Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Dots or people—what do you want your readers to think? (Ryan Norton via Flickr.) Jake Harris on data visualization, empathy, and representing people with dots One of my favorite movies is the classic 1949 thriller “The Third Man.” The story is about a writer who arrives in gloomy post-war Vienna on the promise of a job…
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I’ve got a stack of posts that I want to write, and realized that the all deal with Custom Variables. So, to make sure that we’re all on the same page when it comes to custom vars, here’s my guide to Mastering Google Analytics Custom Variables. For those of you that have not used custom…
Callbacks, Promises, and Coroutines (oh my!): Asynchronous Programming Patterns in JavaScript .title .title-container .author-info .author-container .infoContainer #slideview_likes Uploaded on Oct 31, 2011 This talk takes a deep dive into asynchronous programming patterns and practices, with an emphasis on the promise pattern. … This talk takes a deep dive into asynchronous programming patterns and practices, with…
This post originally appeared as a gist. Since then, the development of Promises/A+ has made its emphasis on the Promises/A spec seem somewhat outdated. Contrary to some mistaken statements on the internet, the problems with jQuery’s promises explained here are not fixed in recent versions; as of 2.1 beta 1 they have all the same…
Reclaim and make the most of the public domain at Open Book Hack Day on January 14, 2015 at The New York Public Library, brought to you by NYPL Labs and The Readium Foundation. During this day-long event, we’ll push the limits of what’s possible with ebooks and open texts, liberate public domain documents onto…
Tom Francis used to write for PC Gamer, and then he decided to make his own game. The problem was that he had very little idea of how to actually do that. He started from scratch, and the result was Gunpoint, a successful title “about rewiring things and punching people.” He’s now working on a…
The following blog post, unless otherwise noted, was written by a member of Gamasutra’s community. The thoughts and opinions expressed are those of the writer and not Gamasutra or its parent company. If you’re creating anything procedural, you’re almost guaranteed to come in need of random numbers at one point. And if you want…