January 2010
88 posts
One-click Minifier Gadget (OMG) - initial checkin →
So I’ve been thinking and talking to folks about this idea of having one-stop shop for all your minification needs. Minification of JS and CSS as well as image optimization helps site…
Google Apps Drops Support for IE6 →
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A quote from John Gruber →
32.38 percent of visitors to DF last week did not have Flash.
- John Gruber
iPad Stencil →
Playing with Shapes: “I’m just as anxious as anyone else to start designing for the iPad. I always have to start with paper.”
Hot Code Loading in Node.js →
Reading through Fever today, this post by Jack Moffitt caught my eye. In it, he discusses a hack to allow a running Python process to dynamically reload code. While the hack itself, shall we…
Unit testing with node.js →
Even so most stuff is fairly easy with node.js, unit testing takes a little bit of getting used to. The main difference to regular unit testing is that just because your test finishes running…
Daddy, What's a Mouse? →
“Daddy, what’s a mouse?”
“It’s something that we used to point at objects on a computer screen”
“Just one thing at a time?”
“Yes honey.”
“Wow! But how did you do this?”
[She resizes a square…
How the PS3 Hypervisor was hacked. →
With the great news of the hypervisor being hacked by Geohot, many people are now wondering, what next, how does this work, and what can I look for in the future? Nate Lawson has posted up an…
Adobe's Unhappy →
I was going to respond to Adobe’s self-serving, biased, and not entirely factually accurate blog post, but rather than incur more wrath from the legion of Flash “developers”, I’m just going to link…
Panopticlick Shows How Easy Your Browser Is to... →
You’ve disabled cookies and opened a private browsing window, so you’re confident nobody can see what you’re visiting on the web. The Electronic Frontier Foundation begs to differ, and their…
RT @davidwalshblog: Hitler responds to the #iPad: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQnT0zp8Ya4
'Breaking Bad' Juxtaposes POTUS to Pusher →
Here’s the story: outerwear brand Weatherproof found an AP photo of Obama sporting one of its coats, and used that picture to post a huge billboard in the middle of Times Square. …
The Irony of the iPad: A GREAT Day for Open... →
With the announcement of the iPad, the usual suspects have come out decrying a closed, proprietary, fully locked down system.
For instance, a story on the top of Hacker News today says:
This is…
La VOIP 3G arrive sur l'iPhone →
iCall est une application déjà présente sur l’iPhone, le Web ou le bureau de l’ordinateur et on apprend que dans le nouvel SDK pour iPhone / iPad , Apple a laissé tomber la…
The Irony of the iPad: A GREAT Day for Open... →
With the announcement of the iPad, the usual suspects have come out decrying a closed, proprietary, fully locked down system.
For instance, a story on the top of Hacker News today says:
This is…
Adobe en perte de vitesse →
La part de marché de l’iPhone étant grandissante, et l’iPad ayant un succès quasi-assuré, on se demande quel impact ces nouveaux terminaux auront sur Adobe. Cette évolution est renforcée par…
SublimeVideo: Beauty comes with this HTML5 video... →
As the world gets closer with HTML5 video (YouTube and Vimeo recently began beta testing their HTML5 implementation), here’s SublimeVideo by Jilion, that’s sleek, functional,…
Vidéo dans le navigateur : Theora ou H.264 ? →
Vous en avez sûrement entendu parler, deux grands acteurs américain du partage de vidéo en ligne, Youtube et Vimeo, ont présenté des pré-versions de leurs lecteurs respectifs en HTML 5.
Here's your silver platter →
In the interest of openness, I’ve decided to release the exploit. Hopefully, this will ignite the PS3 scene, and you will organize and figure out how to use this to do practical things, like the…
JavaScript running on the GPU →
I love programmers like Alex Miltsev. He won the Jetpack 0.5 content by prototyping access to the GPU from JavaScript!
Alex’s work is an alpha-prototype that shows the feasibility of the…
Semr ruby gem - natural language processing →
Semr is the gateway drug framework to supporting natural language processing in you application.
It’s goal is to follow the 80/20 rule where 80% of what you want to express in a DSL is possible in…
neo4jr-social: REST interface for Neo4j →
neo4jr-social: REST interface for Neo4j: Need to talk to Neo4j, the popular Java NoSQL database but no habla Java? No worries, @mdeiters has your back with Neo4jr-Social: Neo4jr-Social is…
Rocket Surgery Made Easy →
Steve Krug has written a follow up to his usability classic Don’t Make Me Think. The sequel, Rocket Surgery Made Easy, is a terrific, short, concise, fun guide to running simple…
CodeSOD: Meaningless Progression →
“One of our desktop applications has a progress bar in it,” Bryce N. writes, “and as I was working more and more with the code, I noticed that the progress bar would progress to a seemingly random…
Linux performance basics →
Linux performance basics. This kind of Linux knowledge is rapidly becoming a key skill for server-side web development.
Web Design Ledger rounds up “The Best Icon Sets... →
Web Design Ledger rounds up “The Best Icon Sets for Minimal Style Web Design“—a great mix of plain, non-color, non-dimensional, and mostly vector icons. I immediately grabbed Pictoico (shown…
Finding the current location by IP and with the... →
I was always fascinated by those ads that show you “hot contacts in {city}” not because of the hot contacts, but because they always changed to where I was at the time. I was also quite interested…
Normal Template →
For some time now I was using a custom version of JSON-Template. I really like the simplicity of JSON-Template and the clean separation of data, logic and design. On the other hand I hate the…
How to Steal a Botnet (Video Lecture Summary) →
I recently watched an interesting video lecture on stealing botnets. A group of researchers at UCSB recently managed to take control over a part of Torpig botnet for 10 days. During…
things-rb: Ruby lib & CLI for Things (mac) →
things-rb: Ruby lib & CLI for Things (mac): A fellow Rubist and good friend Andy Shen had a conversation on Twitter with another fellow Rubist Josh Price about Things, the Mac GTD…
Hello hypervisor, I'm geohot →
I have read/write access to the entire system memory, and HV level access to the processor. In other words, I have hacked the PS3. The rest is just software. And reversing. I have a lot of…
Why Amazon won't launch its own tablet, but will... →
The Kindle game is up, and Amazon knows it. In 2010, the world plus dog will be hawking an E-Ink-based e-reader, and major distribution and publishing houses like Barnes & Noble, Google,…
On Amazon EC2 Spot Instances →
Introduction A couple months ago Amazon announced support for EC2 spot instances. In a nutshell, a spot instance is an EC2 instance that you bid on and that Amazon creates and destroys based…
Logorama – La vie des marques →
Réalisé par le collectif francais H5 (déjà auteur du sublime clip d’Alex Gophex – The Child et d’autres nombreaux clips comme ceux de Royksopp, Massive Attack, Goldfrapp), ce court…
Dirty Harry →
De-fusing JavaScript Natives with the Fusebox →
John-David Dalton has released Fusebox, a library that allows you to sandbox natives:
Extending JavaScript natives gives you the power to customize the language to fit your needs. You can add…
Firmware 1.5 pour les SSD OCZ →
OCZ propose une nouvelle mise à jour du firmware pour ses SSD Agility et Vertex (sauf Turbo). La mise à jour 1.5 s’applique sur les disques qui étaient déjà auparavant en 1.4 ou 1.4.1 et supporte…
Death Metal Rooster →
I favorited a YouTube video: Death Metal Rooster, need I say more? Original version here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEiWoWoM4R0 There are now Death Metal Rooster inspired t-shirts…
Securely store information in URLs with UrlStore →
Hammertime: Ruby Interactive Error Console →
Hammertime (GitHub repo) is a new interactive error console for Ruby by Avdi Grimm, modelled after those found in the Squeak/Smalltalk and LISP environments. It fills some of the same…
Securely store information in URLs with UrlStore →
Encode click-tracking or payment requests with secure hashing (Rails cookie-store style) simple as UrlStore.encode(:cliked=>’bottom-right’) UrlStore.decode(params[:data]), try the secure url store…
Cloud MapReduce from Accenture →
Accenture is a Global Solution Provider for AWS. As part of their plan to help their clients extend their IT provisioning capabilities into the cloud, they offer a complete Cloud Computing…
Wufoo + Free Incentivization = Cheap, Effective... →
Posted by Patrick on MicroISV on a Shoestring 1 hour ago. The total change it took to implement this intelligent, incentivized survey (plus two A/B tests) was ~20 lines of code and…
41 Resources for Getting Started with Facebook... →
By now, you’ve probably heard of Facebook Connect… The main advantage of leveraging Facebook Connect is that it is a good way to increase your traffic and engagement.
Whether you have already…
Comment s'appelle la startup française qui... →
Une startup française est en train de faire un véritable carton sans faire beaucoup de bruit: Criteo.
Fondée en 2005 par Jean-Baptiste Rudelle, lequel avait déja réussi un joli coup avec Kiwee…
Facebook Connect 5 Things You Wish You Had Known... →
Mechanical Turk Studies Show IE Users’ Discontent,... →
Interesting study of the “Browser Ballot” projected results using Amazon Mechanical Turk
Winch Madness – Une sublime vidéo de Wakeskate →
Je connaissais le wakeboard, je connaissais le skateboard, mais je n’avais jamais entendu parler du Wakeskate jusqu’à aujourd’hui… Pourtant c’est assez simple, prenez une planche de wake,…
Extjs Color Themes Download →
Aza’s Thoughts » A More Readable (Pythonic)... →