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Finer-grained Controls for Clearing Private Data
"I semi-recently did some work to add a nice new feature for Firefox 3.1. The feature is “Forget About This Site,” and is a nice addition to our Clear Private Data and Private Browsing features. Any time you view a history entry (in the history sidebar or in the Library) you get a handy context menu item"
OilCan: Greasemonkey on steroids for Android
"OilCan lets you customize any website by inserting JavaScript to change the website and help it reach into the Android world using intents."
CS193H: final exam
Wish I could have taken classes like this from real practitioners!
Linus on C++. Wow.
"C++ is a horrible language. It's made more horrible by the fact that a lot of substandard programmers use it, to the point where it's much much easier to generate total and utter crap with it. Quite frankly, even if the choice of C were to do *nothing* but keep the C++ programmers out, that in itself would be a huge reason to use C. "
Fireunit, testing in the Firebug world.
"I've been recently working with John Resig on his great Firebug extension called Fireunit. This very promising extension is intended as an automated testing framework for Firefox extensions and it should also be useful for testing web pages in the future. It's still at the beginning, but growing and starting to be very useful for testing Firebug itself."
Rack'em Up!
The leverage effect of Rack, and how it is more than Rails.
How I Turned Down $300,000 from Microsoft to go Full-Time on GitHub
"2008 is a leap year. That means that three hundred and sixty six days ago, almost to the minute, I was sitting alone in a booth at Zeke’s Sports Bar and Grill on 3rd Street in San Francisco. I wouldn’t normally hang out at a sports bar, let alone a sports bar in SOMA, but back then Thursday was “I Can Has Ruby” night. I guess back then “I can has _” was also a reasonable moniker to attach to pretty much anything. ICHR was a semi-private meeting of like minded Ruby Hackers that generally and willingly devolved into late night drinking sessions. Normally these nights would fade away like my hangover the next morning, but this night was different. This was the night that GitHub was born."
Firefox 3.0.5 accessibility: New features
Firefox 3.0.5 exposes all CSS display properties as object attributes now in addition to the older “formatting:block” parameter.
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