- Boston slang – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
I worked in the Leather district (near Southie) for a couple years. I only got pulled over by a statie twice, once for banging an illegal left turn and once for speeding on the Pike.
(categories: boston is wickedpissah ) - WriteRoom | Hog Bay Software
WriteRoom is a full screen, distraction free, writing environment.
(categories: mac writing osx editor freeware gtd tools ) - Jettison – Home
… “transparent enablement of JSON based web services”
(categories: json stax opensource xml java javascript )
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Links: 11-4-2006
- Optimizing Page Load Time – die.net
An in-depth look at HTTP connections, pipelining, caching and optimization.
(categories: http pipelining caching cache optimization performance browser tuning network javascript css images ) - Scott Rosenberg’s Wordyard » Blog Archive » Crash in Iraq; Grove’s “shift left”
Quote: “Just like the early personal computer, it will be far from ideal, but it will be a start, and it can get better over time. The alternative, he says, is to wait endlessly for a perfect technology.”
(categories: simplicity gtd )
Links: 10-17-2006
- Mike Schinkel’s Miscellaneous Ramblings – Well Designed URLs are Beautiful!
Twelve or so rules for making your URL’s well designed, quote: “Some people rail against the URL and say it is an overly technical anachronism to which non-technical people should not be exposed.”
(categories: url uri information ui ) - The Dilbert Blog: Knowing When to Quit
Quote from the blog of Scott Adams: “If everyone exposed to a product likes it, the product will not succeed.”
(categories: dilbert passion business marketing strategy success ) - Open Source Business Model: chapter 2 at Jive Talks
The guys on the Wildfire team are learning some great things about open source and making money. More importantly, they’re sharing the knowledge.
(categories: wildfire opensource business upselling )
Links: 10-11-2006
- Get Vanilla!
“… open-source, standards-compliant, multi-lingual, fully extensible discussion forum for the web…”, built in PHP.
(categories: forums community free opensource php software mysql ) - Sparklines for Java
I started writing this a couple times and never finished. This looks really useful.
(categories: visualization sparklines graphing graph jstl tufte java design )
Links: 10-10-2006
- JSMIN, The JavaScript Minifier
A filter which removes comments and unnecessary whitespace from JavaScript files
(categories: javascript optimization ajax software hacks )
Links: 10-6-2006
- BarCamp / BarCampPortlandMeetups
BarCamp Meetups coming to Portland: the October meeting is at Jive.
(categories: jivesoftware barcamp portland meetup )
Links: 10-5-2006
- Regular Expressions in JavaScript | evolt.org
Good quick intro to regular expressions in JavaScript
(categories: javascript regex regexp reference ) - prototype: Enumerable
FYI Enumerable.include(obj) gives you the same functionality as Java’s List.contains(obj).
(categories: javascript prototype ajax reference include contains ) - JSON Uniform Messaging Protocol (JUMP)
JUMP uses HTTP and a lightweight layout for JSON records to edit the Web.
(categories: json javascript http atom protocols )
Links: 9-30-2006
- Slide 8 of 20 (App After App)
Quotes: “..deploy to desktop” and “…Apple is letting you call OS-level functionality direct from Ruby, APIs like IM presence, todo lists, the filesystem and so on?”
(categories: apple osx rails ruby ) - (U) RSS and Atom Considerations: Moving Toward Atom (UNCLASSIFIED)
aka “why you should be using Atom rather than RSS”… brought to you by the Intelligence Community Metadata Working Group.
(categories: atom rss syndication ) - for in Intrigue » Yahoo! User Interface Blog
Douglas Crockford discusses using JavaScript and prototype properties…. also check out the comment re: !== and !=. Who knew?
(categories: javascript prototype programming ) - vagueware.com?Innovation in Software
Another attempt at explaining tags for people who don’t know what they are…
(categories: categories-suck tags tagging ontology categories taxonomy ) - visualcomplexity.com | NodeBox
NodeBox is a Mac OS X open-source application for creating 2D visual output (static or animated) using Python programming language.
(categories: visualization infoviz information python programming nodebox ) - RSS 2.0 Specification
RSS spec.
(categories: specification spec rss rss2 xml ) - The Atom Syndication Format
Atom specification.
(categories: atom standards xml spec specification syndication ) - The Fishbowl: HTTP Conditional Get for RSS Hackers
Otherwise known as how to use Last-Modified and etag headers.
(categories: atom rss blogging blogs system programming http java )
Links: 9-29-2006
- Stevey’s Blog Rants: Blogger’s Block #3: Dreaming in Browser Swamp
Quote: “…Screw all the XML minilanguages (XUL, XBL, X*L). Screw the RDF. You need to be able to do everything in JavaScript. JSON is just good enough and parseable enough and language-interoperable enough to replace all of them…”
(categories: json javascript browser programming web ajax ) - Flickr Services
Flickr supports JSON now…
(categories: json api flickr javascript )
Links: 9-27-2006
- Higher-Order JavaScript
A JavaScriptish companion to Mark-Jason Dominus’s Higher-Order Perl
(categories: javascript books toread programming reference )