Category: Quick Posts
Tantek – How many ways can you slice a URL and name the pieces?
Or standards are so awesome everyone keeps making a new one.
QuirksBlog – Twelve steps for saving webOS
Pretty good plan to take a webOS into a top tier platform for developers, though not much to get in the hands of consumers which would beat every other factor and practically guarantee bringing developers.
NYTimes.com – Its Gene Patents Upheld, Myriad Genetics Moves to Protect Its Secrets
Regardless of whether or not you agree with the idea of patents on genes, the fact that these patents are forcing patients to undergo a more expensive and less effective procedure should give anyone concern.
Apple – Letter from Steve Jobs
It’s a day everyone knew was coming but that doesn’t make it any less shocking or a little sad.
Joey Trapp – Installing CakePHP Sphinx Documentation
Search the CakePHP docs locally, yes please.
CSS-Tricks – Functional CSS Tabs Revisited
The idea of "CSS Tabs" has been around for a long time. If you Google it, a lot of what you get is styled CSS tabs, but less stuff on the building an actually functional tabbed area. At least, functional in the sense as we think of tabbed areas today: click a tab, see a […]
The Atlantic – Crazy: 90 Percent of People Don’t Know How to Use CTRL+F
It always astonishes how many people who use the computer every day for a large part of their daily lives know almost zero shortcuts.
Ars Technica – Does Apotheker need an apothecary? Why HP is exiting the PC business
Really smart take on this story by Ars.
Ars Technica – Does not compute: court says only hard math is patentable
The court seems to be trying to not rule against all software patents while acknowledging they are broken and need to be reformed.
Electronic Frontier Foundation – Open WiFi and Liability for Copyright Infringement: Setting the Record Straight
The line about “online debates” had me giggling.