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…but I’d feel remiss for not saying anything at all. I first caught wind of Google’s JSConf.eu scholarships-for-females program in a roundabout way. I had just started following Rebecca Murphey’s posts 1 when I saw this tweet. At first I thought very little of it but after seeing Nicole Sullivan’s and then Murphey’s more in-depth […]
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Despite the carpenter’s advice about the hammer, I continue my search for an exemplary satisfactory IDE 1. The most recent experiment was with JetBrains’ WebStorm 2. The short version: I wanted to like it… First, what I did like: It seemed fairly forgiving – which is to say that it did not try to coerce […]
Build Your Own Furniture: 9 Helpful Tips For Non-Carpenters at Wise Bread — resonates with me because I've been thinking about making a bookshelf or three… (tagged: woodworking carpentry DIY furniture essay todo ) Data URIs make CSS sprites obsolete at NCZOnline — yes please, anything to kill off sprites (tagged: css datauri webdev ) […]
Inspired by some recent entanglements with a vendor’s API: The type coercion will ultimately work in your favor but the main point is that the type coercion has to take place in the first place. Granted, it is probably an edge case 1 to do something like: …but you never know. There’s some strange code […]
JavaScript needs modules! by Dave Herman (via @slicknet) (tagged: javascript code ) Terminal Tips and Tricks For Mac OS X at Super User (tagged: Apple bash osx terminal todo ) Preview: The Dervish House by Ian McDonald at Tor.com — skimming it, I must say it looks great (and/but McDonald is one of my favorite's […]
A race against the clock. A battle against a violent fiend. The villain is badly hurt. But his mutations have given him an uncanny strength. It is difficult to say if he is rejuvenating, but he is definitely growing. Taller. Thicker. Strong? He is visibly, viscerally deformed. Snarling. He pounds down steel doors. Smashes through […]
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