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January 2012
December 2011
Usability of Programming Languages
A programming language is essentially a means of communicating between humans and computers. Traditional computer science research has studied the machine end of the communications link at great length, but there is a shortage of knowledge and research methods for understanding the human end of the link.
A Curious Course on Coroutines and Concurrency
This tutorial is a practical exploration of using Python coroutines (extended generators) for solving problems in data processing, event handling, and concurrent programming. The material starts off with generators and builds to writing a complete multitasking environment that can run thousands of concurrent tasks without using threads or using code based on event-driven callbacks (i.e., the "reactor" model)
“Mobile first” CSS and getting Sass to help with legacy IE
Taking a “mobile first” approach to web development poses some challenges if you need to provide a “desktop” experience for legacy versions of IE. Using a CSS pre-processor like Sass can help.
November 2011
May 2011
Holmes The CSS Markup Detective
Holmes is stand-alone diagnostic CSS stylesheet that can highlight potentially invalid, inaccessible or erroneous HTML(5) markup by adding one class.
Font sizing with rem
by 3 othersWhat do we do for browsers that don't support rem units? We can specify the fall-back using px, if you don't mind users of older versions of Internet Explorer still being unable to resize the text (well, there's still page zoom in IE7 and IE8). To do so, we specify the font-size using px units first and then define it again using rem units.
html { font-size: 62.5%; } body { font-size: 14px; font-size: 1.4rem; } /* =14px */ h1 { font-size: 24px; font-size: 2.4rem; } /* =24px */
April 2011
Giving your startup a point of
“Great businesses have a point of view, not just a product or service.”
February 2011
Eloquent JavaScript: A Modern Introduction to Programming
by 2 othersEloquent JavaScript is a book providing an introduction to the JavaScript programming language and programming in general.
December 2010
November 2010
May 2010
Nothing is original
Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic. Authenticity is invaluable; originality is nonexistent. And don’t bother concealing your thievery. celebrate it if you feel like it. In any case, always remember what Jean-Luc Godard said: “It’s not where you take things from – it’s where you take them to.”
March 2010
comScore Reports January 2010 U.S. Mobile Subscriber Market Share
CSS for Widgets: friends don't break friends' styles
Entrepreneurship, It’s Personal
Work in a domain that is technologically challenged until you understand it profoundly. Then start a business that advances that domain by empowering its actors.














