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Django Best Practices — Django Best Practices
"This is a living document of best practices in developing and deploying with the Django Web framework. These should not be seen as the right way or the only way to work with Django, but instead best practices we’ve honed after years of working with the framework. It is a fork of the great django-reusable-app-docs project started by Brian Rosner and Eric Holscher regarding best practices for writing and maintaining reusable Django apps."
python  bestpractice  django  webdev  bestpractices  conventions  tips  reference  !to_read 
april 2009 by earth2marsh
Alfie Kohn | Articles by Subject
Includes "The Case against Competition," and "What Does It Mean to Be Well-Educated?"
education  school  performance  !to_read  articles  alfie_kohn  pedagogy  parenting  kids 
april 2009 by earth2marsh
Stewart Brand Article: Environmental Heresies
proposes that environmentalists will change their mind and their behavior about four major subjects in the next ten years—urbanization, population, genetic modification, and nuclear power.
nuclear  environment  Stewart_Brand  urbanization  population  shift  !to_read 
august 2008 by earth2marsh
Jonathan Huebner: A possible declining trend for worldwide innovation (pdf)
"the evidence presented indicates that the rate of innovation reached a peak over a hundred years ago and is now in decline. This decline is most likely due to an economic limit of technology or a limit of the human brain that we are approaching"
!to_read  innovation  future  technology  pdf 
july 2008 by earth2marsh
Their men in Washington: Undercover with D.C.'s lobbyists for hire, By Ken Silverstein (Harper's Magazine)
just another day of doing business in D.C., except for one thing: "Kenneth Case" was a fiction, and his "Maldon Group" a ruse cooked up by Harper's magazine editor Ken Silverstein to demonstrate what D.C. lobbying was really like.
article  politics  lobbying  expose  !to_read 
june 2008 by earth2marsh
Google Doctype - Google Code
an open encyclopedia and reference library. Written by web developers, for web developers. It includes articles on web security, JavaScript DOM manipulation, CSS tips and tricks, and more.
!to_read  google  reference  css  javascript  webdev  resource  community  bestpractices 
june 2008 by earth2marsh
Meadow Networks » Writing
inspired by speaking engagements and current events, on wide-ranging topics spanning entrepreneurship to brand creation, transportation to sustainability, and all kinds of networking
Robin_Chase  sustainability  environment  network  articles  !to_read 
march 2008 by earth2marsh
Mobile Learning - Abilene Christian University
ongoing goal to help prepare our students to be critical thinkers, knowledgeable professionals, and responsible citizens calls for continual reevaluation of almost everything that happens in and out of the classroom - even a reevaluation of what constitut
elearning  university  education  mobile  mlearning  !to_read 
march 2008 by earth2marsh
Through the Looking Glass - The Post-9/11 Era Has Caught Up With William Gibson's Vision - washingtonpost.com
Interview w/ William Gibson (supposedly excellent according to BoingBoing. Bruce Sterling suggested questions)
!to_read  article  interview  WilliamGibson  scifi  culture  trends 
november 2007 by earth2marsh
Official Google Blog: Robots Exclusion Protocol: now with even more flexibility
We have introduced a new META tag that allows you to tell us when a page should be removed from the main Google web search results: the aptly named unavailable_after tag.
Google  search  robots.txt  robots  server  admin  sysadmin  seo  !to_read 
july 2007 by earth2marsh
Edge: WHY DO SOME PEOPLE RESIST SCIENCE By Paul Bloom and Dena Skolnick Weisberg
developmental data suggest that resistance to science will arise in children when scientific claims clash with early emerging, intuitive expectations
science  Psychology  education  Culture  !to_read 
july 2007 by earth2marsh
A List Apart: Articles: Contrast and Meaning
These basics of creative communication are consistent across art forms: painting, music, dance, acting, poetry, design, and all other artistic endeavors. I divide them into two categories: vocabulary and grammar.
!to_read  usability  design  webdesign  writing  meaning 
april 2007 by earth2marsh
Dynamist Blog: Recommended Reading
"the most influential scholar you've never heard of."
philosophy  culture  Books  Yi-Fu_Tuan  !to_read  place 
april 2007 by earth2marsh
Morningstar Investing Classroom
Choose from 172 different courses on stocks, funds, bonds, and portfolio building and monitoring.
investing  finance  education  !to_read  investment  reference  tutorial  money 
january 2007 by earth2marsh
Wired 14.07: What Kind of Genius Are You?
blo Picasso did this copy of a Raphael drawing when he was 17 years old,” the professor told the students. “What have you people done lately?” It’s a question we all ask ourselves. What have we done lately? It rattles us each birthday. It surfaces
genius  creativity  psychology  innovation  interesting  article  !to_read 
july 2006 by earth2marsh
Chapter 2: How Experts Differ from Novices | How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School
experts have acquired extensive knowledge that affects what they notice and how they organize, represent, and interpret information in their environment. This, in turn, affects their abilities to remember, reason, and solve problems.
!to_read  thinking  cognition  expert  novice 
april 2006 by earth2marsh
Shuttertalk:: Putting Together a Budget DIY Lighting System
For under US$75, this article will show you how to put together a flexible and robust lighting system that is both useful and relatively easy on the hip pocket.
photography  lighting  diy  howto  photo  !to_read  useful 
march 2006 by earth2marsh
Technology As If People Mattered : Weblog
Knowing how to use regular expressions is a lot like knowing how to cook: even though it is an incredibly useful skill, many people avoid learning.
regexp  tutorial  howto  !to_read 
march 2006 by earth2marsh
Buddhism and the Illusion of Time
There's really no "reel" or "strip" of film appearing on the screen all at once, but rather a single frame every instant, with each instantly replacing the previous one--even though its the same motionless screen they all appear on. So when you become ide
time  buddhism  !to_read 
february 2006 by earth2marsh
Read Go It Alone!
The secret to building a successful business on your own
howto  startup  !to_read 
february 2006 by earth2marsh
TECH BLOG
10 Things (in no particular order) that a web developer should do for the client (or their own website), as part of the job.
web  webdev  !to_read 
february 2006 by earth2marsh
Yahoo! Design Pattern Library
A pattern describes an optimal solution to a common problem within a specific context.
design  !to_read 
february 2006 by earth2marsh
Beginners Guides: 99 Performance Tips for WindowsXP - PCStats.com
From faster boot times, to speeding up your current hardware, PCstats has 99 Tips to make your computer run quicker, better, and more efficiently.
windows  xp  tips  tweaks  performance  useful  !to_read 
february 2006 by earth2marsh
EIK 00
During the last two weeks of January 1975 Buckminster Fuller gave an extraordinary series of lectures concerning his entire life’s work.
Science  Buckminster  !to_read 
january 2006 by earth2marsh
The Last Question
Asimov thought that The Last Question, first copyrighted in 1956, was his best short story ever.
books  Asimov  !to_read 
january 2006 by earth2marsh
Creating Passionate Users: Crash course in learning theory
here's a crash course on some of our favorite learning techniques gleaned from cognitive science, learning theory, neuroscience, psychology, and entertainment (including game design)
learning  teaching  education  !to_read  theory  howto 
january 2006 by earth2marsh
The Vega Science Trust - Richard Feynman - Freeview Video
A set of four priceless archival recordings from the University of Auckland (New Zealand) of the outstanding Nobel prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman - arguably the greatest science lecturer ever. Although the recording is of modest technical quality
physics  video  feynman  science  lectures  streaming  !to_read  education  free 
january 2006 by earth2marsh
THE WORLD QUESTION CENTER 2006
What is your dangerous idea? An idea you think about (not necessarily one you originated) that is dangerous not because it is assumed to be false, but because it might be true?
science  essays  !to_read  interesting  ideas  future 
january 2006 by earth2marsh
TripStalker - online travel bot continuously scours the Internet looking for the best price possible for airfare, hotels, cars.
TripStalker is a new, easy-to-use application that grabs the best online travel deals while you do other things, saving you precious time and money!
software  lifehacks  free  !to_read 
december 2005 by earth2marsh
Particletree · A Guide to Starting Your Business
Making your own decisions. Doing something you love. Spending more time with the family. Participating in the American Dream. Starting a business is awesome. Paperwork. Legal fees. Invoices. More paperwork. Taxes. Starting a business sucks. The Particletr
business  startup  howto  !to_read 
december 2005 by earth2marsh
Unobtrusive Javascript
Javascript is a wonderful tool to enhance the usability of web sites. It is the extra layer above the mark-up "what is this text" and the CSS "how should it be displayed". Javascript adds a new dimension, the "how should this element behave".
javascript  webdev  accessibility  howto  tutorial  !to_read 
december 2005 by earth2marsh
Google Information for Webmasters
Following these guidelines will help Google find, index, and rank your site. Even if you choose not to implement any of these suggestions, we strongly encourage you to pay very close attention to the "Quality Guidelines," which outline some of the illicit
Google  seo  webdev  howto  useful  !to_read 
december 2005 by earth2marsh
Google Analytics
Google Analytics tells you everything you want to know about how your visitors found you and how they interact with your site. You'll be able to focus your marketing resources on campaigns and initiatives that deliver ROI, and improve your site to convert
Google  seo  analysis  traffic  webdev  !to_read  useful 
december 2005 by earth2marsh
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