I need to see if I can start using this to standardize how some of the simpler web services structure their output. RSS has sometimes ended up being a default way of representing a list of things because it’s well defined and makes an easy point of agreement.
AtomPub
These let you use parts of CSS 3 and some additional syntactic sugar, then get processed into regular css. I have it on my list to look at the output and see how livable it is.
sass
less
I’ve been tinkering with git and github. Here’s an intro to git:
http://pivotallabs.com/talks/80-git-for-newbies
Here’s a git cheat sheet:
http://ktown.kde.org/~zrusin/git/git-cheat-sheet-large.png
Some docs:
http://git-scm.com/#documentation
And some more docs (with info on fast forwards):
http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-push.html
My github page:
http://github.com/facetcounter
A git book online:
http://progit.org/book/
drag dealer does drag and drop, iPhone compatible…
http://code.ovidiu.ch/dragdealer/
Cross origin resource sharing is a browser standard that lets you get around the script tag or iframe hacks for accessing web service content hosted on another domain.
Here’s the spec: http://www.w3.org/TR/cors/
Firefox and webkit browsers switch to CORS anytime you ask for an XHR to another domain, but the XHR interface is the same. IE8 has [...]
It’s the processing API ported to javascript and implemented in canvas. Let the fun begin.
http://processingjs.org/
A co-worker started using pipes, which is awfully cool, then someone else stumbled on YQL, which I think pipes is a front end for. YQL imagines the web as a giant database, with tables defined for diffferent web services, for search results, for HTML documents… it’s crazy.
yql article at ajaxian
rss aggregating query (console / json)
select [...]
balldroppings, a philip glass constructor.
processing js samples. A lot were done as chrome experiments.
I admit to being one of those people who has scratched their heads and said “javascript? How do you test it?” What that meant to me, of course was “how do you automate testing?”
Certainly as my client side code has increased in complexity, I’ve moved towards more structured and repeatable ad hoc testing, driven by [...]
http://code.google.com/p/zen-coding/
*3 means repeat 3 times
$ means “insert iteration number here”
div#thing>ul*3>li#it-$*3>a+
table>tr*2>td*3>table+