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Category Archives: Elsewhere
The flipper bridge
In Hong Kong, cars drive on the left while in the rest of China, they drive on the right. If you’re building a bridge between the two, you’ve got to come up with a clever way to switch lanes without disruption or accident. Behold, the flipper. Be sure to hit the slideshow link and use …
10 Things I Learned from the jQuery Source
Resolving the iPhone resolution
Firefox 4: CSS3 calc() and IndexedDB
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 servers or chat servers or assemblers I write I still have to prove I can …
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 graphics back together as animated SVG.” — Love to see where this will be going …