“One Murder Is Statistically Utterly Unimportant” Molly Crabapple interviewed Warren Ellis for The Paris Review. The title is a quote from the interview, but this one was much better: There is no such thing, I believe, as a killer who sees themselves as the villain of their own story. (tagged: Warren Ellis ) Stop reinventing […]
Well, if I had been paying attention, I would have run this piece back in May. As it is… I’m running it now. I continue to love Prismatic, and at this point it has completely replaced the RSS reader(s) that I used to use for aggregating. 1 As I did at six weeks and six […]
Why mobile web apps are slow Drew Crawford (Sealed Abstract) wrote this a few weeks ago and I finally (finally? finally!) got around to reading it start-to-finish. The best part about it is that (as he says in the first paragraph) his discussion is entirely fact-based. And where possible he is also illustrating his methods […]
5 Myths About Mobile Web Performance Michael Mullany, Sencha CEO, writing for the company's dev blog: Every mobile browser has a feature area where it outperforms other browsers by a factor of 10–40x. The Surface outperforms the iPhone on SVG by 30x. The iPhone outperforms the Surface on DOM interaction by 10x. There is significant […]
My first hands-on exposure to AngularJS was when I wrote my Patented Project Management Dev Dice. It is admittedly a trivial app–hardly worth the name–but I used it to get familiar with the absolute basics of the framework. 1 But now that I’ve been using Angular for a couple weeks to build a non-trivial application, […]
Building large apps with AngularJS Outstanding post by Jason Dobry about using AngularJS to do non-trivial UIs and about some of the latent challenges that you'll encounter when doing so. He's got quite a few interesting things to say, in particular about the common misperception that $scope is the model, some points about how to […]
The buildings are sinking. Not collapsing. Sinking. The ground beneath them becomes liquid. It does not melt, it simply… stops being solid. And so the buildings begin to sink. Almost everyone is able to escape in time. Leaving everything behind, and fleeing quickly across the skyway. There are a few that didn’t make it and […]
AngularJS Pain Points A write-up by Jaco Pretorius. I agree with him on the documentation, and I (admittedly, sadly) don't have enough experience with the testing aspect to have an opinion there, but I'd be willing to split hairs on the "overall complexity" complaint. Given my experience so far, I would say that the trivial […]
H1 H2 (Sass) low depth of field in 3D Jasmine E2E “Search Term Haiku” is a series wherein I examine this site’s log files and construct one or more haiku poems from search terms and phrases that led visitors to the site. Where possible, I attempt to keep the search phrases intact. However, as these […]
Today’s moment of Angular zen: Try to think of it this way: Anything that you set on the scope object in the directive’s return object, those will be the properties pre-populated on the scope argument passed to the scope parameter in the function assigned to link. And those can be inferred from the attributes passed […]