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“It’s hard to exaggerate how happy this makes me. It’s a beautiful answer to the variety of wiping cloths we use day-to-day, and the place each occupies on a “dirt gradient” from snowy white bath towels to the pile of old rags under the kitchen sink.”
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“What else are you going to do with something you’ve just made, other than use it?” Empowering people as creators makes them more likely to look after/recyle a product.
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“Something to note: as of writing (1.2.2), jQuery doesn’t play nicely with Rails’ respond_to. But, hold the phone, it’s okay: a simple fix.” Neat fix. And good to see people working in a similar fashion to me: Rails, jQuery, write the JS by hand.
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“tablesorter is a jQuery plugin for turning a standard HTML table with THEAD and TBODY tags into a sortable table without page refreshes. tablesorter can successfully parse and sort many types of data including linked data in a cell.”
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“Recently I took a look at the numerous WordPress blogs I maintain and decided to extract some of the best plugins I use across them.” – for once, a decent list, with some stuff I should look into on it.
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“That’s a key thing with game levels – you don’t know how fun they are until you build them. And if you make your sketch too detailed… there’s going to be resistance to changing it later.” Just like application design, really.
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“In both scenarios, the interfaces enabling these quick experiences are DOS-driven. No gradients, no Ajax, no mouse. Fitts’ Law isn’t even of concern. Just alphanumeric characters and keyboard strokes.” Character interfaces till rule for ePOS