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Hacking Scrabble (Part One)

Scrabble-lover and hacker Tom Rees knows that the key to dominating at the popular word game hinges on knowing all the possible two-letter words. The problem? It’s not necessarily easy to memorise all 124 possible two-letter words. Here’s how Rees hacked scrabble with the judicious application of mnemonics and technology.

December 8, 2011
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Drupal Down Under Is In Melbourne This January

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It’s just over a month until Linux.conf.au 2012 hits Ballarat, but that’s not the only open source conference in Victoria in January. The weekend before LCA commences, — an event dedicated to the open source content management system Drupal — takes place in Melbourne.

November 27, 2011
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Greenfoot Provides A Visual Playground To Help Learn Java

Windows/Mac/Linux: When learning a programming language for the first time, it can be difficult to see how lines of code translate to visual elements. Free educational webapp Greenfoot provides a structured sandbox where programming students create ‘actors’ that live in ‘worlds’ to build simulations, games, and and other visual programs.

November 15, 2011
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Shapecatcher Tells You The Unicode For Things You Draw

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Need to know the Unicode character code for a specific character? Shapecatcher lets you draw a picture of it and then finds all the Unicode characters that match and tells you their hex codes.

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Tincta Is A Free Programming Text Editor For Mac

Mac: Our favorite programming text editor for Mac costs $US40, so we’re always excited when a good and free option comes along. Tincta is just that, offering several great developer-friendly features like code syntax highlighting, line numbering, autocomplete brackets, and much more.

November 10, 2011
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How To Build A Chrome Extension

Google Chrome is the best web browser around right now, and part of Chrome’s appeal is its excellent extensions. The good news: It’s not that hard to get started making your own Chrome extensions.

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Treehouse Is An Online Learning Resource For Aspiring Designers And Developers

Although there are a number of great ways to learn online, most of them cost a bit of money. Treehouse not only offers design and development lessons of exceptional quality — both in production and content — but offers them entirely for free.

October 20, 2011
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RubyMonk Teaches You Ruby Coding With Interactive Exercises

If you’re looking to get into web development and want to learn one of the more popular programming languages on the web, RubyMonk can teach you to code in the Ruby language. It features interactive lessons and exercises that you can learn right from your web browser so you can participate from practically anywhere.

October 2, 2011
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Learn A New Skill This Weekend

A weekend may not seem like a lot of time, but you might be surprised by what you can learn in just 48 hours. Here are a bunch of new skills you can pick up on the weekend, or at least master the basics.

September 22, 2011
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How To Supercharge All Your Favorite Web Apps With Ifttt

Wouldn’t it be handy if every time someone tagged a photo of you on Facebook, that pic were automatically added to your Dropbox folder? If items you starred in Google Reader were automatically added to Instapaper or Read It Later? Or if you received a text message whenever it was going to rain? If This Then That (ifttt) is a brilliant web service that let’s you plug information from one service into another.

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