July 2011
2 posts
LIKE IT OR NOT →
An insightful post from a former Google engineer about Google+
The most interesting thing to me about this post isn’t the comparison of Google+ and Facebook nor the thoughts about Circles. It’s his comments about Google culture:
I was also growing increasingly frustrated at Google’s sluggish engineering culture. I have previously described how the toolchain is not well-suited...
How-To: Create Your Own iTunes LP →
November 2010
2 posts
http://blog.crazybob.org/2010/11/java-se-7-8.html →
Bob Lee, creator of Guice, declines the invitation to join the Java 7 & 8 expert groups.
October 2010
4 posts
“Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution.”
– Clay Shirky
rem @ > 140 characters: Hold off on deploying... →
remy:
[Please note that this post is intentionally unedited. It’s a raw rant that would probably go down better in a pub. Since we’re not in a pub, this medium will have to do.]
So, go read this equally link baiting article on why you should hold off HTML5. Then come back and let’s talk.
I’ll say…
Would the real Leonardo DiCaprio please stand up?
July 2010
1 post
To School or Not to School →
“The most important thing is to know what you’re doing”
My mission with Aptitoo.com is to provide affordable, practical web design and development training for designers, developers, and small business owners who want skills that will help them achieve success in their field. I’ve had over 13 years of experience as a web development professional and spent several years teaching...
June 2010
8 posts
HTML5Rocks →
The folks at Google have set up a righteous portal of demos, tutorials, and resources for HTML5 development.
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HTML5 Doctor, helping you implement HTML5 today →
A collection of articles relating to HTML5 and how it can be used now, before the specification is formalized.
Spicing Up Your Website With jQuery Goodness →
Here’s a useful post on Smashing Magazine written by a member of the Zurb team explaining how and why to add the following jQuery goodness to a site:
Image uploading with the Ajax Upload plugin
Validating textual form input with a textchange plugin
Image annotation with a couple of annotation plugins
A CSS grid with the handy CSS Grid Builder
How Do You Learn? →
As a (soon to be) provider of training, I’m curious about this. Do the majority of people learn best from books on their own, by viewing other peoples work, by being taught, or some combination of those?
The CSS white-space Property Explained →
Learn the proper way to handle “nowrap” and “pre” with CSS.
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The Ultimate Roundup of Indispensable and Helpful... →
FireQuery →
a Firefox extension integrated with Firebug…brilliant!
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No HTML 5 for you! →
So Apple decided to put up a showcase of HTML 5 features but, in their infinite wisdom, decided to only let Safari browsers display them. The issue appears to be that they’re doing simple checking of the User-Agent header rather than using something more robust like Modernizr which would allow them to display demos based on browser capabilities.
May 2010
11 posts
jQTouch →
An open source jQuery plugin for creating mobile websites that look and feel like native iPhone apps. Some additional documentation is available in the project Wiki on Google Code http://code.google.com/p/jqtouch/
Introducing the Google Font API & Google Font... →
Jeff Lemire is writing a Superboy ongoing →
It’s not just exciting for Superboy fans, it’s exciting news for Jeff Lemire fans, as well! I can’t wait to see what the author of Sweet Tooth and The Essex County Trilogy does with Superboy.
graphicly:
I was just thinking yesterday how I was upset that there was no Superboy ongoing. This is some exciting news for Superboy fans.
How to detect everything in HTML5 →
Not only does this recent appendix to Mark Pilgrim’s Dive Into HTML5 provide guides for detecting HTML5 features, it also serves as a great cross-reference to more information about them.
8 Websites You Need to Stop Building →
This post should be worth about 8 hundred billion dollars within the next 6 months.
“A Duck: A feature added for no other reason than to draw management attention...”
– New Programming Jargon — Global Nerdy (via ted-is-a-nerd)
Join the Campaign!
edtech4lausd:
Tweet and Blog for Ed Tech on May 12!
Funding for classroom technology is in jeopardy! We’re calling on educators across the US to tweet and blog for education technology funding on Wednesday, May 12.
http://www.isteconnects.org/2010/05/06/join-the-campaign-tweet-and-blog-for-ed-tech-may-12/
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As allergies surge, an ancient cure? →
An allergist I spoke with about a year ago shared the details of several potential food allergy cures. FAHF-2 is the one I am most excited about. It’s good to see an update. I read awhile back that after phase 1 human trials were complete we might actually see FAHF-2 as a “herbal supplement” available over the counter. As the article indicates we’ve reached that...
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“There won’t be a single point in time at which we can declare that the language...”
– Jeremy Keith on HTML5
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WatchHTML 5 Features you should use right now