Detecting and generating CSS animations in JavaScript

Planet Mozilla

When writing of the hypnotic spiral demo the issue appeared that I wanted to use CSS animation when possible but have a fallback to rotate an element. As I didn’t want to rely on CSS animation I also considered it pointless to write it by hand but instead…

6 September 2011

What Is the Most Influential Programming Book?

Slashdot

First time accepted submitter AlexDomo writes "If you could go back in time and tell yourself to read a specific book at the beginning of your career as a developer, which book would it be? Since it was first posed back in 2008, this question has now…

5 September 2011

Dynabyte event and presentations on HTML5 and CSS3

Planet Mozilla

Last week I spoke at the Dynabyte meetup in Stockholm and I wanted to share the slides and what I was talking about. I gave two presentations during the evening: The idea of my first presentation was to give an overview of HTML5 features and cover both…

5 September 2011

Mobile Safari still dominates mobile browsing

TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Mobile Safari continues its reign as the dominant mobile browser according to new data from web analytics firm Net Applications. Mobile Safari grabs a respectable 53% of mobile browser usage share, while its closest competitor, Opera Mini, grabs only…

3 September 2011

Lessons from JS engine bugs

Planet Mozilla

Last week, I asked Luke Wagner to explain some security bugs that he fixed in the past. I hoped to learn from each bug at multiple levels, in ways that could help prevent future security bugs from arising and persisting. Luke is one of the developers…

2 September 2011

The part of Xcode 4 that tires me out

inessential.com

I use Xcode 4 mostly, but I still use Xcode 3 sometimes for a project that needs it (because it needs the OS X 10.4 SDK). I started using Xcode 4 in March, and I’ve written a brand-new app using it, so I’m not new to it or just now getting used to it.…

2 September 2011

Book Recommendations

Use Your Loaf

Copyright © 2019 - K Harrison Privacy and Cookies Terms of Use, I have posted the odd book review on this site but I have for some time been meaning to collect my book recommendations into a single page that I can more easily keep updated. Well today I…

30 August 2011

Explaining Indexes with a Library Metaphor

MySQL Performance Blog

My favorite metaphor for explaining indexes is comparing them to index cards in an old library. In an old library, you used to (or still do) have index cards at the front desk which have some brief description of the books in the library. They also used to…

30 August 2011