May 2009
12 posts
Zimbabwe inflation: -1.1 percent →
While Hanke has stopped keeping track, Reuters Africa reports: Zimbabwe’s consumer inflation stood at -1.1 percent month-on-month in April compared to -3.0 in March, the Central Statistical…
May 30th
Expedia drops booking fees permanently →
The Wall Street Journal: Expedia.com said Wednesday it will stop charging fees when customers book airline tickets over the Internet, upping the ante in the competition among online travel…
May 29th
Is it worth it? →
The NY Times DealBook: Facebook, the fast-growing social network, has found a deep-pocketed friend in Russia. Digital Sky Technologies, an Internet investment company based in Moscow, said…
May 27th
jQuery vs. MooTools →
Aaron Newton comparing two very popular JavaScript frameworks: jQuery focuses on expressiveness, quick and easy coding, and the DOM while MooTools focuses on extension, inheritance, legibility,…
May 21st
“Snatch Wars” →
Perhaps the best video on YouTube, “Snatch Wars”, or Snatch combined with Star Wars, is an instant classic! Meet Brick Vader, London’s Lord of the Sith. The world of Guy Ritchie’s Snatch and…
May 20th
Last call for Hubble →
The Big Picture does it again with photography on one of my favorite topics: space. These are spectacular images of Earth from a much higher-than-normal altitude of 360 miles. On Monday, May 11,…
May 19th
Lens: photography and videography →
The New York Times’ newest mini-site, Lens, launched today. Nice horizontal design and great content. Lens is the photojournalism blog of The New York Times, presenting the finest and most…
May 19th
1979 →
I turned 30 years old just a few days ago, and in the spirit of pausing a moment to look back at the year I was born, I thank Flickr. A quick search for “1979″ turns up nearly 150,000 snapshots…
May 15th
Designing High-Performance Websites →
At the end of April, my employer, Wall Street On Demand, hosted speaker and former Yahoo! performance evangelist Nicole “Stubbornella” Sullivan for an all-day workshop on high-performance…
May 6th
Now serving full text →
For my good friend, this site now serves full text in its RSS feed. All you readers out there, enjoy.
May 6th
Regarding Quality vs. Schedule →
Ed Gibbs, a software development manager from Sacramento, wrote about a presentation Bob Martin attended “where the speaker had just about given up on ever getting better code quality, because…
May 6th
DomReady →
Code alert: the smallest subset possible from jQuery to support dom Ready event.
May 3rd