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Careful when hosting 3rd party apps on subdomains, or how I hacked Facebook
In the past few years it has become common for site owners to run 3rd party tools on their site. A good example would be Wordpress or other ...
Building an HTML5 Drag & Drop File Uploader Using Sinatra and jQuery: Part 1
Upon setting out to build a Drag & Drop uploader, I first trawled the web for prior art. Blog posts, examples, any information that would lead me down
Why 960 x 640
The goal isn’t merely to exceed the resolution of competing devices. The goal is to rival the optical quality of print.
Django 1.2 final out on Monday
Posted by James Bennett on May 15, 2010
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…
Daring Fireball: Complex
Gall’s Law and the iPhone.
The Web Developer's SEO Cheat Sheet
You’re an SEO. You’ve mastered Moz’s starter guide to Search Engine Optimization . You deal with botched site migrations, messy title tags across thousands of pages, earth-shaking Google algorithm changes, and more on the daily. Who would have thought that one of the toughest parts of your job would be getting your…
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…
Mobile Multitasking
In the traditional model, the primary priority is keeping everything open. In this new model, the primary priority is that the system must always be responsive to the user.
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.
Google's VP8 video codec (and ffmpeg)
Now that the hype is over, let's talk the real deal. How good is Google's VP8 video codec? Since "multiple independent implementations help a standard mature quicker and become more useful to its users", me and others (David for the decoder core and PPC optimizations, Jason for x86 optimizations) decided that we…
Opera 10.60 Released: WebM, AppCache, WebWorkers, Geolocation and Speed
The latest news about Opera web browsers, tech trends, internet tips.
Protect Your Site with a Blackhole for Bad Bots
Tutorial shows how to setup a blackhole bot trap using PHP in just a few easy steps.