…Google wants to make it easier for developers to use a wider variety of fonts on the Web that go beyond the standard set of “web-safe” fonts that come pre-installed on most modern computers.
via Making Good Typography on the Web Easier: Google Introduces Font API and Directory.
Until today, the NPR API has been a one-way firehose of content, pushing hundreds of thousands of stories from NPR and the twelve NPR Music partner stations out to the world. Now the API is read-write, allowing authorized external parties to post stories to the NPR API.
A great contemporary and pragmatic approach to front-end web development standards…
This document outlines our de-facto code standards. The primary motivation is two- fold: 1 code consistency and 2 best practices. By maintaining consistency in coding styles and conventions, we can ease the burden of legacy code maintenance, and mitigate risk of breakage in the future. By adhering to best practices, we ensure optimized page loading, performance and maintainable code.
Guacamole is a HTML5 and JavaScript Ajax VNC viewer, which makes use of a VNC-to-XML proxy server written in Java.
Microsoft’s Internet Explorer dropped to a historic market share low in April, according to Net Applications. The company estimated IE’s market share at 59.95% in April, which is about the range that was reached by Internet Explorer 4 more than 11 years ago in early 1999. The big winner was once again Google’s Chrome browser, which maintained a double-digit growth rate and is now more than 2 points ahead of Apple’s Safari browser, which it surpassed four months ago.
via Internet Explorer Falls Below 60% Market Share | ConceivablyTech.
This is a fun: http://zesty.ca/facebook/
See What Facebook Publicly Publishes About You – Facebook – Lifehacker.
The following link explains how to update your terminal shell on OS X to create a new “trash” script. This will send files to the same trash can that you will find on you desktop.
Use OS X’s trash in a Finder-like way from Terminal – Mac OS X Hints.
If your a Google apps fan (like me) you may find this pretty cool…
Check out the shared folder on Google
A wireframe kit for Google Drawings and 5 reasons it beats Omnigraffle and Visio – Morten Just.
This was clearly a signal that m1.small was not performing well at that load for our application. We decided to switch to c1.mediums. We knew that c1.mediums have 5 EC2 compute units where as the m1.smalls have 1 EC2 compute unit. But we wanted to see how far m1.smalls can take us. The switch totally worked! Cpu bursts stopped. Autoscaling stopped kicking in. We can see the cpu going from 10% to 50% smoothly from non peak to peak hours. This is what we wanted!
via Web serving in the cloud – our experiences with nginx and instance sizes.
Who, in his right mind, expects Steve Jobs to let Adobe (and other) cross-platform application development tools control his (I mean the iPhone OS) future? Cross-platform tools dangle the old “write once, run everywhere” promise. But, by being cross-platform, they don’t use, they erase “uncommon” features. To Apple, this is anathema as it wants apps developers to use, to promote its differentiation. It’s that simple. Losing differentiation is death by low margins. It’s that simple. It’s business. Apple is right to keep control of its platform’s future.
via The Adobe – Apple Flame War | Monday Note.
