I would like to start doing these posts on a moderately regular basis. This is just a dump of the great links we've been passing around amongst ourselves for the last few weeks.

• Isotope11 Released Hungrytable - a gem for interacting with the OpenTable REST API
• Top 5 Mistakes of Massive CSS
• Gladius, a 3D WebGL Engine
• Rails Rumble 2012
• Gridster - A fantastic javascript library for grid interfaces with different-sized tiles
• US Census Bureau Releases API for its data
• Mario Level whose music plays itself
• Balanced Payments - payment system designed for marketplaces - Gittip is using this
• Increase your vim efficiency with shortcutfoo

Have more awesome links? Drop them in the comments..

So I bought some of the Korean 27" IPS panels that are all the rave. I had to do this to my xorg.conf to get them working with the proprietary nvidia driver:

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier     "DFP-0"
    VendorName     "First"
    ModelName      "DFP-0"
    HorizSync       50.0 - 200.0
    VertRefresh     50.0 - 200.0
    ModeLine       "2560x1440_60" 311.83 2560 2744 3024 3488 1440 1441 1444 1490 -hsync +vsync
    Option         "UseEdidFreqs" "0"
    Option         "ExactModeTimingsDVI" "True"
EndSection

There's the Monitor section. Note that I've told the driver that I know the exact mode timings for my panel - this is dangerous if you don't know what you're doing. I also had to tell the driver to not use the EDID Frequencies, because they are detected inappropriately (the EDID is actually corrupt as far as the driver knows, because the pixelclock is outside of the range of 'known valid' clocks).

This should help out anyone else that was dealing with this crap like I was :) By the way, they're really pretty.

Crafty.js is a fantastic game-building toolkit for javascript. There's also crafty boilerplate, which you should use to start a project.

Crafty's tutorials aren't really there, but the docs are good and the code's super clean. I built the first part of a number munchers clone in about an hour: https://github.com/knewter/number_muncher (it needs to be run in a webserver, rather than via a file:// url). arrow keys move, space chomps. Has no logic yet to see if you chomped successfully, etc., but all the components are there.

Anyway, if anyone is looking for a really cool js game lib I highly recommend it. Also, the people on the mailing list are doing really neat things with it.

That's all I've got...

The Actor Model is a really cool method of programming that makes concurrent programming easy. This is a fantastic video about the Actor Model of computation. It's 40 minutes long or so.

I just grabbed the MP3 and listened to it in my car on the way home...and then I listened to it on the way in again, and I'll likely listen to it a few more times. It's an interview with Carl Hewitt (inventor of the Actor Model) and Clemens Szyperski, by Erik Meijer.

NOTE: Actors are related to Celluloid and DCell, which if you've spoken to me in the last 2 months you know I'm quite interested in.

On April 30, 2012, David Wilkins spoke to the BOSS Meetup regarding OpenLayers, which is:

An opensource javascript library to load, display and render maps from multiple sources on web pages.

UPDATE: I'm presently re-encoding this to be more legible - I went from slightly-over-500MB but readable to OMG-can't-read, sorry guys