Getting Started with Sublime Text 2 By Brandon Keepers. Sounds similar to my own experience getting settled into it. I think I've mentioned it before; it's a solid text editor, and with enough fiddling around, you can almost get it up to "IDE" status. (Almost.) (tagged: Brandon Keepers Sublime Text 2 ) The Plight of […]
JavaScript Study Guide By Chris Shiflett (via my Prismatic feed). I'm working on a similar list myself, and was glad to see something else like this out there. Shiflett's is an interesting list with some great choices. Three things that came to mind while browsing it: [1] “That’s a lot of PHP…” [2] I’ll ding […]
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 […]
Introducing Siesta: A Testing Tool for Ext JS Mats Bryntse writing at the Sencha Blog — Siesta looks like a promising JS test harness and I'm looking forward to trying it out. (tagged: Sencha ExtJS Siesta testing todo ) Who is a journalist? Maggie Koerth-Baker (writing at Boing Boing): We live in an age where […]
Beer Can Chicken Recipe at Simply Recipes — So simple; so delicious. (tagged: recipe food cooking beer grill ) ClojureScript Brings Clojure To The Browser via Javascript Werner Schuster writing for InfoQ on the introduction of ClojureScript — some of its hows and whats and whys. (tagged: javascript Clojure clojurescript essay todo ) An Ode […]
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 )
Markdown is the new Word 5.1 By Kevin Lipe at Stephen M. Hackett's "Forkbombr" blog — A great (if a bit tangential) essay about writing on a computer and (thus?) what it's like to write on a computer. A lot of this is pretty close to my own feelings on the subject. (And yes: I'm aware […]
jQuery Testing with Jasmine (tagged: javascript video testing jQuery todo ) HTML Wiki W3C's HTML Wiki — like documentation, and arguably more readable than the specifications. (tagged: html5 web html documentation )
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 […]
“The feedback from testing quickly sets us straight, and helps make sure that our efforts are really focused at optimizing the things that make a difference in the customer experience. ¶ If I had to summarize our learnings in three words: “simple …