Conditional loading of resources with mediaqueries

Planet Mozilla

Here is a quick idea about making mediaqueries not only apply styles according to certain criteria being met, but also loading the resources needed on demand. You can check a quick and dirty screencast with the idea or just read on. Mediaqueries are very,…

19 December 2012

W3C: HTML5 e' standard. In beta

Punto Informatico

Annunciata la finalizzazione delle funzionalita' che faranno parte del web di "nuova generazione". Tempo un altro paio d'anni e lo standard sara' standard per davvero. Poi verra' HTML5.1

19 December 2012

Use Siri and a Raspberry Pi to open your garage door with your voice

TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Siri can already be used to complete some pretty nifty tasks, including fetching sports scores or directions across town, but having the virtual assistant manipulate things in your physical space is something entirely different. As Hack A Day reports, by…

18 December 2012

Virtual IP addresses with ucarp, for high-availability

Debian GNU/Linux System Administration Resources

If you're interested in high-availability you typically want to use some kind of load-balancer, to divide traffic between a pool of machines. A simpler approach can be to have a pair of hosts each of which is prepared to take over a single virtual IP…

18 December 2012

git-coverage: Useful code coverage

Planet GNOME

I’ve sorta dabbled in using code coverage off and on, but it never really grabbed me as super useful and fit well within my workflow. When hacking on open source I want to try out patches, run tests against them, whether automatic unit tests or manually…

18 December 2012

Wunderlist 2 goes native, adds many new features to beautiful, free app

TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

6Wunderkinder's Wunderlist 2 is now available on desktops (as a native app and a web app) and iOS devices to make personal productivity more connected, more social and more informative than ever before. To-do lists are probably the most commonly…

18 December 2012

Improve Your PHP Development Skills

Planet Mozilla

Maybe you struggle with object oriented code, understanding it and writing it. Perhaps you’re tired of having to rewrite code that doesn’t pass code review or introduces a bug you didn’t expect. Maybe you’d like to impress your boss by improving your…

17 December 2012

CSS calc

Planet Mozilla

CSS is a complete conundrum; we all appreciate CSS because of its simplicity but always yearn for the language to do just a bit more. CSS has evolved to accommodate placeholders, animations, and even click events. One problem we always thought we'd have…

17 December 2012

Apple launches more detailed online services status page

TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

In the wake of some high-profile outages affecting its iCloud, iMessage and other online services, Apple has rolled out a new design for its system status web page. The new page offers a more detailed report on the current health of 32 different…

14 December 2012