01/2008 at 11:41AM
Photoshop on the web
Added on 03/28/2008 at 05:37PM
mod_rails
Added on 03/27/2008 at 01:42PM
Wikinear – wiki places near you: Brought to you by FireEagle Wikipedia Oauth and Simon Willison
Added on 03/25/2008 at 06:26PM
Lovd By Less – A Rails-Based Open Source Social Networking System
Added on 03/19/2008 at 10:51AM
Google books nipping at Amazon
Added on 03/18/2008 at 05:51PM
All code will eventually go stale
Added on 03/14/2008 at 05:02PM
10 emerging technologies 2008 – MIT Tech review
Added on 03/14/2008 at 05:01PM
Apple’s Design process – SXSW – Michael Lopp
Added on 03/14/2008 at 04:59PM
Memory usage in Firefox 3
Added on 03/14/2008 at 04:56PM