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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 [...]

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 [...]

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

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

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 [...]

MySpace open sources advanced browser performance tool for IE

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 10:21:18 GMT

Developers tend to tease MySpace for its look, but the insiders are incredibly impressed by some of the engineering behind the scenes (e.g. their internal monitoring tools are said to be second to none). They have surprised us again with their new tool MSFast which is “a browser plugin that help developers to improve their code [...]

OMG WTF (43:40)

Sun, 28 Jun 2009 19:17:55 GMT

USA 2?: BRA 0

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Sun, 28 Jun 2009 02:14:44 GMT

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Billy Ocean Get Outta My Dreams, Get into My Car (1988) (via...

Sun, 28 Jun 2009 23:57:03 GMT

Billy Ocean Get Outta My Dreams, Get into My Car (1988) (via TrunksVegetaSS)

Scripty2 has landed

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 05:14:51 GMT

Thomas Fuchs has been working in the open on scripty2 for a bit, and now the website has launched. It even comes with nice documentation and fun demos: What’s new in scripty2? It is a complete rewrite, and comes packaged in three parts: scripty2 core contains the main namespace and an area for extensions to be added. It [...]

Fun with text-shadow

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 16:26:24 GMT

Zach Johnson is at it again, this time giving us a fun Friday treat with CSS text shadow, all via: PLAIN TEXT JAVASCRIPT: document.getElementById('text-shadow-box').onmousemove = function(e) { var xm = e.clientX - 300; var ym = e.clientY - 175; var d = Math.sqrt(xm*xm + ym*ym); text.style.textShadow = -xm + 'px ' + -ym + [...]

kim jong-il says: ?come to the vimeo super meetup...

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 16:09:55 GMT

kim jong-il says: ?come to the vimeo super meetup party?

Sigh.

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 11:37:48 GMT

Sigh.

"I did absolutely nothing, and it was everything that I thought it could be."

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 19:06:17 GMT

?I did absolutely nothing, and it was everything that I thought it could be.?

- peter gibbons

First beta of YUI 3.0 released

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 11:52:47 GMT

Congrats to the YUI team for releasing their first beta of YUI 3: We?ve spent a lot of time in this release cycle refining the core elements of YUI 3 ? YUI, Node, and Event ? to ensure that we have the right API going forward. Performance is improved, and we?ve refined our module/submodule structure. In [...]

JavaScript sandbox using Web Workers

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 11:17:45 GMT

We have been sandboxing JavaScript in iframes for a long time. The Web Worker API has the nice property that it doesn't have access to objects like document and the like, and just runs code that you can pass over to it. With this, Elijah Grey has created an experimental jsandbox API that gives you an [...]

iPhone 3GS runs faster than claims, if you go by SunSpider

Wed, 24 Jun 2009 20:03:36 GMT

Rana Sobhany of Medialets has posted on Sun Spider benchmarks of the iPhone 3GS as well as other devices which shows off the performance angle of 3GS: The WebKit Open Source Project provides a JavaScript test Suite dubbed SunSpider. According to the description on the SunSpider home page, ?this benchmark tests the core JavaScript language only, [...]

fixed gears are the new rollerblades (via The Impression That I...

Wed, 24 Jun 2009 15:57:54 GMT

fixed gears are the new rollerblades (via The Impression That I Get)

MooTools: Saving the dollars, replacing document.write

Wed, 24 Jun 2009 11:28:13 GMT

The religion behind a simple $ has been fierce in the Web world. MooTools has decided to make the Dollar Safe Mode which is similar to cousins such as jQuery.noConflict (in MooTools case it just looks for the $ function). Now you can just use document.id if you want to play in the wild, or [...]

Sprite Me! Helping you sprite up, but maybe you shouldn?t?

Tue, 23 Jun 2009 05:01:00 GMT

There have been many tools to help make image spriting easier, by packaging up your images into one large image and splitting it up again via CSS. Steve Souders just showed off a new little tool he created, Sprite Me at the Velocity conference that kicked off today. He has made it easier to work with [...]

Contenture

Tue, 23 Jun 2009 12:55:14 GMT

Contenture: a bolt-on micropayment brokering service. it?s pretty different from other models. not sure if it will work but i find the concept interesting.

"The best marketing strategy is to destroy your industry before your competition does."

Tue, 23 Jun 2009 12:51:47 GMT

?The best marketing strategy is to destroy your industry before your competition does.?

- Seth?s Blog: Learning from Singer

ProtoFish: advanced hover menu

Tue, 23 Jun 2009 10:05:01 GMT

ProtoFish is an advanced hover menu based on Prototype, written by Peter Slagter. You can easily add a delay to your menu (on mouseout) and choose your own hover class. All ProtoFish menu's will respond to users who use the TAB-key to navigate through your page. It is trivial to use. Once you load up [...]

HTML 5 and the Wizard of Oz

Mon, 22 Jun 2009 18:05:47 GMT

Kyle Weems, the CSS Squirrel and author of the occasional and bizarre comic of the same name, targets his latest rendering at Ian Hickson: Click-through to see the full comic. The related blog entry fleshes out the basic complaint some more: Why is it that the person who is the center of this process is allowed to [...]

how strange. this is exactly how i feel about his career too.

Mon, 22 Jun 2009 04:47:55 GMT

how strange. this is exactly how i feel about his career too.

it?s a terrible disease.

Sun, 21 Jun 2009 02:56:26 GMT

it?s a terrible disease.

Get out there - you got the prospects coming in. You think the...

Tue, 16 Jun 2009 19:28:16 GMT

Get out there - you got the prospects coming in. You think the came in to get out of the rain? A guy don?t walk on the lot lest he wants to buy. They?re sitting out there waiting to give you their money. Are you gonna take it? Are you man enough to take it?

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