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SDCH: Shared Dictionary Compression Over HTTP
"Shared Dictionary Compression over HTTP protocol (SDCH) aims at reducing data redundancy across HTTP responses. The protocol is meant to work with current schemes (gzip, deflate) to further compress the HTTP responses. This protocol is different from original proposed rfc3229 (differential compression), as it does not require the browser to cache the last version of pages."
Stories • Young People • NCPIC
A very cool use of the Maps API as a general purpose navigation tool. Would be nice if they let you click on items in the UI in a clean way.
Canvas Tutorial
Bill has a nice step by step tutorial that walks you through a breakout game.
reglib 1.0.4 released
"new x-browser event functions: removeEvent(), cancelBubble(). Event delegation with mousedown, mouseup, and dblclick. multiple class selection, e.g. .foo.bar"
Microsoft to buy SUN
If I could use C# 4 instead of Java 6? yay!: "Combine poor market conditions, SUN's stock price free-falling, Microsoft's desire to break into the enterprise market and you can imagine this acquisition actually happening. The fact is there are some compelling arguments to buy SUN at this point. SUN is obviously in a bit of trouble right now, their market cap is currently less than their annual revenue. That is free money for an acquirer"
TwitterCamp has been updated
"TwitterCamp has been updated. The latest version now uses the Twitter search API, so users no longer need to authenticate or follow the target user to see their messages on the screen. Also, I added a configuration panel so that you could easily re-skin the application without having to recompile or modify configuration files. Please use the instructions below to install the application or to download the source visit http://code.google.com/p/twittercamp-official"
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