Archive for November, 2011

I’m not sure how I missed it, but a new feature to OS X Lion is a Preference Pane called Network Link Conditioner. This is a thing of beauty for Web developers the world over; built in network throttling on an OS level. Throttling comes in as a need for various reasons. I’ve wanted to [...]

Lynx would not be impressed – on semantics and HTML | Christian Heilmann. This article reads like a breath of fresh air in a way. While we spend every waking moment talking about the latest and greatest newness on the Web, there is a much bigger ‘real world’ out there that we all work to [...]

Using jQuery .on() and .off() – AndiSmith.com. jQuery’s .live() caught on like wildfire, and for good reason. Unfortunately, as with most good things, it got abused. It was misused to the extent of the jQuery team deprecating it as of version 1.7 (currently at 1.7.1 at the time of this posting) and replacing it with [...]

A List Apart: Articles: The ALA 2011 Web Design Survey. The ALA Web Design Survey is one of the few ways we can get some insight into the numbers surrounding our industry. It’s sometimes hard to get context with the business of Web design, but this survey is something I’ve come to view as a [...]

My internal SSD fell off the bus: wouldn’t even appear on the device list. My SSD was gone. via rentzsch.tumblr.com: Death and Resurrection of an SSD. As much as I love software debugging, hardware debugging stories are great for me as well. SSDs are by far the best thing to happen to personal computers in [...]

A geek with a hat » Why I only work with startups. While the headline may come off as a bit grandiose, I completely understand where he’s coming from when abstracting it to the client work I’ve been doing for the past year as well as co-running a new company. The list very much resonated [...]

Google Checkout Transitioning to Google Wallet – Wallet Help. PayPal has it’s pros and cons, but Google’s flopping of products basically forever has prevented me from suggesting it’s use to clients. This makes me glad I did that. I’m putting some hope into Stripe.

Announcing jQuery Mobile 1.0 | jQuery Mobile. I’ve recently become extremely smitten with jQuery Mobile and to hear that it went 1.0 is awesome.     Definitely check out the docs, read a book/blog post or two, and have a go as soon as you can. The jQuery Mobile team has done a ton of [...]

I Saw An Extremely Subtle Bug Today And I Just Have To Tell Someone | Kalzumeus Software. I don’t know about you but I love a good bug-hunting story. This is the best one I’ve read in some time. The author goes into extreme detail to ensure we’ve got enough context to problem solve with him [...]

http://feval.info/instagram/canvas.html Recently, Instagram released their Engineering Challenge: The Unshredder which challenged developers to de-shred an image. These guys did it in HTML5. Definitely worth viewing source on this one.