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 […]
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 […]
JavaScript does not need classes Alex Rauschmayer on why JavaScript doesn't need classes. (tagged: javascript ) Why I want Classes in JavaScript David Flanagan on why he wants "classes" in JavaScript. For my money: I agree in spirit, but I think calling the syntax sugar by "class" sends the wrong message. (And no, I don't […]
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 […]
$ cheat git (tagged: tutorial reference git ) Pro Git – Reset Demystified Scott Chacon writing at the Pro Git blog; consider this post to be "part one" of the otherwise missing chapter on git reset. Good stuff. (tagged: tutorial git ) Processing.org (tagged: design visualization tools art software todo ) SwimmingHoles.info: Vermont Swimming Holes […]
Microjs "Fantastic Micro-Frameworks and Micro-Libraries for Fun and Profit!" (tagged: webdev javascript tools reference microjs ) Why a JavaScript hater thinks everyone needs to learn JavaScript in the next year by Mike Loukides (tagged: javascript ) Writing Testable JavaScript by Ben Cherry at Adequately Good (tagged: webdev javascript essay testing )
Lessons From the Slush Pile: Your Cover Letter and You at Inkpunks — could have been sub-titled: "the less-is-more approach to writing cover letters" (tagged: writing publishing ) Against Chrome: A Manifesto at 3quarksdaily — An interesting and thoughtful essay making the rounds this past week. Worth at least a look, even if you don't […]
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 […]
Janet Fitch’s 10 rules for writers Careful w/ #2 though… (tagged: fiction language literature writing ) 11 Ways to Speed Up WordPress (tagged: wordpress optimization ) Nice Entity "Find your character!" — what a great idea (and a great design) (tagged: ascii Unicode webdev xhtml design entities reference typography cheatsheet ) Caching Improvements in Internet […]