May 2007
11 posts
“DNS (domain name system) is a distributed, coherent, reliable, autonomous,...”
– Paul Vixie Wow, the first and only one of its kind. If that’s not a challenge, I don’t know what is!
“So, to make RSS much easier to understand, in Oprah speak, RSS stands for: I’m...”
– Back in skinny jeans: How to explain RSS the Oprah way
IBDOM - Yet Another JavaScript Template Engine →
Based on their documentation and demo pages, it may not be the work of the most sophisticated developers, but the code looks tight enough. It’s a little Prototype-y, but seems not to rely on Prototype.
A clever method for cross-domain mashups
From Subspace: Secure Cross-Domain Communication for Web Mashups (Jackson & Wang, 2007): “To establish the channel, we pass JavaScript objects across the frames by manipulating the document domain property of the frames.” To be more precise, you create a subdomain that will import third-party code using tags, and then you use a nested set of iframes (with tweaked...
Best. Techblog. Yetah. →
It may be NSFW, but these guys fuckin’ rock.
Artist 3.0 - The New Minstrels
Clive Thompson has outed the Internet minstrel in Sex, Drugs, and Updating Your Blog in today’s NY Times Magazine. If his interviewees are indicative of the trend, the path to stardom is littered with MySpace friend requests, and the price of fame is having to answer a virtual ton of email with every blog post. The article is a great primer on the application of network effects to the...
““Maybe this is what my career will be,” Coulton said: slowly building new fans...”
– Sex, Drugs and Updating Your Blog - New York Times
(The start of) ppk's Introduction to Range →
Probably the least understood Javascript built-in, explained… or at least, beginning to be explained. ;-)
OSX Preview Improvement
I’m reading this blurry PDF about screenprinting (thanks, O’Reilly) in Preview.app, and wishing I could give it a little Core Image love to sharpen it up. Why can’t I use the Image Correction tools on a PDF? Then again, perhaps most content producers can manage something better than a 30dpi scan for their articles.
This tumblr thing
Oh wow, this is exactly the sort of service I’ve been wanting to build for about a year now. That’ll teach me to do work instead of building what I want… But, aside from the lack of SSL for authentication (come on guys!) tumblr does everything I want it to. Anyone who knows me well knows how rare this is: I may have found a wheel I don’t need to reinvent. Bravo!
“Oh damn, I should have told you sooner. I was talking to IBM and DEC and...”
– Douglas Engelbart quoting an 80s-era McDonnell Douglas vice president.