The Most Notorious Counterfeiter Albert Talton Fascinating story about the man who put about $7 million worth of counterfeit bills into circulation. And it sounds like he got just about all his supplies at his local Staples. Just crazy. (tagged: counterfeit ) How to lose weight (in the browser) BrowserDiet.com: a pretty good list of […]
Star Wars Family Tree Inappropriate Kissing At Joe Stone Graphic Design. (tagged: none) fun.js At Fogus' blog. He's written a book about functional programming in JavaScript (with a healthy dose of Underscore.js to boot). I've had the unique pleasure of getting to review the manuscript, and let me just say that this is just as […]
Breaking down Amazon’s mega dropdown Ben Kamens (bjk5) breaks down the technique behind Amazon's awesome new mega menu, and then how they implemented the same technique for the Khan Academy site. And then he open sources that solution as the jQuery-menu-aim plugin. Awesome stuff. Also (from the comments): don't miss even more of the theoretical […]
Marissa Mayer’s Job Is to Be CEO—Not to Make Life Easier for Working Moms Anne-Marie Slaughter, writing at The Atlantic: So let's withhold judgment for a while and let Marissa Mayer do her job. Let's evaluate her on whether she can turn Yahoo around. I've been waiting for a piece like this, since everything I've […]
The "Magic" behind AngularJS Dependency Injection Fascinating post by Alex Rothenberg wherein he digs deep into Angular.js to determine exactly why minification broke his application. (tagged: minification Angular.js JavaScript ) An Appropriate Use of Metrics By Patrick Kua, writing over at MarinFowler.com. The first (explanatory) half is a little on the long-winded side, but the […]
Opera Developer News – 300 million users and move to WebKit Big news from Opera. I can't decide if this is a relief, or a disturbing trend toward a kind of WebKit monoculture. These were my mixed feelings, and I had a hard time articulating them. Fortunately, Robert Nyman and John Resig expressed it all […]
“Just give me a list of the URLs of all the scripts on this page, OK?” For those times when you’re not sure of all the things getting loaded on the page, but you need to know those things, and you need some quick and convenient way to just get that damn list.
Prince George’s considers copyright policy that takes ownership of students’ work Ovetta Wiggins, The Washington Post: A proposal by the Prince George’s County Board of Education to copyright work created by staff and students for school could mean that a picture drawn by a first-grader, a lesson plan developed by a teacher or an app […]
Solving Problems The Square Way Austin Carr, writing for Fast Company: "We try to keep everything related to each other across our products and videos and marketing–they should all speak to each other," [Robert] Andersen says. "We hold each other accountable for designs that seem arbitrary at Square." (tagged: collaboration Square design ) AngularJS is […]
A Strategy for i18n and Node.js John Resig on internationalizing a Node/Express app. If you've never internationalized an application before, it's a pretty good survey of the intricacies and techniques and worth the read. I'm a little skeptical about using sub-domains for different languages — especially if you're already planning to use the Accept-Language header […]