Simon Willison has a great writeup on jQuery for JavaScript programmers. WordPress has caught the jQuery bug, and we will be rolling out its implementation more and more as we iterate versions. Simon’s post has a good sampling of the kind of stuff you can do with jQuery. My advice is to [...]
Note to self: do not attempt Debian dist-upgrade from an airport, 10 minutes prior to boarding.
It is against our terms and conditions to have a rel=”nofollow” on the [Text-Link-Ads] ads.
Inventory Manager, Text-Link-Ads
Let there be no more equivocation: Text-Link-Ads are black hat SEO sellers. They are a search engine influence broker.
Devil’s Advocate #1 says: “You’re just selling links… how is that different from Google Adsense or any other advertising?”
Response: You’re [...]
When I got my MacBook Pro, I decided that I wasn’t going to bring everything over on my PowerBook, but rather that I would manually transfer things as I needed them. That way, the cruft gets left behind. Here is the list of applications I’ve installed, in the order that I’ve installed them.
Fink [...]
I have Pownce invites. Anyone want them? It looks like a pretty nice service.
OS X’s Spotlight searching functionality is pretty handy, but I’ve always been annoyed by having to arrow down to select the top hit and launch/open it. I stumbled upon a shortcut by accident. Holding down Cmd will highlight the top hit, and then pressing Return will launch/open it. So, Cmd-Space, type, Cmd-Return. [...]
I was in the Tampa Apple store around 1pm today, and they still had iPhones in stock. There were maybe 20 or 30 people in line. It wasn’t that crazy. I called ahead and reserved a MacBook Pro (more on that later). They had someone help me personally and sell me [...]
Go read Steve Jobs talking about how native apps on the iPhone blow web apps on the iPhone out of the water. And then read the transcript of him at WWDC ‘07 (to a room full of OS X developers) trying to pass web apps off as a viable substitute for native apps.
Translation: while a lethal dose of caffeine might make you “enter The Matrix,” thereby stopping time and allowing you to fix five validation errors in half a second, it does not improve our site’s ability to process your requests.
Apple’s announcement that there will be no software development kit for iPhone, while it may fool some in the media, will not fool developers, who see this as a giant “f-you.”
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Apple’s press release could use some translation, with a hat tip to John Gruber.
iPhone to Support Third-Party Web 2.0 Applications
Our browser works.
When it begins shipping [...]