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Chrome Developer Tools: Back to Basics
It’s been an exciting past few months in the Google Chrome Developer Tools world as we keep adding new features, while polishing up existin...
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 3,855 posts.
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Why We Stick With PHP (and don't move to Ruby or Python)
I often get asked by potential employees and clients, why we do PHP and mostly PHP only. A valid question, of course and my first answer usually is (besides the “historical reasons” one), that nowadays all those server side (scripting) languages are mainly the glue layer between the front-end (the browser part) and…
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WordPress names their 3.1 release: Reinhardt
The long-awaited fourteenth release of WordPress is now available. WordPress 3.1 “Reinhardt” is named in honor of the jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt. Version 3.1 is available for download, or you …
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Native Client: Getting Ready for Takeoff
Over the last few months we have been hard at work getting Native Client ready to support the new Pepper plug-in interface. Native Client ...
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New Chrome extension: block sites from Google’s web search results
Insights from Googlers into our products, technology, and the Google culture
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JQuery 1.5 released: .sub(), ajax rewrite, speed improvements, more
jQuery: The Write Less, Do More, JavaScript Library
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Google uses accelerometer API in Jules Verne Google Doodle
Insights from Googlers into our products, technology, and the Google culture
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37signals Basecamp Mobile HTML5 app for WebKit browsers
Today we launch Basecamp Classic Mobile for phones and devices with WebKit browsers. This includes the iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPad, Motorola Droid X, Motorola Droid 2, Samsung Galaxy S, HTC Incredible, HTC Evo, Palm Pre 2, BlackBerry Torch, or any other device running iOS 4+, Android 2.1+, webOS 2, …
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How Organized Spam is Taking Control of Google's Search Results
In the past few months, I have been watching a very unsettling trend unfold in very competitive ecommerce search results on Google. It appears that huge amounts of money are put into place to systematically and successfully manipulate highly competitive search terms in order to sell fake…
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New in Gmail Labs: Unread message icon
Posted by Manu Cornet, Software Engineer When you’re visiting sites other than Gmail, it’s easy to find out how many unread messages are in ...
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Free Wordpress themes coming with a price
There are so many free WordPress themes out there it can put your head in a spin. This post is the one-stop resource for info about free WordPress Themes
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Chromium Blog: More about the Chrome HTML Video Codec Change
There has been a lot of discussion regarding this week’s announcement of upcoming changes to HTML video codec support in Chrome. The future...
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NYTimes Opensources Their Deep Linking JS
We’ve released an update to “Emphasis,” the feature that enables paragraph-specific anchor links and highlighted text. We’re also putting the source on GitHub for everyone to use.
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Google Removing H.264 Support in Chrome
The web’s open and community-driven development model is a key factor in its rapid evolution and ubiquitous adoption. The WebM Project was ...
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SOAP: The 'S' stands for simple (not really)
There has been a long running debate in the Application Platform Services Group here at Burton Group between the REST people on one side and the SOAP people on the other. For the most part it mirrors the external debate. In one recent exchange, while discussing the complexity of SOAP and the web services framework…
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Hotlinking to jquery.com will be disabled on January 31, 2011
jQuery: The Write Less, Do More, JavaScript Library
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“Merry Christmas" vs. "Happy Holidays" - nearly double the conversion rate.
The current system of cancer research has failed us. It's time we begin funding the "renegade" blue-chip scientists whose research shows real promise.
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First we built an API, then we built a CMS
API design has been a point of discussion on Hacker News recently. The discussion has been focused on the process of adding on an API to your app. With our S...
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Introducing the Ubuntu Font Family to the web
Google and the Ubuntu project have today released the Ubuntu Font Family to the world through the Google Font Directory. The new Ubuntu Fon...
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Using Flat Files So Elections Don’t Break Your Server
Publishing live election results requires a carefully tuned system: the setup must be able to withstand some of the most intense traffic levels seen all year at NYTimes.com. We decided to center our elections app on the simplest of all caching strategies: the flat file.
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Realtime encoding - over 150x faster
We are excited to announce real-time encoding, allowing videos to be encoded while they are still uploading and effectively making encoding 150 times faster!
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Unhosted - Freedom from web 2.0's monopoly platforms
This website describes a technology, unhosted web apps, which we find so important that some of us quit our day jobs and other spend their evenings and weekends to work for the higher goal of free technology, not just as a job that pays the bill. Why do we work for free? Why are unhosted web apps so important? Why…
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