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Hotlinking to jquery.com will be disabled on January 31, 2011
jQuery: The Write Less, Do More, JavaScript Library
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 338 posts.
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“Merry Christmas" vs. "Happy Holidays" - nearly double the conversion rate.
The current system of cancer research has failed us. It's time we begin funding the "renegade" blue-chip scientists whose research shows real promise.
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Why are restaurant web sites so bad?
On Twitter, my friends Shani and Erie are engaged in a bit of time-honored kvetching about the legendary and general awfulness of restaurant Web sites. Who thinks it’s good idea to blast annoying music at people going to your site? Why do they so often rely on Flash, which doesn’t really add anything to the…
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Common Mistakes as Python Web Developer
A short list of common mistakes in Python web applications in terms of security and architecture.
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First we built an API, then we built a CMS
API design has been a point of discussion on Hacker News recently. The discussion has been focused on the process of adding on an API to your app. With our S...
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Introducing the Ubuntu Font Family to the web
Google and the Ubuntu project have today released the Ubuntu Font Family to the world through the Google Font Directory. The new Ubuntu Fon...
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Using Flat Files So Elections Don’t Break Your Server
Publishing live election results requires a carefully tuned system: the setup must be able to withstand some of the most intense traffic levels seen all year at NYTimes.com. We decided to center our elections app on the simplest of all caching strategies: the flat file.
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Realtime encoding - over 150x faster
We are excited to announce real-time encoding, allowing videos to be encoded while they are still uploading and effectively making encoding 150 times faster!
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Building blocks of a scalable webcrawler.
In my last semester as a student, I had the chance of working for an awesome company ( Acquia ) on a very interesting project. It all started with a post over at Dries Buytaert's blog. He is the CTO and co-founder of Acquia (and Mollom), inventor of Drupal, open-source celebrity and also knows a thing or two about…
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Unhosted - Freedom from web 2.0's monopoly platforms
This website describes a technology, unhosted web apps, which we find so important that some of us quit our day jobs and other spend their evenings and weekends to work for the higher goal of free technology, not just as a job that pays the bill. Why do we work for free? Why are unhosted web apps so important? Why…
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Stored XSS Vulnerability in Amazon (or How to hack Amazon with a book)
hacking Amazon with a book, Amazon stallowned, stored XSS
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What to Read to Get Up to Speed in JavaScript
Updated: 10/7/2016 I wanted to offer up what I felt were good books/resources to carry you through learning JavaScript. Note that some resources will overlap between levels. That should be expected…
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Opera 11 goes final
Get the latest information about our desktop browser direct from the Opera Desktop team.
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Input type="password" Needs to Grow Up
Thoughts and musings of Dennis Forbes, expert software developer/architect and AI engineer
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Why I Switched to Duck Duck Go Permanently
The leading source brandable domain names. Competitive prices. Excellent service. Get your domain name today.
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Android vs iOS: A Developer's Perspective
Since its inception, Whereoscope has been an iPhone-only shop. The genesis of this iPhone-fetishism goes all the way back to the very first iPhone: in a way, it was the potential that device tantal…
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Breaking the Reddit code
A few days ago an entry on Reddit asked for help breaking a code . Because I was laid up in bed yesterday with something chesty and nasty I...
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