Posted by:
Aaron Gustafson
on 02/03/2012
For all intents and purposes, “HTML5” has become a meaningless catch-all marketing phrase defining a platform rather than a specification. It’s “DHTML” all over again.
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Posted by:
Howard Lewis Ship
on 01/27/2012
I've used LinkedIn for many years now, long before I joined Facebook ... I liked the concept of never losing contact information with business contacts and technologist. It just seemed like a good idea (though I do sometimes wonder if LinkedIn has any particular purpose).
I tend to only connect with people I've met in person, or at least talked to on the phone.
One thing that drives me crazy about LinkedIn is that you aren't forced to customize the message. As far as I'm concerned, the...more »
Posted by:
Howard Lewis Ship
on 01/26/2012
A summary of a discussion about the advantages of Tapestry over Struts:
Exceptional exception reporting
Significantly less code
Live class reloading
Sensible defaults, especially for SEO-friendly URLs
Great community
Flexibility and customizability
Interestingly, the quality of Tapestry's documentation was mentioned ... favorably! Between the revised home page, and Tapestry JumpStart (and Igor's coming book), I think we're headed in the right direction in terms of...more »
Posted by:
Mike Girouard
on 01/26/2012
Shame on me for not knowing this earlier.
sudo apachectl -k graceful
Reloads the Apache httpd gracefully by reloading configs only. This is hella useful if your server has SSL VHosts with passwords that you don’t know.
RedHat folks can do use service too:
sudo -i service httpd graceful
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Posted by:
Terry Ryan
on 01/25/2012
Github has these cool ribbon images that you can use if you want to encourage forking your project on your site. They're great and I wanted to use them on a little project I am working on. However, one of my goals was not to use any images, but rather produce all display elements with CSS.
It was a little bit of trial and error but I got it working. Basically you do the following:
Create a link in a div with an id of "banner"
Force div#banner to be 149px x 149px.
Set overflow to...more »
Posted by:
Howard Lewis Ship
on 01/25/2012
Tapestry 5.3.1 is out in the wild ... and if Tapestry is to
stay relevant, Tapestry 5.4 is going to need to be something
quite (r)evolutionary.
There was some confusion on the Tapestry developer mailing list in
advance of this blog post; I'd alluded that it was coming, and some
objected to such pronouncements coming out fully formed, without
discussion. In reality, this is just a distillation of ideas, a
starting point, and not a...more »
Posted by:
Tim Kadlec
on 01/25/2012
There is no shortage of information floating around today. There are a multitude of books, magazines, newspapers, blog posts, articles, videos and podcasts just clamoring for our attention. It’s an incredible thing, this wealth of information we have at our fingertips. Never before has so much knowledge been so easily accessible.
We’ve responded by creating a lot of tools that help us collect this information. We can easily store quotes, snippets or even full articles in any one of...more »
Posted by:
Mike Girouard
on 01/24/2012
I’ve got just shy of 100 vendor repositories that I pull from for my side projects and client work. Updating them all has become quite a bother so I wrote this little guy to save me some time.
It’s certainly not perfect, and sometimes falls over, but this does the trick. This handles both Git and SVN repositories, but I’m sure with a few extra lines you can make it work for whatever SCM you prefer to use.
https://gist.github.com/1674246
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Posted by:
Howard Lewis Ship
on 01/24/2012
Tapestry 5.3.1 is out in the wild ... and if Tapestry is to
stay relevant, Tapestry 5.4 is going to need to be something
quite (r)evolutionary.
There was some confusion on the Tapestry developer mailing list in
advance of this blog post; I'd alluded that it was coming, and some
objected to such pronouncements coming out fully formed, without
discussion. In reality, this is just a distillation of ideas, a
starting point, and not a...more »
Posted by:
Howard Lewis Ship
on 01/24/2012
Last week, Luke Daly arrived in Portland to teach a three day Gradle class; the folks at Gradleware were nice enough let me audit the class (so it only cost me a couple of thousand dollars of lost billing revenue to attend). My goals for the class was to gain a deeper understanding of how Gradle works, so that I could write more efficient builds, diagnose problems, and write my own plugins. The class scored very high on all of those counts!
Much of the first day was spent on basics,...more »
Posted by:
Terry Ryan
on 01/23/2012
I'll be speaking in my hometown this week. I'll be presenting at the Philadelphia Area New Media Association (PANMA) meeting for January.
Topics:
jQuery Mobile
PhoneGap
Typekit
Edge
CSS Shaders
Description:
Adobe and HTML5
In the past few months, there has been a number of new tools and new services from Adobe for HTML5. Some of these tools, like PhoneGap Build and jQuery contributions are aimed at developers and some, such as Edge, are more focused on designers....more »
Posted by:
Terry Ryan
on 01/23/2012
A friend of mine alerted me this weekend to just how much I have a weird fascination with Venn diagrams. I decided to roll with it. So yeah, I have an irrational love of Venn diagrams. But that begs the question, can I make a Venn diagram with just CSS?
I found a couple of examples out there:
Dusting off front-end skills: CSS Venn Diagram
HTML And CSS Venn Diagram
But I felt like they had a bit too much fluff in the HTML markup. Not that there is anything technically wrong with...more »
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