Test Your Mobile Web Apps with WebDriver - A Tutorial

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The latest news from Google on open source releases, major projects, events, and student outreach programs.

Career Advice: Don't Call Yourself a Programmer

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Ian Lamont writes "Patrick McKenzie has written about the do's and don't's of working as a software engineer, and some solid (and often amusing) advice on how to get ahead. One of the first pieces of advice: 'Don't call yourself a programmer:…

AWS Load Balancer Sends 2 Million Netflix API Reqs To Wrong Customer

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rsk writes "Amazon Web Services' Elastic Load Balancer is a dynamic load-balancer managed by Amazon. Load balancers regularly swapped around with each other which can lead to surprising results; like getting millions of requests meant for a different…

Apple's ALAC codec is now open source

TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Apple Lossless, also known as ALAC, is a lossless audio codec Apple developed some time ago for digital music. The codec compresses music files anywhere from 40-60 percent of their original size with no discernible loss in audio quality or fidelity. "A…

Fix a Lion file-opening hang in OS X 10.7.2

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Since upgrading to 10.7.2, you may have encountered an unusual hang after opening files in certain applications. There's a fix!

When HTML table is an accesible table

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From 80 Seconds to 6: Optimizing Our Asset Compression

Planet Mozilla

Before pushing our CSS and JavaScript assets to our CDN, we run them through jingo-minify to concat and minify the files, as well as cache bust them and any resources (such as images) contained inside them. Turns out, this was by far the slowest part of…

Debugging and editing webpages in 3D

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Tilt is a Firefox addon that lets you visualize any web page in 3D. A new update is available, coming with more developer-oriented features. Try the addon. Since the first alpha version of Tilt was announced (a Firefox extension focused on creating a 3D…

ScriptCover: Javascript coverage analysis tool

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Concerns Over Google Modifying SSL Behavior

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Lauren Weinstein writes "Google is handling SSL search queries on https://www.google.com/ in a manner significantly different than the standard, expected SSL end-to-end behavior — specifically relating to referer query data. These changes give the…