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How to Make Phone Calls from the Command Line
With Twilio, unite communications and strengthen customer relationships across your business – from marketing and sales to customer service and operations.
Tony Hsieh's Email to Employees RE: Zappos' Sale to Amazon
Fast, FREE shipping on just-landed sneakers, boots, heels & more from your favorite brands. Now that's a win.
Django 1.1 release candidate available
Posted by James Bennett on July 21, 2009
Insurance on Rails
We've had several customers lately stuck in the same boat: they exist in a conservative industry (insurance), they have a large set of fixed costs for their ...
Source code from Apollo 11 open-sourced
On this day 40 years ago, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first humans to walk on the Moon. This was quite an achievement for mank...
Creating the Illusion of Accomplishment
Many game developers are starting to find that games with illusory challenges sell better than those with real challenge. They believe that…
IE6 Must Die (along with 7 and 8)
One of the trending topics on Twitter currently is “ IE6 Must Die “, which are mainly retweets to a blog post entitled “ IE6 Must Die for the Web to Move On “. This is certainly true, IE6 has many rendering bugs and lacks support for so many things that it is simply a nightmare to work with. The amount of time and…
WebKit: 3D Transforms
WebKit on Mac OS X now has support for CSS 3D transforms, which allow you to position elements on the page in three-dimensional space using CSS.
A new compression algorithm to make Google Chrome updates small
We have just started using a new compression algorithm called Courgette to make Google Chrome updates small. We have built Google Chrome to ...
Unacceptable Browser HTTP Accept Headers (Yes, You Safari and Internet Explorer)
When browsers make requests they send headers. The Accept header tells the server what file formats the browser is looking for and can understand.
Introducing the Google Chrome OS
Insights from Googlers into our products, technology, and the Google culture
SSH server 0-day exploit
SANS.edu Internet Storm Center. Today's Top Story: The Classics Return: Vulnerable E-Mail Scripts;
Gmail is out of beta
Insights from Googlers into our products, technology, and the Google culture