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The State of Web Development 2010 – Web Directions
2010 Apr 29, 11:51Stats from the State of Web Development 2010 web survey including: "Few respondents use any form of Internet Explorer for their day to day web use, but IE8 is the number one browser developers test their sites in. Google Chrome has jumped dramatically as the browser of choice for developers, to rank 3rd, at 17% just behind Safari at 20%."
iPhone Dev Center: iPhone Application Programming Guide: The Core Application Design
2010 Mar 11, 4:26The iPhone application lifecycle.Everything you need to know about HTML5 video and audio - Opera Developer Community
2010 Mar 11, 3:39How to do audio & video in the latest version of OperaClickOnce Deployment Overview
2010 Mar 5, 12:33ClickOnce is a .NET app deployment technology that lets you easily install apps with minimal user interaction even from the web. This is what Google Chrome uses to install so easily.Weave Developer Resources
2010 Feb 27, 10:17Weave syncs web browser user data. Its an open platform using JSON data, RESTful URL based APIs, with basic auth over HTTPS.Thought Experiments and Design Principles
2010 Jan 29, 3:54Raymond Chen has some thought experiments useful for discovering various kinds of stupidity in software design:
- What if two programs did this?
- Who says there's only one?
- Imagine if this were possible. / Imagine if things actually worked that way.
Tim Berners-Lee's principles of Web design includes my favorite: Test of Independent Invention. This has a thought experiment containing the construction of the MMM (Multi-Media Mesh) with MRIs (Media Resource Identifiers) and MMTP (Muli-Media Transport Protocol).
The Internet design principles (RFC 1958) includes the Robustness Principle: be strict when sending and tolerant when receiving. A good one, but applied too liberally can lead to interop issues. For instance, consider web browsers. Imagine one browser becomes so popular that web devs create web pages and just test out their pages in this popular browser. They don't ensure their pages conform to standards and accidentally end up depending on the manner in which this popular browser tolerantly accepts non-standard input. This non-standard behavior ends up as de facto standard and future updates to the standard essentially has had decisions made for it.
Coding Horror: You're Reading The World's Most Dangerous Programming Blog
2010 Jan 20, 8:28GZip vs Deflate execution speeds. Deflate found to be much faster in particular cases and about the same in the rest.SensorEvent | Android Developers
2009 Dec 28, 9:27"This class represents a sensor event and holds informations such as the sensor type (eg: accelerometer, orientation, etc...), the time-stamp, accuracy and of course the sensor's data."Mystic Lake Software: Sensor - Accelerometer & Magnetics
2009 Dec 28, 8:04"Just as I was finishing my first look at the accelerometer and magnetic field sensors a couple of threads cropped up on the Android Developer's group..."Developing on a Device | Android Developers
2009 Dec 26, 7:11Wow, that was easy to setup. After installing the driver Eclipse just asks me if I want to debug on my phone or my virtual device.Wii Remote API | Javascript API for the Opera-powered Wii browser
2009 Dec 22, 9:39"The Wii Remote API also allows the Web page to detect all Wii Remotes that are connected to the Wii; up to four at a time. This makes it possible to make Web pages interact with up to four users at the same time..."Code: Flickr Developer Blog » Language Detection: A Witch’s Brew?
2009 Dec 4, 10:24Flickr dev. blog on the accept-language HTTP header: "It’s true that the Accept-Language header has a troubled history. Because of this, many developers regard it the way medieval villagers might have regarded a woman with a warty nose and a pet cat – it should be shunned, avoided and possibly burned at the stake." And this great anecdote: "In two and a half years of running as an international site, we’ve only ever had one case where it didn’t work. Helio, a cellphone company, had a browser was custom-built for them in Korea, and had its “Accept-Language” header hard-coded to always request Korean, something which led to much confusion for the Flickr users amongst their American customers."Ajaxian » New SVG Web Release: Gelatinous Cube
2009 Nov 23, 12:38Update to SVG Web: "SVG Web is a JavaScript library which provides SVG support on many browsers, including Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Safari. Using the library plus native SVG support you can instantly target close to 100% of the existing installed web base."There is no WebKit on Mobile
2009 Oct 7, 8:10Quirksmode does a chart comparing the differences in various versions of WebKit: "There’s iPhone WebKit, Android WebKit, S60 WebKit (at least two versions each), Bolt, Iris, Ozone, and Palm Pre, and I don’t doubt that I’ve overlooked a few minor WebKits along the way. All 10 mobile WebKits I’ve identified so far are subtly or wildly different."Dive Into HTML 5 by Mark Pilgrim with illustrations from the Public Domain
2009 Aug 21, 3:26"Dive Into HTML 5 seeks to elaborate on a hand-picked Selection of features from the HTML 5 specification and other fine Standards. I shall publish Drafts periodically, as time permits." Lovely design.DSC04581 on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
2009 Aug 13, 9:46An awesome health care protest sign. I've made a huge mistake.
Town Hall Meeting to Announce the Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review (QDDR)
2009 Jul 14, 4:28"Can you please let the staff use an alternative web browser called Firefox? I just – (applause) – I just moved to the State Department from the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency and was surprised that State doesn’t use this browser." Starts at 26:30 in the video.Digg the Blog - Blog Archive - Much Ado About IE6
2009 Jul 10, 9:43"This goes directly to why most folks use IE6: they don't have a choice. Three out of four IE6 users on Digg said they can't upgrade due to some technical or workplace reason."
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