Developer, learner of things, functional programming enthusiast, hacker, and all round inquisitor.
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Subject: Ocean Spray, Tea, Gloves and the Arctic. Re: The TV advertising campaign
Nerds can simply never have enough websites. I am, it seems one of those nerds. My new website will contain short code and programming philosophy snippets.
There is a big campaign to get Rage Against The Machine to be the top of the charts for Christmas. It’s just not right. I
It’s a simple and brilliant concept. Get people to install a plugin on internet explorer, add a meta tag to your source code, then Google Chrome Frame will render the page using Webkit and its Javascript engine instead. It sounds like it could save the internet. But will it work?
I’ll just tell you – you probably already know anyway. I’m a lazy blogger. I don’t seem to have time to write as many articles as I’d like for slightlymore. I know what the problem is – I don’t write enough because I have this strange inability to put small or waffley articles on it – I’d rather that it stayed as a blog devoted to development and internet related things. My new site diaryofthings.com will give me an outlet for mindless wifflings, allowing me to write more relevant content for slightlymore.
It was around 9 or 10 in the evening in the Jam Factory. After a very successful Ox Tuttle, Ben Walker (@ihatemornings), Colin Mercer (@colinmercer) and myself came up with one of those genius drunken ideas. oxfordbloggers.com is it.
There are some developers out there who feel like they need to know the answers to everything before they can get started on even thinking about starting a project. For the most part, they’re right – but there are times in development when you just don’t know. Is it important to know that there will be exactly 7 links on a page? I argue that (from a development point of view), the only thing you need to care about is that it’s more than one and less than ‘lots’.
Google went to Times Square in New York and posed (what we believe to be) a simple question – What is a browser? The answers were quite interesting – some people had no clue; others were painfully close, it just seemed like they didn’t have the right words to explain what they meant. Either way, it’s an interesting watch, and goes to show that what we take for granted isn’t always common knowledge.
I can’t believe that I’m actually building one of those ‘XXX things you XXX about XXX’ lists, but I am. Although I’m letting myself off because this is not just (what I consider to be) filler material, but some links to some lectures which have genuinely improved my understanding and use of Javascript.