Rob Janssen

The Simpsons in CSS

Below are some Simpsons characters made in pure CSS - Made by Chris Pattle.

Chris Pattle

Simpsons in CSS I put a side project on Github the other day, Simpsons in CSS.  CSS is becoming more and more powerful and often with a bit of though you can replace basic graphics with CSS.  The advantages of this are obviously better performance and graphics that scale.

DEC64: Decimal Floating Point

DEC64 is a number type. It can precisely represent decimal fractions with 16 decimal places, which makes it well suited to all applications that are concerned with money. It can represent values as large as 3.6028797018963968E+143 or as small as 1.

On Taxis and Rainbows 

Recently, thanks to a Freedom of Information request, Chris Whong received and made public a complete dump of historical trip and fare logs from NYC taxis. It’s pretty incredible: there are over 20GB of uncompressed data comprising more than 173 million individual trips.

Scott Hanselman - Fun with JavaScript

Scott thought a talk on JavaScript would be more fun, and less productive. You can google for his Productivity talk if you like. If this change makes you sad, please complain to Scott on Twitter at @shanselman.

Necrolis/GeoSharp · GitHub

An offline Geocoding library for .Net coded in C#. Based on the awesome Java lib by AReallyGoodName: https://github.com/AReallyGoodName/OfflineReverseGeocode

Fast offline reverse geocoding java library

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MaciejCzyzewski/hyhyhy · GitHub

Presentation nano-framework. Binary installers for the latest released version are available at the Python package index.

IBM's Watson Gets A 'Swear Filter' After Learning The Urban Dictionary

According to Eric Brown, an IBM research assistant and the "brains" behind Watson, he and his 35-person team wanted to get IBM's supercomputer to sound more like a real human.

CNET Accused of Bundling Software Downloads with Trojans

A software wrapper used by CNET supposedly tricks users into installing toolbars and Trojans instead of the actual hosted program. Gordon "Fyodor" Lyon is the creator and maintainer of the widely-used network auditing and penetration-testing tool called Nmap.

This Read-It-Later-list is just that, bookmarks of stuff I intend to read or have read. I do not necessarily agree with opinions or statements in the bookmarked articles.

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