Why Washington needs Joe Biden Alex Seitz-Wald, writing at Salon.com: Regardless of whether you agree with him [Biden] or not, or if history has proven him right or wrong, he is one of the few figures in the most senior echelon of foreign policy thinking in Washington willing to give voice to unpopular views on […]
I was drawn to Wesley Hales’ HTML5 and JavaScript Web Apps (O’Reilly, 2012) because it seemed right up my alley — a book about all the latest client-side technologies 1 for building enterprise grade “HTML5-based” web apps. At around 150 pages, Hales takes us on a whirlwind tour of these new technologies and tactics, taking […]
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, […]
jQuery source viewer Useful little utility by James Padolsey. (Side note: this is one thing about the jQuery API docs that bugs the shit out of me: that you can't jump to the source code. This appears to solve that problem.) (tagged: jQuery JavaScript ) Towards A Retina Web Reda Lemeden, writing at Smashing Coding […]
Beliefs Isaac Z. Schlueter: Every belief must pay rent, constantly, or be evicted. (tagged: beliefs ) Tribune endorsement: Too Many Mitts Salt Lake Tribune: Where, we ask, is the pragmatic, inclusive Romney, the Massachusetts governor who left the state with a model health care plan in place, the Romney who led Utah to Olympic glory? […]
Back From Yet Another Globetrotting Adventure, Indiana Jones Checks His Mail And Discovers That His Bid For Tenure Has Been Denied. By Andy Bryan, at McSweeney’s Internet Tendency. Though Dr. Jones conducts “field research” far more often than anyone else in the department, he has consistently failed to report the results of his excavations, provide […]
Yeoman Addy Osmani et al.: "Modern workflows for modern webapps." (tagged: JavaScript Yeoman ) OOCSS + Sass = The best way to CSS By Ian Storm Taylor. The whole "I work at a start-up and things change all the time so OOCSS doesn't work for me" makes me a bit skeptical, but his example patterns […]
Photographers, embrace Instagram Richard Koci Hernandez, at CNN.com. Great piece on Instagram and "phone photography" more generally. Photo apps won't magically give Jane the smartphone photographer a better sense of composition, or lighting, or framing. The apps and filters only change a photo's look and aesthetic feel. That doesn't make it a better photo. If […]
The Node Beginner Book A comprehensive Node.js tutorial by Manuel Kiessling. (tagged: JavaScript Node.js ) Mitt Romney’s Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Foreign-Policy Speech Conor Friefersdorf, writing for The Atlantic: Should Romney be elected he'll almost certainly work closely with despots in Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, for example, and he'll fear certain possible democratic […]