Category Archives: geek

Progressive charts ...

Back in 2001 Tan­tek Çelik dreamt up a little poly­go­nal CSS hack, using the bevels of bor­ders to create angles in-​​browser. Even­tually, Lasse Reichs­tein Niel­sen made the tech­ni­que acces­si­ble. Back then, I was thin­king about CSS and wan­ted to try my hand at unob­tru­sive DHTML. So I was ins­pi­red to imple­ment sim­ple ren­de­ring of HTML lists as [...]

Conspiracy ...

Making excuses for RIM: why it's good that the Storm sucks.

Classname of the day ...

God­Kill­sA­Kit­te­nE­very­Ti­me­YouU­seMe: recom­men­ded sta­tic field type for sto­ring injec­tor refe­ren­ces (if you must) in Guice.

Encabulation ...

Ryan sha­red this tech­ni­cal video spoof: Rockwell’s retro-​​encabulator is a refi­ne­ment of the turbo-​​encabulator, which Chrys­ler demons­tra­ted to the world in a 1980s ins­truc­tio­nal video, although the design dates to at least 1946. Appa­rently work con­ti­nues. Ryan asser­ted we should pro­duce non­sense jargon-​​laden mate­rial like this to desc­ribe our work. Indeed, it’s odd that soft­ware engi­nee­ring has little [...]

Steve’s dream, realized ...

It’s an exci­ting day to be a Mac user and inves­tor in Apple! Today Steve Ballmer’s com­pany pre-​​announced Office 2008 for Mac. This inc­lu­des such exci­ting, patent-​​protected inno­va­tions as the Rib­bon. AAPL jum­ped 8.3%, enough that I could take the pro­fit and buy 4 iMacs and still have enough for one of those pho­nes I heard [...]
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