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Links for 2010-11-12

tiffany — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 14:18:21 +0000

CodeIgniter 2.0 – Now with more Awesome: CodeIgniter drops support for PHP 4 and now requires PHP 5.1.6 or greater.
An Open Letter to the White Right, On the Occasion of Your Recent, Successful Temper Tantrum: Anti-racist essayist and activist Tim Wise lays a verbal smackdown on the Republican’s right-most wing while pointing out that simple math and demographics suggest their race-baiting tactics won’t work much longer.
Memo to the Mind: Don’t Wander, Be Happy: A human mind is a wandering mind, and a wandering mind is an unhappy mind. That’s the conclusion of a new study by some Harvard researchers. They could have saved themselves some money and just asked me if that’s true.

Links for 2010-09-22

tiffany — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 02:51:48 +0000

Running scripts in WebKit: WebKit nightly builds now support the HTML5 async and defer script attributes. This makes it easier for web pages to load faster by downloading JavaScript without blocking other elements of the page.
How and Why Chrome Is Overtaking Firefox Among Power Users: Oh snap! Chrome comes out ahead in a recent Lifehacker poll. And oh sniggety snap! Opera comes in with 16.64%. I am a Firefox devotee because of its developer and privacy extensions, namely Request Policy and Better Privacy.
Open Data’s Access Problem, and How to Solve it: Shorter version: ensuring equality of access is key. Also see: Open Data: Empowering the Empowered or Effective Data Use for Everyone?
Build Your First PHP for Android Application: Some fine folks ported PHP to Android, which means that your favorite scripting language can now be used to create programs for your phone.

Dive into HTML 5

tiffany — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 01:00:29 +0000

Mark Pilgrim launches HTML 5 specification. Creative Commons licensed. Book to come.

Links for 2009-10-05

tiffany — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 16:50:47 +0000

Advanced WordPress wp-config.php Tweaks: More tips on bending WordPress to your will via the wp-config.php file.
There Will Be Blood: But the West has a long tradition of intervening in Africa as if the continent had no history, or as if its history was irrelevant. Sudan native Jamal Mahjoub discusses the current state of Sudanese affairs in Guernica . Also from Guernica‘s May 2009 issue: “The Genocide Myth.”

Links for 2009-07-13

tiffany — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 14:08:12 +0000

Kongoni Nietzsche released: This marks the first official and stable release of the Kongoni GNU/Linux distribution after several development releases. Kongoni is a South African Linux distribution designed to be used in an African technical context. For example, the development team released the source code instead of binaries to save on file size for low-bandwidth users. [Via Appfrica]
Is Free The Future Of Enterprise Software? Yes And No.: Free is not a business model, it’s a marketing and distribution tactic. Don’t forget this, and don’t get distracted into thinking otherwise.
HTML 5: nav ambiguity resolved: One of the new things HTML 5 sets out to do is to provide web developers with a standardized set of semantic page layout structures. … This is exciting, logical, and smart, but it is also controversial.
5 almost free iPhone apps you absolutely must take on your next trip: 5 helpful travel applications if you’re into that iPhone sort of thing. I wonder if there are similar applications available for Android *searches the Android market*.
Three key things to know about moving MySQL into the cloud: Three gotchas to consider before moving your MySQL database to Amazon’s EC2 service.

Tuesday Trio: Firefox 3.5, Truthy and Falsy, WAVE toolbar

tiffany — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 16:10:03 +0000

Firefox 3.5 has been released: 3.5 includes support for the HTML5 audio and video elements, and local / offline storage, a faster JavaScript engine, refinements to clearing private data, and a new private browsing mode.
Truthy and Falsy: When All is Not Equal in JavaScript: A refresher on data types in JavaScript and when ‘true’ and ‘false’ aren’t necessarily true and false.
WAVE toolbar: WebAIM offers a toolbar for Firefox that provides a quick accessibility test for your web site.

Links for 2009-06-23: Six Apart’s Melody, T-Mobile’s next Android phone, RDFa and sex work

tiffany — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 14:23:21 +0000

Introduction to RDFa: An attribute framework for including metadata in HTML tags
Open Melody: Six Apart announces a developer release of Melody, an open source content management system for bloggers and publishers where its community of users and contributors is its most important feature.
USB Thumb Drives and Your Open Source App Arsenal: Ideas for getting more out of your thumbdrive.
T-Mobile Announces MyTouch 3G, Second Android Phone: So — less than three weeks after I finally broke down and bought a G1 (because my N80 was dying), I find out about the MyTouch 3G. You can pre-order it starting July 8th. (I may buy a new one and give / sell my G1 at a discount) [Via OStatic → JK On the run] … an aside, my cousins’ G1s are how they access the internet. One uses her phone instead of a computer. Another uses his at work because his job blocks access to some sites.
Going down in the downturn: Middle-class women are turning to sex work. Clark-Flory suggests that this is partly because middle-class advantages, like a solid college education and professional work experience, don’t offer the same level of protection that they once did, and the Internet’s tendency to democratize everything. I’ll add that it’s also because sex work can be lucrative, offers flexibility in schedule, and can be done in private. Everyone sees you at McDonald’s. They don’t have to see you doing sex work. [Via Jezebel]

Links for 2007-07-30

tiffany — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 17:53:39 +0000

Remove your unused CSS selectors with Dust-Me Selectors
Find tutorials and inspiration at WebDesignerWall
Developing web apps for the iPhone? Check out “An Introduction to iUI”
Yes, there’s a reason not to trust electronic voting machines
And just Why are there so many single Americans?
Mashable rounded up 120+ Web Development Resources
Automatically post your latest del.icio.us links to your blog

Links for 2007-07-27

tiffany — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 19:06:18 +0000

Ten Copyright Myths That Can Hurt You presents some issues every freelancer should be aware of.
I updated the chart on my recent Review: The online mind map smackdown piece to reflect new features in Comapping.com
Google tells you how to get the most out of the Robots Exclusion Protocol (Also see Part I & Part II
SourceForge announces its Community Choice Award winners
Macworld tells you how to Bulking up your font collection with free fonts

Links for 2007-07-26

tiffany — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 18:10:15 +0000

Mashable offers 50 WordPress plugins for administering your WP blog.
Learn how to Code Like a Pythonista: Idiomatic Python
How to get the most out of YSlow
Rainbow9 is an open source web-based IDE for HTML, JavaScript and CSS. Maybe this is the hosted answer to Workspace?
Upload images to Flickr from PhotoShop with FlickrShop
SWFFix released its 0.2 alpha version

Links for 2007-07-24

tiffany — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 20:00:23 +0000

The Cascading Style Sheets Working Group has a blog.
And they’ve used that blog to announce that CSS 2.1 is a Candidate Recommendation (Via Molly).
Finally, researchers are starting to debunk the above-the-fold/scroll myth. You may also want to read Unfolding the Fold.
Indiana University researchers show that phishing is easier when you spoof a social connection.
The folks at Eden.cc (Freelance Switch) have launched your new favorite source of design inspiration.

And an updated post: New York City: Future of Web Design

Links for 2007-06-30

tiffany — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 09:00:53 +0000

Links for 2007-06-27

tiffany — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 13:27:02 +0000

Safari 3.0 re-reviewed: Peter-Paul Koch re-reviews Safari 3.0 on Windows, and finds a bug in how Safari handles the Date() object.
T-Mobile USA launches home Wi-Fi calling service: Wondering if VoIP is the future of mobile telephony.
4 Ways to Manage Your Personal Stack: Four tips to help web workers be more productive.
Report: one-third of all home networks used for entertainment: More home networks are being used to stream media.
NoFunc: A repository of JavaScript functions that perform narrowly-tailored, specific tasks.
iPhone, Nokia, Google and the web: a strategy picture: What could the Apple/Safari-WebKit/Symbian relationship mean for Nokia, Apple and Google?
Globalization American Style: What’s really behind the push for H-1B visas?

Links for 2007-06-22

tiffany — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 22:00:32 +0000

WordPress 2.2.1 is available Some security fixes. Mandatory ugrade.
5 Tips to Becoming a Flash Rockstar
106 Tips to Become a Master Connector [Via Graphic Define]
Create terminal shortcuts

Links for 2007-06-21

tiffany — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 13:24:26 +0000

A delicious morning round up of tech and business bits.

HTML Purifier 2.0 [via Nick Halstead]
Solving Programming Problems
XHTML disrupted by Mobile access [via ppk]
WebAppers is my new favorite blog
Detecting Gears and Dojo Offline
7 Reflections on Scaling a Blog to a Sustainable Business
That One Black Kid