Tag: Programming
John Kary – git 1.7.8 changes for the everyday developer
Some small but useful changes to Git, git grep now being able to search untracked files in particular is useful.
Ars Technica – Google Earth, other mobile apps leave door open for scripting attacks
Oops, just because it doesn’t look like a browser doesn’t mean it doesn’t suffer the same security holes.
The ALA 2011 Web Design Survey
Take it and tell the world (or really A List Apart and people who read it) a little bit about yourself and everyone else who makes websites.
Analyzing Network Characteristics Using JavaScript And The DOM, Part 1
Pretty sure I would never have thought of attempting measuring the speed of the TCP packest with JavaScript.
Mozilla Popcorn – Making video work like the web
The concept is basically at points in the video you can load in data from the web about the video or what’s shown in the video from Twitter, Wikipedia, Google Maps and other stuff.
GMane.Comp.Version-Control.Git – Linus Torvalds on C and C++
Programmers are an opinionated bunch.
ExtremeTech – Mozilla puts Firefox on a memory diet
I still use Firefox as my main browser but this is a needed improvement.
DARPA Shredder Challenge
Neat challenge, it would be cool to work on this problem but image analysis is so far out of my area of expertise.
Panic Blog – Panic State of the Union ’11
Coda is the app I probably spend the most time in outside of the browser, can’t wait for version 2.
Seldo.Com Blog – PHP needs to die. What will replace it?
I use PHP for my day job every day and will probably still be using it years from now, but there are times I wish the language itself was more modern.