The Things You Get Used To
Here’s a conversation I listened to in a recent meeting. I’m paraphrasing here - crossed arms and an expression of abject horror did not allow for accurate note taking. "Our AGS has been as slow as a turtle that was hit
Take Action against SOPA and PIPA
Take action against SOPA and PIPA. End piracy, not liberty.
Make Smarter - Paul Irish, Cory Doctorow, Flexible Organizations, API-Centric Web Apps, Colored Rasters with GDAL
First up in this month’s make smarter is a talk by Paul Irish on Developing HTML5 for a Cross Browser World (slideshow). There’s a lot of great information, but my favorite take away is this: Aim for a great experience -
Updating Google Fusion Tables from a CSV File Using Python
My Quality of Life Dashboard project is using Fusion Tables, and I needed to update the table from a CSV. I did it in Python, and it is not a work of art, but I figured someone might find it useful. First, you’ll need to
The Google Maps Inset Shadow Thing
Google recently redesigned a number of their sites, including Google Maps. One of the things they did was make a subtle inset effect on the map, so it looks slightly below the header and sidebar. Ooooh. Subtle. That’s
A Couple of Random Head-Bangers
There are equal parts science and art to what we technologists do. Today was not an art day. Two quick notes while I’m still pissed. First, if you are trying to run a Java app on Windows 7 under VirtualBox and you enable
I Can Do That in a Browser?!
Holy crap. Happiness: 1, Productivity: 0.
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IE Updates Get a Little Better. Kinda.
For you web devs that consider old versions of Internet Explorer crimes against humanity, some slight help is on the way from Microsoft. Next year Microsoft will start pushing the latest version of Internet Explorer to u
Make Smarter: polyfills, Cross-browser IE Testing, jQuery Mobile
First up in this month’s Make Smarter is a great slide show by Addy Osmani called Polyfilling the HTML5 Gaps with JavaScript. Polyfills is a catch-all term to describe libraries that help browsers (usually old versions o