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B. is an old friend of mine who owns an old Nokia. And when I say old, I mean really old. It was released somewhere in 2000 or so (the Nokia, not the friendship). It’s not a smartphone, to put it mildly, and B. does not use the mobile Web.
Mac, iPhone & iPad interface design consulting, writing and speaking featuring tutorials, interviews, techniques and thoughts on crafting & building beautiful software. By Mike Rundle.
<img src="http://stevehanov.ca/blog/images/stick-figures.png"/> Now it's a commercial product, but <a href="http://zwibbler.com">Zwibbler</a> was once a fun side-project, and here's some details on its implementation.
In my previous post about generic actions in Rails 3, I made reference to significant improvements in the router. Some of those have been covered on other blogs [http://rizwanreza.com/2009/12/20/revamped-routes-in-rails-3], but the full scope of the improvements hasn't yet been
Web browsers should only buffer HTML5 media content when the `autobuffer` attribute has been explicitly turned on in the markup.
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I've just had a chance to play with the implementation of websockets in Googles Chrome browser. This post started me off. After a small am...
The best iPhone web app I’ve ever seen.
GWT 2.0 was released today, and even though I've been using it for months and contributing to it, I didn't realize the significance of this ...
I just implemented WebSocket into the Mibbit server, and thought I'd get some real numbers on performance. Having recently updated the Mibbi...
Wow, Doug added an alert() to http://www.json.org/json2.js which just alerted a LOT of people on the Internet. Proving a point on hotlinks?
My journey of mastering procrastination has led me to an interesting article on Hacker News today:
This is a description of how ahathereitis.com works. The things I'll be looking for are basically just a bunch of lines on the ground (like...
A regex pattern for finding URLs in an arbitrary string of text.
I think it would be good for everyone — Apple, developers, and iPhone users — if unrestricted web apps became a serious alternative to the restricted App Store. But it isn’t credible to argue that they already are.
In his “ Apple’s mistake ” essay Paul Graham makes an unwarranted assumption; an assumption everybody who’s currently involved in the Great App Store Debate seems to be making.
I gave a talk on Friday at Full Frontal, a new one day JavaScript conference in my home town of Brighton. I ended up throwing away my intended topic (JSONP, …
These PC makers are lacking in neither resources nor opportunity. What they’re lacking is ambition, gumption, and passion for great software and new frontiers.
This message is coming to you via a simple NodeJS application that's live on your Droplet! This droplet is all set up with NodeJS, PM2 for process management, and nginx.
After reading a recent post by Steve Souders concerning a free tool called dynaTrace Ajax , I was intrigued. It claimed to provide full tracing analysis of Internet Explorer 6-8 (including JavaScript, rendering, and network traffic). Giving it a try I was very impressed. I tested against a few web sites but got the…
