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Sat, 04 Jul 2009 18:53:57 GMT

you always survive as long as you dive AWAY from the atomic blast. always.

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true story #7,159

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 00:29:22 GMT

sometimes i put on m83?s ?lower your eyelids to die with the sun? in the basement and work on my bikes in slo-mo ?cause you know? it makes me feel sexy.

the replacements - ?when it began?

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 01:46:05 GMT

the replacements - ?when it began?

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Fri, 03 Jul 2009 00:07:57 GMT

Machsend: P2P file sharing via Browser Plus

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 10:52:52 GMT

Alex MacCaw has released Machsend, a Yahoo! Browser Plus plugin that enables P2P file transfers from inside the browser. It showcases what can be done with a BP plugin, leaving you wish cross browser functionality. I guess it is kinda fun to hack the browser :)

It?s Friday. Play some drums?. HTML5 style

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 13:11:53 GMT

Brian Arnold created a fun sample drum machine simulator using HTML5 <audio>. PLAIN TEXT JAVASCRIPT: function playBeat() { if (isPlaying) { var nextBeat = 60000 / curTempo / 4; // Turn off all lights on the tracker's row [...]

Protip: Color grep searches in terminal

Mon, 28 Jul 2008 20:54:24 GMT


alias grep='GREP_COLOR="1;37;41" LANG=C grep --color=auto'

Stash this away in your Z Shell (~/.zshenv) or Bash environment (~/.bashrc) and set your preferred ANSI code.

GeoMaker - geo locations as microformats or a map from texts or URLs

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 08:02:33 GMT

As preparation for an upcoming tech talk about Placemaker I thought it would be good to take a bit of the pain out of the geolocation service by making an interface for it. Placemaker works the following way: you post some content or a URL to it, it goes through the content or gets the [...]

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 04:41:52 GMT

Modernizr: HTML5 and CSS3 detection

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 04:29:40 GMT

Modernizr is a new library that detects various HTML5 and CSS3 features and lets you know so you can use them: Writing conditional CSS with Modernizr Now, once your page loads, Modernizr will run and go through all of its tests. It will automatically add all the classes to the <body> element of the page, and these [...]

closet kriss kross fan

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:07:49 GMT

just realized i?ve been wearing my underwear backwards all day.

GChart 2.5: Faster, sharper, canvas-rendered, pie, line, and area charts

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 11:44:30 GMT

John Gunther has released GChart 2.5, a client-side library that adds a new canvas-rendering option for sharper, better looking, alpha-transparent, pie, line, and area charts. John told us: Canvas-rendering corrects GChart’s most serious visual quality limitations (including the most often mentioned problem by its users: the banded-filled pie slice). Coupled with its existing feature set and ease of [...]

More than you ever want to see about encoding

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 10:03:19 GMT

Paul Baukaus linked to jsescape, a little form that shows escaping and unescaping across a number of encodings. Andrea Giammarchi had his own post on encodings in a different way…. as he talked about en-code which you can check out in action here on the page that lets you do simple encodings, especially for source code, in [...]

"there is an end goal in ?free? and that?s to get fucking paid."

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 19:10:00 GMT

?there is an end goal in ?free? and that?s to get fucking paid.?

- joliver

A whole lot of testing for JavaScript implementations

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 12:42:14 GMT

A couple of releases related to unit testing and JavaScript came out on the same day. First, the JScript team posted a set of ECMAScript 5 tests.... 900 to be exact, and the focus on features that are new to ECMAScript 5. All of the tests are released under New BSD. Then, the V8 team announced Sputnik, a [...]

Modernizr [del.icio.us]

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 22:57:35 GMT

Modernizr is a JavaScript toolkit that allows you to use cool new CSS3 and HTML5 features while maintaining a fine level of control over browsers that don't support them yet.

ActiveRecord Ported To Objective-C

Sun, 08 Jun 2008 20:59:19 GMT

ActiveRecord Ported To Objective-C brought to us by Ninja Kitten

Page Speed - Firebug Add-on similar to ySlow from Google [del.icio.us]

Fri, 05 Jun 2009 18:32:48 GMT

PHPDeveloper.org: Community News: Memcached Extension Updated - Adds JSON Serialization Support [del.icio.us]

Fri, 05 Jun 2009 18:30:28 GMT

Firefox 3.5: The fastest fox has landed

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 15:35:07 GMT

It is great to feel the good vibes at Mozilla HQ today as we launch Firefox 3.5! It is always an interesting ride to see a browser develop, and realize how complex and large the work is. Congrats to the browser developers out there who are working hard to make the Web better. With final [...]

"Meanwhile, back to Anderson vs Gladwell: in reality, both writers aren?t that different: my bet is..."

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 03:09:28 GMT

?Meanwhile, back to Anderson vs Gladwell: in reality, both writers aren?t that different: my bet is that if you do blind taste tests on their books, it would be hard to figure out who wrote which. Both of them have built lucrative careers peddling somewhat interchangable and at times indistinguishable ideas: abundance vs scarcity, wisdom of crowds, network effect, david vs goliath, and a ?a dazzling ability to find commonality in disparate fields of study? to prove their points?

- Chris Anderson vs Malcolm Gladwell: The Freestyle Fight | paidContent

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Tue, 30 Jun 2009 02:39:57 GMT

like getting a blow/handjob combo happy meal with a toy inside.

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LABjs: Simple abstraction for loading dependencies correctly

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 11:16:24 GMT

Kyle Simpson has developed LABjs, a library that lets you define your JavaScript file dependencies, and then loads them as efficiently as possible. Kyle told us: This project is a simple little tool (1.6k compressed!) for being able to load javascript files dynamically. It's like a lot of similar projects where the goal is to improve the [...]

New Sessions at The Ajax Experience 2009

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 17:25:09 GMT

Summer is right around the corner - so before you make any vacation plans here’s one quick action item to cross off your to-do list: Register now to lock in exclusive $300 savings for The Ajax Experience conference, September 14-16 in Boston, MA. It’s only been?two weeks?since we announced open registration for The Ajax Experience with [...]

50 Free Resources That Will Improve Your Writing Skills | Developer's Toolbox | Smashing Magazine [del.icio.us]

Sun, 28 Jun 2009 17:48:28 GMT

Effective writing skills are to a writer what petrol is to a car. Like the petrol and car relationship, without solid skills writers cannot move

New Memcached Extension for PHP - techPortal [del.icio.us]

Mon, 22 Jun 2009 16:22:19 GMT

MacRuby: The Path Forward

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 17:45:48 GMT

MacRuby is quietly making progress. Destined to replace RubyCocoa as the de facto standard for writing Cocoa applications in Ruby; it?s shaping up to become more than just a fun experiment, it?ll soon be a viable choice.

IE6 denial message for Momentile.com [del.icio.us]

Fri, 19 Jun 2009 04:37:25 GMT

Flickr is almost certainly the best online photo management and sharing application in the world. Show off your favorite photos and videos to the world, securely and privately show content to your friends and family, or blog the photos and videos you take with a cameraphone.

Take Your Design To The Next Level With CSS3 | CSS | Smashing Magazine [del.icio.us]

Tue, 16 Jun 2009 06:41:12 GMT

Cascading Style Sheets were introduced 13 years ago, and the widely adopted CSS 2.1 standard has existed for 11 years now. When we look at

PHP Thumb 3.0 Released

Wed, 10 Jun 2009 19:23:21 GMT

Well, it’s been a long time coming, but I’ve finally managed to get the next release of my PHP Thumbnailer library completed! I’m also happy to announce that the project finally has its own website: http://phpthumb.gxdlabs.com. I’ve put a lot of work into bringing the class up to date, making it extensible, and [...]

Web Developer Collection: Packaged up Firefox extensions

Wed, 10 Jun 2009 18:14:34 GMT

Mozilla announced a new feature for add-ons today: collections. It also looks like they’re getting the ball rolling with several useful collections, such as the Web Developer Collection. It includes all sorts of goodness like Firebug, ySlow, GreaseMonkey, ColorZilla, and many more. Well worth a quick visit. FireFox Web Developer Collection

Griffin Sleeping in His Fort [Flickr]

Wed, 10 Jun 2009 05:46:37 GMT

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Browser-based Developer Tools Come Full Circle

Tue, 06 May 2008 22:26:19 GMT

With the release of Opera?s DragonFly, IE 8?s Developer tools, Safari?s/Webkit?s Web Inspector and Drosera; and the Grand Daddy of them all, Firebug ? we?ve now come full circle.

Automating Rick Rolls with launchd

Thu, 01 May 2008 22:09:18 GMT

Lets face it: Your coworkers can be a real pain in the ass sometimes. What better way to remind them of this than automated Rick rolls? They?re likely to never know what hit them.

Deploying Static Websites With Net::SCP

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 17:55:53 GMT

I recently had a couple of projects that consisted of a few static HTML files and a couple images. I could have used a blog or lightweight CMS, but those were overkill. I could use scp, but remembering the scp command every time I made a small change proved to be a hassle. I could have used Capistrano, but that too, felt overboard for my simple needs. Lucky for me, in addition to Capistrano, Jamis Buck wrote Net::SCP which was the perfect tool for the job.

Best Practices For Cocoa and CocoaTouch

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:33:19 GMT

Best Practices For Cocoa and CocoaTouch—Invaluable tips from Cocoa developers.

Track House And Senate Votes On Twitter

Mon, 12 Jan 2009 17:25:22 GMT

Track House And Senate Votes On Twitter. I?ve put together a small script that parses vote data collected by Govtrack.us and posts to twitter.

Programming Politics

Mon, 12 Jan 2009 17:24:59 GMT

Could you imagine, for a moment, what the political scene would be like without the social media giants Memeorandum, Reddit, Twitter, Digg, and Youtube? What about the old media websites that started as an experiment, required a registration and charged for access to content? Yes, it?s hard to imagine, but it was only four short years ago that none of these social websites existed and the old media websites were merely second class citizens to their broadcast counterparts. Meanwhile, while we?ve been caught up in the infinite streams of information, there has been a small, but highly motivated community of hackers opening up government in a whole new way, providing APIs ripe for mashups and experimentation.

YouTube Launches House & Senate Hubs

Mon, 12 Jan 2009 17:23:47 GMT

YouTube has just announced HouseHub and Senate Hub.