Souders blasts off 5 in a row at Ajaxian (tagged: html performance javascript css webdev work todo ) Over Fifteen Pounds of Book!!–Knowing Darkness: Artists Inspired by Stephen King at Omnivoracious — looks pretty awesome (tagged: art wishlist ) Comcast enters rebranding territory at The Boston Globe (via /.): W2 Group’s Weber said such a […]
New Russian botnet tries to kill rival at Network World (via /.) (tagged: spam security network research ) Estimating programming time at ITworld (via /.) (tagged: software programming work ) The government has your baby’s DNA at CNN.com (via /.) (tagged: politics news dna privacy genetics paranoia future research ) Google Plans To Deliver 1Gb/sec […]
While I was reading this, I liked to imagine that I was at university and that Douglas Crockford was the insanely popular genius professor that showed up late for lectures, and then either spoke too fast or else mumbled a lot, and then locked himself in his office refusing to answer the door during office […]
Building Web Applications With Apache Ant at Julien Lecomte's Blog (referenced in Zakas' Professional JavaScript for Web Developers) (tagged: webdev tutorial javascript css ant build performance todo ) Medical journal recants 1998 study linking autism to vaccine – The Globe and Mail via Slashdot: Ten of Wakefield's 13 co-authors renounced the study's conclusions several years […]
An experiment (in part to settle something of academic debate); what is faster new Array() or [] 1? The function for the test case: Yes, I realize that test #2 and test #5 result in an array with a length of 2,000,000 (vs. 1,000,000 for the other 4 tests). Now for some chart porn; results: […]
Or: on not listening, retail communication break-downs, and getting help via so-called social networking. In case you haven’t been following the thread 1, our family just enjoyed quite the roller coaster ride thanks to a broken dishwasher and our (ultimately, eventually successful) attempts to replace it through Best Buy. I’m sure that there’s a lesson to be […]
Google To End Support For IE6 at Slashdot Technology: [Rajen Sheth, Google Apps senior product manager] suggested that customers upgrade their browsers to pretty much anything else. (tagged: IE6 Google obsolescence ) Preparing for the IPv6 Transition at Comcast Voices (via Slashdot) (tagged: comcast ipv6 todo ) What colours were dinosaur feathers? at Not Exactly […]
a week with Chrome (Mac) CalDAV repeating events zombie phobia “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 are […]
I’m at… work? No, not work. The floors are concrete but this is an Eastern Shore-style crab house. Concrete floors and rows upon rows of long red picnic tables covered in newspaper. But I may as well be at work. I’m surrounded by co-workers, all of us toting our laptops. We take our seats around […]
geuis’s helium-css at GitHub (via Ajaxian) — scan your page for unused CSS (tagged: css javascript webdev todo ) Realism in UI Design at ignore the code (via @brown_MINI) (tagged: design ui usability ux icons essay ) Internet Explorer 8 document and browser modes at NCZOnline (tagged: webdev IE8 work todo ) Data URIs explained […]