IE10 CSS Hacks Louis Lazaris at Impressive Webs. I'd somehow missed this — that Internet Explorer 10 was not going to support conditional comments. (Probably because I don't pay enough attention to IE-related news?) Conditional comments were only ever "the least hacky" way of dealing with ID's quirks — and though "a hack is a […]
Git Reference (tagged: reference git ) Scala School Nice work, folks. I especially like the bit about teaching Scala as a new language and not as "Java, improved". (tagged: tutorial programming Scala development learning ) Don’t Get Fireballed at brown blog (via D. Howell) — filed under "I'm already doing this but it's worth the outbound […]
SPDY: An experimental protocol for a faster web at The Chromium Projects — Maybe I'm a little late in looking into this but… better late than never? Got about halfway through it; looks interesting and promising and I need to finish reading. (tagged: webdev tools google performance SPDY todo ) Optimising your Application with Grails […]
Jdrop – JSON in the cloud By the venerable Steve Souders. Anyone doing web development with mobile devices in mind should check this out. The premise is simple: real-world testing on real-world devices, then push your data to a cloud for retrieval and analysis on “saner” machines. (tagged: mobile performance javascript browser webdev Jdrop ) […]
New Rules For Writers: Ignore Publicity, Shun Crowds, Refuse Recognition And More by Anis Shivani at HuffPo (tagged: writing philosophy fiction books publishing todo ) How to Publish Your Book on Amazon Kindle (tagged: publishing Amazon DIY ) Performance Research, Part 4: Maximizing Parallel Downloads in the Carpool Lane at Yahoo! User Interface Blog (YUIBlog) — […]
Getting Published is Not a Crap Shoot Victoria Strauss: If you’ve written a marketable book, if you done your research, if you’re smart and persistent, you have a very reasonable chance of finding publication. Maybe. (tagged: writing publishing ) Olbermann Suspension is Lunacy Matt Taibbi (at Rolling Stone): Again, that would be true even if […]
WordPress Optimization Bible at Prelovac.com (tagged: blog cache optimization performance wordpress ) PHP « Programming « Portfolio lesterchan.net : book marked for wp-dbmanager (tagged: wordpress plugin ) Ajax code loading optimization techniques by Bill Higgins (via Rebecca Murphey) (tagged: ajax javascript optimization performance todo ) YUI Doc (tagged: api code documentation generator javascript JSdoc yuidoc […]
Climb On! by Lisa Katayama, at Boing Boing — Absolutely awesome article. I agree with every word. (Except about the Rubik's cube; I kind of hate the Rubik's cube.) Climbing feels like playing Tetris with my body. (tagged: climbing exercise mental geek ) HTML5 Elements and Attributes (tagged: html5 webdev documentation ) Efficient JavaScript at […]
Perfection kills » How ECMAScript 5 still does not allow to subclass an array at Perfection kills (via Bad Ass JavaScript) (tagged: article javascript arrays todo ) HTML5: Changing the browser-URL without refreshing page at Spoiled Milk ApS (via Bad Ass JavaScript) (tagged: HTML5 pushState javascript navigation url ) Diffable (tagged: javascript diff ajax performance […]
Each Second Counts, or Not:
The moral of the story here is to think simple when trying to optimize code, otherwise we end up going to far into optimizing and actually make the code more complex and likely slower, but this does not mean that the code w…