BurningbirdAppleWatch has an interesting article on the price differences between Apple computers and PCs. According to its analysis, Macs now cost close to twice as much as a PC for approximately the same hardware. Though people may prefer the Mac OS X, at the same time, can we afford such a price difference? I recently wrote […]
I downloaded the first alpha of Shiretoko, or Firefox 3.1, and I’m delighted to see the text-shadow I have attached to my site name showing up in a Firefox browser. Not just text-shadow, Mozilla has also added JavaScript query selectors to this release, which means that we can query for all elements of a given class […]
In reply to the IEBlog web post that is asking people to apply for the right to submit a bug: Why, on earth, when other browser developers provide open and easy to use bug systems, would Microsoft limit itself in this way? I have a bug in Webkit, five minutes can help me determine if someone had already […]
Scott at Lazycoder writes on his recent job interview experiences. Certification and licensing should be about setting a base level of competency. You shouldn’t have to ask someone what the difference between a div and a span element is during a phone screen if they are a licensed web developer. You shouldn’t ask a C++ developer to […]
Vector Magic originated as a free online service hosted at Stanford University. You could upload a raster image, such as clip art or a photo, and use the service to generate a vector-based image. You could then export the image in a format such as SVG. The service was simple to use and did an […]