Thursday, October 1st, 2009

Adam Khan | Brighton, England

Data population

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More and more of OpinionJournal goes behind the paywall. Personally I think it’s the right move, because what’s there to lose? If we won’t pay, the business was over anyway. And my bet is we will.

Macworld Expo 2010 Best of Show.

On chatroulette.com.

Russell Beattie: What we really wanted was a MacPad not an iPad.

Sikuli, ingenious GUI scripting. Definitely going to try it.

This video of a tablet mockup makes me horny at last for a tablet computer. I’m excited for tomorrow’s Apple announcement. Guess I’ll be standing in line to buy one as well.

A Little Less Conversation, says Joel Spolsy.

Fake Steve Jobs pens the most insightful piece I’ve read on Google’s complaints vis-a-vis China.

Hypercritical by John Siracusa, or, The Tao of Editing.

A test of input device speed for a 221-word passage.

T

he content may be created, the system architected, installed and configured, but we’re still missing a rather important ingredient: having the content within the system. This data can either be posted manually using the system’s control panel, or, if the dataset is large, by means of a batch import.

Engaging.net has much experience performing batch imports into ExpressionEngine. In fact we’re often hired for this step only, such as bringing in thousands of blog entries when converting from a previous content management system.

Among the issues to work out here can be how to maintain the integrity of old URLs.

The entire process, with dependencies

Process