Serious efforts are being made to get more typeface choices on the web to enhance web typography. Still, most of us prefer web-safe fonts like: Verdana, Georgia, Times New Roman and Arial. Though choices are limited, yet the number can be increased by exploring other pre-installed fonts.
note (to-read): revised font stack
Here is “Hello World” in PHP.
Hello World
On pistols and lead, now Bohr had to prove
The defendant is quickest to move.
Bohr accepted the challenge without a frown
He drew when we drew, and shot each one of us down.
This tale has a moral, tho' we knew it before.
It's foolish to question the wisdom of Bohr.
"Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo." is a grammatically correct sentence.
aaaahh!
However, because of everything I've read (and learned about PHP, the language) since the announcement I'm not particularly excited about HipHop.
me neither. a php-to-c++ compiler ... how boring!
also:
Almost every single website on the internet is I/O bound, not CPU bound, web applications spend their time waiting on external resources (databases, memcache, other HTTP resources, etc.). So the part of me that develops websites professionally isn't super interested, Facebook is in the exceptionally rare circumstance that they've optimized their I/O to the point that optimizing CPU gives worthwhile returns.
scalzi somehow fell out of my blogroll (by accident). i'm sorry, sir, wont happen again, sir!
dmitry baranovski thinks i don't know javascript (he's partly right).
if (!("a" in window)) {
var a = 1;
}
alert(a);
nicholas zarkas knows javacript.
The web in 1999 was a lot smaller than it is today, so a lot of people don’t remember what happened back when Unisys decided to start to enforce their GIF-related patents. GIF was already widely used on the web as a fundamental web technology. Much like the codecs we’re talking about today it wasn’t in any particular spec but thanks to network effects it was in use basically everywhere.
Unisys was asking some web site owners $5,000-$7,500 to able to use GIFs on their sites.
very true, christopher blizzard: HTML5 video and H.264 – what history tells us and why we’re standing with the web
Interview with Erik Spiekermann: The main reason for the definition of typefaces as software is the fact that typefaces can hardly be protected since most people do not even see a difference between a Garamond or Bodoni, let alone Helvetica and Arial. The requirements for a text typeface to not put itself between the reader and the text, but at best to offer a slight aesthetic added value is a disadvantage for the estimation of the “artistic” contribution as added value that is required by copyright law. This is why the most bizarre ornate typefaces that no-one would want to copy anyway are protected. They are clearly recognisable as creations rather than simply the reordering of generally known parameters, as would be the case with more serious typefaces. An “A” needs to look like an “A,” so why should the “A” be protected if it looks exactly like all the others, at least to the layman’s eye?
55,000+ posts later, I still feel like we've barely scratched the surface of the Internet's inexhaustible supply of "wonderful things." You know, you sometimes hear people talking about how crap everything on the net is (sometimes, they'll add "except all the 'stolen' professional content") and I wonder, "Are these people looking at a different Internet than the one that I get?"
unzip, strip, touch, finger, grep, mount, fsck, more, yes, fsck, umount, sleep
rawr!
In looking closely at the astonishingly wide variety of ways our users have chosen to represent themselves, we discovered much of the collective wisdom about profile pictures was wrong. For interested readers, I explain our measurement process, and how we collected our data, at the end of the post. All my bar charts are zeroed on the average picture. Now to the data.
okTrends: The 4 Big Myths of Profile Pictures
always enlightening.
Perl also has "contexts", which means that you can't trust a single line of Perl code that you ever read.
JS Midpoint Displacement Map@github
finally my first rep on github. i now belong to the cool crowd again!
-> demo
jake: a js port of rubys rake, which is a ruby port of make.
whats next?
- c: cake
- smalltalk: sake
- scheme: schake (d'oh!)
- tcl: take
- basic: bake
- factor: fake
- logo: lake
- whitespace: wake
programmmers are so funny.
- Shotgun programming
- Programming by accident
- Cargo-cult programming
- Least effort programming
- Design pattern driven programming
- Surgical programmer
- Butcher programmer
i'm a shotgunner, by-accident- and least-effort-programmer.