Posts tagged: WEB DEVELOPMENT

So I think what happened is, this post by Jeremy on how Web 2.0 companies need to scale led to this post by Om on how right-on that is which led to this post by David on how you should just chill out.

Trying to reconcile these viewpoints I’m left with the feeling that there’s an incommensurability problem here. They’re using lots of the same words, like “scalability,” making it sound as if they’re arguing about the same thing – but I’m not so sure they are. I think they may actually agree much more than they appear to.

Yesterday was the Snakes and Rubies meetup in Chicago, featuring Adrian Holovaty of the Django Project and David Heinemeier Hansson of Ruby on Rails. By all reports it was an informative and enjoyable event, with about 100 to 200 people attending. I’m looking forward to hearing the audio when it becomes available.

In the meanwhile, thinkhole.org has a good roundup of notes and blog postings, and of course there’s always Technorati.

You can’t possibly consider yourself an expert wielder of HTML and CSS unless you’ve read this excellent history, explication, and analysis of CSS hacks. Even master practitioners of Wilbur need to read it. Especially master practitioners of Wilbur.

I was intrigued by the suggestion that hacks are supposed to look ugly to discourage you from using them. Bit of an ex post facto rationalization, I think!

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Paul commented on Tue Sep 26 09:21:46 2006:

Once or twice a year I get an e-mail from Brainbench urging me to come take some free certification tests. Unfortunately, a lot of the tests are really out of date. I am currently Brainbench-certified in Apache 1.3.12 and Python 1.5 – both of which were already 4+ years out of date when I took the tests last year. I think I’m proudest of my 99th-percentile “HTML 3.2 MASTER” certification. It’s very Web 1.0!

Missing in action for many months after a server hard drive failure, the webkit2png utility by Paul Hammond reappeared in August. It uses WebKit to automatically render PNG images of web pages. It beats regular screen grabs mainly in its ability to render full-length images – as if you had an infinitely tall monitor. By default it produces three versions: an actual-size “clipped” version, an actual-size long version, and a thumbnail-size long version (here’s an example). It requires that you have PyObjC.