31 Aug 2010 at 21:51
Andrew
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In this A List Apart article, Kevin M. Hoffman echoes my own thoughts on some of the bland kick off meetings I have attended over the years and offers some interesting questions for consideration:
- What is the one thing we must get right to make this website/application worth undertaking?
- How does your organization define success? What is the role of the website/application in achieving that success?
- What aspects of the internal culture or external environment could put this redesign/application at risk to fail?
- (Follow up question) Assuming we mitigate that risk, what would exceed your wildest dreams?
27 Aug 2010 at 12:42
Andrew
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Fairfax Media reported net profit of $282 million, reversing a loss the previous year, and the company predicted that it would generate high single-digit profit growth in the first half of the current business year.
Fairfax’s profit compares with a net loss of $380.1 million in 2008-09 as the company undertook a major overhaul that included job cuts as it battled a shrinking advertising market.
smh.com.au
25 Aug 2010 at 13:56
Andrew
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It has been a while since I have posted anything here. It is about time I started again.
28 Apr 2010 at 09:48
Andrew
Technology
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We often talk about how to make our websites more usable, whether it’s tweaking the HTML structure of pages to benefit the user’s process or figuring out how best to display a message via CSS. But we never bring this thought process into our jQuery-based (and other JavaScript-based) elements. How can we enhance the user experience and usability of our jQuery events?
This Smashing Magazine article discusses more.
28 Apr 2010 at 09:43
Andrew
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An interesting read on the Surfin’ Safari Blog:
Before WebKit can render a web page, it needs to load the page and all of its subresources from the network. There are many layers involved in loading resources from the web. In this post, I’ll focus on explaining how WebCore, the main rendering component of WebKit, is involved in the loading process.
WebKit contains two loading pipelines, one for loading documents into frames and another for loading the subresources (such as images and scripts).
27 Apr 2010 at 09:48
Andrew
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Peter Costello has surfaced in his first corporate stoush since trading Parliament for the boardroom, lobbying Ted Harris, the deputy chairman of APN News & Media, for board renewal.
The former treasurer, a partner at the advisory firm BKK Partners, has met Mr Harris twice as his firm tries to secure a vote against the re-election of the APN director Cameron O’Reilly, son of Sir Tony O’Reilly from APN’s controlling shareholder Independent News & Media, at the annual meeting on Friday.
smh.com.au
27 Apr 2010 at 09:46
Andrew
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Advertisers and media buyers are considering penalising websites that use auto-refresh in future advertising negotiations as publishers have so far failed to set rules governing the controversial practice. The Interactive Advertising Bureau will soon release industry guidelines on the issue after the practice of automatically refreshing the content and ads on web pages at set intervals was found to inflate key advertising measures.
theaustralian.com.au
27 Apr 2010 at 09:44
Andrew
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Google has been fined $US8500 ($9100) in Brazil after an anonymous internet user posted defamatory messages on one of its sites against a priest, calling him a “paedophile”, media reported on Sunday.
A court in the state of Minas Gerais ruled in favor of the 54-year-old priest, identified by his initials J.R., after rejecting Google’s argument that the US web giant was not responsible for what users posted on its Orkut social networking site.
smh.com.au
27 Apr 2010 at 09:40
Andrew
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Ahead of Apple’s iPad launch in Australia next month newspaper publishers are pushing for the apps on the device to be counted alongside sales of printed newspapers in circulation figures.
Digital editions that mirror physical copies are already able to be counted but must be listed separately from the key circulation metric of average net paid sales.
Audit Bureau of Circulations chairman Stephen Hollings, who is also strategic sales director at News Limited, said there was broad support for including apps in circulation totals in some form.
More on theaustralian.com.au
19 Apr 2010 at 17:38
Andrew
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Parallel Information Retrieval is a sample chapter in what appears to be a book-in-progress titled Information Retrieval Implementing and Evaluation Search Engines by Stefan Büttcher, Google Inc and Charles L. A. Clarke, Gordon V. Cormack, both of the University of Waterloo. The full table of contents is on-line and looks to be really interesting: Information retrieval is the foundation for modern search engines. This text offers an introduction to the core topics underlying modern search technologies, including algorithms, data structures, indexing, retrieval, and evaluation. The emphasis is on implementation and experimentation; each chapter includes exercises and suggestions for student projects.
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