Wheter you need to explain a customer a modern web-oriented service, or your friend really doesn’t know what Twitter is: Here is a collection of famous YouTube video explanations. All in plain english and fun to view.
Twitter in plain english
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all in plain english
Fine! You just managed to finish your first Flex-base AIR application. Using FlexBuilder’s Export Release Build…., you managed to package your deployable solution into a *.air file. Finally, you uploaded the *.air file to your web-server – and your coding mates tell you that not event a bit of an installation gets started. Too bad. What happened?
Most likely, you missed to assign the correct mime-type! Don’t forget, that you need to tell browsers, that files with *.air extensions actually are Adobe AIR installer files.
If you run Apache, adding the correct MIME type is simple:
AddType application/vnd.adobe.air-application-installer-package+zip .air
As always: Big trouble, small solution.Don’t forget, that this setting is absolutely vital! You need to set it – even if some browsers might be able to run the AIR install package with it. Most browser won’t…
Donal Rumsfeld, US Secretary of Defense, 12 Feb. 2002, Department of Defense News Briefing:
As we know, there are known knowns. There are things we know we know.
We also know there are known unknowns. That is to say we know there are some things we do not know.
But there are also unknown unknowns, the ones we don’t know we don’t know.
Related to RIAs? No, not a bit! But strongly related to the current credit crunch or investment banking in general.
Satyajit Das’ beautifully explains the concepts of known knowns, known unknowns, unknown knowns and unknown unknowns in his great book Traders Guns & Money. For anybody, who aims to know the history and evolution of investment banking, Das’ book is a must.
In case you need some inspiration for an upcoming project or pitch regarding the visualization of data, have a look at Smashing Magazine’s Data Visualization overview article.
Within a single article, Smashing Magazine describes alle techniques I’ve ever seen (and partly even forgot).
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