Social Bookmarks (Furl)

According to Answers.com, Social bookmarking is: “an activity performed over a computer network that allows users to save and categorize (see folksonomy) a personal collection of bookmarks and share them with others. Users may also take bookmarks saved by others and add them to their own collection, as well as to subscribe to the lists of others.”

Basically this means that instead of adding favourites or bookmarks in my browser of the moment, I collect and store interesting links online. My personal gain here is that I have build, and am building, an archive which I can reach regardless on which pc/mac I work. In the process the archive has become searchable and shareable. Many times I’ve discovered a valuable source through my social bookmarking peers.

Below you’ll find a short overview of my recent ‘social bookmarks’ at ‘Delicious‘.

Recent bookmarks:

1. How to Create an Awesome Diagnostic Drive for Your Mac:
   Create a USB rescue disk in 3 parts: 1. OS X Installer, for installations/upgrades 2. Bootable OS X, to boot and diagnose 3. Spare room to copy files
2. Using jQuery and OData to Insert a Database Record:
   Quick example on how to consume a WCF Service with jQuery and oData
3. CRUD operations on Microsoft SharePoint 2010 oData Lists with cURL:
   CRUD examples for cURL. But can easily translated to jQuery.ajax(). POST, PUT, MERGE, DELETE, GET.
4. Making DOS USB images on a Mac:
   I needed to run a BIOS flash utility that was only available for DOS. To complicate matters, the server I needed to run it on doesn't have a floppy or CD-ROM drive. I figured I'd hop on the Internet and download a bootable USB flash drive image. Right? Wrong. Skip the installation instructions, use the freedos.img to make a bootable usb drive (stick or HDD) instead to save time.
5. Map Icons Collection | Google Maps Icons, Map Markers, Free POI Icons, GIS Symbols:
   Map Icons Collection is a set of more than 700 free icons to use as placemarks for your POI (Point of Interests) locations on your maps. You can use them on Google Maps with the "My places / My maps" feature or automatically by using the Google Maps API.
6. Using the ECMAscript/JavaScript Client Object Model to read lists in SharePoint 2010 | web.0 | web development and design services – (x)html, css, javascript, jQuery, SharePoint 2010 / 2007, Magento, WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, CakePHP, php, databases:
   How to get list items from a SharePoint list with Client Object Model. Reminder for complete syntax.
7. Blueprint: A CSS Framework | Spend your time innovating, not replicating:
   Blueprint is a CSS framework, which aims to cut down on your development time. It gives you a solid foundation to build your project on top of, with an easy-to-use grid, sensible typography, useful plugins, and even a stylesheet for printing. What does Blueprint have to offer? A CSS reset that eliminates the discrepancies across browsers. A solid grid that can support the most complex of layouts. Typography based on expert principles that predate the web. Form styles for great looking user interfaces. Print styles for making any webpage ready for paper. Plugins for buttons, tabs and sprites. Tools, editors, and templates for every step in your workflow
8. Adding SharePoint Social Rating Stars to the Homepage of SharePoint Blog Sites « The SharePoint Swiss Army Knife:
   Yes, there are lots of blog posts out there that show how we can add the rating capabilities to individual blog post entries, but I couldn’t find one that described the process for adding the rating stars to the homepage of the blog site template’s summary view web part for each of the posts.
9. Developing Featherweight Web Services with JavaScript:
   This online book is generally targeted at serious web developers and those curious about JavaScript techniques for mini-applications, specifically those provided remotely; hence Featherweight Web Services with JavaScript. Along the way we cover two extremely useful techniques for programming in JavaScript: 1.Passing arguments to remote scripts via the src attribute of tags. Chapter: Passing JavaScript arguments via the src attribute. 2.Including and reusing code libraries while maintaining the simplest possible client code; ie, a single call to load many script files. Chapter: Using JS code libraries.
10. Font Squirrel | Handpicked free fonts for graphic designers with commercial-use licenses.:
    Free fonts have met their match. We know how hard it is to find quality freeware that is licensed for commercial work. We've done the hard work, hand-selecting these typefaces and presenting them in an easy-to-use format. Here are some of our favorites:

Web Development specific bookmarks:

1. Map Icons Collection | Google Maps Icons, Map Markers, Free POI Icons, GIS Symbols:
   Map Icons Collection is a set of more than 700 free icons to use as placemarks for your POI (Point of Interests) locations on your maps. You can use them on Google Maps with the "My places / My maps" feature or automatically by using the Google Maps API.
2. Blueprint: A CSS Framework | Spend your time innovating, not replicating:
   Blueprint is a CSS framework, which aims to cut down on your development time. It gives you a solid foundation to build your project on top of, with an easy-to-use grid, sensible typography, useful plugins, and even a stylesheet for printing. What does Blueprint have to offer? A CSS reset that eliminates the discrepancies across browsers. A solid grid that can support the most complex of layouts. Typography based on expert principles that predate the web. Form styles for great looking user interfaces. Print styles for making any webpage ready for paper. Plugins for buttons, tabs and sprites. Tools, editors, and templates for every step in your workflow
3. Developing Featherweight Web Services with JavaScript:
   This online book is generally targeted at serious web developers and those curious about JavaScript techniques for mini-applications, specifically those provided remotely; hence Featherweight Web Services with JavaScript. Along the way we cover two extremely useful techniques for programming in JavaScript: 1.Passing arguments to remote scripts via the src attribute of tags. Chapter: Passing JavaScript arguments via the src attribute. 2.Including and reusing code libraries while maintaining the simplest possible client code; ie, a single call to load many script files. Chapter: Using JS code libraries.
4. Font Squirrel | Handpicked free fonts for graphic designers with commercial-use licenses.:
   Free fonts have met their match. We know how hard it is to find quality freeware that is licensed for commercial work. We've done the hard work, hand-selecting these typefaces and presenting them in an easy-to-use format. Here are some of our favorites:
5. Raphaël—JavaScript Library:
   Raphaël is a small JavaScript library that should simplify your work with vector graphics on the web. If you want to create your own specific chart or image crop and rotate widget, for example, you can achieve it simply and easily with this library.
6. 20 Fresh JavaScript Data Visualization Libraries:
   There are plenty of JavaScript libraries out there for rendering your otherwise plain and boring numerical data into beautiful, interactive, and informative visualizations. The beauty of using JavaScript for data visualization is that, if created correctly, your data will be highly accessible (usually via HTML tables). A long time ago (2008), I wrote about JavaScript solutions for graphing and charting data and this article revisits the topic with twenty more JavaScript libraries that you can use to bring your data to life.
7. tzdata A collection of XML, PHP, Javascript, Ruby, JSON and CSV files compiled from the latest Olson TZ Database:
   The tz database, also known as the zoneinfo database or Olson database is a collaborative compilation of the world's time zones. This project provides the latest distribution of Olson time zone data in the following formats: •XML •PHP •Ruby •Javascript •JSON •CSV
8. Compressing your JavaScript with Closure Compiler:
   Closure Compiler is actually a JavaScript compiler, but rather than generating machine code like most compilers, it produces valid JavaScript code. It can rewrite JavaScript code in many interesting ways. It can identify constant expressions and replace them with constant values, replacing (15 * 280) + 16 with 4216. By doing this, it cuts 15 characters to 5. More importantly, it gives you the freedom to write your code in a clear and understandable way, and frees you from worrying about the final size of the code. Functions called in only one or two places can be inlined, replacing the function call with the contents of the function body, saving the space needed for the function declaration. Closure Compiler can even tell when two different variables are never used at the same time, letting both share the same name and ensuring that as many variables as possible use very short names for better gzip compression.
9. 15 Great jQuery Plugins For Better Table Manipulation:
   Table is the most difficult object to be styled, due to its browser compatibility and markup. Most of the designers and developers will use div to replace table because it is much more easier to style div than table. But, we still need table in our daily applications, one of the best example is comparison table. This article will share 15 useful jQuery table plugins for you to display, sort, filter and manipulate your data in table.
10. Integrate SexyBookmarks into any HTML page with JavaScript:
    How to integrate Sexy Bookmarks in an ordinary HTML page

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• See more bookmarks at my personal Delicious.