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Firefox Developer Tools: Break on DOM Events, Edit as HTML, Codemirror
Firefox 27 was just uplifted to the Aurora release channel which means we are back to report on new features in Firefox Developer Tools. Below are just some of the ...
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 268 posts.
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Firefox Developer Tools, Part 2: Scratchpad and Style Editor
This is part two, out of five, focusing on the built-in Developer Tools in Firefox, their features and where we are now with them. The intention is to show you ...
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Steps You Can Take Right Now Against Internet Surveillance
One of the trends we've seen is how, as the word of the NSA's spying has spread, more and more ordinary people want to know how (or if) they can defend themselves from surveillance online. But where to start? The bad news is: if you're being personally targeted by a powerful intelligence agency...
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Gzip + poetry = awesome
Day 16: gzip + poetry = awesome
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Part of it was the lack of surprises, which isn’t Apple’s fault. All of the product upgrades, while nice, were incremental and predictable. None of the pricing was a surprise. In fact, the only unexpected product announcement is the zombie iPad 2 sticking around for another year, shamelessly at the same price as last…
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Font Awesome 4 released
The internet's icon library + toolkit. Used by millions of designers, devs, & content creators. Open-source. Always free. Always awesome.
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PhpStorm 7.0 final release is here
PhpStorm 7.0, the new major release of our professional PHP IDE, is now available for download!This release keeps up with the latest PHP & web languages trends, providing top-notch support for
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How to get rid of old stuff, sell it for more, and use Amazon as cheap storage
Most people don't know that you can ship stuff to Amazon's warehouse and have them simultaneously store it and offer it for sale to their customers. — Sounds cool, right?
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Wireshark is switching to Qt
Today I released the next development version of Wireshark, 1.11.0. This marks a major change in the direction of the project. We’re switching our user interface library from GTK+ to Qt. Both libraries make it easy for developers write applications that will run on different platforms without having to rewrite a lot…
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SecureDrop
SecureDrop is an open-source whistleblower support system, originally written by Aaron Swartz and now run by the Freedom of the Press Foundation. The first instance of this system was named StrongBox and is being run by The New Yorker. To further add to the naming confusion, Aaron Swartz called the system DeadDrop…
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Visual Studio 2013 released to web
Visual Studio 2013 is now available for download! We hope you are as delighted with this release as we are to bring it to you. You can learn more about
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Introducing TogetherJS
What is TogetherJS? We'd like to introduce TogetherJS, a real-time collaboration tool out of Mozilla Labs. TogetherJS is a service you add to an existing website to add real-time collaboration ...
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Why Microsoft Word must die
I hate Microsoft Word. I want Microsoft Word to die. I hate Microsoft Word with a burning, fiery passion. I hate Microsoft Word the way Winston Smith hated Big Brother. Our reasons are, alarmingly, not dissimilar ...
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How web browsers resize images
This is an analysis of the image resizing algorithms used by popular web browsers. It was made with the help of my ResampleScope utility.
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Firefox Developer Tools and Firebug
If you haven't tried the Firefox Developer Tools in the last 6 months, you owe it to yourself to take another look. Grab the latest Aurora browser, and start up ...
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Archiving URLs
Archiving the Web, because nothing lasts forever: statistics, online archive services, extracting URLs automatically from browsers, and creating a daemon to regularly back up URLs to multiple sources.
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Maven is broken by design
The other day, someone asked about the status of the GWT Mavenization, saying he loves Maven and would like to help. I replied that “I used to really like it” but wasn't “so sure nowadays.” It obviously was followed by “I know it could cause issues if not used in the proper way […] Do you mind telling me why you don't…
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The Six Stages of Debugging (2012)
[ This is not mine. I posted it in the interest of personal archival because the oldest mention I could track down on the web appeared on a now-defunct weblog . In the meantime, Mike W. Cremer (who bills himself The Newton™ Scapegoat ☺ ) has claimed credit for coining it after a particularly frustrating DMA debugging…
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Monitor your Website’s Uptime with Google Docs
Would you like to receive instant email alerts as soon as your website goes down or is inaccessible to users?
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bliki: Test Pyramid
Write most of your tests at a low level (unit tests) with a few broad-stack tests, eg via UI. UI tests tend to be fragile and slow.