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destructuring.net:

Name.com has created a system where any wildcarded third-level domain name that fails a real DNS query is treated like a real domain… a real domain that I don't control, but instead they do, and are trying to monetize.

Feross Aboukhadijeh[^]

The HTML5 Web Storage standard was developed to allow sites to store larger amounts of data (like 5-10 MB) than was previously allowed by cookies (like 4KB). localStorage is awesome because it’s supported in all modern browsers (Chrome, Firefox 3.5+, Safari 4+, IE 8+, etc.).

The standard anticipated that sites might abuse this feature and advised that browsers limit the total amount of storage space that each origin could use.

Quote: pcmag[^]

The most easily repairable tablet iFixit has reviewed is the Dell XPS 10 running Windows RT, a 10.1-incher that PCMag's Joel Santo Domingo rated as having perhaps the longest-lasting battery of any tablet currently out there. The iFixit team gave the XPS 10 a score of "9" on its repairability scale, one better than four "8's" the site has reviewed—the Amazon Kindle Fire (7-inch), Dell Streak, Motorola Xoom, and Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 7.0.

Jeffrey Palermo (.com)[^]:

We keep looking for the common runtime that can run everywhere. We yearn (remember Java) for the platform that allows us the promise of “write once, run everywhere”. This, in the global sense, is a pipe dream. My comments here are targeted for custom software that businesses rely on. These are commonly referred to as business applications, or line of business applications. The days of writing a business application for the web and expecting it to serve all users is over. Only in a world where 99% of your users are using pretty much the same type of computer is this possible.

Developer.com[^]:

Since TypeScript generates plain JavaScript code you can use it with any browser. Additionally, TypeScript is an open source project. TypeScript offers many features of object oriented programming languages such as classes, interfaces, inheritance, overloading and modules, some of which are proposed features of ECMA Script 6. Overall TypeScript is a promising language that can certainly help you neatly write and organize your JavaScript code base making it more maintainable and extensible.

Nettuts+[^]:

Github has become the corner stone for all things open source software. Developers love it, collaborate on it and are constantly building awesome projects through it. Apart from hosting our code, Github’s main attraction is using it as a collaborative tool... In the world of software projects, it is inevitable that we will find ourselves working in a team to deliver a project. For this tutorial on Github and team collaboration, we will be exploring some of the most common tools that we generally need when working with software teams.

Scripting News[^]:

Here's one of the fundamental rules of programming. You're at the end of your day, you've gotten a lot of stuff done, and you have one more thing to get right before the feature is complete, and you're searching for the answer, trying all kinds of ideas, thoroughly confused, not wanting to get up until it's done, just slogging away and not getting it.

Rey Bango[^]:

Any software maker will tell you the same thing; provide detailed steps and a test case if possible to make isolating your issue as easy as possible. If you simply type, “My site doesn’t render in IE9″, you’re making things more difficult. Take the time to really isolate the problem and provide detailed, concise information so that the IE team can properly determine if it’s a bug and even if there’s a workaround.

Paul Irish[^]:

For many of us developers, WebKit is a black box. We throw HTML, CSS, JS and a bunch of assets at it, and WebKit, somehow.. magically, gives us a webpage that looks and works well. But in fact, as my colleague Ilya Grigorik puts it... "WebKit isn’t a black box. It’s a white box. And not just that, but an open, white box." So let’s take a moment to understand some things.

Jesse Storimer's Blog[^]:

Over the year and some, since I've been publishing ebooks, various people have asked about my publishing tools. I've given a few responses via email, or links via Twitter, but never laid everything out in one place. In December of 2012 I published an update to one of my books, here I'll lay out the steps (and tools) involved in writing, editing, and distributing an update to my ebooks. Let's start with the writing.

infrageeks[^]:

The consequences are being played out in the market right now where it would appear that the traditional PC, desktop or notebook is a market that has peaked and is now starting its slow decline. Like any evolutionary platform change, this will not be immediate or quick and will play out over at least a decade. During this period I predict that the mass of computing will move to systems that are deemed good enough for most people, but that drive expert users crazy.

NYTimes.com[^]:

A 30-second video of a newborn baby shows the infant silently snoozing in its crib, his breathing barely perceptible. But when the video is run through an algorithm that can amplify both movement and color, the baby’s face blinks crimson with each tiny heartbeat. The amplification process is called Eulerian Video Magnification, and is the brainchild of a team of scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.

MIT Technology Review[^]:

Friendster is a social network that was founded in 2002, a year before Myspace and two years before Facebook. Consequently, it is often thought of as the grand-daddy of social networks. At its peak, the network had well over 100 million users, many in south east Asia. In July 2009, following some technical problems and a redesign, the site experienced a catastrophic decline in traffic as users fled to other networks such as Facebook. Friendster, as social network, simply curled up and died.