February 2009
January 2009
links for 2009-01-31 →
eyeOS.com | eyeOS Professional Services →
eyeOS Blog →
Becoming More Productive With JavaScript and Vim... →
Matthew Russell has created a nice screencast showing how to be more productive in Vim:
I’ve been doing some reflecting this week on how I can work smarter (instead of harder), and one of the…
The Dependency Inversion Principle →
In this post I want to discuss the D of the S.O.L.I.D. principles and patterns. The principles and patterns subsumed in S.O.L.I.D. can be seen as the cornerstones of “good” application design….
links for 2009-01-30 →
Software development has failed →
MSTest ReSharper 4 plugin →
MF Bliki: FlaccidScrum →
The Spanner - Detecting browsers javascript hacks →
Weird IE6 issue... - jQuery (English) | Google... →
I ran into this using the jQuery UI dialogs. We were checking a checkbox in a dialog.
IE=’\v’==’v’ →
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IE=’\v’==‘v’
That is the current winner in the shortest way to test for IE (including 8). The other notable was:
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Much Ado About Monads – Maybe Edition - Matthew... →
Megan Fox Is My New Guitar Hero →
Best Make-a-Wish Foundation wish ever. (Via Egotastic)
Don’t treat your customers like thieves →
Every once and a while I run across a situation that just amazes me. While this topic is not strictly about software development it is about the subject of the business of software.
Our customers…
Xccessors: Cross browser JavaScript get/setters →
Elijah Grey has created a shim called Xccessors that “is a script that implements the legacy methods for defining and looking up object accessors (getters and setters) of objects in JavaScript…
FireScope - HTML and CSS reference add-on for... →
ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Release Candidate Now Available →
Today we shipped the ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Release Candidate (RC). Click here to download it (note: the link just went live so if it isn’t working wait a few minutes for the server you are hitting…
Kristen Bell Will Totally Set This Ewok on Fire →
Word is that Fanboys is finally, finally, finally coming out on February 6th, which is nice, although I’m a little worried. Have any of you seen any commercials for it? I’m afraid that no…
Daniela is blogging in English about UX and Design →
My wife Daniela is a User Experience and User Interface Expert, and before that she worked as web designer at various web agencies.
After a few years of blogging in Italian, she decided…
Microsoft force-installs Firefox extension →
I haven’t worked with Visual Studio and .NET for a while, but in my current project that’s the platform. I downloaded a necessary update, and as it turned out, Microsoft hit a new low…
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Memoization in JavaScript at noumena →
SitePoint » Introducing FireScope: the SitePoint... →
Code of Doom » PureMvc Sample →
links for 2009-01-27 →
Microsoft force-installs Firefox extension →
I haven’t worked with Visual Studio and .NET for a while, but in my current project that’s the platform. I downloaded a necessary update, and as it turned out, Microsoft hit a new low…
Background
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Most Traumatic Videogame Experience: And the... →
Yes! Yes! Let me hear your pain! It’s so delicious! I’m declaring this the best TR contest ever, because I just spent the last two hours reading everyone’s tales of woe, and was…
“I wanted another Super Bowl trophy, and we’re not... →
I give a fuck! This team is my life!
Rob is a Giants fan. Rob is distraught because the Giants couldn’t close the deal at home in the playoffs. This is truly one of the sorriest displays…
Guidelines for Method Overloading →
Recently I was helping review some code for a bit of functionality being worked on in Community Server, and one of the items we discussed was how many method overloads should be provided for this…
RockstarApps’ Web Optimization plugins for Eclipse... →
Bob Buffone has some interesting performance plugins for Eclipse and Aptana, so I asked him to tell us a little about them. He came up with this:
This week RockstarApps released a beta version of…
AppStore: Cappuccino based view of the Apple... →
AppStore is an interesting web app written using Cappuccino to give a view of the Apple AppStore on the Web (linking through when appropriate).
It has an iPhone-y like interface, and you will…
Monty Python Proves the System Works →
You’ll forgive me if this news also astounds me. You know how media companies have basically been freaking out and shitting their pants for the last decade about the digital revolution? How…
Dependency Management with the with YUI Loader →
Simon Tiffert told us of a co-workers post on loading your JavaScript modules with the YUI Loader.
The post discusses how you can use the loader for your own libraries, giving you full dependency…
DekiWiki powers WhoRunsGov.Com →
Aaron Fulkerson and his team at Mindtouch have done it again. This time they landed the Washington Post new http://whorunsgov.com project:
WhoRunsGov.com provides a unique look at the world…
When to use Dependency Injection →
by Miško Hevery A great question from the reader… The only thing that does not fully convince me in your articles is usage of Guice. I’m currently unable to see clearly its advantages over…
When to use Dependency Injection →
by Miško Hevery A great question from the reader… The only thing that does not fully convince me in your articles is usage of Guice. I’m currently unable to see clearly its advantages over…
KFC Has No Frakkin' Clue What "Frak" Means →
I can’t believe I forgot about this, but Ms. Robot and I were filled with delight during last Friday’s Battlestar Galactica—not because of the show, of course, which was good, but…
CSS Selector Shell: See what the browsers see →
Lindsey Simon was always a great guy to chat with at Google. He always had an idea and something cool that he was working on. His latest little tool is fun to play with. It is called CSS Selector…
Using YUI to load your Javascript modules →
Advanced JavaScript dependency and module management using YUI.
Building a Nant Script -- Part 1: Setting up the... →
Learn how to setup your build script with Nant. You will learn the basics of using Nant to compile your application in this episode, which will be built upon in future episodes to build a more…
UI Patterns for WPF →
There’s a lot of recent buzz about the Model-View-ViewModel or MVVM. (I pronounce like it rhymes with Auntie Em.) Rather timely for me as a lot of my thinking about implementing UI patterns in…
links for 2009-01-20 →
Phil Windley's Technometria | jQuery, Monads, and... →
Chapter 5 - Improving Managed Code Performance →
List of VAN Recordings →