August 2011
1 post
Act First, Do the Research Later →
“Always be researching. Always be acting.”
July 2011
2 posts
Your WYSIWYG Editor sucks « this is... →
Tikibooth | Cooking up some fresh Node recipes... →
June 2011
2 posts
Which theory fits the evidence? →
“Theory P adherents believe that there are lies, damned lies, and software development estimates.”
Goldmine of quotes and opinions in this. Love it.
Pull Quotes with HTML5 and CSS — miekd →
May 2011
6 posts
Bagcheck Technology: a Computing bag by Big Bagger... →
Interesting insight into a complex technology stack.
avk/jQuery-Chrono - GitHub →
tdreyno/middleman - GitHub →
Redback →
Article Publishing Guidelines | Readability →
Example markup for articles
JavaScript queues →
April 2011
4 posts
JavaScript Garden →
Beyond the mobile web by yiibu →
Windows mobile media queries — Adactio: Journal →
MogileFS →
Looks interesting, but I would guess for 95% of problems this solves, using S3 would be easier and probably cheaper.
March 2011
6 posts
MicroEvent.js - micro event emitter in 20 lines →
Designing Faster with a Baseline Grid | Teehan+Lax →
iScroll 4 →
Adding Dynamic Contents to IFrames | while($alive)... →
Interesting to note, avoid waiting for iframe to load by using document.open(); document.close(); before manipulating DOM.
boilerpipe - Project Hosting on Google Code →
Java library for web page text extraction
{placekitten} →
February 2011
1 post
OscarGodson/jQuery-Plugin-Skeleton - GitHub →
January 2011
3 posts
stagas/maptail - GitHub →
Handy for an upcoming project :)
URL Design — Warpspire →
(via Instapaper)
“if we only manage what’s easy to measure we’re not really managing at all.”
– NEW THINKING: We manage what we can EASILY measure (via Instapaper)
September 2010
2 posts
1 tag
arguments.callee →
Inside a Javascript function, the arguments keyword has a property callee that refers to itself. You can use this in anonymous functions to recursively call itself, or when removing event listeners.
Recursive:
function() {
try {
// Do something that might throw an error
} catch (error) {
setTimeout(arguments.callee, 0);
return;
}
}
Removing event...
1 tag
Dave Newman: Leaving .net →
Interesting piece on the state of the .NET ecosphere, mirrors a lot of my own thinking recently.
One of the biggest things I think is missing from .NET is a central place for developers to discuss and collaborate on open source projects. Codeplex proposed to do this and is where a lot of .NET developers look to collaborate, but the problem is it sucks in so many ways… There seems to be a...