Pinboard: bookmarks for sunpig tagged 'geeknotes'

How Many People Are In Space Right Now?
singleserving space web science geek geeknotes
october 2009 by sunpig

Debouncing Javascript Methods | Unscriptable.com

(via <a href="http://ajaxian.com/archives/debounce-your-javascript-functions">Ajaxian</a>)

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march 2009 by sunpig

Code: Flickr Developer Blog » Found in space
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february 2009 by sunpig

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JavaScript Hashtable

(via <a href="http://ajaxian.com/archives/true-javascript-hash-table">Ajaxian</a>)

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february 2009 by sunpig

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Blambot Comic Fonts and Lettering

Comic book lettering has some grammatical and aesthetic traditions that are quite unique. What follows is a list that every letterer eventually commits to his/her own mental reference file.

(via Abi)

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february 2009 by sunpig

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Recreating the button | stopdesign

Doug Bowman explains some of the effort and detail behind Google's buttons.

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february 2009 by sunpig

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Wolfram Mathematica Home Edition

Mathematica Home Edition is a serious bargain. (Via <a href="http://twitter.com/KathrynC/status/1181365126">Kathryn Cramer</a>)

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february 2009 by sunpig

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Speed up your JavaScript, Part 2 | NCZOnline

Nicholas Zakas talks about loop and long-running process optimization in JavaScript

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january 2009 by sunpig

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Grow Tower game

Simple, beautiful and fun flash game/animation/interactive art thing.

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january 2009 by sunpig

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The Spanner - Detecting browsers javascript hacks

Evil though browser detection may be, these tiny browser detection functions are very neat. (via <a href="http://ajaxian.com/archives/ievv">Ajaxian</a>)

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january 2009 by sunpig

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Wait till I come! » Blog Archive » Does API rate limiting spell the end of progressive enhancement?

Christian Heilmann discusses how to avoid hitting the rate limits of public APIs (such as Twitter's) when building a service that depends on them.

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january 2009 by sunpig

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It’s Me, and Here’s My Proof: Why Identity and Authentication Must Remain Distinct

Essay about security, specifically looking at the potential danger of biometrics being misunderstood and therefore misued. (via <a href="http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/01/identity_authen.html">Bruce Schneier</a>)

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january 2009 by sunpig

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schill on Flickr - Schillmania.com

Scott Schiller of Flickr/Yahoo takes a technical look back at some of the development/design challenges in the Yahoo! Photos beta. Lots of JS/Ajax/webapp goodness.

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january 2009 by sunpig

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The $300 Million Button

Jared Spool describes a simple design change that generated $300 million of new revenue for a client.

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january 2009 by sunpig

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Web Design Resources I Use

Long, useful list of web desighn/development resources (via <a href="http://ajaxian.com/archives/web-resources-he-uses">Ajaxian</a>)

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january 2009 by sunpig

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Retrieving and displaying data from Wikipedia with YQL (Yahoo! Developer Network Blog)

Now that <a href="http://developer.yahoo.net/blog/archives/2009/01/yql_with_microformats.html">YQL supports microformats</a>, you can do cool stuff like use it to automatically extract data from wikipedia.

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january 2009 by sunpig

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The State of the Web 2008 | Web Directions

"[The] detailed report from our first “State of the Web” survey of professional web designers and developers. It includes details and analysis of all the responses to over 50 questions covering technologies, techniques, philosophies and practices that today’s web professionals employ."

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january 2009 by sunpig

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Project Voldemort

Project Voldemort is an open-source distributed key-value storage system. (via <a href="http://simonwillison.net/2009/Jan/17/voldemort/">Simon Willison</a>)

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january 2009 by sunpig

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Dopplr presents the Personal Annual Report 2008: freshly generated for you, and Barack Obama…

Lovely data visualization from Dopplr (via <a href="http://simonwillison.net/2009/Jan/16/dopplr/">Simon Willison</a>)

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january 2009 by sunpig

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Adactio: Journal—The Rise of HTML5

Jeremy Keith presents an excellent collection of HTML5 links.

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january 2009 by sunpig

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Frequently Forgotten Fundamental Facts about Software Engineering
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january 2009 by sunpig

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perfection kills » Blog Archive » `instanceof` considered harmful (or how to write a robust `isArray`)

(via <a href="http://simonwillison.net/2009/Jan/12/isarray/">Simon Willison</a>)

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january 2009 by sunpig

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HTML5 enabling script

A short script to allow IE to style the new HTML5 elements, based on John Resig's <a href="http://ejohn.org/blog/html5-shiv/">HTML5 shiv</a>

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january 2009 by sunpig

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Preparing for HTML5 with Semantic Class Names — Jon Tan 陳

"[A] brief introduction to the new structural elements in the HTML 5 Working Draft, and how to use semantic class names in HTML 4.01 or XHTML 1.0 markup that correspond to the names of those structural elements." (Via <a href="http://adactio.com/journal/1540">Jeremy Keith</a>)

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january 2009 by sunpig

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A List Apart: Articles: Return of the Mobile Style Sheet

Dominique Hazaël-Massieux on mobile stylesheets.

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january 2009 by sunpig

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A List Apart: Articles: Semantics in HTML 5

John Allsopp looks at the matter of HTML5's extensibility - or lack thereof. He includes a proposal for extending semantics by using attributes instead of new elements. (What's missing is any discussion of WHATWG/W3C'S thinking in this area. Is there none?) Good discussion in the comments following the article.

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january 2009 by sunpig

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Mr. Moore gets to punt on sharding - (37signals)
performance optimization web space mysql scale database 37signals db memory scaling sharding shard migration geeknotes
january 2009 by sunpig

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