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Darn handy overview of Browser Specific CSS hacks by Paul Irish

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Wise words from Joel Spolsky: “We do have a large competitor in our market that appears to be growing a lot faster than we are. The company is closing big deals with big, enterprise customers. And the wheels are falling off the donkey cart over there as the company stretches to fulfill its obligations. Meanwhile, …

Continue reading “Does Slow Growth Equal Slow Death?”

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Epic Games released Unreal Development Kit (UDK) for free (via @DonArdonio) — Wow!

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Chroma-Hash, an experiment in how to visualize the live-input of secure fields, such as a password on a login screen.

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Google has launched Google Dashboard which aggregates all the info about the various Google Services your account has been linked to.

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“The Closure tools help developers to build rich web applications with JavaScript that is both powerful and efficient.” — The Closure tools include: A JavaScript optimizer named Closure Compiler, a comprehensive JavaScript library named Closure Library and an easy templating system for both Java & JavaScript named Closure Templates

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Underscore is a utility-belt library for JavaScript that provides a lot of the functional programming support that you would expect in Prototype.js (or Ruby), but without extending any of the built-in JavaScript objects. It’s the tie to go along with jQuery’s tux.

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“Oracle Database 11g Release 2 introduces a new feature called Recursive Subquery Factoring. When I first was thinking about a pratical use for this feature I couldn’t come up with anything, but on second thought: solving Sudokus!”

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Highly interesting article on Digg The Blog: Digg implemented their new badges feature in Cassandra, a distributed, structured key-value store also used at Facebook. — “When an item is dugg, we asynchronously populate Cassandra. This job fetches the list of followers of the digging user, and places one column in each of their buckets. This …

Continue reading “Looking to the future with Cassandra”

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Some lovely CSS2.1/CSS3 tricks used in Scrunchup

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