BurningbirdEvery once in a while, something comes along that is so well executed, it makes you want to jump up and down. That’s what the jParallax library, and the wonderful demos did for me. Don’t take my word for it. You have to check out the library and demos yourself. No, you really have to. (Thanks for […]
A post by Karl Martino reminded me of Jeff Atwood’s We are typists first, programmers second. Atwood was responding, in hearty agreement, to a post by Steve Yegge, who wrote I was trying to figure out which is the most important computer science course a CS student could ever take, and eventually realized it’s Typing 101. The really […]
Not long ago, Tim O’Reilly posted a discussion thread about the importance of practice, and one of the participants in the thread, my long-time editor, Simon St. Laurent, reiterated his interest in practicing this year—both on the trumpet, and in his coding. I never left programming the way I left trumpet. I simply stopped playing trumpet after […]
Earlier in December, Meitar Moscovitz at Sitepoint wrote an article on SVG optimistically titled SVG is the Future of Application Development. In it he references not only the future capability of SVG, but XHTML and RDFa, too. The writing was a breath of fresh air after so many technical pundits have declared all three to be […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. On this anniversary of the World War II Battle of the Bulge, Jules Crittenden provides a comprehensive summary of the battle, as well as a book and other references, and photos. The photos are especially compelling, as they lack of romanticism of so many WWII photos in books and in other […]