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photojojo:

People always say hands on learning is the way to go. Learn all about photography with the SLR Camera Simulator.

SLR Camera Simulator

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"Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer. And your taste is why your work disappoints you. A lot of people never get past this phase, they quit. Most people I know who do interesting, creative work went through years of this. We know our work doesn’t have this special thing that we want it to have. We all go through this. And if you are just starting out or you are still in this phase, you gotta know its normal and the most important thing you can do is do a lot of work. Put yourself on a deadline so that every week you will finish one story. It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions. And I took longer to figure out how to do this than anyone I’ve ever met. It’s gonna take awhile. It’s normal to take awhile. You’ve just gotta fight your way through."

Practices Make Perfect

by Ira Glass

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9-bits:

Apple Logo Rainbow iPad Decal on Etsy. $4.99 for some retro goodness.

Now this looks like fun! Got a new wireless remote that I haven’t found much use for…. yet.

photojojo:

Fun excuse to get a wireless remote for your camera: Jumping on the bed photos!

(Photo by lisakimberly on Flickr)

ahhh - memories!

Affordable.

onethingwell:

ScraperWiki is a platform for writing and scheduling screen scrapers, and for storing the data they generate.

ScraperWiki lets you write your scraper in Python, PHP or Ruby, schedule scrapes and download scraped data in CSV format, as an SQLite3 database or via the API. You can fork existing scrapers too, Github-style.

Let’s say you wanted to grab all the URLs from link posts on the front page of One Thing Well and store them. Here’s how, in Python:

import scraperwiki
import lxml.html

root = scraperwiki.scrape('http://onethingwell.org/')
content = lxml.html.etree.HTML(root)
linkage = content.xpath("/html/body/div/article/h2/a/@href")

for links in linkage:
    record = { "link" : links }
    scraperwiki.datastore.save(["link"], record)

You can see the results on ScraperWiki.

And here’s another scraper—a bit more complex at 26 lines of code—which grabs the URLs from every link post on OTW by following the ‘Older’ link at the bottom of the page and parsing the next page until it reaches the last one.

I only know the very, very basics of Python, but the above scrapers were really easy to cobble together by following nicking code from the ScraperWiki tutorials and a bit of trial and error.

Have a go, and let me know if you make a cool scraper.

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chrisbowler:

It has been great to see ready made solutions like HTML5 Boilerplate come out this past year. But many times these templates are overkill for what you need and bloat is the result. Initializer is a simple web page that builds a custom download based on a few choices — just pick what you need for a given project.

simpledesks:

by Mike Stimpson. via Kasper Andersson.