Tag: reading materials
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
Want to visit an incomplete version of our website where you can’t zoom?
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