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Mar 2

Some People Can't Read URLs #

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Some People Can’t Read URLs. Commentary on the recent “facebook login” incident from Jono at Mozilla Labs.

Feb 16

Some questions about the "blocking" of HTML5 #

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When people say that the publication of HTML5 “blocked” by Larry Masinter’s “formal objection”, what exactly do they mean?

Feb 2

HipHop for PHP: Move Fast #

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HipHop for PHP: Move Fast. Facebook have open-sourced their internally developed PHP to C++ compiler.

Jan 14

jQuery 1.4 Released #

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jQuery 1.4 Released. With comprehensive release notes. Huge performance improvements and a ton of very sensible enhancements to the API—far too many to summarise.

Jan 12

WildlifeNearYou: It began on a fort... #

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[Fort Clonque]

Back in October 2008, myself and 11 others set out on the first /dev/fort expedition.


Dec 20

Crowdsourced document analysis and MP expenses #

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As you may have heard, the UK government released a fresh batch of MP expenses documents a week ago on Thursday.

Dec 6

EtherPad is Back Online Until Open Sourced #

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EtherPad is Back Online Until Open Sourced. Fantastic news. EtherPad just got acquired by Google and announced the team would be joining the Google Wave...

Nov 23

Node.js is genuinely exciting #

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I gave a talk on Friday at Full Frontal, a new one day JavaScript conference in my home town of Brighton.

Nov 3

A quote from Mark Pilgrim #

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HTML has always been a conversation between browser makers, authors, standards wonks, and other people who just showed up and liked to talk about angle...

Oct 28

Underscore.js #

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Underscore.js. A new library of functional programming primitives for JavaScript—each, map, all, any, inject, detect etc.

Oct 22

Why I like Redis #

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I’ve been getting a lot of useful work done with Redis recently.

Oct 19

This shouldn't be the image of Hack Day #

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[Hack Girl dancers at Open Hack Day Taiwan]

I love hack days. I was working in the vicinity of Chad Dickerson when he organised the first internal Yahoo!


Oct 8

MichaelMoore.com in Django #

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MichaelMoore.com in Django. A seriously impressive case study—a complete rebuild from the ground up completed in just five weeks using Django, Solr and Haystack for...

Official Google Webmaster Blog: A proposal for making AJAX crawlable #

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Official Google Webmaster Blog: A proposal for making AJAX crawlable. It’s horrible!

Sep 10

A quote from Gordon Brown #

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Thousands of people have come together to demand justice for Alan Turing and recognition of the appalling way he was treated.

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