Exploring the idea of automatic login via notification emails, discussing the tradeoffs between usability and security.
Lea Verou announces her CSS3 talk at the Front-Trends 2010 conference, covering selectors, gradients, and new features.
A web developer shares insights from designing a modern university course on web development, focusing on standards and future-proof skills.
A critical analysis of using pure CSS for complex illustrations, arguing it's a misuse of the technology compared to more suitable alternatives like SVG.
Exploring keyword arguments in Clojure, comparing defnk macro to Common Lisp's implementation and discussing feature limitations.
Sunflower is an alpha-stage tool for automated content extraction from HTML documents using structural analysis and a Swing GUI.
A technical discussion on intentional symbol capture in Clojure macros for GUI development, using a Swing wizard as a case study.
Exploring advanced CSS counter techniques and demonstrating them with a CSS3 Reversi game UI implementation.
Explores a technical issue with the 'lein swank' command in Clojure's Leiningen build tool related to Java class loading and charset encoding.
How rewriting a MySQL query to use indexes properly improved performance from 10 seconds to 0.03 seconds.
A web-based tool for testing and understanding CSS3 structural pseudo-class selectors like nth-child and nth-of-type with live element manipulation.
A technique for creating custom checkboxes and radio buttons using CSS sprites, improving on an existing method for better image control.
A demonstration of recreating the iPhone keyboard interface using only CSS3, including gradients, shadows, and custom fonts.
Exploring challenges with downcasing UTF-8 strings containing Polish characters using command-line tools like tr and dd.
A developer shares their Clojure implementation of the Set card game, including game logic and a Swing-based GUI, in under 250 lines of code.
A developer's guide to setting up a Java development environment using Eclipse, Maven, and the M2Eclipse plugin on Ubuntu.
A review of 'Perl Best Practices' by Damian Conway, exploring how to write maintainable and robust Perl code.
Author announces blog reactivation and discusses technical changes to his static blogging infrastructure, including Blosxom and Disqus.
A review of Douglas Crockford's book 'JavaScript: The Good Parts' and how it changed the author's perspective on the language.
A 2010 debate on whether a single closed platform like Facebook would inevitably dominate social networks, or if a distributed model was possible.
