Posts tagged: underarmchairmedia
- Opera Unite: A server in your browser
- Opera has just launched a shot across the bow of other browsers with its new Unite feature. It’s a part of Opera 10, which is still in beta, but it could revolutionize the web, by turning every computer into a server. So what can you do with Unite? Several things, including: Share files, including photo downloading and [...] [17 Jun 2009]
- JavaScript in Firefox 3.1 will be wicked fast
- John Resig of jQuery fame, has a post about a huge performance boost coming to Firefox 3.1: TraceMonkey. TraceMonkey, Resig explains, uses a computing technique known as trace trees (PDF) which adds just-in-time native code compilation to SpiderMonkey, Firefox’s current rendering engine. What does this mean? As Resig explains: It means that JavaScript is no longer confined [...] [24 Aug 2008]
- My interview with Black Web 2.0
- Black Web 2.0 is becoming one of my daily must-read blogs. Angela, Markus and crew do a tremendous job of covering web tech and start-ups, with a particular focus on sites targeting black audiences. They’re doing what I tried to do with this blog before I got a full-time job that cuts in to my [...] [22 Aug 2008]
- The Pencil Project, Prism and the browser as platform
- The Pencil Project extension brings the power of prototyping and simple GUI development to Firefox 3. It takes advantage of Firefox’s Gecko rendering engine for an easy-to-use application for making layouts. You can import bitmap images, add rich text or plain text, and when you’re done, export your drawing as a PNG file. One downside: it [...] [24 Jul 2008]
- UPDATED: Atlanta, GA: PHP Atlanta “Join-Fu: The Art of SQL”
- This meeting has been rescheduled to Thursday, August 14th at 7 p.m. Jay Pipes of MySQL AB and co-author of Pro MySQL, comes to Atlanta this month to present “Join-Fu: The Art of SQL.” I’ve seen Pipes speak before, and his presentation was incredibly informative. If you do a lot of development with MySQL, you should [...] [18 Jul 2008]
- WordPress 2.6 released today
- The big new features? Edit tracking: Tucked way down at the bottom of each post is a revision history. You can see who changed what and when. SSL support for your administrative panel, plus the ability to force SSL logins. That’s critical if you frequently blog from public WiFi spots. Press This: Post links, YouTube and Yahoo! Videos [...] [15 Jul 2008]
- Recommended: Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Online Video
- From my alma mater: a guide to copyright and fair use in online video — mash-ups, remixes, commentary and the like. A description of what this document is: This document is a code of best practices that helps creators, online providers, copyright holders, and others interested in the making of online video interpret the copyright doctrine [...] [7 Jul 2008]
- Plurk.com: “Karma” and Community
- I’ve been splitting time between Twitter and Plurk lately and having discussions about online communities, incentives, and rewards. One of Plurk’s signature features is “Karma,” a rewards system that awards or removes points based on how users interact with the Plurk community. Plurking daily builds karma. Taking a few hours or a few days away can lower [...] [18 Jun 2008]
- Open thread: Conditional comments: Yay or Nay?
- I’m a big fan of conditional comments. I agree with Jens Meiert that they are non-standard, and don’t adequately separate content and presentation. However, I think they’re the best option we’ve got for one huge reason: it is the only reliable workaround for Internet Explorer that does not also affect other browsers. The LitePacific hack [...] [29 Jun 2007]