Category: Science

phpied.com – Location, location
Because Javascript can, because it can.
August 15, 2011
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.
August 1, 2011
Messy Matters – This Post Won’t Go Viral
Perhaps the more interesting aspect is that most adoptions occur without a peer-to-peer influence or within one step of the original peer.
August 1, 2011
mjg59 – Further adventures in EFI booting
Stand back, we’re about to go down the rabbit hole.
July 26, 2011
codahale.com – A Lesson In Timing Attacks (or, Don’t use MessageDigest.isEquals)
Nice intro to timing attacks along the way.
July 20, 2011
GitHub – slang
Neat set of tools for string manipulation.
July 19, 2011
Fabien Potencier – The PHP Ternary Operator: Fast or not?
Huge speed hits using the ternary operator on larger variables.
July 18, 2011
The Watchmaker Project – How to fix the broken iPad form label click issue
Nice and simple fix, defiantly not quite as common a problem on the iPhone (rarely do I find myself wanting to hit the label vs. the input field).
July 18, 2011
Identity at Mozilla – How BrowserID differs from OpenID
Some really impressive work from the team at Mozilla, defiantly simpler to get started and using than OpenID and eliminates the which OpenID provider did I use for this site.
July 17, 2011
Hacker News – Self Extracting PNG
Wow that is some impressive work.
July 16, 2011