Flickr Is Back, Letting Us Go Home Again Mat Honan at Wired.com's Gadget Lab blog: And that’s the thing: Flickr feels like a permanent home. Pretty much how I've felt about it all along. (Via DF.) (tagged: Flickr ) What’s new in CSS 4 selectors Dr. Axel Rauschmayer with the CSS4 selector "highlights". Specifying the […]
Add Some PJAX to Grails Bobby Warner writes up his approach to introducing some "pjax" to a Grails app by extending the GrailsLayoutDecoratorMapper. His approach is easy to understand and will probably work quite well for most projects. That being said, I think that pjax is a great technique, but I've found that the jQuery.pjax […]
Chrome: Easier Web App Debugging With Multi-User Profiles Addy Osmani: I'm sure most of you know about this… No, Addy. No we did not. But that looks great, thanks for sharing! (tagged: developer tools Chrome Addy Osmani ) JavaScript DocumentFragment Short-ish piece on David Walsh's blog about using DocumentFragment. It's a bit of a review, […]
The Value of Subverting Authority Sherman Alexie: These religious fundamentalists are unaware that freedom of religion necessarily brings with it the freedom to mock religion. (tagged: religion Sherman Alexie ) President Obama Is an Introvert and So Am I: But that doesn’t mean we don’t like you. Scott Dodd, writing for Slate Magazine ("Obama’s Denver […]
Goodreads.com has a community guideline that states that reviews must be about the book, and not about the author. Now, I happen to agree with the spirit of this guideline, but I also feel like that guideline gets a little fuzzy when you’re looking at non-fiction, and especially fuzzy when you’re talking about technical books. […]
Flexibility: A Foundation for Responsive Design Emily Lewis (writing at Script Junkie) with a discussion of fluid grid techniques (practices and pitfalls) for building responsive designs. (tagged: Emily Lewis fluid grids media query responsive design ) Tolkien’s 10 Tips for Writers At writingishardwork. It took him 7 years to write The Hobbit. (117) The thing […]
Understanding MVVM – A Guide For JavaScript Developers Addy Osmani on the MVVM pattern, and using Knockout for his examples code, no less. (tagged: Addy Osmani KnockoutJS MVC javascript MVVM ) The Amazing Trajectories of Life-Bearing Meteorites from Earth At Technology Review: Their results contain a number of surprises. First, they calculate that almost as […]