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CoffeeScript

Thu, 24 Dec 2009 19:36:49 +0000

CoffeeScript is a little language that compiles into JavaScript. Think of it as JavaScript’s less ostentatious kid brother — the same genes, roughly the same height, but a different sense of style. Apart from a handful of bonus goodies, statements in CoffeeScript correspond one-to-one with their equivalent in JavaScript, it’s just another way of saying it.

A Unix Utility You Should Know About: lsof

Thu, 24 Dec 2009 17:45:10 +0000

A Unix Utility You Should Know About: lsof

"C’s biggest mistake is: Conflating pointers with arrays."

Thu, 24 Dec 2009 17:29:55 +0000

“C’s biggest mistake is: Conflating pointers with arrays.”

- Dobbs Code Talk

Ample SDK

Tue, 22 Dec 2009 21:59:24 +0000

Ample SDK:

Ample SDK is a standard-based cross-browser JavaScript GUI Framework for building Rich Internet Applications. It employs XML technologies (such as XUL, SVG or HTML5) for UI layout, CSS for UI style and JavaScript for application logic. It equalizes browsers and brings technologies support to those missing any.

How to stop flash content shine-through JQuery UI Dialog in FF Windows

Tue, 22 Dec 2009 21:43:17 +0000

How to stop flash content shine-through JQuery UI Dialog in FF Windows

Ruby & WebSockets: TCP for the Browser

Tue, 22 Dec 2009 17:28:35 +0000

Ruby & WebSockets: TCP for the Browser

How Programming Language Fanboys See Each Others’ Languages

Tue, 22 Dec 2009 04:59:59 +0000

How Programming Language Fanboys See Each Others’ Languages

How to obtain and install an SSL/TLS certificate, for free

Mon, 21 Dec 2009 17:20:33 +0000

How to obtain and install an SSL/TLS certificate, for free

Web Design for Developers Book Review

Mon, 21 Dec 2009 05:24:01 +0000

Web Design for Developers Book Review:

Like many left-brain developers, I am fairly adept at creating functional web applications but humbly amateur at wrapping them within attractive user interfaces. With the release of Brian Hogan’s Web Design for Developers, I hoped I could elevate my novice design skills to something worthy of the application logic that surrounds it. Did the book achieve this lofty goal?

App Engine JavaScript SDK

Sun, 20 Dec 2009 17:13:34 +0000

App Engine JavaScript SDK:

Welcome to App Engine for JavaScript! With App Engine, you can build web applications using the JavaScript programming language, and take advantage of the many libraries, tools and frameworks for JavaScript that professional developers use to build world-class web applications. Your JavaScript application runs on Google’s scalable infrastructure on top of Java and Rhino, and uses large-scale persistent storage and services.

Ruby Metaprogramming

Sun, 20 Dec 2009 07:32:26 +0000

Ruby Metaprogramming

Mobile Web Apps: Where Are We Now?

Sun, 20 Dec 2009 04:50:59 +0000

Mobile Web Apps: Where Are We Now?:

As I mentioned in the original article, toolkits like PhoneGap and jQTouch already exist and can help ease some of the pain that mobile web app developers experience when trying to build native-quality web apps for the iPhone. However, numerous problems continue to make this impractical for many. For example, MobileSafari’s lack of support for fixed position CSS elements, overall responsiveness, access to certain important hardware features, and mostly, missing native _feeling_ behaviors. In many — perhaps most — cases, struggles with these problems ultimately force serious app developers to pursue a native client approach, even though it comes with an expensive learning curve and of course the problem that it’s an app-specific interface that needs to be maintained in addition to an existing web presence.

What You Need To Know About Behavioral CSS

Sat, 19 Dec 2009 17:37:43 +0000

What You Need To Know About Behavioral CSS

Why I think Mongo is to Databases what Rails was to Frameworks

Fri, 18 Dec 2009 23:21:19 +0000

Why I think Mongo is to Databases what Rails was to Frameworks

CSS Techniques I Wish I Knew When I Started Designing Websites

Fri, 18 Dec 2009 16:30:17 +0000

CSS Techniques I Wish I Knew When I Started Designing Websites

PastryKit: best iPhone Web app library you never heard about

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 16:57:34 +0000

PastryKit: best iPhone Web app library you never heard about

Book Review: jQuery 1.3 and PHP

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 16:41:07 +0000

Book Review: jQuery 1.3 and PHP:

So, if you are a php developer who has never bothered to look over the fence at client-side coding practices, this book is ideally for you. If you are a JavaScript developer looking to learn a thing or two about PHP you might be frustrated as the author assumes you are already “good” at php development. Because of this assumption made by the author, very little insight into the php code is given. But, to the author’s credit, he warns us about this fact upfront.

10 jQuery snippets for efficient developers

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 23:45:16 +0000

10 jQuery snippets for efficient developers

Introduction to CSS Escape Sequences

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 15:34:16 +0000

Introduction to CSS Escape Sequences

jQuery.Behavior - A Simple JavaScript Library for Complex Web Applications

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 15:30:36 +0000

jQuery.Behavior - A Simple JavaScript Library for Complex Web Applications