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- Andy Clarke<\/a> discusses why it is not necessary for a site to look exactly<\/em> the same in every browser: Five CSS design browser differences I can live with<\/a>.<\/li>\n
- Digital Web Magazine<\/a> has a sample chapter from Rachel Andrew and Kevin Yank’s provocatively titled book, “Everything you know about CSS is wrong<\/a>“<\/i>. It covers table-related properties in CSS<\/a>.<\/li>\n
- Jonathan Hoefler blogs<\/a> about a team of scientists using an atomic force microscope to create the world’s smallest writing. The scientists claim \u201cIt\u2019s not possible to write any smaller than this”. Really?<\/a><\/li>\n
- Jason Santa Maria shares his design-related recommended reading list<\/a>.<\/li>\n
- Amazon shows once again that they are all about the user experience: “Frustration-free packaging<\/a>“. (Non-parents may react with a WTF? But for parents, this is an OMG!)<\/li>\n
- Flickr: Lessons learned while building an iPhone site<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Coding<\/h4>\n
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- Steve Yegge on the “Universal Design Pattern<\/a>“. (Via Simon Willison<\/a>)<\/i><\/li>\n
- Alex Vasquez of Particletree<\/a> points to some articles about “beautiful code<\/a>“.<\/li>\n
- Milan Negovan of AspnetResources.com<\/a> reviews<\/a> Bob Martin’s new book, Clean Code<\/i>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Threading, Scaling, Clouds<\/h4>\n
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- Cringely on threading<\/a> and clouding<\/a>.<\/li>\n
- Amazon’s EC2 service is now out of beta, and has an SLA with a 99.95% uptime target<\/a>. They are now starting work on supporting Windows and SQL Server<\/a>.<\/li>\n
- Microsoft is getting on board the whole cloud thing with the newly announced Azure platform<\/a>. Like many of Microsoft’s early glimpses of new technology, it appears to be suitably nebulous<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Other Geekery<\/h4>\n
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- For those times when you want to talk about your shiny new idea but are worried that your buddy might nick it, Rands<\/a> delivers the FriendDA<\/a>.<\/li>\n
- A unistable (or monostable) polyhedron is a shape that will only balance on one of its faces (assuming uniform density). The unistable polyhedron with the fewest known faces is shown below. See notes at Wolfram Mathworld<\/a> and the Mathematical Association of America<\/a>. (Via the Risks Digest<\/a>.)<\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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- A unistable (or monostable) polyhedron is a shape that will only balance on one of its faces (assuming uniform density). The unistable polyhedron with the fewest known faces is shown below. See notes at Wolfram Mathworld<\/a> and the Mathematical Association of America<\/a>. (Via the Risks Digest<\/a>.)<\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
- Amazon’s EC2 service is now out of beta, and has an SLA with a 99.95% uptime target<\/a>. They are now starting work on supporting Windows and SQL Server<\/a>.<\/li>\n
- Alex Vasquez of Particletree<\/a> points to some articles about “beautiful code<\/a>“.<\/li>\n
- Digital Web Magazine<\/a> has a sample chapter from Rachel Andrew and Kevin Yank’s provocatively titled book, “Everything you know about CSS is wrong<\/a>“<\/i>. It covers table-related properties in CSS<\/a>.<\/li>\n