Category: Computer Science
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.
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 […]
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.
Neal Poole – Cross-Site Scripting via Error Reporting Notices in PHP
Though to be fair you probably shouldn’t be using display_errors in a production site.
Programmers Stack Exchange – Should UTF-16 be considered harmful?
The short answer is yes, the long answer is well go read the long answer.
Freedom to Tinker – Google+Motorola = Software Patent Indictment
That point is the reason patents are a blight on the software industry, you can’t just stop being a part of the system. Patents are a field of hidden landmines for any person/company that does software of any sort.
phpied.com – Location, location
Because Javascript can, because it can.
Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox – Defer Secondary Content When Writing for Mobile Users
Wikipedia’s mobile version while typically not known for it’s usability is used as a good example of hiding information until needed.
mjg59 – Further adventures in EFI booting
Stand back, we’re about to go down the rabbit hole.