Things categorized as 'development'
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- Open Code Blog - New York Times A blog about open source technology at The New York Times, written by and primarily for developers.
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Genetically Designing DIVs
Note: This is a rather rough draft of this idea. Comments are welcome.
Ah, the genetic algorithm. For those of you who are unfamiliar with this idea the intuition is relatively ...
Five Million ‘Thank You’s from Recycled Canvas
Recycled Canvas, our recycled research wordpress theme that collects data about its users, has been around for a pretty long time now. We've collected an incredible amount of data. ...
Knowledge Networks
The UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP) will hold a conference in Bangkok at the end of this month to explore the role of information ...
Designers without Borders
Originally created to provide support for the Margaret Trowell School of Industrial and Fine Arts in Kampala, Designers without Borders has become a cutting-edge consultant for schools and nonprofit groups in ...
Building Rural Communities
The W. K. Kellogg Foundation's Managing Information with Rural America(MIRA) grant-making program attempts to use collaborative community development techniques to make electronic communications and information technology more readily accessible. Funding ...
Sustainability Wiki
Appropedia, a sustainable development wiki, offers participants a chance to share everything from theoretical information about technology, poverty, and the environment to detailed plans for home improvement and art ...
Urban Renewal
The subtle beauty of working and lower-class housing fascinated poet William Carlos Williams, who praised "the old yellow wooden house indented among the new brick tenements." A community arts ...
Community Blackboard
Hole-in-the-Wall Education Limited (HiWEL) addresses development and computer literacy by allowing children to explore technology for themselves in a communal fashion, rather than relying on the one-way transmission of ...
Collaborative Conversations: Leonardo Bonanni
It is often difficult to capture the kind of conversations we have here at at the collaborative. This is an attempt to do that, in a quasi journalistic style. It ...
Lighting the World
While on sabbatical visiting Nepal's University of Tribhuvan, University of Calgary professor David Irvine-Halliday became concerned about the availability of lighting and its effects on education and health. Local schools lacked adequate illumination ...
iPhone Interaction Emulator
The iPhone Interaction Emulator is a reworking / expansion of David Cann's work intended to give you a sense of the kind of interaction users will have with ...