{"id":2231,"date":"2008-10-13T20:12:40","date_gmt":"2008-10-13T20:12:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunpig.com\/mt-entry-2231.html"},"modified":"2008-10-13T20:12:40","modified_gmt":"2008-10-13T20:12:40","slug":"geeknotes-monday-13-october","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/2008\/10\/13\/geeknotes-monday-13-october\/","title":{"rendered":"Geeknotes: Monday 13 October"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Back-end:<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/code.flickr.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/26\/flickr-engineers-do-it-offline\/\">Flickr Engineers Do It Offline<\/a> &#8211; on the &#8220;new hotness&#8221; of queuing systems in web apps. Also: LM Orchard &#8211; &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/decafbad.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/04\/queue-everything-and-delight-everyone\">Queue Everything And Delight Everyone<\/a>&#8220;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Front-end:<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Steve Souders of Google has released <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stevesouders.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/30\/hammerhead-moving-performance-testing-upstream\/\">Hammerhead<\/a>, a nifty Firebug extension for measuring page load times. He is also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stevesouders.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/26\/first-week-of-classes\/\">teaching a class on high performance web sites at Stanford University <\/a>this year, and posting his class notes online.<\/li>\n<li>Steve Lamm (also of Google) has some notes on Hammerhead, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/google-code-updates.blogspot.com\/2008\/10\/measuring-speed-slow-way.html\">importance of using a proxy to test performance over slow connections<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/dev.opera.com\/articles\/view\/1-introduction-to-the-web-standards-cur\/\">Opera Web Standards Curriculum<\/a> has recently been updated with a bunch of new articles covering accessibility and CSS.&nbsp; This is a<i> fantastic <\/i>resource.<\/li>\n<li>John Resig has a nifty interactive tutorial on <a href=\"http:\/\/ejohn.org\/blog\/adv-javascript-and-processingjs\/\">advanced JavaScript<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Christian Heilmann shows <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wait-till-i.com\/2008\/09\/28\/useful-tweets-with-pipe\/\">how to use Yahoo! Pipes and JavaScript to extract specially tagged tweets from Twitter<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/jsbin.com\/\">JSBin<\/a> is a great way to experiment with and share snippets of HTML and JavaScript code. <i>(Via <a href=\"http:\/\/ajaxian.com\/archives\/an-interest-twist-on-a-pastebin\">Ajaxian<\/a>)<\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Design &amp; User Experience:<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Victor Lombardi on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.digital-web.com\/articles\/concept_design_tools\/\">Concept Design Tools<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Jessica Enders takes an empirical approach to the age-old Zebra-striping question: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alistapart.com\/articles\/zebrastripingdoesithelp\/\">part 1<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alistapart.com\/articles\/zebrastripingmoredataforthecase\">part 2<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Indi Young: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alistapart.com\/articles\/lookatitanotherway\">Look At It Another Way<\/a>.&nbsp; Are you trying to solve the right problem?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Other geekery:<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gladwell.com\/2002\/2002_04_29_a_blowingup.htm\">Blowing Up<\/a>&#8221; &#8211; An interesting article from Malcolm Gladwell (<i>Blink<\/i>, <i>The Tipping Point<\/i>) about the counter-intuitive investment strategies of Nassim Taleb (<i>The Black Swan<\/i>, <i>Fooled By Randomness<\/i>). The article is from six years ago; rather relevant right now.&nbsp; <i>(Via <a href=\"http:\/\/meganmcardle.theatlantic.com\/archives\/2008\/10\/more_recommended_reading.php\">Megan McArdle<\/a>)&nbsp;<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Scott Hanselman talks about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hanselman.com\/blog\/WorkingRemotelyFromHomeTelepresenceAndVideoConferencingOneYearLater.aspx\">his experiences with telepresence tools <\/a>(videoconferencing, screen sharing) after a year of remote working.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/woodgears.ca\/eyeball\/\">The eyeballing game<\/a>.&nbsp; How accurately can you judge angles and distances?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>T-shirt of the week: &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.topatoco.com\/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&amp;Store_Code=TO&amp;Product_Code=DC-SCIENCE&amp;Category_Code=DC\">Biscuit Science<\/a>&#8220;<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.topatoco.com\/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&amp;Store_Code=TO&amp;Product_Code=DC-SCIENCE&amp;Category_Code=DC\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"biscuitscience.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/images\/2008\/10\/iwilldosciencetoit.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px; text-align: center; display: block;\" height=\"324\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>The cartoon is from a panel in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dresdencodak.com\/cartoons\/dc_051.html\">episode 20<\/a> of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dresdencodak.com\/cartoons\/dc_032.htm\">Dresden Codak&#8217;s strange and beautiful &#8220;Hob&#8221; comic<\/a>. The phrase &#8220;I will do science to it&#8221; has buried itself in my head, and is not coming out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back-end: Flickr Engineers Do It Offline &#8211; on the &#8220;new hotness&#8221; of queuing systems in web apps. Also: LM Orchard &#8211; &#8220;Queue Everything And Delight Everyone&#8220; Front-end: Steve Souders of Google has released Hammerhead, a nifty Firebug extension for measuring page load times. He is also teaching a class on high performance web sites at &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/2008\/10\/13\/geeknotes-monday-13-october\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Geeknotes: Monday 13 October&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}