Pixar story rules (one version) At The Pixar Touch: #3: Trying for theme is important, but you won’t see what the story is actually about til you’re at the end of it. Now rewrite. (tagged: inspiration creativity storytelling writing ) Atmosphere 1.0, the Asynchronous JavaScript/Java Framework now available! (tagged: async WebSockets JavaScript Java Atmosphere ) Newfound […]
Service-oriented Songkick James Coglan writing at the Songkick blog re: the migration of their monolithic Rails app into modularized components and a service-oriented architecture. Interesting case study, and definitely worth the 10 minutes. (tagged: service-oriented architecture Rails Songkick James Coglan ) Colson Whitehead’s Rules for Writing Colson Whitehead, writing at NYTimes.com: Most people say, “Show, […]
How Basecamp Next got to be so damn fast without using much client-side UI 37signals: tl;dr: We made Basecamp Next go woop-woop fast by using a fancy HTML5 feature and some serious elbow grease on them caching wheels (tagged: pushState caching pjax 37signals ) The PHP Singularity Coding Horror: If you want to produce free-as-in-whatever […]
Bryan Curtis on the cult of Jurassic Park Bryan Curtis, writing at Grantland. (Timely, what with my current re-read of the novel.) (tagged: jurassicpark specialeffects essay film culture ) Wall Street Isn’t Winning It’s Cheating Matt Taibbi (who else?) writing for Rolling Stone (where else?): And we hate the rich? Come on. Success is the […]
The complete guide to creating widgets in WordPress 2.8 (tagged: todo WordPress widgets PHP plugin ) FeedWordPress "simple and flexible Atom/RSS syndication for WordPress" (tagged: wordpress plugin Tumblr aggregator ) Starkers "The completely naked theme for WordPress" (tagged: wordpress ) Node and Scaling in the Small vs Scaling in the Large by Alex Payne (via […]
Building Web Applications With Apache Ant at Julien Lecomte's Blog (referenced in Zakas' Professional JavaScript for Web Developers) (tagged: webdev tutorial javascript css ant build performance todo ) Medical journal recants 1998 study linking autism to vaccine – The Globe and Mail via Slashdot: Ten of Wakefield's 13 co-authors renounced the study's conclusions several years […]