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.
Analyzes the startup culture gap between Boston and Silicon Valley, focusing on entrepreneurial density and university influence.
A JavaScript developer proposes a shorter, regex-based function for reading browser cookies, criticizing verbose mainstream solutions.
A developer explores using Unicode ligatures to shorten tweets, creating a script called 'ligatweet' and analyzing browser support for special characters.
Explores using Unicode characters like ＠ and ․ to hide email addresses from spambots, offering a less common alternative to traditional methods.
An experimental JavaScript approach to creating elastic textareas that auto-adjust height without hidden divs, discussing browser compatibility.
