Lexadecimal (tagged: webdev design css art geek ) The People vs. Goldman Sachs Matt Taibbi should get an award or a medal or carte blanche to start kicking these guys in the balls or something: The legal definition of financial fraud may be murky and complex, but everybody knows you can't lie to Congress. It's […]
Lessons on @font-face from the F2E Summit at NCZOnline: We in the United States are pretty spoiled when it comes to web fonts since our alphabet has only 26 letters and a few punctuation marks. Adam pointed out that Asian character sets are much large, and so font files can be as large as 4-5 […]
Jdrop – JSON in the cloud By the venerable Steve Souders. Anyone doing web development with mobile devices in mind should check this out. The premise is simple: real-world testing on real-world devices, then push your data to a cloud for retrieval and analysis on “saner” machines. (tagged: mobile performance javascript browser webdev Jdrop ) […]
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 […]
New Rules For Writers: Ignore Publicity, Shun Crowds, Refuse Recognition And More by Anis Shivani at HuffPo (tagged: writing philosophy fiction books publishing todo ) How to Publish Your Book on Amazon Kindle (tagged: publishing Amazon DIY ) Performance Research, Part 4: Maximizing Parallel Downloads in the Carpool Lane at Yahoo! User Interface Blog (YUIBlog) — […]
More Small Businesses Offering Health Care To Employees Thanks To Obamacare by Rick Ungar at Forbes (tagged: economy politics HCR ) Mark Bouton Appointed to New Robert B. Lawson Professorship in Psychology Congrats to Dr. Bouton–he's a hell of a guy; and so is Dr. Lawson, whom the professorship honors. (tagged: Vermont ) Noodle Soup […]
a wishlist for contenteditable at totes profesh (tagged: wysiwyg todo webdev ) Face Research "Psychology experiments about preferences for faces and voices." ¶ Filed under: Holy WTF? (tagged: psychology research science social fun ) When adaptation doesn’t happen Just as interesting a question as “How did these 5 adapt?” is “Why did these 21 fail […]
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 […]
Feature Detection: State of the Art Browser Scripting "You cannot trust host objects. They haven't earned it." (tagged: javascript todo browser webdev ) The hacktastic zoom fix at Stubbornella (tagged: css floats grids hack ) Election Results on the iPad at NYTimes.com (tagged: article html5 design iPad todo )
Head JS "The only script in your HEAD" (tagged: browser framework javascript webdev todo ) Functional vs. Object-Oriented JavaScript Development at Script Junkie (tagged: coding javascript dev todo ) Bash Reference Manual (tagged: bash documentation ) Single Software Licence Shared 774,651 Times at /.: Avast noticed that a license for its paid-for security software, sold […]