Mixin.js brings "dynamic aspect-oriented programming" to Javascript. "Dynamic" means you can add and remove independently encapsulated functionality and data to your instances on-the-fly. "Aspect-oriented" means you can flatten your class hierarchy and add/remove functionality only where & when needed.

Classic object-oriented design can force you to regularly make tradeoff decisions based on your evolving subclasses like deciding between polluting common super classes (eg. push common functionality up the hierarchy whenever it needs to be reused) vs making un-DRY code when only a subset of sub-classes require common functionality (eg. cut/paste and maintain the code). Mixin.js provides you with a light framework to avoid the decision altogether...make a mixin, use it where & when you need it...decisions made, stay made.

Just stick a small notebook in your back pocket and start writing down things you need to do the moment you think of them. And then use that notebook to guide your choices. Most of us only accomplish 50% of what we’d really like simply because we never remember to do the rest. Don’t give yourself an excuse to forget. Write it down and keep it handy.
Oh, and the more complicated the tool, the more friction it adds. Find the basic, simple tools that work for you, like scraps of paper, index cards or a notebook.
Capture. Plan. Do.

Avoiding the scourge of unemployment may have less to do with chasing after growth and more to do with building an economy of care, craft and culture. And in doing so, restoring the value of decent work to its rightful place at the heart of society.

A Silk site is a website that can be understood by both humans and computers. This enables an entirely new kind of web search and new powerful ways to visualize information. The Silk sites that have been created so far demonstrate how Silk impacts the way information is consumed. One of these Silk sites contains information about the various countries in the world, just like Wikipedia does. The site contains text like any other website, but users can interact with the content more deeply. It is like a database that anyone can use.

Objectify is a framework that codifies good object oriented design practices for building maintainable rails applications.

wysihtml5 is an open source rich text editor based on HTML5 technology and the progressive-enhancement approach. It uses a sophisticated security concept and aims to generate fully valid HTML5 markup by preventing unmaintainable tag soups and inline styles.

In my experience, there is always a context switch when you have to read why a test is failing or you have to read the log or you have to open up a terminal tab or you have to… OK you got it.

The tmux answer is panes.

Tmux has this killer feature that responds to the name of panes. They are better that windows because you really don’t have to switch a context, what you’re looking for is already there. It’s a tiny difference but it’s a very important one.

Built on an innovative core using sandboxed natives, FuseJS is a fast, extensible and robust JavaScript framework.

Libin said that all of the acquisitions were relatively small, for under $10 million in stock and equity, and that Evernote’s acquisition appetite will only increase in 2012.

But don’t go about thinking that “flipping to Evernote” is a business model, Libin says he’s looking specifically for entrepreneurs who are interested in adding intelligence and data to Evernote but don’t want to cash out, “We’re not buying people to give people an exit, we’re buying companies to give people a start. Selling your company to Evernote is the beginning of 80 hour work weeks.”

With a $99.5M treasure trove, Evernote released four amazingly awesome apps that live inside the Evernote ecosystem: Skitch (acquired), Clearly (acquired the company formerly known as Readable), Hello & Food (acquired the company formerly known as Notable Meals).  All complementary apps that work and breathe within Evernote.  But the one company so many of us are interested in knowing about is the one that makes the magical DO app that will be interwoven within Evernote like finely weaved Persian rug.  That company, the fourth one acquired last year ... is called Minds Momentum.  Yes, this is the company who makes the popular todo app for the iPhone called Egretlist that also works with Evernote in harmony.

Minds Momentum’s acquisition, I believe, also plays well with Evernote’s plan in the long term. Rather than supercharging the main client with hundreds of features, Evernote has taken the ecosystem approach in choosing to offer a centralized service with a main general purpose client and several different standalone apps for more specific purposes. The Evernote app itself isn’t the proverbial Swiss army knife: the whole service is. Honestly, I don’t want the Evernote app to incorporate a text editor and a task management tool and food diaries, and it appears that the company seems to be thinking the same thing — nurturing an ecosystem can be much more profitable and rewarding (both for the company and its users) than feature creep.

To bring your laptop or not to bring your laptop: that is the question. In today’s classrooms, students are presented with a variety of ways to take notes ranging from the old school pen and paper to laptops and tablets. This week, we take a look at various note-taking methods to try and suss out the best techniques for recording–and retaining–important information.

This site contains what we believe is the most accurate frequency data of English. It contains word frequency lists of the top 60,000 words (lemmas) in English, collocates lists (looking at nearby words to see word meaning and use), and n-grams (the frequency of all two and three-word sequences in the corpora).

Any frequency list is only as good as the corpus (collection of texts) that it is based on. Our data is based on the only large, genre-balanced, up-to-date corpus of American English -- the 425 million word Corpus of Contemporary American English. You can be sure that the data that you find here represents what you would encounter in the real world.

gRaphaël’s goal is to help you create stunning charts on your website. It is based on Raphaël graphics library.

Raphaël is a small JavaScript library that should simplify your work with vector graphics on the web. If you want to create your own specific chart or image crop and rotate widget, for example, you can achieve it simply and easily with this library.

A weblog about simple, useful software.

Marked takes Markdown text–a simple syntax you can learn in minutes–and turns it into beautiful documents for you. It will update a preview as you work (with several high-quality themes to choose from, or design your own), refreshing every time you save. It can even automatically scroll the preview to where you’re currently editing in your document.

With one click you can copy HTML for posting online or including in web pages, copy rich text, save a PDF or print your work. Marked includes tools for handling page breaks, titles, table of contents and much more.

I prefer things that hone the one thing they do to perfection rather than doing a bunch of little things half-assed. That being said, I like Awesome Note. It does try to be too many things at once, in my opinion. But it does most of those things fairly well.

Note taker? ToDo app? Both? Awesome Note is definitely a great note taker. Syncing, the extremely customizable folders, the quick-note feature…these all make it great for taking notes and organizing ideas.

If you've used Scribe before, everything works the same, start typing and words will be automatically completed or sometimes suggested in full. All you have to do is hit the space bar or a punctuation mark and move to the next word.

When the algorithm works well, it's surprisingly good, and, with a bit of practice, you can really start writing faster than you normally would. However, if you're a fast enough typist, the interface can slow you down and you'll probably be slower with Scribe.

After Google Scribe is turned on, suggestions will appear in gray as you type, and you can accept them by hitting the spacebar or by typing a punctuation mark, such as a comma, period or question mark.

Do you like to take notes while browsing to jot down ideas and other important work? There are many applications available for Mac which helps users take notes on the go. We have gathered a list of 10 best note taking apps which every Mac user should know about.

ShoveBox is an application that lets you basically “shove” documents, texts, url’s, music, and images into the application and gives you a space where you can save things.  Think of it as a virtual locker where you can compartmentalize and save things in.   The app rests in the top menu bar and you drag and drop whatever you want into it.  There are many other ways you can get “stuff” into your ShoveBox as well.  You can take notes, capture images through your iSight, jot down a quick note (something they call “quick jot”)  and import from your clipboard and put it all the ShoveBox as well.  I like that they give you so many options to get what you want into ShoveBox.

The “ultimate” entrepreneur combines someone who’s passionate and has a strong vision that they pursue single-mindedly with someone who is analytical and looks down the road and wants to understand the pitfalls along the way before they make early decisions that will get them in trouble [which is a hard combination to strike].

Sometimes when people start up a company they make decision to divide up the equity evenly because it’s “fair”. Demmler’s approach is a bit different in that the calculator provides a way to quantify the elements of the decision making process, and that it appears to be logical and fair. The elements of the decision making process are 1) Idea; 2) Business Plan Preparation; 3) Domain Expertise; 4) Commitment and Risk; 5) Responsibilities.

The idea behind the calculator is to come up with a weight for each of these five elements and then assign a value to each founder on a scale of 0-to-10. Then you take the weight and multiple it by the founders score to come up with the weighted score. From there you can get the percentage of equity. I like this a lot better than splitting things equally because it allows you to quantify what is important.

Follow That Page sends you an email when your favorite web pages have changed.

Page2RSS is a service that helps you monitor web sites that do not publish feeds. It will check any web page for updates and deliver them to your favorite RSS reader.

Subscribe to your favorite BLOGS, FEEDS, AND NEWS in seconds.

Dash is an API Documentation Browser and Code Snippet Manager. Dash stores snippets of code and searches iOS, Mac, Man Pages and custom docsets. Included docsets: ActionScript, Android, C++, Cappuccino, Cocos2D, Cocos3D, Corona, CSS, Django, HTML, Java, JavaFX, JavaScript, jQuery, Kobold2D, Lua, MySQL, Node.js, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Sparrow, SQLite, Unity 3D, WordPress, XSLT, XUL.

RED checks HTTP resources to see how they use HTTP, makes suggestions, and finds common protocol mistakes.

To me, it’s like some sort of cross between Wolfram Alpha and Wikia, allowing you to perform calculations and answer questions using your own information — and on first glance, it’s really amazing, pulling data together in a fast and powerful way. Imagine if you could perform actions across a huge database like Wikipedia: I know it would save me a huge amount of time.

Something so powerful doesn’t come from nowhere, and it turns out the service is the product of a Dutch team consisting of 11 people, who have been working on the technology for the last couple of years with seed funding from Niklas Zennstrom’s Atomico.

My team likes to use the previousElementSibling and nextElementSibling methods as it saves them having to filter out TEXT_NODES (which the majority of the time - when sifting through the DOM - they don't have to worry about).

Internet Explorer <= 8 doesn't support either method, but it's current DOM implementation ignores TEXT_NODES (when using previousSibling and nextSibling) so they already act like previousElementSibling and nextElementSibling.

In this modern day and age, how do we stay on top of the amount of information we need in our busy lives? Our days are short, so we need to free our minds to spend more time creating, inventing, discovering, and less time treating them like a database. We need a helpful tool to write, organise, and retrieve information that is simple yet powerful, private, accessible, and portable.

The trim method returns the string stripped of whitespace from both ends. trim does not affect the value of the string itself.

Sortbox is a magic folder in your Dropbox that moves files to folders based on your rules.

TRE is a lightweight, robust, and efficient POSIX compliant regexp matching library with some exciting features such as approximate (fuzzy) matching.

Xccessors is a JavaScript shim that implements the legacy methods for defining and looking up object accessors (getters and setters) of objects in JavaScript using ECMAScript 3.1’s accessors standard. This is aimed at adding support for the legacy method in IE8 RC1.

I for one favour competition in this space, gives me options as a consumer as well as creates better products for us all.

Google can certainly takes cues from where DuckDuckGo is headed with search with things like instant answers and privacy measures. 

With that being said DuckDuckGo is a serious contender for many users default search engine, but for me I found it to lack the laser like accuracy in some of innovative features which detracted from the total search experience. It is extremely customizable and I am sure they have found their niche to keep them going until they can deliver this accuracy in all features.

Fed up with browsing manual pages in a console using less or Googling for the man page only to realize that your local install differs from the man page you found? Me too, so last night I hacked together manservant to serve up local man pages over HTTP with some pretty UI sprinkled over it.

The Unix philosophy talks about software as a toolset, about tiny programs that can be composed seamlessly. The principles are sound, and have indeed stood the test of time. But they were implemented in a time when computing resources were orders of magnitude smaller, and computer interaction was undiscovered country.

In the meantime, we've gotten a lot better at displaying information. We've also learned a lot of lessons through the web about data interchange, network transparency, API design, and more. We know better how small tweaks in an implementation can make a world of difference in usability.

TermKit has received a lot of attention this week, and much of it has not been positive. It's a project that's galling to many UNIX purists, as well as those who have internalized many processes as part of their workflow.

If you’re tired of the antiquated (retro?) text-only appearance of the command line and Terminal.app, check out the fascinating new TermKit project.

TermKit aims to bridge aspects of the GUI with the command line, allowing this re-imagined terminal to see anything from icons to images, with progress bars and indicators that commands have executed successfully or failed, displaying anything that a modern web browser can (including HTML5 content), meaning there’s even fancy transitions and animations too. The developer cautions that TermKit is not a full terminal emulator, but it’s definitely very compelling even with its current limitations.

A terminal in your browser using node.js and socket.io. Based on Fabrice Bellard's vt100 for jslinux.