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Thinking about using Facebook Connect on your site? Step one: Abandon your will to live.
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The Ultimate Website Launch Checklist
About to launch a new website? Make sure that you have covered all bases with this comprehensive checklist you can't be without.
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Simple rule of thumb for measuring the perceived complexity of a user interface
A user interface rule of thumb: The fewer UI elements a user must deal with, the more appealing the interface.
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iReddit: The official Reddit iPhone app arrives
Get the latest product news, company announcements, and user insights from the official Reddit blog.
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Why HTTP?
The world doesn’t need another arbitrary binary protocol. Just use HTTP. Your life will be simpler. Originally this came up when scaling a gaggle of MySQL machines. I would have killed for a reliable proxy. It’s with this in mind that I’ve come up with my list of things that HTTP has that an arbitrary protocol will…
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Fun With HTTP Headers
Like any good web developer, I have a tendency to poke around at people’s web sites to see if I can figure out how they’re implemented. After poking at enough sites, I started noticing that people were putting some weird and interesting stuff in their HTTP headers. So, a couple of weeks ago, I decided to actually go…
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Rails versus Django
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What webhooks are and why you should care
Webhooks are user-defined HTTP callbacks. Here’s a common example: You go to github. There’s a textbox for their code post webhook. You drop in a URL. Now when you post your code to github, github will HTTP POST to your chosen URL with details about the code post. There is no simpler way to allow open ended…
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John Resig Talk: Performance Improvements in Browsers
I gave a talk last week at Google (at the request of the excellent Steve Souders ) all about the performance improvements, and new APIs, that are coming in browsers. I cover the new browsers, their JavaScript engines, their JavaScript performance, and then do a whirlwind tour of their new DOM methods and some of their…
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Recreating the button
Until some future version of HTML gives us new native controls to use in a browser, at Google, we’ve been playing and experimenting with controls we call “custom buttons” in our apps (among other custom controls). These buttons just launched…
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Don't Blame CSS For Your Incompetence
I feel like shit, and have spent a proportion of the afternoon in bed so really shouldn’t be involving myself in this right now, but I can’t help it. Hacker News and Reddit have been bickering today…
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Why CSS Should Be Used for Layout
This post addresses the key points of the debate over the use of CSS for layout.
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Why CSS should not be used for layout
Seeing as how the CSS wars seem to have flared up again, I thought I would weigh in. I have finally had a chance to really dive in to the details, and I have come to the following conclusion:
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Tables vs CSS: CSS Trolls begone
First mistake, drinking the CSS Kool-Aid Several weeks ago, I started designing the layout for my threaded comments on a social news site that I'm building. I had created a down and dirty layout using nested tables. It was ugly, and used nested tables but it worked. I was then paralized by guilt. I couldn't let the…
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Building a Web App in 1 Hour For Promotional Purposes (IsHilarySwankHot.com)
Find your domain name at HugeDomains. Start using this domain right away.
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Designing Web Interfaces: Standard Screen Patterns
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Why PHP won
When I first learned to program on the web, Perl + CGI was the dominant platform. But by the time I was building my first websites for com...
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JQuery 1.3 Released
jQuery: The Write Less, Do More, JavaScript Library
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Why I still prefer Prototype to jQuery
Like most programmers who’ve done Rails development, I’ve become very familiar with the Prototype library for JavaScript. Even apart from being b...
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Announcing the New York Times Congress API
We’re pleased to announce the Congress API, which lets developers access information about Congressional representatives and their votes.
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