January 2010
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Desktop Browsers Can Learn from the iPhone
If there is one feature that Mobile Safari has that the desktop browsers should copy, it’s clicking in the header area of the browser to instantly scroll the page back to the top.
Mobile Safari has this feature because the URL bar scrolls off the view as you scroll down the page. This doesn’t happen in a desktop browser, but it’s still common to finish a long article at the...
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The Programmer's Font of Choice
Anonymous Pro, can’t beat it with a giant stick.
I’ve been using it in TextMate for a long time but just realized I wasn’t using it in Terminal too. I switched over to it this weekend. What a huge difference.
Go get it. Use it. Love it. Live it. You won’t be sorry.
“If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as...”
– Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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A tough couple of weeks for the IE6 camp...
“Your IT staff has had more than three years to come up with alternatives to IE6. If they can’t handle it, maybe it’s time to replace them, too.”
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Bott/?p=1645
http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2010/01/microsoft-wants-you-to-ditch-windows-xp-and-ie6-for-security.ars
http://mashable.com/2010/01/15/german-government-stop-using-internet-explorer/
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6 Technologies I'll be Exploring in 2010
Webrat/Selenium, Cucumber - These should help me take testing up a notch in abstraction. I’m much more interested in black box, end user, acceptance testing. White box testing can be too brittle and breakable for many parts of applications.
NoSQL - As an OODBMS guy from way back in the day (mid to late nineties), I’ve always had a bit of skepticism about the “universal...
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