It feels like Jeff Moser comes up for air every six months and drops a computer science bomb. This is one of those times. Get ready to learn (or re-learn) your stats.

Some recommended settings for taming Apache.

Good advice for tuning Apache.

Just subscribe to this man's feed. P.S. I'm always blue too.

"Improvement is an incremental process." So true, and something I need to constantly remind myself.

No. Well, maybe a little. Mostly no.

Interactive Javascript tutorial

A good reminder somebody (maybe you) will be reading the code you're writing today.

Collaborative online text editing.

«A common problem programming problem: identify the URLs in an arbitrary string of text, where by “arbitrary” let’s agree we mean something unstructured such as an email message or a tweet. I offer a solution, in the form of the following regex pattern.»

«“We want to limit the length of a review in our application to 140 characters, because we may want to use SMS at some stage. That’s a tiny change, right?” Wrong.»

"I started writing this particular game even before I got accepted into the iPhone developer program, simply to get acquainted with iPhone development. It ran just fine in the simulator, but when I put it on an actual iPhone, I was able to get about two frames per second. There was no way to salvage my code; i had to rewrite the game, making entirely different assumptions about the iPhone’s performance."

"Titanium is an open source platform for building desktop applications using HTML, CSS and JavaScript. Applications can run on Windows, OSX and Linux and have access to local resources, the TCP stack, integrated SQlite support along with the ability to create standard and chromeless windows."

"The specialized cloud stack and its meters exposes code inefficiencies that may have gone undetected in a standard hosting environment. Programmers who learn the inner workings of their virtual machine under an environment of constraints will ultimately write better code in any system."

"All you need to remember is this: perceived speed is the only test of speed."

More on why HTML > XHTML

I'm convinced. All past projects have been coded in XHTML 1.0 Transitional. Henceforth, it's going to be HTML 4.01 Transitional or bust.

"I realize that the syntax I depict would cause backwards-compatibility problems, as in older browsers would not behave as intended when exposed to this sort of thing, but I’ve also stopped being concerned about that. We can’t keep holding ourselves hostage to decisions made a decade or more back."

"The idea of graded browser support is to support all browsers so that your site is usable, accessible and at least reasonably attractive."

Daniel Burka and Joe Stump from Digg discuss the supposed war between designers and developers.

Kind of an important skill to have

Facebook is moving in the right direction

Beta, but I'm practically giddy. I'll take some php, js, html, and css, thank you.

I'll need to look into this now that I'm signed up for the StackOverflow Beta.

Command line, big fan. Big fan.

More Steve Yegge wisdom that 37signals used a lot fewer words to say: build for yourself.