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Not exactly a FAIL, but not full of win. Yes, phone numbers...

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:01:01 -0500

Not exactly a FAIL, but not full of win.

Yes, phone numbers exist in a dizzying array of notations, but if it’s also a valid dotted quad, at least give me the option of treating it as one.

"The mail server had a separate 80GB partition just to hold email; and it was completely filled. The..."

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 19:12:50 -0500

“The mail server had a separate 80GB partition just to hold email; and it was completely filled. The queue directory contained such a preposterous number of files that wildcards such as ? and * could not expand. That meant there was no immediate way to list only the Sendmail “q*” files, which would have contained some clue as to what went wrong.”

- The Great Cascade - The Daily WTF

How much of a geek am I? I was reading this humorous but true story, saw this passage, and immediately thought:

ls | grep '^q' | xargs ls -l

That’s how much.

jacob: I always have to stop and think when setting a border...

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 13:42:17 -0500

jacob:

I always have to stop and think when setting a border radius in CSS, so I built a tool for it: border-radius.com.

Genius in its simplicity.

Another day, another JavaScript framework to learn! This is...

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 13:26:02 -0500

Another day, another JavaScript framework to learn!

This is actually my favorite thing to do, sick as that is.

The constant learning is probably why I’m so different from my cohort.

inky: Donald Knuth, aged 20, at his first computer, an IBM 650,...

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 20:50:13 -0500

inky:

Donald Knuth, aged 20, at his first computer, an IBM 650, in 1958.

Dojo Toolkit Resources?

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 08:52:00 -0500

I have a sudden need to learn it, so I’m looking for recommendations of books and web resources, both references and tutorials.

Where should I start?

LESS - Leaner CSS

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 14:15:46 -0500

LESS - Leaner CSS:

LESS embraces CSS, and any additional functionality it comes with, is integrated in such a way as to make it as seamless as possible. Thus, you can gradually move your CSS to LESS, or if you’re only interesting in using variables, or operations, you aren’t forced to learning a whole new language.

stevenf: shutup.css is a custom user stylesheet you can install in your web browser which will...

Wed, 03 Feb 2010 16:40:18 -0500

stevenf:

shutup.css is a custom user stylesheet you can install in your web browser which will automatically hide the comments section of many popular web sites. My gift of a quieter, saner web to you.

mind == blown

Mon, 04 Jan 2010 13:40:52 -0500

jacob:

I just realized that you can’t have a Javascript variable and an element ID with the same name in IE. That’s what this is trying to tell you:
Object doesn’t support this property or method

That’s because IE automagically creates JavaScript variables for any elements with an ID.

RegexKitLite

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 10:58:06 -0500

RegexKitLite:

RegexKitLite enables easy access to regular expressions by providing a number of additions to the standard Foundation NSString class. RegexKitLite acts as a bridge between the NSString class and the regular expression engine in the International Components for Unicode, or ICU, dynamic shared library that is shipped with Mac OS X.

dynaTrace AJAX Edition

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:38:00 -0500

dynaTrace AJAX Edition:

Incredibly granular FREE tracing tool for IE6-8 (Firefox coming soon).

From the website:

Understand performance as real users experience it
Differentiate between browser or server bottlenecks
Trace asynchronous JavaScript executions for the full round-trip
Analyze JavaScript, AJAX remoting, network and rendering performance in real-time
Save performance data for interactive offline analysis
Transform Selenium/Watir tests into performance tests and integrate them with your CI environment

Google Code Blog: Introducing Closure Tools

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:40:00 -0500

Google Code Blog: Introducing Closure Tools:

Closure Compiler is a JavaScript optimizer that compiles web apps down into compact, high-performance JavaScript code. The compiler removes dead code, then rewrites and minimizes what’s left so that it will run fast on browsers’ JavaScript engines. The compiler also checks syntax, variable references, and types, and warns about other common JavaScript pitfalls. These checks and optimizations help you write apps that are less buggy and easier to maintain. You can use the compiler with Closure Inspector, a Firebug extension that makes debugging the obfuscated code almost as easy as debugging the human-readable source.

This, and the other tools, look awesome.

"Double Metaphone tries to account for myriad irregularities in English of Slavic, Germanic, Celtic,..."

Wed, 30 Sep 2009 14:34:56 -0400

“Double Metaphone tries to account for myriad irregularities in English of Slavic, Germanic, Celtic, Greek, French, Italian, Spanish, Chinese, and other origin. Thus it uses a much more complex ruleset for coding than its predecessor; for example, it tests for approximately 100 different contexts of the use of the letter C alone.”

- Double Metaphone - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

"Shipping is a feature. A really important feature. Your product must have it."

Fri, 25 Sep 2009 15:53:41 -0400

“Shipping is a feature. A really important feature. Your product must have it.”

- The Duct Tape Programmer - Joel on Software

QuirksBlog: Reading out the end time in browser speed tests

Fri, 11 Sep 2009 12:17:17 -0400

QuirksBlog: Reading out the end time in browser speed tests:

The problem here is that the entire test, including the time measurements, are wrapped in one function, and that some browsers only applies the result of the test (i.e. the changes in the DOM you want to test) to the screen after the function has ended entirely. Thus the end timestamp is read before the browser has applied the result to the screen.

"A computer program is a blueprint and its execution at the same time. Like a pianola roll, it is a..."

Mon, 24 Aug 2009 17:13:29 -0400

“A computer program is a blueprint and its execution at the same time. Like a pianola roll, it is a score performing itself. The artistic fascination of computer programming — and the perhaps ecstatic revelation of any first-time programmer — is the equivalence of architecture and building, the instant gratification given once the concept has been finished. Computer programming collapses, as it seems, the second and third of the three steps of concept, concept notation and execution.”

- Cramer, Florian, “Concepts, Notations, Software, Art” (via vellum, carvalhais)

(via buzzandersen)

talby: AJAX on Rails (via...

Tue, 14 Jul 2009 09:18:10 -0400

talby:

AJAX on Rails (via @ReinH:@thomasfuchs:@sstephenson)

I’m not currently using either technology, but it’s still sweet.

Google I/O - Sessions

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 16:04:11 -0400

Google I/O - Sessions:

Google I/O offered 80+ sessions featuring technical content on Google Wave, Android, App Engine, Chrome, Google Web Toolkit, AJAX APIs, and many more. The available session videos and slides from each track are listed

You know how useful side projects are supposed to be born out of someone "scratching their own itch"?

Fri, 10 Jul 2009 13:11:56 -0400

It’s always bothered me that I never have had that sort of inspiration, but I think I’ve finally found an itch worth scratching that others might find useful as well. Stay tuned.

The Universe of Discourse : Gray code at the pediatrician's office

Mon, 22 Jun 2009 12:23:09 -0400

The Universe of Discourse : Gray code at the pediatrician's office:

Gray code is a method for encoding numbers in binary so that each numeral differs from the adjacent ones in only one position