Tag Archives: Programming

John Kary – git 1.7.8 changes for the everyday developer

Some small but use­ful changes to Git, git grep now being able to search untracked files in par­tic­u­lar is useful.

December 14, 2011 – 12:05 am | By Justin Yost | Posted in Programming, Quick Posts | Tagged , , | Comments Off

Ars Technica – Google Earth, other mobile apps leave door open for scripting attacks

Oops, just because it doesn’t look like a browser doesn’t mean it doesn’t suf­fer the same secu­rity holes.

December 6, 2011 – 7:20 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Programming, Quick Posts, Security | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments Off

The ALA 2011 Web Design Survey

Take it and tell the world (or really A List Apart and peo­ple who read it) a lit­tle bit about your­self and every­one else who makes websites.

November 16, 2011 – 12:54 am | By Justin Yost | Posted in Programming, Quick Posts | Tagged , , , , | Comments Off

Analyzing Network Characteristics Using JavaScript And The DOM, Part 1

Pretty sure I would never have thought of attempt­ing mea­sur­ing the speed of the TCP pack­est with JavaScript.

November 14, 2011 – 11:51 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Computer Science, Programming, Quick Posts, Technology | Tagged , , , , , | Comments Off

Mozilla Popcorn – Making video work like the web

The con­cept is basi­cally at points in the video you can load in data from the web about the video or what’s shown in the video from Twit­ter, Wikipedia, Google Maps and other stuff.

November 9, 2011 – 11:39 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Programming, Quick Posts, Web Design | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments Off

GMane.Comp.Version-Control.Git – Linus Torvalds on C and C++

Pro­gram­mers are an opin­ion­ated bunch.

November 3, 2011 – 10:06 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Programming, Quick Posts | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments Off

ExtremeTech – Mozilla puts Firefox on a memory diet

I still use Fire­fox as my main browser but this is a needed improvement.

November 2, 2011 – 11:56 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Programming, Quick Posts | Tagged , , , , , | Comments Off