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GMail: designer arrogance and the cult of minimalism
It looks like Google has finally pulled the plug on the old GMail UI. There’s no more “revert to the old look temporarily” button, so I guess they’re finally forcing us lagg…
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Firefox 12 released
Firefox for Windows, Mac and Linux makes updating the browser easier and includes more than 85 improvements to built-in developer tools. We put a lot of wo
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The War On RSS
John Gruber was right, when pointing to Dan Frakes’ review of the Mail app in Mountain Lion, to highlight the fact that the application drops support for RSS (he calls it an “interesting omission”, which is both correct and understated). It is indeed the most interesting aspect of the review, even though it’s buried…
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GIMP 2.8: Preview
I wrote the other day about me upgrading my system in order to be able to run the Preview Release of GIMP 2.8 , I have it up and working, r...
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Don't Build APIs
My first job at Microsoft was providing developer support for the early Windows SDKs. To do my job well, I spent hours studying the Windows SDK documentation, the Windows source code, and writing sample applications. I then spent hours poring over customers’ (such as Lotus, WordPerfect, and Computer Associates) code…
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Of parser-fetishists and semi-colons
TL;DR: if you advocate omitting sensible syntax as parsers will fix that for us, you are not a visionary developer. You waste your and our time. And you come across as a semi-colon.
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Email is not broken: It’s a framework, not an application
I've been seeing a lot of posts on the webz lately about how we can fix email. I have to say, I think it's a bit short-sighted.People are saying it has outgr...
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Writing Browser Extensions - Comparing Firefox, Chrome and Opera
MediaPlus is a browser extension that gives users more control over media elements like video, images, games, flash, etc by allowing them t...
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Yesod 1.0 - a robust, friendly, high performance web framework for Haskell
Yesod is a Haskell web framework for productive development of type-safe, RESTful, high performance web applications.
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Open Letter to XSLT Fans
Michael Snoyman's personal homepage and blog, featuring writing about programming, open source, health, finance, religion, and whatever else catches his interest.
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Hotel Wifi JavaScript Injection
So I’m checking my blog on the hotel wifi, like ya do, and I notice something a little off with the style. There’s a dark colored bar at the top of the page that shouldn’t be there. That’s funny. Maybe a recent Firefox update changed how they treat CSS?
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Ember and D3: Building responsive analytics
The Corner is Square's technical blog covering software engineering, APIs, data, open source and more.
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