<img src="http://stevehanov.ca/blog/images/stick-figures.png"/> Now it's a commercial product, but <a href="http://zwibbler.com">Zwibbler</a> was once a fun side-project, and here's some details on its implementation.
We've launched user accounts at EveryBlock , and we faced the interesting problem of needing to cache entire pages except for the "You're logged in as [username] " bit at the top of the page. For example, the Chicago homepage takes a nontrivial amount of time to generate and doesn't change often -- which means we want…
A simple cross-browser method of centering tabbed menus with pure CSS and no hacks.
djng is nearly two weeks old now, so it’s about time I wrote a bit about the project. I presented a keynote at EuroDjangoCon in Prague earlier this month entitled …
A user interface rule of thumb: The fewer UI elements a user must deal with, the more appealing the interface.
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…
I’ve decided to step up my involvement in Django development in the run-up to Django 1.2, so I’m currently going through several years worth of accumulated pony requests figuring out …
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…
My first major experiment has been in improving the commenting system on this blog.
I found a really nice video lecture on JavaScript. I'm a JavaScript journeyman myself so I decided to review it to learn something new. I have written about JavaScript in the past -- the previous post on JavaScript was "Learning JavaScript through Video Lectures". This lecture is given by JavaScript guru Doug...
An Interface and Product Design blog by Joshua Porter
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Follow-up points and observations regarding ‘The Android Opportunity’.
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