The Sun is Setting on Rails-style MVC Frameworks At caines.ca/blog. Still digesting this one (and its B- comment thread). Short version of immediate gut response: aspects of MVC are bogus (e.g., some of the "magic", implementation details that throw "wrong" HTTP responses [if you want to be that pedantic]), but it seems to me like […]
Head JS "The only script in your HEAD" (tagged: browser framework javascript webdev todo ) Functional vs. Object-Oriented JavaScript Development at Script Junkie (tagged: coding javascript dev todo ) Bash Reference Manual (tagged: bash documentation ) Single Software Licence Shared 774,651 Times at /.: Avast noticed that a license for its paid-for security software, sold […]
Netflix CEO: We’re a Streaming Company at Fast Company (via 9-bits) — Reed Hastings, Netflix CEO: By every measure, we are now primarily a streaming company that also offers DVD-by-mail. (tagged: Netflix future tech business ) The Most Popular Phone in the World at Gizmodo (via Bruce Sterling): In buying that phone, this man was […]
Managing JavaScript Objects by Nicholas Zakas (at Script Junkie) — a best-practices review of how to keep your objects loosely coupled in JavaScript application design (tagged: javascript design dev essay ) The Taste of Starlight at Lightspeed Magazine (tagged: scifi literature todo ) JSConf.eu Videos at blip.tv (tagged: video JSConf.eu JavaScript todo )
My experience of dConstruct 2010 at abitgone+ (via DF) (tagged: essay design dev todo ) JavaScript Query Engines at DHTML Kitchen—if you can get past the implied "frameworks/libraries are always bad and you're an idiot for using them" attitude, there is some interesting discussion in there about JavaScript-based DOM querying engines. (tagged: css javascript css3 […]
DirectDraw Hack via /. — my hat is off to this guy (all for the love of the greatest "combat space flight sim" of all time) (tagged: graphics hacking windows DirectDraw WingCommander ) Awesome death spiral of a bizarre star at Bad Astronomy (Discover Magazine) (tagged: astronomy space science weird ) Zombie Pandemic Tracker (tagged: […]
Lightspeed magazine #1 at Tor.com — the online Lightspeed magazine is edited/curated by John Joseph Adams (who happens to be one hell of an editor); check it out and show some support (tagged: Lightspeed scifi literature ) ‘Lost’: The Essential Reading List at EW.com (via B²) (tagged: Lost reading literature ) Do LESS with Less.js […]
Jo JavaScript Application Framework for HTML5 (tagged: CSS3 html5 javascript library ui webdev todo ) Pro Git (tagged: git documentation work ) A successful Git branching model at nvie.com (tagged: work git dev essay branching ) Ephphatha Poetry: "Imagine if the Tea Party Was Black" – Tim Wise via @ebertchicago: Imagine that hundreds of black […]
Gulf oil spill: Be prepared for the worst at Boing Boing — a quote within a quote, re: Exxon Valdez: Despite heroic efforts involving more than 11,000 people, 2 billion dollars, and aggressive application of the most advanced technology available, only about 8 percent of the oil was ever recovered. In other words, off-shore drilling […]
"Political Animal" 5/4/2010 Quote of the Day at The Washington Monthly: Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) doesn't want Faisal Shahzad, the suspect in the failed car bombing in Times Square, to be Mirandized. Neither does Rep. Pete King (R-N.Y.). "Did they Mirandize him? I know he's an American citizen but still," King said. "But still"? What […]