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Dojo Quick Start Guide - SitePen, Inc.
Nice introduction to the Dojo way of doing things.
(tags: dojo ajax tutorial javascript programming)

This is How You Get sIFR to Work | Design Intellection
Which may help me wrap my head around making sIFR and Dojo 1.1 play nicely together… Maybe.
(tags: sifr tutorial javascript webdev typography)

Cuzillion
Interesting tool for gauging […]

If It Looks Like a Cow, Swims Like a Dolphin and Quacks Like a Duck, It Must Be Enterprise Software
An amusing but too-true observation.
(tags: software design enterprise funny)

Dear Lazyweb:
I have a number of programming itches that I’d like to scratch that are just slightly large enough that I’d really love to just use something that already exists (if available). I’d spend a while digging around, but, well… I’m lazy, and I’m busy. So hopefully some of you have suggestions. […]

The thing about being a relatively new parent is that life very quickly becomes a complete blur, and after a certain point you’ve no sense of what day it is, let alone how many weeks old your little bundle of joy is. This makes life tricky, since there are certain milestone weeks that are […]

Milliways: Infocom’s Unreleased Sequel to Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Better than buried treasure!
(tags: games infocom history textadventure interactivefiction)

How to work an 8-hour day
Something I need to be better about…
(tags: productivity work lists)

Random Defense - the game @ itch.com
Addictive, plain and simple.
(tags: games flash)

Best Practices for Speeding Up Your Web Site
Yahoo’s revised and updated list of tips for optimizing the performance of your website.
(tags: performance optimization web yahoo javascript css development lists)

Since everyone else is doing it…

$ history|awk ‘{a[$2]++ } END{for(i in a){print a[i] " " i}}’|sort -rn|head
145 ls
143 cd
136 vim
108 svn
90 jobs
65 %1
50 %2
47 nosetests
47 less
21 grep

%1 and %2 are usually me hopping back into backgrounded vim sessions. jobs is me trying to remember what all I’ve already got open for editing. The […]

The World’s Most Extreme Photography Equipment
Ridiculously ginormous lenses and large-format cameras.
(tags: camera photography lenses lists)