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The iPhone 5
It’s nice.
Dropbox dives into CoffeeScript
Dash knows your context, your team, and your work, so your team can stay organized, easily find and share knowledge, and keep projects secure, all from one place.
Why critics of Rails have it all wrong (and Ruby's bright multicore future)
Edit: Contrary to what I said here, José Valim is not stepping down from Rails core, he is merely on sabbatical. My bad. Lately I've been ...
There is something magical about Firefox OS
Over the past year and a half I've been spending more and more of my time working with Mozilla's latest project, Firefox OS. During that time I've fallen in love with the project and what it stands for, in ways that I've never experienced with a technology platform before.
It’s Opus, it rocks and now it’s an audio codec standard
In a great victory for open standards, the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) has just standardized Opus as RFC 6716. Opus is the first state of the art, free audio ...
The Tiniest GIF Ever
Yesterday I was base64-encoding an image so I could send it to CouchDB to test some code I’m working on for a client. It reminded me of something I did a while back to set cookies on a remote server.
So I Made A Mashup, And Then…
I grew up knowing how to play music. My parents started me on piano lessons when I was very young, and played violin in middle and high…
Stripe moves to JSONP; adds CORS support
Available as a feature of Stripe.js, Stripe Elements is a set of prebuilt UI components for building your web checkout flow.
Stop validating email addresses with your complex regex
Just stop, y’all. It’s a waste of your time and your effort. Put down your Google search for an email regular expression, take a step back, and breathe.
Google Search is only 18% Search
Google Search is only 18% Search - Monday, 03 September 2012 - Alex's blog
How to get that native iOS feel with PhoneGap
At Outbox we have been hard at work building our iPad application with PhoneGap . I wanted to share some of the lessons my team has learned...
Learn how to code a Facebook app in 20 minutes with PythonAnywhere
[Warning! this tutorial was written in August 2012, and so is probably out of date]
New Firefox Command Line helps you develop faster
Firefox 16, now on the Beta channel, has a fantastic feature that was mentioned briefly in the Aurora 16 blog post and first introduced in a separate post by Joe ...
New Default WordPress Theme: Twenty Twelve
Every year the WordPress team proudly unveils a new default theme, increasing by one the collection now known affectionately as the Twenty Somethings. Serving as the flagship theme for a year, it h…