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This is just amazing. In 20 lines of node.js code and 10 minutes of time I was able to write a HTTP proxy. Take a look: var http = require('http'); http.createServer(function(request, response) { var proxy = http.createClient(80, request.headers['host']) var proxy_request =...
Facebook just launched a super-easy widget called "The Facebook Like Button". Website owners can add a simple iframe snippet to their html, enabling a nice "Like" button with a count of other people's "Likes" and a list of faces of people if any of them are your friends. The advantage of this new tool is that you…
The goal isn’t merely to exceed the resolution of competing devices. The goal is to rival the optical quality of print.
In the traditional model, the primary priority is keeping everything open. In this new model, the primary priority is that the system must always be responsive to the user.
Cross-compilers, such as the Flash-to-iPhone compiler in Adobe’s upcoming Flash Professional CS5 release, are prohibited.
Back in November of 2009, Joel Webber and I were at a GWT Summit focused on improving the Web and UI latency. Someone was giving a presentat...
The Man in Blue showcases the writing and Web design of Cameron Adams.
I bring this up not to say browsers should not support Ogg Theora — I’m just saying Ogg is a lot closer to being in GIF’s boat than H.264 is.
There is a reason why JSON is becoming very popular as a data exchange format (more important than it being less verbose than XML): programmers are sick of writing parsers! But “wait”, …
This is amazing. HTML5. No Flash. No Java. Works on iPhone. Related posts: ePubs and iBooks and whether we care about the EULA. Ugh. More Flash. Do not read. Flash: a legacy technology Amazing ePubs
Create pay stubs, W-2s and 1099s for the people you pay. Federal and state withholding calculated for you. Preview first, then download as a PDF from $8.99.
LiveJournal has done something stupid again. Let me rephrase that: LiveJournal has done something REALLY fucking stupid. Links to about 150 e-commerce sites that users post to their LiveJournals are being redirected through a 3rd party website. These redirected links also open in a new window.…
If you ever tweet about being unhappy with the WebKit Web Inspector , someone from the WebKit team will inevitably take notice and ask you why. I might reply, “Because it’s not Firebug!” Firefox could almost have it all with Firebug, but Firefox’s main problem is that it’s not WebKit.
A while ago, I came across a unique registration form built by Jeremy Keith for his audio sharing site, Huffduffer. Though it asked people the same questions fo...
@Brian, thanks for catching that. You can try visiting a missing page on my website. eg: http://bluesmoon.info/foobar I'll update the post.
When the internal Google remote quality rater guidelines leaked online there was a core quote inside it that defined the essence of spam:
