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Why Is It So Hard To Make An Accurate Progress Bar?

Hear out from software developers why making something that seems to be so straight forward can sometime be so implausible. Original post at Slashdot  

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To the point. My humble opinion is that this is another first world problem of ours. Original Comic strip by XKCD

You are not your code

Scott Hanselman wrote an light article on progressive improvement of a software developer (application to other technical roles, too) and consciousness of a programmer  exposing his/her source code to other people’s opinions. Original Article  

Asynchrony is Viral

I was once told as soon as I able to think in asynchronously by default, medium to large sized web applications suddenly become easy to deal with. This article may not be the best to elaborate this idea, but has shown how tasks (avoid to use this word but, magically) appears to be simpler when not have to deal  Continue Reading »

Making Sure Interviews Don’t Turn Into Free Consulting

Look, this has gone paranoia. The age of magic, SEO and making money at home should already be over, there are no secret sauce to a hot pie everyone wants a piece of. I found no problem giving free consultation (within my capability) to anyone, interviewer, like-minded techies in user group or new comer who  Continue Reading »

Firefox nightlies now support AAC, MP3 and H.264 by default in Windows

This is a good news to many web app developers. Although h.264 is almost a ‘god’ standard for video encoding for online playback, few web browsers still not supporting it by default and Firefox been one of them. Non tech-savvy users would mislead to think certain web players are not comparable with their browser. Direct Link

How can I deal with a team member who dislikes making comments in code?

An interesting topic in StackExchange discussing “how to make your dev team write comments?”. A better question (as mentioned by several) would be “when does the code requires comments?” and how to deal with developers commenting for the sack of commenting. Direct Link

The Fancy Web #46

This is a biweekly digest on worth reading articles related to anything to do with web technologies. [Trend] Adobe ceases development on mobile browser Flash, refocuses efforts on HTML5 http://www.zdnet.com/blog/perlow/exclusive-adobe-ceases-development-on-mobile-browser-flash-refocuses-efforts-on-html5-updated/19226 [Web Design] Centering in the Unknown  http://css-tricks.com/14745-centering-in-the-unknown/ [Web Design] How CSS Animations Work on Sales Page for iPhone 4S http://johnbhall.com/iphone-4s/ [Web Development] 3 Ways to test your website  Continue Reading »

The Fancy Web #45

This is a biweekly digest on worth reading articles related to anything to do with web technologies. [Trend] Apple ‘genius’ Steve Jobs dies from cancer http://www.wncftv.com/news/entertainment/?feed=bim&id=131228449 [Web Design] Responsive web design is boring! http://www.netmagazine.com/opinions/responsive-web-design-boring [Web Design] New developer tools experimental APIs for Chrome extensions http://blog.chromium.org/2011/10/new-developer-tools-experimental-apis.html [Web Design] Styling button elements to look like links http://www.456bereastreet.com/archive/201110/styling_button_elements_to_look_like_links/ [Web Development] Dart: a  Continue Reading »

The Fancy Web #44

This is a biweekly digest on worth reading articles related to anything to do with web technologies. [Trend] Facebook Timeline & Creativity http://blog.go2web20.net/2011/09/facebook-timeline-creativity.html [Trend] Amazon Silk – Amazon’s Revolutionary Cloud-Accelerated Web Browser  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_u7F_56WhHk [Web Administration] Work smarter, not harder, with site health http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2011/09/work-smarter-not-harder-with-site.html [Software Development] Premature Optimization http://www.keyvan.ms/premature-optimization