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Http-https transitions and relative URLs
When building a web site with HTTPS pages, one of the annoying tasks is to ensure that those pages make no references to HTTP resources. If they do, then Internet Explorer will pop up alarming messages about mixing secure and insecure content, and do you want to display the insecure content.
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Sammy.js, CouchDB, and the new web architecture
UPDATE: My slides and a protected instance (will open up for play soon) or swinger, available "here":http://c.ixxr.net/swinger/_design/swinger/index.html#/preso/jqcon_09/display/1I'll be honest.
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Bowline - A Ruby GUI Desktop Framework
Get a new domain name for your startup. Quick and professional service. Seamless domain transfers.
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WebKit gets a new JavaScript profiler courtesy of 280 North (YC W08)
New Profiling and Debugging Tools in WebKit
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Excuse Me, But Where Did Google's Organic Search Results Go?
In the past many SEOs have called organic search results the results on the left side of the page and the pay-per-click / AdWords results as the results on the right side of the page. As Google has grown more aggressive with promoting vertical/universal search I think a better way of defining the portions of the…
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Mozilla Test Swarm Alpha Open
TestSwarm , the project that I’ve been working on over the past 6 months, or so, is now open to the public. Mozilla has been very gracious, allowing me to work on this project exclusively. At the beginning of April I moved from my old position as a JavaScript Evangelist on the Mozilla Evangelism team to that of a…
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Examples of Extreme Minimalism in Web Design
As a follow up on last week’s roundup of 105 Examples of Clean and Minimal Twitter Apps , I thought this week would be the time to share with everyone examples of extreme minimalism in web design , and how with minimal elements, when properly used, so much can be achieved.
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Don’t use @import
In Chapter 5 of High Performance Web Sites , I briefly mention that @import has a negative impact on web page performance. I dug into this deeper for my talk at Web 2.0 Expo , creating several test pages and HTTP waterfall charts, all shown below. The bottomline is: use LINK instead of @import if you want stylesheets…
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Is RightJS really faster than jQuery?
My journey of mastering procrastination has led me to an interesting article on Hacker News today:
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Eventbug Watch JavaScript events finally in Firebug
More musings on software development
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GWT 2.0: So good it's ridiculous
GWT 2.0 was released today, and even though I've been using it for months and contributing to it, I didn't realize the significance of this ...
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Thinking about using Facebook Connect on your site? Step one: Abandon your will to live.
Personal portfolio site showcasing projects in a horizontal scrolling gallery
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Did You Know: BeautifulSoup's bits are rotting
The parser in version 3.1.0 of Beautiful Soup did significantly worse on real-world HTML than version 3.0.8 did. The most common problems were the incorrect handling of <script> tags, "malformed start tag" errors, and "bad end tag" errors.
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IPhone Web Apps as an Alternative to the App Store
I think it would be good for everyone — Apple, developers, and iPhone users — if unrestricted web apps became a serious alternative to the restricted App Store. But it isn’t credible to argue that they already are.
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Anatomy of a bad search result
programming, philosophy, history, internet, startups
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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…