Nice, clear policy page about cookies, by attacat:

RT @necolas: "the austerity drive in Britain…[is] about using deficit panic as an excuse to dismantle social programs."

In order to lazy load nonessential content on BostonGlobe.com without introducing access barriers, we developed a simple, markup-driven “Ajax-include” pattern that enhanced certain links on a page by including a fragment of content from a URL related to their linked resource. For example, the header of BostonGlobe.com contained a link to the Weather section of the website, and that same link is also used as a marker for including a fragment of content from that section that is used to create a weather widget.

Jasmine is a behavior-driven development (BDD) JavaScript testing framework Pivotal Labs maintains it and makes it available on GitHub under the MIT license. Jasmine allows tests to be written independent of the DOM or other JavaScript frameworks. You run Jasmine in a browser, or headless without a browser by integrating with other frameworks such as Rhino, Envy, or the Jasmine-headless-webkit library.

Even with these difficulties mounted up, trying out 3D transforms today is the right move. The CSS 3D transforms module was developed by the same team at Apple who produced the CSS 2D transforms and animation. Both specifications have since been adopted by Mozilla and Opera. Transforming three-dimensionally now will guarantee you’ll be ahead of the game when the other browsers catch up.

To improve the twitter.com experience for everyone, we've been working to take back control of our front-end performance by moving the rendering to the server. This has allowed us to drop our initial page load times to 1/5th of what they were previously and reduce differences in performance across browsers.

At the summit of Beinn Lora.

Just past the Green Welly Stop at Tyndrum. Glorious.

RT @brucel: Opera Mini for iOS updated, now with support for iPad retina display

New bog post (non-technical): Fear of failure, by proxy

RT @russellbuckley: Massive shift: 40% of those connecting to the web in China now do so solely via a mobile phone ...

The Official Protestors of the London 2012 Olympic Games: /via @seb_ly

This is reeeeeally freaky. RT @edwinm: "Illusion tricks you into thinking these celebrities are downright hideous"

"We're being bullied into accepting a future where we don't actually want to buy the things that we're buying"

RT @rails_apps: What test-driven development looks like in Python/Django

Small Batch Manufacturing

RT @nyrath: The Edritch Danger of Black Holes Existing Prior to the Big Bang

RT @thoughtland: Really excellent case 4 an #indyref "Yes" by Glasgow Uni student @GrayInGlasgow / Sounds like the ...

RT @msjen: Mobilism 2012: The Nikon D800 set is here: #mobilism @mobilism I will now tweet a few of my favorites.

“If someone were to ask me a year ago, I would have said, ‘Well, yeah, we’re not just a website — it’s this, and we have that, and the other.’ But I think it was when I saw mobile growing as fast as it was that it just sort of hit me at a different level,” Marshall told me. “Inevitably, as long as mobile was something like five percent of traffic, it was just something you made available on the side. But you start to see, this is going to be half of our audience. We can’t be approaching it in a way that the website is the thing, and we’re making imitations of it — because this thing is losing its primacy. In a lot of ways, it wasn’t until late last year that it hit me at a different level. It hit me as more than a concept. It was really true.”

How to hack databases:

RT @lisalovescheese: Gay Marriage protests...in a nutshell.

RT @josiet_j: H&M posters vandalised with photoshop toolbars. via @philippadunjay

"Which CSS preprocessor language should I choose?" is a hot topic lately. I've been asked in person several times and an online debate has been popping up every few days it seems. It's nice that the conversation has largely turned from whether or not preprocessing is a good idea to which one language is best. Let's do this thing.

Only just now watching The Guild: Very good.

RT @mattgemmell: Ton***t there's g*nna be a j*******k.

RT @grigs: 27% of emails are opened on mobile devices: stats

RT @mdbergfeld: Must read - Greece is heading for the exit

The Sutherland oatmeal cookie factory is back in business.

More Haarlem

@flightresponse ASS THUNDER!

Fantastic, exhaustive overview of the Webkit Inspector, by @jtaby:

The mobile landscape today is all but monopolized by WebKit, as a result, most of the tooling and infrastructure to support mobile web development on the frontend is taking place in the WebKit Inspector, so I’ll focus on it, and take a deep dive into its entire feature-set and how and when to use it.

RT @katskii: So.. its a dog.. dressed as 2 pirates carrying a treasure chest. I can't even fathom how brilliant this is. ...

RT @timoreilly: A federal judge learned to code And that made a difference in the Oracle/Google trial. @mikeloukide ...

What logging 681,900 Android devices looks like:

In my nearly two decades as an information architect, I’ve seen my clients flush away millions upon millions of dollars on worthless, pointless, “fix it once and for all” website redesigns. All types of organizations are guilty: large government agencies, Fortune 500s, not-for-profits and (especially) institutions of higher education.

One developer can do business with nearly 4,000 distinct Android ROMs, according to data posted by the creators of OpenSignalMaps on Tuesday. While the Android platform provides a lot of flexibility to consumers, OpenSignalMaps' data drives home the point that the small army of device variations can be staggering. Market developers can miss out on a lot by not supporting less popular or older devices.

Haarlem.

RT @bdconf: Media Queries Can't Be Used for Resolution Negotiation –

Recently, all of the ongoing discussion around responsive images just got real: a solution is currently being discussed with the WHATWG. And we're in the thick of it now: we're throwing around references to picture and img set; making vague references to polyfills and hinting at “use cases” as though developers everywhere are following every missive on the topic. That's a lot to parse through, especially if you're only tuning in now—during the final seconds of the game.

RT @seb_ly: Fascinating and heartbreaking story of Yahoo's massacre of Flickr /via @jasonsantamaria

RT @lukew: Who has the final say in Web standards? HTML author/developers or browser implementers?

RT @andreatrasatti: Has anyone tried Yahoo's Mojito library?

RT @textfiles: One Year Update: Jason and the Internet Archive

RT @iamtef: what happens when you take a video instead of a picture

RT @cstross: Wait, an MMO written in *WHAT*? #hardcore

@grapefruitmoon Have you read "Ready Player One" btw? You might like it.

This evening's entertainment: Dropquest 2012

RT @mollycrabapple: Laurie Penny: Yes, Mr Gove, I enjoyed an expensive education, but I'm still not on your team - ...

RT @brad_frost: Please read this important message from @wilto

Nokia starts selling the N9 in the US:

RT @msjen: - #mobilism #mobilismconf Calibrating @seb_ly's PixelPhone

RT @brucel: Bad otter taxidermy

RT @matociquala: Why the DoJ's pro-Amazon decisions in its anti-collusion case against publishers are faulty:

RT @dannyrodri: Car stereo wanted 10 years ago vs the one wanted today.

RT @thierrykoblentz: Official release of the new YUIDoc, a JavaScript documentation generator. #yui

RT @waxpancake: Some thoughts about niche communities and how the switch from desktops to mobile affects memes:

RT @mattgemmell: "@neilinglis: I wish someone had read this book to Matt when he was a kid. "

The Curve. All lit up, and no-one at home.

@natos Have a look at

Learn the basics of RESS (Responsive Design + Server Side Components) an how to use it to build web pages:

@brad_frost Bierfabriek at Rokin 75:

RT @gsp1984: These two pictures will be viewed/judged identically by our children and their children.

RT @Alarm_Bells: tickets for our next (2nd ever!) gig: only £4+no booking fee.. with @unitedfruitband + @icepeople

RT @tacoe: Netherlands first country in Europe with net neutrality legislation -

Last fall, we moved all the editorial in our apps, including the magazine, into a simple RSS feed in a river of news. We dumped the digital replica. Now we're redesigning Technologyreview.com, which we made entirely free for use, and we'll follow the Financial Times in using HTML5, so that a reader will see Web pages optimized for any device, whether a desktop or laptop computer, a tablet, or a smart phone. Then we'll kill our apps, too.

RT @twitter: A new standard for the mobile web

RT @RBReich: Socialism isn't the answer but neither is the status quo. The case for fundamental reform of capitalism.

The best way to manage complication is to avoid creating it in the first place. If you find yourself in a mindless change → pray → run loop, you don’t understand your code well enough to be editing it. Stop what you’re doing, actually get up and walk away from the keyboard, think about what you’re trying to do, and don’t come back to the keyboard until you understand exactly what you’re doing and how to do it. Obviously there’s some slack here for debugging, but it’s not controversial to say that you shouldn’t change code you don’t understand, even — especially? — when it’s your own.

The Gimli Glider is the nickname of an Air Canada aircraft that was involved in a notable aviation incident in July 1983. On 23 July, Air Canada Flight 143, a Boeing 767-200 jet, ran out of fuel at an altitude of 41,000 feet (12,500 m) ASL, about halfway through its flight from Montreal to Edmonton via Ottawa. The crew was able to glide the aircraft safely to an emergency landing at Gimli Industrial Park Airport, a former Canadian Air Force base at Gimli, Manitoba.

So remember, your application errors should be subclasses of StandardError and if you want to catch everything, just stick will plain old “rescue => ex”. Your application will behave better for it.

I’ve worked with Rails for quite a while now and in that time I’ve seen a lot of Rails applications and both read and written a lot of bad Ruby code. Here’s five common mistakes that I see in almost every Rails codebase.