Linkdump for October 13th
¶ by Rob Friesel-
by Nicholas Zakas (at YDN Blog):
The second takeaway is that JavaScript-disabled users exist. While 2% of U.S. visitors may not seem like a lot, keep in mind that over 300 million users visit the Yahoo! homepage each month. That means 6 million users visit each month without the benefit of JavaScript. So even though it’s worth spending your time on the JavaScript-enabled version of the site, there are still a non-trivial amount of users out there who won’t be able to use it.
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for RadRails and Aptana Studio 3 (another reason to take another look at Ruby)
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via @rmurphey
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at B²:
There are plenty of technologies that he doesn't use (including laptops!), and he is very bullish on individuals and communities making thoughtful and concerted efforts to choose the tools that work best for them. His chapter on Amish hackers — the early-adopter Amish technologists who experiment with new gadgets and report back to their communities on how they effect the rhythms of their lives — is an inspiring call to arms. Kelly wants you to make choices about technology, but he also wants you to understand that technology is also making choices about you.
Looks like this will be a great companion read to Carr's The Shallows.
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at Nettuts+, by Stoyan Stefanov: a great overview (I didn't know the bit about Number(n) vs. parseInt(n)), and a good companion piece to the Google Style Guide that made the rounds a few weeks back.
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at the Sencha Blog: instructions for downloading, compiling, and running three major JavaScript engines (SpiderMonkey, JavaScriptCore, and V8).
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