March 2011
15 posts
3 tags
The Tech Behind the New Grooveshark →
Mar 30th
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Mobile Safari AJAX form submission →
if there is no form submit, there is no button if there is a form submit, it reloads the page, unless its action is set to a JavaScript URL by making the submit call JavaScript, it causes another issue (though it may be a good thing in some cases): the keyboard isn’t dismissed by catching the button press and focusing an anchor tag, rather than a form element, the keyboard can be made to...
Mar 27th
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@substack's dnode now uses browserify →
Both projects attack major problems: dnode implements client-server RPC using socket.io, as well as server-server RPC using network sockets node-browserify makes Node.js modules work on the server side by providing HTML5 shims and wrapping modules for async require Awesome to see them working together!
Mar 27th
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conformance testing, separation of content and...
A comment I left on How APIs encourage the separation of content and presentation by Marsh Gardiner: —- I’m glad you picked twitter as an example. Another interesting thing is going on here. Lots of apps, including mobile apps, *do* want twitter to help them with the html so they can make the mentions, hashtags, and links work. This is in addition to plain text, which I agree is...
Mar 23rd
Mar 22nd
“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.”
– Mark Twain (via livejamie)
Mar 19th
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goodbye utm_source! →
Mar 19th
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dojo & rails links from last night
I started hacking on a sidebar-based content editor last night, and while using it found some cool projects. dojo’s dijit-powered API browser is amazing dijit’s inline editor works quite well with the keyboard (try the first demo) the dijit BorderContainer is quite nice relevance’s new-world-order is a good starting point for rails apps Here’s what I have so far.
Mar 17th
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how to move some commits to a new branch →
Mar 15th
Using Dojo Rich Editor with Django's Admin →
I like how he used a screenshot of the post itself being edited! Very meta.
Mar 14th
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sites for finding long-form articles
Amy Hoy linked these on twitter: LONGREADS The Essayist longform.org Give Me Something To Read Excellent stuff.
Mar 14th
“In preparing for battle, I have always found that plans are useless but planning...”
– Dwight D. Eisenhower
Mar 13th
Want to move fast? Just do this (part 1 – Design) →
Mar 13th
Mar 9th
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Name anagram?
delgrosso: “Does long story.” Boom. http://anigram.heroku.com/tony-delgrosso/does-long-story
Mar 4th
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