Interesting Things

Richard Bradshaw's idea of what is interesting

Month: June, 2008

5 mistakes new web developers often make

Image via Wikipedia Having talked to some university students who had taken computer science/IT degrees, I was amazed by how little they seemed to know about making anything that’s secure or even remotely logical. The group I met with primarily had been taught PHP. Having looked at some sites they were designing I realised 5 [...]

Web 2.0 … The Machine is Us/ing Us

Web 2.0 … The Machine is Us/ing Us Really interestingly made video, definitely worth watching! Covers the history of the internet in a really creative way.

Powerset: Find Factz, Get a T-shirt

The new semantic search tool for wikipedia, Powerset, have just announced a competition challenging users to find interesting “Factz” using their search tool. So far, I’ve found: What eats humans? We have the usual: zombies, monsters and sharks, but the list also includes Catholics, foxes, streets and pigs… What do chickens like? Only three things, [...]

Google Mail Labs now avaliable!

Image via Wikipedia Google have released a section in the settings tab of Gmail called labs. This was predicted by a few blogs recently, and it seems to have come true today. The new labs section includes: Quick Links: Add links to the sidebar for any bookmarkable page in Gmail. This lets you add custom [...]

Need newer software for Ubuntu?

Image via Wikipedia It’s been around for a while now, but getdeb is still a very useful tool. It has links to hundreds of .deb files for easy installation of newer software that hasn’t made it’s way to Ubuntu yet. For starters, try installing: Banshee Pidgin Screenlets Tangerine Much nicer than compiling from source!