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A Week of REST organizers are offering two full-ride tickets to the event for students and underrepresented groups in the tech industry. The conference is a week-long ‘boot camp’ dedicated to helping teach developers how to use the REST API, which be held at Darwin Lake, Matlock in the UK from Sept. 5-9 in the United…
Templates: not just for adorable gingerbread houses. (Inhabitat) Clean up your newsroom workflow with ready-made tools that are easy to use I’ve never been much for cleaning my room. As a kid, I was too lazy for something that sounded so inconsequential. But my mom would scold me and remind me that, just by doing…
Vary is one of the most powerful HTTP response headers. Used correctly, it can do wonderful things. Unfortunately, this header is frequently used incorrectly, which can lead to abysmal hit ratios. Worse still, if it’s not used when it should be, the wrong content could be delivered. Instead of just pointing you to the Vary…
Today we’re excited to announce the release of PressForward 3.9, which features a complete overhaul of the codebase to improve stability and pave the way for exciting future developments. With the release of version 3.9, PressForward takes its first step into an entirely new backend structure. After four years of constant development the core code…
When we watch a livestream on most platforms, we see how many viewers are watching at that very moment. But when we watch an uploaded video, we see how many views have been recorded. This leads many to reasonably assume that live video metrics are different than uploaded video metrics. But for the most part, they…
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Step back in time two, three, four, or even 10 years and take a look at the development decisions you made then. What do you notice about them? Unless you are a one-in-a-million statistic, you probably look at those past decisions and say to yourself what was I thinking?! Why did I do it that way?! Welcome…
Untold-stories.net (Courtesy of Ruben Pater) There’s an interesting trend in Web design these days: Making websites that look, well … bad. Look at Hacker News. Pinboard. The Drudge Report. Adult Swim. Bloomberg Businessweek features. All of these sites — some years old, some built recently — and hundreds more like them, eschew the templated, user-friendly…
Google aims to make HTML5 the primary experience in Chrome by the fourth quarter of this year, except for a white-list of 10 sites that will run Adobe’s Flash Player. Under the plan revealed by Google, called “HTML5 by Default,” the Chrome browser will continue to ship with Adobe’s Flash Player, but its presence will…
google_ad_section_start Through a discussion in our comments section on our post about the GPL we recently got to know that Automattic is actively asking businesses having the word ‘woo’ in their domain name to change the domain name. This will no doubt affect GPL plugin resellers as many do have woo in their domain name….