The labor market has to be the overwhelming factor, I have to think. Another way to reduce illegal immigration would be to make it faster, easier to migrate legally. Despite what anti-immigrantion activists want us to believe, there's no "back-of-the-line" to get your papers, so until we reform that process, people will be forced to […]
Fascinating details about how the NYTimes interactive team built 3 online features for the 2010 World Cup and how they solved some of the challenges faced. The live match tracker is an interesting exercise in ingesting data real-time from multiple sources and also re-distributing it to thousands (millions?) of clients. As the Sports department planned
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While trying to submit a patch to a drupal project, I ran into a problem creating a unified diff that could be suspected. It turns out that the way I was using the built in Subversion diff tool in NetBeans wasn't the way to go. Now, on the command line, I'm used to doing a
Awesome, now you can watch your Netflix Instant Queue on an iPhone or iPod touch. Pretty soon, many people won't need broadcast television at all. Netflix launched an iPad app months ago that lets users stream movies and TV shows over WiFi or 3G connections. Now you can do the same on an iPhone or
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Another viable option for mobile development is to use a framework like Titanium or Phonegap to quickly build out an app using Javascript. I’ve been looking at Titanium a lot lately and digging into its API. Seems like you can build anything short of a game using its API and there’s a real buzz when
Refereeing a soccer game is not much different than regulating the financial industry. There are a lot of parallels in how you would want to set up both systems to be fair and efficient. The first is that the regulator — in this case, the referee — is fallible. So the rules should make the
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Wow! Arizona politicians are using outright lies and exageration to justify their crackdown on border security. I'm glad I've never visited Arizona, and at this rate I never will. Brewer's mindlessness about headlessness is just one of the immigration falsehoods being spread by Arizona politicians. Border violence on the rise? Phoenix becoming the world's No.
This sounds like a really useful module for synchronizing content from Evernote. I've been using Evernote off and on, and have it on my phone as well. Its a great tool for taking notes and having them available everywhere. Pulling it all into Drupal parallels what I've been doing with my blog, by pulling in
This is a concise example showing how you can use the Features module to bundle configurations in Drupal into a module. It's great to see the Drupal community moving towards using code to capture, reuse, and deploy configuration settings. It's been the biggest pain point in working with Drupal for me. One of the things
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A team from my alma mater won the Solar Decathlon Europe, a competition to design, build, and operate solar-powered houses. The winning design is named Lumenhaus, an 800 square foot home and has a solar array on the roof which which changes to maximize its efficiency. An exhilarating race from start to finish, some houses