2010 May 10, 7:23"Kevin Frei - Exception Hanlding Cost September 2006 meeting of the Northwest C++ Users Group. Discussion of the assembly language cost of exception handling on the x86 Windows and x64 Windows
platform"
C++ programming language exception microsoft windows performance technical video 2010 May 10, 5:21An old article by Charles Stross on INTERCAL the satirical programming language. It contains great features such as 'come from' the inverse of 'goto'.
c programming humor technical language software charles-stross intercal goto 2010 May 6, 7:16"Today web gadgets, mashup components, advertisements, and other 3rd party content on websites either run with full trust alongside your content or are isolated inside of IFrames. As a result, many
modern web applications are intrinsically insecure, often with unpredictable service quality. Live Labs Web Sandbox addresses this problem."
web browser web-sandbox technical javascript html windows live security sandbox microsoft silverlight 2010 May 6, 7:14"ADsafe defines a safe subset of the JavaScript Programming Language, and an interface that allows programs written in that language to usefully interact with a specific subtree of of the HTML
document."
technical ajax javascript json security advertising ad web browser web-sandbox 2010 May 6, 5:48New IDN TLDs are up. Try out http://xn----rmckbbajlc6dj7bxne2c.xn--wgbh1c/ (aka http://وزارة-الأتصالات.مصر/) in your favorite IDN implementing browser.
idn tld dns icann technical web language 2010 May 3, 7:27Amazon has the most highlighted passages of Kindle users. Of course Dan Brown is all over that. But in 94th place of most highlighted is a passage from the 'Kindle Shortcuts' book on how to highlight
passages: "Go to top Notes and Clippings (Kindle 2) To create a highlight: use the 5-way controller to highlight the content you want to clip and then press the 5-way to save your selection...
Highlighted by 319 Kindle users"
humor highlight amazon kindle technical meta 2010 May 2, 3:14"This document contains normative guidelines for web applications built by the Interface Development practice of Isobar North America (previously Molecular)." Glad to see coding styles and best
practices for HTML, CSS, JS, associated HTTP headers etc etc etc
code css html html5 javascript web browser programming development technical via:kris.kowal 2010 Apr 29, 11:53"I wrote Gopherbot, a spidering archiver for Gopherspace. I ran it in June 2007, and saved off all the documents and sites it could find. That saved 40GB of data, or about 780,000 documents." Now
available as a compressed 15GB torrent.
torrent gopher internet web technical history archive 2010 Apr 29, 11:47Play Super Mario Bros. as Link from Zelda, the Contra guy, Mega Man and more.
mario smb nintendo flash web game videogame humor retro mashup zelda mega-man contra 2010 Apr 25, 3:29Tetris game that picks the worst piece it can to give you.
tetris videogame game web browser 2010 Apr 22, 10:26HTML5 has some notion of a 'null' origin. Not sure how this actually plays out though.
w3c site-of-origin null web browser application html html5 technical 2010 Apr 21, 6:48"The Web Open Font Format, already backed by Mozilla and many type foundries was accepted by the World Wide Web Consortium yesterday, marking the first stage in its standardization. The submission
included a surprising new sponsor: Microsoft."
font microsoft web internet typography arstechnica browser technical 2010 Apr 15, 2:52Scans of some of a few instances of hate mail Neil deGrasse Tyson received from elementary school students after demoting Pluto to non-planet status.
hate-mail mail humor cute children neil-degrasse-tyson science pluto space planet astronomy 2010 Apr 11, 3:55Humour infographic backlash infographic.
information infographics humor technical 2010 Apr 11, 3:51"In fact, more air marshals have been arrested than the number of people arrested by air marshals." Its easy to get awesome stats like this when talking about lawlessness on airplanes given its great
infrequency.
statistics humor security bruce-schneier airplane 2010 Apr 11, 2:34
Sarah and I are just back from a successful wedding planning trip to California. We now have cake, food, officiant, makeup, and some other things. Planning weddings is tough. It was also, of
course, a pleasure to see my parents who made home made pasta -- yum!
wedding parents family weekend 2010 Apr 11, 2:16Lots of links, info, and thoughts on Apple's change to the iPhone SDK terms of service that now state "Applications must be originally written in Objective-C, C, C++, or JavaScript..." Means no other
languages or third party platforms...
steve-jobs apple sdk api tos legal law iphone ipod ipad technical 2010 Apr 6, 5:06"Palimpsest by Charles Stross, 2009. This version made available for 2010 Hugo Award voters by kind permission of the publishers."
charles-stross palimpset fiction scifi todo time-travel hugo-award