MetaFilter posts tagged with web and programming

Douglas Crockford Teaches JavaScript

ijoshua — Thu, 10 May 2007 14:09:38 -0800

Douglas Crockford, leading JavaScript Architect for Yahoo!, has been teaching a series of classes on JavaScript programming for other Yahoo! employees.
The JavaScript Programming Language [4 video clips: 1 (31 min) 2 (31 min) 3 (29min) 4 (20 min), presentation slides: zipped PPT]
An Inconvenient API: The Theory of the DOM [3 video clips: 1 (31 min) 2 (21 min) 3 (26 min), presentation slides: zipped PPT]
Advanced JavaScript [3 video clips: 1 (31 min) 2 (25 min) 3 (11 min), presentation slides: zipped PPT]

Greasemonkey + Ruby = MouseHole

freshgroundpepper — Sat, 03 Sep 2005 01:34:36 -0800

You've heard of Greasemonkey (which allows you to remix web pages in firefox), you might also remember the Ruby Programming Language that all of the cool kids are talking about these days. Mix the two together, make it useable through any modern browser (using a proxy), and voila MouseHole!

Tagging bbc radio songs via mobile phone

Tlogmer — Tue, 30 Aug 2005 01:35:39 -0800

Tagging bbc radio songs via mobile phone

Open Source Flash

Tlogmer — Mon, 15 Aug 2005 20:08:20 -0800

Open Source Flash

Animating Wikipedia Histories

Tlogmer — Thu, 16 Jun 2005 18:45:51 -0800

Waxy's contest to design an interface for animating wikipedia histories has already borne fruit.

Yahoo's search slider interface for weeding out commercial stuff.

Tlogmer — Sun, 29 May 2005 17:48:24 -0800

Yahoo doesn't get enough credit.

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the browser.

weston — Thu, 29 Jul 2004 16:57:00 -0800

Internet Explorer 7. Dean Edwards does what a team of developers with billions behind them apparently can't -- update IE to work with modern standards. Almost, anyway... as he says, it's still in alpha, and has its quirks, but check out the Pure CSS Menus demo, for example.

CSS on demand

Su — Tue, 28 Jan 2003 09:17:53 -0800

CSS on Demand allows users to set several preferences for how they want to see your site, rather than just using one of your themes via a switcher. Kind of like Matt lets you do here.
Perl. Free. Try it out.

fraying — Fri, 06 Jul 2001 15:16:58 -0800

Disassembled. Assembler.org ("making art with machine code") is no more. Quoth the Zeldman: "Lately we feel like Smokey the Bear - and the forest fires are winning."

mmanning — Wed, 26 Jan 2000 20:54:21 -0800

ding-dong, html is dead. the w3c finally approved the xhtml spec. it'll be interesting to see the chaos that html4, xml w/ css, & xhtml create in the coming months.