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Opera Mail – standalone mail client
With the release of Opera Next, Opera Mail takes its star turn as a dedicated service. This lean and mean email machine is lightweight, nimble and focused on one thing and one thing only – handling e-mail better than ever. Simple yet powerful, Opera Mail is designed to help you get the better of your […]
App.net’s new direction
Today, App.net launched free accounts . Previously, everyone had to pay — originally $50/year, then reduced to $36/year.
Firefox Developer Tools: Break on DOM Events, Edit as HTML, Codemirror
Firefox 27 was just uplifted to the Aurora release channel which means we are back to report on new features in Firefox Developer Tools. Below are just some of the ...
Building Stripe's API
Amber on Rails
The API-ization of everything
Everything that used to be fax machines, contracts, and invoices and purchase orders in triplicate are going away. What's replacing it? The API. Before Stripe, you had to fill out a ton of forms...
The realtime magic behind Moot and how we deliver all your instant notifications
Le tecnologie in tempo reale stanno trasformando il digitale. Permettono interazioni immediate e autentiche🎯 Scopri come migliorano l'esperienza utente e favoriscono il coinvolgimento.
On Layout and Web Performance
Outside of initial page load problems, “layout thrashing” is the most common performance problem I see in dynamic web applications. This is particularly true for Single Page Applications which build and destroy views on the fly. However, I’m often amazed by the number of web developers I run into who are unaware of…
Chrome and Opera Optimize for Mozilla-Pioneered Asm.js
Browsers Join Firefox as approved for running Epic Citadel Mozilla has been working hard to make asm.js as fast as possible in Firefox and progress has been really solid. Less ...
1% of CMS-Powered Sites Expose Their Database Passwords (2011)
Feross Aboukhadijeh is a computer security researcher, teacher, web developer, designer, long distance runner, gamer, music lover, and builder of websites that (sometimes) go viral.
The Chrome Javascript editor can do hot swapping
Hot swapping is the process of replacing code while the application is running. It allows a developer to see changes immediately - no recompiling, no waiting on page reloads, and no clicking to get to the application state where the code was changed. Just save the file and you’ll see the changes. I would say hot…
Developer Tools Update – Firefox 22
This is the first in a series of posts published on or about the time a new Firefox version graduates from 'Nightly' status and becomes Firefox Aurora. We think that ...
HTML Live Video Streaming Via WebSockets
When I built my Instant Webcam App, I was searching for solutions to stream live video from the iPhone's Camera to browsers. There were none.
iOS 7: Catch me if you can
iOS 7 throws CSS a curveball.
Docker Desktop: Your Desktop over ssh inside of a Docker container
Docker is a founding member of the Blueprint Alliance, a 12-company reference architecture for securing AI agents, built around four governance questions.
100,000 DOM Updates
Click the table of zeroes once. Note that the text input field remains responsive even as we run 100,000 updates on the DOM. The colors of the table show the render batching boundaries. Note, I would not try this on a mobile device ;)
So You Wanna Build a Crowdfunding Site
The tools to get funded by the crowd should belong to the crowd. That's why I want to show you how to roll your own crowdfunding site, in less than ...
Open Sans, how do we love thee?
If you’re sharp-eyed, you’ve noticed that we recently adopted Open Sans as our default typeface across WordPress.com. Type wonks know that Open Sans is a humanist sans-serif typeface. I…
New Features of Firefox Developer Tools: Episode 25
Firefox 25 was just uplifted to the Aurora release channel which means we are back to report about new features in Firefox Developer Tools. Here's a summary of some of ...
Optimizing Nginx TLS Time To First Byte
TLS is not slow, it's unoptimized. A hands-on tour of optimizing nginx to deliver one-RTT Time To First Byte (TTFB) with TLS.