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Like pagecurl for web developers
I’m learning Ruby on Rails for a personal project (hopefully announce early next month) and I’m a member of the cult now. One thing though, is they make certain AJAX effects really, really easy. For instance, to add Google Suggest-like auto-completion, it’s two lines of code. I think it’s great that Thomas Fuchs and the […]
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Always on Google
My girlfriend and I are sitting in a semi-darkened theater on Thursday night. The ticket says 9:45 PM, it was now that time and we had just finished watching 10 minutes of commercials. Instead of the movie, we get an in-depth ad for Ron Howard’s new movie and a great big view of Ron Howard. […]
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A practical use for HTML-embedded images
Did you know that Firefox, Safari, Konqueror and Opera all let you embed an image in an <img> element? Maybe, if you saw it on Andy’s linkblog. OK, so that’s cool, but it doesn’t explain why you would want to. Well there’s a Greasemonkey script (Greasemonkey is tanfastic and you should install it now if […]
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HOWTO: Make a weblog a gopherlog
Wherein I explain how to turn back the clock and use a protocol that no one supports.
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Party like it’s March 31st, 1991
If you’re reading the RSS feed, you should be sure to visit my site today. (Alternatively try this approximation)
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Pick any two
The old line “good, fast and cheap: pick any two” is tossed around a lot to describe software projects. Last night Scott Trudeau let me in on an inversion of this triangle that he picked up from the 37 Signals folks at SXSW, and I dug up this comment by David Heinemeier Hansson on their […]