How well do you know prototype, and part II. Excellent tips and tricks, a few of which were completely new to me. Norbert (edit) ¶

LoLoCoJr: Torturing Ruby. We should do a Ruby Banter episode on Flog. Thijs (edit) ¶

Kaourantin.net: What just happened to video on the web? I guess Adobe got scared after Microsoft released Silverlight. Thijs (edit) ¶

Art. Lebedev Studio: Matryoshkus. I’m double-pleased. Thijs (edit) ¶

Joyeur: When you’re really pushing traffic, Amazon S3 is more expensive then a Content Delivery Network. Interesting and somewhat unexpected. Thijs (edit) ¶

Toolman Tim: The new Backpack: a shinier engine but a dull paint job. I agree. Trading developer time for this many server roundtrips is not a good idea. Thijs (edit) ¶

furbo.org: Does your app icon suck?. “It’s really pretty simple when you get down to it — the key elements are Color and Shape.” Thijs (edit) ¶

O’Reilly Radar: Virgin America. “It was surprising to me to hear that Open Source technologies and a modern service-oriented architecture drastically lowers costs for Virgin and increases the speed of innovation. […] I wonder what other industries are ripe for an technological infusion to shake them up?” Thijs (edit) ¶