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Black Mirror | Where we’re going?
I really advice you to watch Black Mirror which tells great stories with effect of social media.
501 Developer
All over the world, developers/testers complaining about making overtime at work. There’re a lot of reasons for that that i agree most of them.
Scott Hanselman started a kind of movement and it call a 501 Developer. It means when time gets 5.01am, developers should leave work and start to their live. They used allusion little bit, please consider this. (; Take a look at The 501 Developer Manifesto. Here is official page and Reddit comments. I totally agree with their idea.
CSS Preprocessors
“CSS3 preprocessors are languages written for the sole purpose of adding cool, inventive features to CSS without breaking browser compatibility. They do this by compiling the code we write into regular CSS that can be used in any browser all the way back to the stone ages. There are thousands of features that preprocessors bring to the table, and in this article we will cover some of the publicized ones, and some of the not-so-publicized ones.”
CSS has lots of cool stuff since last few years. They help to code CSS which works for all browsers and more easy to write and understand them. You can give a try to Less, Sass and Stylus. And here is a great tutorial to understand what is the idea behind them and how to start.
Still there’re some criticisms you can find on the web, but they’re getting better and reach much more developer every day.
(image: jeremyhixon.com)
Raphaël | Deal with Vector Graphics
“Raphaël is a small JavaScript library that should simplify your work with vector graphics on the web. If you want to create your own specific chart or image crop and rotate widget, for example, you can achieve it simply and easily with this library.
Raphaël ['ræfeɪəl] uses the SVG W3C Recommendation and VML as a base for creating graphics. This means every graphical object you create is also a DOM object, so you can attach JavaScript event handlers or modify them later. Raphaël’s goal is to provide an adapter that will make drawing vector art compatible cross-browser and easy.
Raphaël currently supports Firefox 3.0+, Safari 3.0+, Chrome 5.0+, Opera 9.5+ and Internet Explorer 6.0+.”
I found Raphaeljs on a blog post when i search for “Google Closure vs jQuery”. Raphaeljs as i copied above is a JS library for deal with vector graphics on the web. I didn’t give a try it, but its on “my proof on concept list”.
Raphaël is using SVG element which is ok for lots of browsers&versions. And Raphaël is a part of Sencha LAB.
Introduction to Node.js (or just Node)
Before watching video, read recommendation: http://code.google.com/p/v8/ and http://ubelly.com/2011/06/so-what-is-node
At the beginning,
He says “Node.js is not stable enough in Windows. But we’re working on it. Windows will be very supported in 6 six months.”
One of audience: ”Dont waste your time.”
And Ryan: “Windows is very important. Just like PHP.” (;