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Yesterday — Fri, 03 Feb 2012

There are a few apps that I’m particularly enjoying using at the moment, so I thought I’d share in case any of them are news to you: Choosy Choosy does a seemingly simple task, and does it very well. For a start, it provides a central preference pane to choose your default browser, but its main thrust is letting you choose which browser to open a link in. You can do this either manually via a chooser display (right), or automatically depending on order of preference. My fa...

Superbowl, celebrities, our arrogance and the moneymaking web

Christian Heilmann

Here’s a prediction: this weekend, Twitter will go down. I have a lot of friends in Twitter and I am very much trusting their abilities (which I know to be awesome) but there will be a fail whale. I am so convinced about this that if there is no outage and next time I am in the valley I am happy to take them out for dinner and cover the cost. The reason that Twitter will go down is the thing that kept the all media going for the last few weeks already: the super bowl. Everybody and...

Publishing News: B&N closes doors on Amazon Publishing

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pHere are a few of the stories that caught my attention this week in the publishing space./p h2 id="BNvsAMZN"Barnes amp; Noble puts its foot down on Amazon/h2 pimg src="http://radar.oreilly.com/upload/2012/02/NoEntry.png" alt="NoEntry.png" width="300" style="float: right; margin: 3px 0 10px 10px;" /Last week, a href="http://radar.oreilly.com/2012/01/ereader-survey-amazon-houghton-mifflin-libraries.html#Amazon"Amazon teamed up with Houghton Mifflin Harcourt/a to print and distribute the Ama...

#SB46

Trent Walton

When you’re enjoying the Super Bowl this weekend, be sure to check out sb46.twitter.com. Last month, Paravel had the privilege of working with Twitter and Mass Relevance to build the responsive site. You can track TPM (tweets per minute), and total tweets for each team as well as follow tweets from coaches, players, analysts, and fans. ...

Visualization of the Week: Mapping Mexico's drug war

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pa href="http://blog.diegovalle.net/2012/01/interactive-map-of-drug-war-in-mexico.html"Diego Valle-Jones/a has created a powerful a href="http://www.diegovalle.net/drug-war-map.html"interactive map/a of the a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2012/jan/11/world/la-fg-mexico-dead-numbers-20120112"ongoing drug war in Mexico/a./p pThe interactive map lets you compare homicides and drug-related homicides, with the option to examine marijuana, opium, and drug-lab-related homicides. If you click ...

Makers and hackers: The Where Conference is looking for you

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pa href="http://whereconf.com/where2012?cmp=il-radar-wh12-where-12-call-for-makers"img src="http://radar.oreilly.com/2012/02/03/0212-where-attending-image.png" border="0" width="280" alt="Where Conference 2012" style="float: right; margin: 3px 0 10px 10px;" //aThe program for a href="http://whereconf.com/where2012?cmp=il-radar-wh12-where-12-call-for-makers"Where/a, our geolocation and mapping conference, is almost complete. Now a href="http://whereconf.com/where2012/public/content/maker"we'r...

/dev/hell Podcast Episode #5

Brian Moon

I was privileged to be invited to be a part of the /dev/hell podcast this week. Thanks to Chris and Ed for having me on. Check it out. And subscribe to their podcast.

Realign

Frank Chimero

pThings will be changing a bit around here. New posts, as you might have noticed, have been scant the past few weeks. I’m working on pulling all of the lengthier essays into their own place for posterity and archiving, and will be using this Tumblr as a filing cabinet for interesting scraps of content and a sketchbook for ideas. I’d like this place to be a tangle of things I enjoy that braid together through their archiving to produce the ideas and examples that will be formalized in the...

Prevent Form Field Autocomplete

David Walsh

pPreventing autocompletion of form fields is incredibly important since we never know where our users are completing them from. They could complete them from a super secure computer or an incredibly public computer. Regardless of security level, some field values should never be remembered, like credit card number, social security number, etc. Preventing autocompletion is as simple as adding one attribute to a FORM tag for individual form fields./ph2Thenbsp;HTML/h2pThe autocomplete attribu...

How To Use Custom Post Types To Organize Online Marketing Campaigns

Smashing Magazine

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Four short links: 3 February 2012

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pol lia href="http://code.google.com/speed/page-speed/index.html"Page Speed/a (Google Code) -- ian open-source project started at Google to help developers optimize their web pages by applying web performance best practices. Page Speed started as an open-source browser extension, and is now deployed in third-party products such as Webpagetest.org, Show Slow and Google Webmaster Tools/i./li lia href="http://battellemedia.com/archives/2012/02/its-not-whether-googles-threatened-its-asking-ourse...

Fun Friday: Super Bowl Weekend

Fred Wilson

It's fun friday again. And because this weekend brings us the big game, I figured we'd talk about it. I'm rooting for the Giants. They were 7-7 and going nowhere and then something happened and they have got a winning attitude and are surging going into the big game. As a Jet fan, there is no team I dislike more than the Patriots, so a Giants win would make me very happy. I think the Patriots are vulnerable on defense and the Giants defensive line is going to get to Brady and make him rush...

How Not To Suck At PHP

Chris Hartjes

pSince I hadn#8217;t blogged for a bit I thought I would ask my Twitter peeps what they might want to hear my rant about. One of the more interesting suggestions I got was from a href=https://twitter.com/tnorthcuttTravis Northcutt/a who said the following:/p blockquotep#8220;Got it. I have no formal CS background, but I#8217;m trying to learn enough to build (something). I know enough PHP to kind of, sort of get by but am trying to solidify my foundation. So if I#8217;m being selfish, write...

Five-Year-Old Girl Provides Insight on Popular Logos

Alex King

Very interesting to hear. (thanks NextDraft) #

PHP Summit in München

Sebastian Bergmann

a href=http://php-summit.de/img src=http://it-republik.de/konferenzen/phpsummit2012spring_konferenz/img/layout/teaser.jpg border=0 width=500 alt=PHP Summit//a pstrongThis blog posting is in German as the event it relates to is German-only.br/Sorry for the inconvenience./strong/p pBei allen PHP-Themen zählt nichts mehr als die Praxis. Deshalb bieten wir unsere Power-Workshops interaktiv und mit intensivem Praxisbezug an. Über die behandelten Themen entscheiden die Teilnehmer mit ihren konkr...

Excited About PHP Again

Brandon Savage

Ten months ago when I started at Mozilla, I began transitioning away from PHP and into Python and Django. This was inevitable: the Mozilla Webdev team favors Python over PHP in almost every webapp (Socorro is the critical exception). However, over time I had become disillusioned with the direction that PHP was taking. The project [...]

Strata Newsletter: February 2, 2012

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The Day Before — Thu, 02 Feb 2012

magit makes git awesome in emacs

Jeremy Zawodny

I recently came across the Meet Magit video which is an excellent introduction to the magit emacs mode for git. I use both Emacs and Git a lot at work and at home, so having something a bit more comprehensive and useful than just the standard version control integration that you get with Emacs by default sounded good. But watching that video, I realized that no only it magit completely awesome, I actually learned a fair amount about git in the process. I’d almost say it’s worth w...

Winding road of open-source webOS

Ajaxian

HP continues to divulge bits and pieces of a road map for the ill-starred and nearly-orphaned webOS. The company has followed up its December plan to release webOS mobile platform and development tools with a proposed timeline, with a full release set before year’s end. Some people see a life for the associated Enyo JavaScript framework aside from any success or failure webOS ultimately achieves. ...

DMS\Filter Library 1.0.1 and Bundle

Rafael Dohms

The past weeks I finally had some time to invest in the DMS library again, so i got busy with a few things. I also had to fix a big problem which had gone unnoticed to me, so i have to thank Mr. Guilherme Blanco for pointing it out. Sadly this means a BC break, so please follow and make adjustments. The BC break: ->filter() becomes ->filterEntity() The reasoning here is simple, PHP still supports legacy from PHP4 meaning a function with the same name as the class is understood as a con...

Team meeting to kick off our SVN to Git migration….

Alex King

Team meeting to kick off our SVN to Git migration. With ice cream, of course.

The Comments Conundrum

Kristina Chodorow

One of the most common questions we get is: I have a collection of blog posts and each post has an array of comments. How do I get… …all comments by a given author …the most recent comments …the most popular commenters? And so on. The answer to this has always been “Well, you can’t do that on the server side…” You can either do it on the client side or store comments in their own collection. What you really want is the ability to treat em...

League Archive

Chris Bowler

pLaunched a personal side project today, a little site for the gents in my football pool. I#8217;ve been running the same league since 1995-ish and it got serious with the rise of the internet. We#8217;ve got ten years of history in our CBS league and ten owners who have been pretty consistent in their involvement./p pimg src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7015/6808693837_a8ca976a6f_b.jpg" alt="League Archive" //p pBuilding the site was fun and gave me the chance to use Dave Gamache#8217;s...

http_build_query() Separator Tip

Alex King

I ran into an interesting “bug” in Twitter Tools last night that I traced back to http_build_query(). I expected that the query strings generated by this function used & as a separator for the key=value pairs, but on one of our test servers, the separator being used was &. This is a php.ini config setting, so my expectation was clearly based on false assumptions. If you want to make sure that you get a & separator, you can pass it in as the 3rd parameter. You̵...

Using max-width on images can make them disappear in IE8

Roger Johansson

p class="preamble"I recently ran into a problem that was really hard to figure out. I was working on a responsive design where I used codeimg {max-width:100%;}/code to make sure that images would be downsized rather than overflow in narrower viewports./p pIt worked great everywhere… until I went to check in IE8. The site’s logo was gone! None of the usual IE bug fixes cured the problem, and it took me quite a while to realise that codemax-width/code was part of the problem./ppa href="ht...

Web enabled video at news:rewired

Christian Heilmann

Tomorrow I will be at Microsoft London to make IE10 support classList speak at news:rewired – media in motion on the topic of open web video and what you can do with it. For this, I got 10 minutes and then answer questions (or ask them) in a panel. Update: The audio is now available on archive.org: The slides – for what they are worth – are on Slideshare: Web enabled video And here are the notes used in the slides and the story I will tell to the audience with al...

Inside the CSS WG: A New Reality Series

Molly Holzschlag

I’m pleased to announce my new series of interviews published by the wonderful Bath, U.K. based .net Magazine, called “Inside the CSS Working Group.” “Step with me behind the curtain into the W3C CSS Working Group. Historically filled with challenges, … Continue reading →

Developer Week in Review: Brother, can you spare $100 billion?

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pIn the old days, when modems came in wooden boxes and dinosaurs ruled the earth, kids would go door to door selling cookies for Girl Scouts or magazine subscriptions to raise money for a school trip. These days, partially because of safety issues with kids out on the streets by themselves, it's usually the parents who end up bringing boxes of chocolate bars and cookie order sheets to work. /p pLong story short, my male-spawn's 4-H group is planning a service project to Dominica and is try...

Strata Week: The Megaupload seizure and user data

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pHere are a few of the data stories that caught my attention this week./p h2 id="megaupload"Megaupload's seizure and questions about controlling user data/h2 pWhen the file-storage and sharing site a href="http://megaupload.com"Megaupload/a had its domain name seized, assets frozen and website shut down in mid-January, the U.S. Justice Department contended that the owners were operating a site dedicated to copyright infringement. But that posed a huge problem for those who were using Mega...

Image-y nation

Jeremy Keith

There’s a great article by Wilto in the latest edition of A List Apart. It’s called Responsive Images: How they Almost Worked and What We Need. What all I really like about the article is that it details the the thought process that went into trying working out responsive images for the Boston Globe. Don’t get me wrong: I like it when articles provide code, but I really like it when they provide an insight into how the code was created. The Filament Group team working on ...

Redefined

Trent Walton

To design responsive websites effectively and responsibly, I had to completely redefine the way I view the web. It pains me to admit it, but I wasn’t too keen on responsive web design right out of the box. Weeks after Ethan’s ALA article, I even briefly entertained the idea of writing a post haranguing the practice, nit-picking concerns on how using media queries to relocate elements on a page could disorient users, but I knew deep down I was full of it. My short-lived adverse reaction w...

Freebie: St. Valentine’s Day Icon Set (10 PNG/PSD Icons)

Smashing Magazine

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Commerce Weekly: The return of iPhone NFC rumors

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pHere are some things that caught my eye in the news this week./p h2 id="apple"When will Apple mainstream mobile payments?/h2 pimg src="http://radar.oreilly.com/apple-logo.png" border="0" alt="Apple" width="180" style="float: right; margin: 3px 0 10px 10px;" /Now that everyone's iPhone 4S has a few dings on it and we've all grown bored a href="http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2118960/Funny-Flirting-with-Siri-The-Apple-of-My-iPhone"flirting with Siri/a, our curiosity naturally turns to ...

Lazy web designers undermine print stylesheets

Paul Annett

Since the dawn of time, web designers have had the tools to provide “print stylesheets” with their websites – invisible instructions that tell a user’s computer how to format the page when it’s printed, rather than displayed on a screen. After all, what’s the point in printing site navigation, footers, sidebars, large, decorative colour images [...]...

What is Apache Hadoop?

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Reading List: mobile development approaches

Bruce Lawson

Just three links for this reading list, because they show a profound schism in the way people are thinking about building applications that have previously been desktop only and take them to mobile. The schism is the same as we’ve long had on desktop. It’s simply: do you make your target audience as wide as possible, or do you only design for people who use the same technology as you do? The nations’s favourite social-media based conference organiser thingy, Lanyrd, launche...

Four short links: 2 February 2012

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pol lia href="http://charliepark.org/bootstrap_buttons/"Beautiful Buttons for Bootstrap/a -- cute little button creator, with sliders for hue, saturation, and "puffiness"./li lia href="http://www.cmu.edu/homepage/computing/2012/winter/ipad-course.shtml"CMU iPad Course/a -- iTunes U has the video lectures for a CMU intro to iPad programming./li lia href="http://inspiringmatter.org/"Inspiring Matter/a -- ithe conference aims to bring together designers, scientists, artists and humanities peopl...

Engagio Followup

Fred Wilson

Back in early December 2011, I wrote a blog post about Engagio, a new web service launched by our very own William Mougayar. For those who didn't read that post, Engagio is a service that aggregates your comment activity across many of the major social platforms and gives you a gmail style dashboard to see them and reply to them. A lot has happened in the past 45 days since that post and I wanted to bring everyone up to speed on this project. First, and most importantly, Engagio is now ope...

When the Internet connection goes down at midnight…

Alex King

When the Internet connection goes down at midnight, I read that as “go to bed and push your commits in the morning”.

“Daddy, I got out of bed!” And so it begins…

Alex King

“Daddy, I got out of bed!” And so it begins…

Craft, Parenting and Cheese with Jon Hicks

Jon Hicks

Earlier this week I recorded an interview with Chris Bowler for his Creatiplicity podcast. Chris has a very genial style and the whole affair felt very relaxed and enjoyable! Its not just about The Icon Handbook either, we discussed everything from parenting to cheese. Pop along for a listen! Comment on this...

Get the style property’s value of an element using JavaScript

Mike Thomas

Here’s a quick one. Let’s say you need to get a style property value using JavaScript, it’s actually not that complicated. But, of course, in true JavaScript fashion, the names of the methods are a bit clunky. First we have a div: 1<div class="box"></div> Then we have our CSS: 12345.box { width: 400px; height: 300px; border: 10px solid black; } Now, let’s say that we want to get the width of the border that’s...

Tools of Change for Publishing Newsletter: February 1, 2012

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