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10 Things I Learned from the jQuery Source

A must see video for every Javascript develover (sic) by Paul Irish! PS: Is it just me or does he sound/look a tad bit stoned and sound/look like The Janitor from Scrubs?

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Resolving the iPhone resolution

There was quite a bit of confusion concerning the iPhone 4′s Retina Display leaving one in doubt. Here however is the real explanation. Update:To those “not buying it”, check out this photo which compares the two screens.

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Firefox 4: CSS3 calc() and IndexedDB

Some great new features will be landing in Firefox 4; among them are CSS3 calc() (OMFG!) and IndexedDB. Great stuff, can’t wait to play with ‘m!

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There are no famous programmers

“I still have to do programmer interviews like everyone else. No matter how much code I put out, I still have to solve stupid puzzles about coconuts and manholes. No matter how many web servers or email frameworks or database … Continue reading

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Smokescreen

Smokescreen is a Flash player written in JavaScript: “It runs entirely in the browser, reads in SWF binaries, unzips them (in native JS), extracts images and embedded audio and turns them in to base64 encoded data:uris, then stitches the vector … Continue reading

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The curse of max_file_uploads

Sneaky settings require clever workarounds if the original developer doesn’t want to fix it.

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Introduction to memcached

Last tuesday Jurriaan Persyn (Netlog) came over to the technical university I’m teaching at to give an introduction to memcached. Students were happy afterwards

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A New Type of Phishing Attack

Beware of tabnabbing by always keeping an eye on the URL (and not merely the favicon) when switching tabs!

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Google Font API: Font Preview

Great addition to the Google Font API is Font Preview, which lets you browse all fonts in the blink of an eye (and which provides you the code to implement along with it)!

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ReclaimPrivacy.Org

Following the past few week’s Facebook Privacy Uproar a handy bookmarklet to check your Facebook Privacy settings has been released by ReclaimPrivacy.Org. Nice!

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