John Resig: Processing.js. Cool. ¶
Fortune: 2.0 iPhone map of the world. Why are we still not on there? ¶
RubyEnRails 2008: De Nederlandse Ruby En Rails Conferentie. Ruby and Rails conference in Amsterdam. No idea why they still haven’t switched to English. ¶
Veerle’s blog: Does Flash irks me? “This makes me think about the WYSIWYG applications and the promises that you can create a site without even touching a single line of code. This approach is broken in my humble opinion because if you want to call yourself a true web designer you got to have an understanding about what is beneath the graphical layer. A machine, how good it made be, will never have the capability to think like a human. It already starts with separating content from presentation. When I start the web development process I always start with thinking about structure first and the implications it may have.” ¶
Official Google Blog: Moving to Unicode 5.1. “Just last December there was an interesting milestone on the web. For the first time, we found that Unicode [UTF-8] was the most frequent encoding found on web pages” Makes me happy. ¶
Daring Fireball Linked List: I Box in Yellow Gox Box Socks. “In print, you’ve got two boxes at a minimum: the page, and the text itself; on the web, you’ve got the browser window and the text. That’s enough boxiness for anyone. The key is to remember that a column of text, by itself, forms its own box.” Couldn’t agree more.
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Hackety Org: Sneaking Ruby Through Google App Engine. “Neither of us stands a chance against Javascript. Why persist with this pitiful feud?” ¶
Ongoing: Ruby 1.9 I18n and Mashup Testing. “TDD [...] It took less than an hour. And if I’d done it the right way the first time, it would have taken less time. Yes, I know all the good programmers out there already know that; I’m just publishing this to punish myself.” ¶
Manfred: Canon Selphy CP740 and Mac OS X Leopard. Don’t buy a Canon product unless you plan to never upgrade your OS. ¶
Ola Bini: Just add scaling! “I still haven’t found anyone who knows how you implement Scaling in a language [...] Anyone who care to enlighten me, please send me a detailed email with an implementation of Scaling. I really feel the need to know how this thing works.” Very funny. ¶
Jamis Buck: Capistrano 2.3.0. Nice update. We manage a little over 25 web apps (from multiple sites on a single server to a Rails app running on a 10-node cluster) and we would be spending a lot more time on deployment and maintenance if we didn’t have Capistrano. ¶
Ongoing: Look Sideways. That’s what I’m doing. ¶
Jeffrey Zeldman Presents: Stick out your tongue. Sad. But true. ¶
Textism: Embedded video is broken. “I find myself at Youtube or Vimeo or Brightcove or wherever, begin watching something interesting, and immediately start looking for a way to put that in a corner of my screen so I can continue working or doing, um, research and cast my eyes back to it whenever it requires I do so. This evidently can’t be done using any of the popular embedded video gear, so I end up resizing the browser window, which inevitably results in some sort of layout chaos, and opening up a fresh window to resume what I was doing before.” Happens several times a day to me too. I’m hoping to convince a client to give you the option to launch video in an external player if you prefer that above watching the video embedded. Stay tuned. ¶
High Performance Web Sites: Cuzillion I’m going to be needing this soon. ¶
Andy Lo-A-Foe: De TV Flat (KRO). Impressive side project. ¶
Subtraction: Great Numbers, Not So Great Design. “Design doesn’t scale well, in my opinion, or at least it doesn’t do so easily.” ¶
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