Ben and I both got new work 15″ Macbook Pro laptops, and Ben isn’t happy. I have to admit that it doesn’t feel like the Apple designers may have gone one step too far with the trackpad. In one fell-swoop they took away the button and added new and exciting gestures. The big problem I have with [...]

Ben and I both got new work 15″ Macbook Pro laptops, and Ben isn’t happy. I have to admit that it doesn’t feel like the Apple designers may have gone one step too far with the trackpad. In one fell-swoop they took away the button and added new and exciting gestures. The big problem I have with [...]

Rich Hickey (Clojure creator) gave one of the best talks that I have been in for awhile. The title of the talk was scarily low level and “wow this must be boring”-y, but the title should have been something like “Learn about how the real world works”. The first part of the talk discussed philosophy and [...]

Rich Hickey (Clojure creator) gave one of the best talks that I have been in for awhile. The title of the talk was scarily low level and “wow this must be boring”-y, but the title should have been something like “Learn about how the real world works”. The first part of the talk discussed philosophy and [...]

A contingent in the JavaScript community is pretty much solely focused on securing the language. Security is always important, but even more-so when you are dealing with a language that runs in a user agent to run the Web. Whenever you try to add a feature to a language you are instantly dealing with legacy and [...]

A contingent in the JavaScript community is pretty much solely focused on securing the language. Security is always important, but even more-so when you are dealing with a language that runs in a user agent to run the Web. Whenever you try to add a feature to a language you are instantly dealing with legacy and [...]

By now you have probably read about the critical Java vulnerability and how easy it is to take over a machine from a web page via a Java applet. Apparently, Sun fixed it fairly quickly, but even then some people say their fix was too specific and thus there are still problems. Apple on the other [...]

By now you have probably read about the critical Java vulnerability and how easy it is to take over a machine from a web page via a Java applet. Apparently, Sun fixed it fairly quickly, but even then some people say their fix was too specific and thus there are still problems. Apple on the other [...]

There have been a couple of things that have been really fun to see and work on in Bespin recently. First up, is our new Pie Menu that Ben just posted on. The short reasons why I like the new look are: Giving as much area to your code as possible. Why show a command line all [...]

There have been a couple of things that have been really fun to see and work on in Bespin recently. First up, is our new Pie Menu that Ben just posted on. The short reasons why I like the new look are: Giving as much area to your code as possible. Why show a command line all [...]

Introducing WebDriver, a clean, fast framework for automated testing of webapps. WebDriver takes a different approach to solve the same problem as Selenium. Rather than being a JavaScript application running within the browser, it uses whichever mechanism is most appropriate to control the browser. For Firefox, this means that WebDriver is...

Introducing WebDriver, a clean, fast framework for automated testing of webapps. WebDriver takes a different approach to solve the same problem as Selenium. Rather than being a JavaScript application running within the browser, it uses whichever mechanism is most appropriate to control the browser. For Firefox, this means that WebDriver is...

You need to degrade with data: uris, here is how to do it! Detecting Support for data: URIs Using Image.onload/onerror + CSS tricks.

You need to degrade with data: uris, here is how to do it! Detecting Support for data: URIs Using Image.onload/onerror + CSS tricks.

new theora hotness! Open Video has a tough road ahead.... but glad to see people walking the road. I wonder how the BBC's Dirac is coming too.