March 2011
15 posts
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The Tech Behind the New Grooveshark →
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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...
@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!
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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...
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.
– Mark Twain (via livejamie)
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goodbye utm_source! →
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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.
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how to move some commits to a new branch →
Using Dojo Rich Editor with Django's Admin →
I like how he used a screenshot of the post itself being edited! Very meta.
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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.
In preparing for battle, I have always found that plans are useless but planning...
– Dwight D. Eisenhower
Want to move fast? Just do this (part 1 – Design) →
Name anagram?
delgrosso:
“Does long story.”
Boom.
http://anigram.heroku.com/tony-delgrosso/does-long-story