Check out this cool demo site put together by Adobe, Google and the National Geographic. The created a custom site about The President, a giant sequoia tree 3,200 years old. The site demos some pretty interesting things you can do with just CSS. A few tricks they used: create a polygon region and have text […]
Don't be a git, use subversion. There seems to be an attitude that if you aren't using git you're behind on the times. That some how by using git your team will be more powerful, merging magicians and it will rain bubbles. In actuality, git is a fairly complex version control system which is far […]
I’ve been hearing a lot recently about the Navigation Timing spec, which sets a multitude of timing events as javascript properties. There are numerous events in the flow, from the very first navigation event, which could be when the user clicks a search result in Google, to DNS timing to Dom parsing etc. See the […]
Research around the popularity of programming languages. My initial hypothesis was the Tiobe Programming Index iultiples skewed and does not accurately represent language popularity. A more accurate measure can be made using more valid sources. However after looking at some initial data, it might not be as far off as I initially thought. The main […]
A year in review for Scala, 2010 was a great year for continued expansion of Scala. Here are a few highlights from major releases to new books and further adoption. 2011 looks poised to have an even bigger break out year. Major Releases The biggest news of the year is the finalized release of Scala […]
As I continue down the path of testing out the Scala language and compatible web frameworks, I came across the Play Framework and all I can say is Wow! Play is a very nice polished framework, which just feels right to me. I had the app up running and doing everything I wanted in a […]
I started playing with the Scala programming language recently. For most new languages I want to learn, I try them out solving problems from Project Euler -- a fun site with various challenging math problems that typically require programming to solve. For example: What is the largest prime factor of the number 600851475143 ? Typically […]
Tumblr is a new blogging platform which focuses on simple, quick blogging called tumblelogs. A tumblelog is a blog of very short posts, maybe just a photo, link or quote; a slightly richer form of Twitter. The Tumblr service has an elegant design focusing on simplicity. I was impressed with it and for a few […]
Photophlow is a pretty cool new way to interact with photos and people. It ties into Flickr and allows you to view photos simultaneously with other users and chat in real-time about them. You can select a photo and everyone in the chat room sees the photo and can comment on it. If you like […]