Filling in Python’s gaps in statistics packages with Rmagic Randal S. Olson on Rmagic, a tool that allows you to execute R code more/less from within your Python scripts: Rmagic lets me pass my data to R, run the R function on the data, then seamlessly return the data back to Python before I start […]
Huddle/PhantomCSS More awesome stuff you can do with PhantomJS: CSS regression testing. An integration of js-imagediff with PhantomJS and CasperJS for automating visual regression testing and test coverage of Website styling to support refactoring of CSS. (tagged: testing CSS PhantomJS JavaScript ) Complexity Analysis of JavaScript Code Ariya Hidayat, on the JSComplexity tool. The briefest […]
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, […]
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 […]
WebPlatform Docs Looks very promising. MDN has been my go-to for answers like this for the past couple of years, but with all those organizations working together (Mozilla included) it could turn into the new canonical source. (tagged: reference documentation JavaScript SVG HTML CSS web ) Programmer Competency Matrix Some of this seems useful. Some […]
Requiem in the Key of Prose By Jake Kerr, at Lightspeed Magazine. Read this. 100% A+ ★★★★★. Seriously, one of the best bits of short fiction I’ve read all year. (tagged: fiction ) The Dog That Voted and Other Election Fraud Yarns Kevin Drum, writing at Mother Jones: Still, Republicans argue, anyone can obtain a […]
Introducing Grunt An introduction and starter guide by Grunt's creator, Ben Alman at Bocoup. Grunt is a JavaScript-based build tool. And it looks pretty sweet. I expect I'll be checking it out in the not too distant future. (tagged: todo Ben Alman Node.js Grunt JavaScript ) Improving performance on twitter.com At the Twitter Engineering blog. […]
Minimus "The OS X JavaScript and CSS Minifier" – a GUI wrapper for YUI Compressor. Convenient! (tagged: YUI Compressor performance minimus javascript css ) A Christopher Hitchens Bookshelf Compiled by @fogus (tagged: Christopher Hitchens reading via:fogus todo ) The Switch: Python to Node.js Paul Querna: After picking Node.js, other choices […] were side effects… Interesting […]
Feng Zhu Design When the time comes to publish the book I'm working on… this may be the guy that needs to do the cover art. (tagged: inspiration art ) Bug Prediction at Google By Lewis and Ou at Google Engineering Tools; an interesting look into Google's methodology for analyzing code revision history as an […]