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 […]
HOWTO Use UTF-8 Throughout Your Web Stack at rentzsch.tumblr.com, via DF (tagged: webdev web programming UTF-8 ) Chrome and Safari extension to rehabilitate disruptive footnotes. at Ideon Open Ideas — a great idea but sadly doesn’t work on blog.founddrama.net yet; it appears to be looking for footnotes with fn embedded in the href… so perhaps […]
Nodeload2: Downloads Reloaded at GitHub (tagged: performance architecture git Node.js github ) Fastersite: Finding memory leaks Useful reading on a useful exercise in JavaScript profiling and how to identify and mitigate memory leaks. (Short answer (as usual?) is "be careful with the DOM".) (tagged: javascript web google performance programming essay ) Easy Hikes Around Lake […]
Coding Horror: Working with the Chaos Monkey via @JoelAnair (tagged: design software architecture programming coding essay robustness ) Your idea sucks, now go do it anyway via @donniecoleman (tagged: business essay inspiration ) You Owe Me An Apology Despite Never Having Met Me: Douglas Crockford, for JavaScript: The Good Parts A humorous bone-picking with/against Crockford's […]
Locale::Maketext::TPJ13 at search.cpan.org — short version: "Thar be dragons here." (tagged: programming language linguistics interesting essay ) What the Heck is Shadow DOM? at Dimitri Glazkov (tagged: javascript css html5 webdev DOM ) Lest We Forget (Or How I Learned What’s So Bad About Browser Sniffing) on FarukAt.eÅŸ — hot on the heels of the […]
CoffeeScript Another one via @fogus… (tagged: javascript programming language todo ) The Best Ruby Books via @fogus (tagged: programming Ruby books resources todo ) YUI Doc A New Tool for Generating JavaScript API Documentation » Yahoo! User Interface Blog (at YUIBlog) (tagged: javascript yui documentation tools generator todo ) Why I’m An Atheist A Holiday […]
The Word "Hacker" Why have I never seen this before? Hacking predates computers. When he was working on the Manhattan Project, Richard Feynman used to amuse himself by breaking into safes containing secret documents. This tradition continues today. When we were in grad school, a hacker friend of mine who spent too much time around […]
node.js (tagged: dev framework google javascript library programming webdev todo research ) Express Node.js Web Development Framework (tagged: coding webdev dev framework javascript todo research ) Tagxedo – Creator Well that's kind of cool… (tagged: art creativity design generator visualization writing ) iPad web development tips at NCZOnline — user agent strings, reported viewport sizes, […]
New Russian botnet tries to kill rival at Network World (via /.) (tagged: spam security network research ) Estimating programming time at ITworld (via /.) (tagged: software programming work ) The government has your baby’s DNA at CNN.com (via /.) (tagged: politics news dna privacy genetics paranoia future research ) Google Plans To Deliver 1Gb/sec […]
Super Dress Up Morgan Freeman at Jay is Games (via woot.com) — w? t? f…? (tagged: illustration surreal games blog ) Poor, Poor Child. You have no idea. "It's OK to suck at math; you won't be using much anyway." (tagged: blog software humor programming coding essay ) A Form of Madness at Dive Into […]