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Last week, Google announced that its Youtube service would default to using HTML5 video instead of Flash. Once upon a time, this would have been cause for celebration: after all, Flash is a proprietary technology owned by one company, a frequent source of critical vulnerabilities that expose...
NOTE: we presented this project last Sunday at FOSDEM, but not everyone could make it to Brussels, so here's a post explaining what node-firefox is and how can it help ...
Editor's Note: An earlier version of this post appeared on Mason Chang's personal blog. For the past few months, I've been working on Project Silk which improves smoothness across ...
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Over the past few months the team at RethinkDB has been working on a project to make building modern, realtime apps dramatically easier. The upcoming features are the start of an exciting new database access model – instead of polling the database for changes, the developer can tell RethinkDB to continuously push…
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The Associated Press reports that healthcare.gov–the flagship site of the Affordable Care Act, where millions of Americans have signed up to receive health care–is quietly sending personal health information to a number of third party websites. The information being sent includes one's zip code,...
In this tutorial well learn how to create a chat client that communicates with a Socket.IO Node.JS chat server, with our native Android Client! If you want to jump straight to the code, it's on GitHub. Otherwise, read on!
Its been a while since I mentioned Wayland in this space - of course that doesn't mean that work on GNOME Wayland support has stopped. Quite the opposite, in fact. The GNOME 3.15.4 release that is due this week will close a number of the remaining gaps: libinput 0.8 has been released, with most of...
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The way Octopress is being distributed and maintained is nearing its end. There are many things I've always disliked about how Octopress works. So before I talk about the exciting part, I'd like to tell you what's wrong with Octopress.
Update 2014-01-16: Turn announced today they will suspend their zombie cookie program by early February, but left open the possibility to resume in the future. We ask that they end the program permanently.Verizon advertising partner Turn has been caught using Verizon Wireless's UIDH tracking header...
Node.js® is a free, open-source, cross-platform JavaScript runtime environment that lets developers create servers, web apps, command line tools and scripts.
As we announced in the inaugural blog post in our Inside FastBoot series, we have begun working on giving Ember.js developers the ability to run their apps in Node.js. Once complete,...
In 2014, many of you—millions, in fact—helped make Chromecast one of the most popular streaming media devices globally. It's been exciting t...
Over the past six months we deployed a new technology that sped up Wikipedia’s backend application, reducing the median page-saving time for editors from about 7.5 seconds to 2.5 seconds.
Using JavaScript to write fast, interactive web applications has exploded in popularity over the past few years. JavaScript apps offer many strengths over traditional server-rendered applications. Most notably, rich interactions and lightning-...
Posted by Stephan Somogyi, Product Manager, Security and Privacy In June, we announced and launched End-To-End , a tool for those who need...
