Oct 27, 2009

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Sep 21, 2009

CSS-Tricks You know you should use JavaScript when the task cannot be accomplished with any other technology.That’s what Doug suggested when I asked him for a nicer spin on a something that was going through my head:JavaScript: If it can be done in another language, it should be done in another language.That just sounds so negative, w (Read More)

Sep 17, 2009

Submitted by Johngrinde from Google Reader: Greetings TWiT Army. I apologize for the delay in getting the final portion of this contest going, but this is the first time we have done anything like this as a buisness, and we wanted to do it right, lawyers and all.With no further delay, here are the rules for our contest to win the TWiT Ultimate Gaming Machine.This con (Read More)

Aug 21, 2009

TweetMeme - Technology We visited this concept of re-sizeable background images before… but reader Doug Shults sent me in a link that uses a really awesome technique that I think is better than any of the previous techniques.This technique and the above background image is credited to this site. Here is what this technique is going to accomplish: (Read More)

Aug 17, 2009

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Aug 10, 2009

FriendFeed mojtaba We are happy to announce that Facebook has acquired FriendFeed. As my mom explained to me, when two companies love each other very much, they form a structured investment vehicle...The FriendFeed team is extremely excited to become a part of the talented Facebook team. We've always been great admirers of Facebook, and our c (Read More)

Aug 05, 2009

Google Reader Speed is very important at Google, and the Reader team is no exception. One way in which we take speed into account is to try to make consumption of feeds be as efficient as possible. We also want to make it as fast (and as easy) as possible to interact with your Reader data on the rest of the web.We're therefore happy to a (Read More)

Aug 03, 2009

Official Google Blog Every morning, millions of people wake up to a very refreshing experience at work. They don't see "mailbox is full" errors in their email. They don't worry about backing up their data. They can get to any file they need from any computer, anywhere with Internet access and a browser. They can all access and edit the same doc (Read More)

Aug 02, 2009

Submitted by Johngrinde from Google Reader: It’s appalling how many computer users and consumers are unaware of the laws and regulations against the use of peer to peer file sharing software to download copyrighted or pirated work. Out of at least half of the computer users and consumers that have (or haven’t) used peer to peer file sharing (torrents, file sharing et (Read More)

Jul 28, 2009

CSS-Tricks LearningjQuery.com has a pretty cool presentation of the dates of their blog posts. Check it:The typeface and the year being vertical should tip you off right away that images are being used to accomplish this. But also note that the date information is presented as text, as it should be, in the markup:A quick peak in Fireb (Read More)

Jul 28, 2009

Submitted by Johngrinde from Google Reader: I was recently putting together a site where I found it very useful to have a number of small areas of the site as separate chunks of code I could include in templates at will. The site wasn’t unusual at all, it just never occurred to me to get this fine-grained with includes before, but I’m starting to do it now and I like (Read More)

Jul 16, 2009

Google Reader When we first started improving our sharing features, our goal was to make sharing as simple and flexible as the rest of Reader. Today, we're pleased to announce that we've made four improvements to give you more sharing control and help you easily find other people's publicly shared items within Reader.Find and follow othe (Read More)

Jul 15, 2009

Google Online Security Blog Posted by Macduff Hughes, Engineering DirectorThere's been some discussion today about the security of online accounts, so we wanted to share our perspective. These are topics that we take very seriously because we know how important they are to our users. We run our own business on Google Apps, and we're highly invested in (Read More)

Jul 13, 2009

CSS-Tricks This post will focus on the different ways to format CSS, which differs from the different ways to organize CSS. Definitely related concepts, but I think organization has more to do with how things are grouped and ordered while formatting has to do with spacing and indenting.Formatting has nothing whatsoever to do with how (Read More)

Jul 09, 2009

CSS-Tricks Recently renowned usability expert Jakob Nielsen wrote an article Stop Password Masking in which he claims that hiding users passwords as they input them is bad practice. What he is referring to is the default browser behavior of elements, where text entered into them turns into bullets rather than showing the real charact (Read More)

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