Building an iOS weather app with Angular and ClojureScript Kevin J. Lynagh on building the Weathertron app: …do the semantics of the library complement your application design? Or will build a Dr. Jekel / Mr. Hyde abomination of ClojureScript code doomed to emit painful, prototype-twiddling, mutation-happy JavaScript? Some cool solutions they came up with for […]
10 Monsters From Mythology You Do Not Want To Meet Vlad Vekshtein: So how did the Ichneumon defeat the dragon, whose very reputation conjures up pictures of fair maidens and burning villages and hordes of gold? Why, it crawls inside of it of course! (tagged: monsters research ) What’s new in F12 Tools (Preliminary) Sneak […]
Pre-generating Justified Views Ross Harmes on how the Flickr team achieved a 7× speed increase in page render times: The first time you come to any Flickr page, we store the width of your browser window in a cookie. We can then read that cookie on the server on subsequent page loads. Gotta love a […]
Avoiding Unnecessary Paints Paul Lewis writing for HTML5 Rocks, Avoiding Unnecessary Paints: What happens if I scroll and I happen to move the mouse at the same time? It's perfectly possible for me to inadvertently "interact" with an element as I scroll past it, triggering an expensive paint. That, in turn, could push me through […]
Crafting a README By Chris White, writing at the Engine Yard Developer Blog. Most of this should seem like common sense, but I'm also glad someone went to the trouble of writing it down. He mentions Markdown in the blog post, but I'd really try to underscore that point: that Markdown really ought to be […]
Animation in AngularJS At yearofmoo.com — looks like first class support for animations is well under way as part of the core AngularJS library. (tagged: animation AngularJS JavaScript ) Building a strong foundation for Vermont’s technology future Interesting piece by Pete Brown (writing over at Beerlington) on the local Vermont tech scene and really building […]
Broken Promises Drew Crawford’s response to James Coglan's post about Node.js and Promises. (And yes, it has the same title as Mikeal Rogers' post — vide infra…) Also long, also worth reading. His promises : callbacks :: for-loops : while-loops analogy may or may not be completely appropriate, but I thought it was reasonably illustrative […]
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 […]
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 […]