The charts on the right track the power of Intel Corp.’s microprocessor chips from 1971 to 1997. The chart along the bottom and up the right side shows a 27-year perspective.
Karl Hartig
A Visual Explanation of SQL Joins
I thought Ligaya Turmelle’s post on SQL joins was a great primer for novice developers. Since SQL joins are fundamentally set-based, the use of Venn diagrams to explain them seems, at first blush, to be a natural fit. However, like the commenters to her post, I found that the Venn diagrams didn’t quite match the SQL join syntax reality in my testing.
Coding Horror — Another shot at using Venn diagrams to explain joins in SQL
In the following article, I’ll show you some of the things you can do with the toolkit jQuery.
Hans S. Tømmerholt, Opera Developer Community
Helping your client maintain markup quality
One thing that is particularly frustrating with caring about Web standards and accessibility is what often happens after your work is done and a site is handed over to the client.
I’m sure most of you have been there. Despite your hard work to educate the client’s editor(s), regardless of the style guide you wrote, and no matter how much time you spent patching the CMS they use, there will be problems.
456 Berea Street — I’ve just added it to Raconteur.
20 of the best Ecommerce Websites
well designed, standards-compliant E-commerce stores
TutorialBlog
When your whole brand centers on a single retro icon, success hinges upon stirring the pot with niche variations on the central theme.
Motor Trend Magazine — I don’t know about this ‘variation’
I’ve been working with Nu since its unveiling yesterday. I find that the best way to learn a language is to implement something in it. Whenever I see a language with regular expression support, I want to port SmartyPants and Markdown. I worked a bit last night and today on porting SmartyPants. It’s not the most accurate translation (I took a few shortcuts), but it generally works.
From Concentrate Software
I finally got around to finishing my implementation of Markdown in
Nu. It takes a few shortcuts and doesn’t produce identical output (I
shorted on a few newlines), but the markup should be the same as
Markdown v1.0.1. When viewed in a browser, it should be the same.
Grayson Hansard, Programming Nu, Google Groups — The same guy who did SmartyPants in Nu.
When used judiciously, swearing can be hilarious, poignant, and uncannily descriptive. More than any other form of language, it recruits our expressive faculties to the fullest: the combinatorial power of syntax; the evocativeness of metaphor; the pleasure of alliteration, meter, and rhyme; and the emotional charge of our attitudes, both thinkable and unthinkable. It engages the full expanse of the brain: left and right, high and low, ancient and modern. Shakespeare, no stranger to earthy language himself, had Caliban speak for the entire human race when he said, “You taught me language, and my profit on’t is, I know how to curse.”
Steven Pinker, TNR Online — The title, the title the article was published under, is a bit curious… the article certainly has no difficulty in spelling it out :-)
Religion driven industry? Buzzwords and checklists vs. thinking and inspection
“For some reason, we have invented and are following religions ….” This is how James O. Coplien describes today’s industry which, he believes, is based on buzzwords and checklists rather than on thinking, inspection and efforts to find solutions that would be the most appropriate and the most cost-effective for a given project:
Sadek Drobi, InfoQ — I just ‘discovered’ this debate. It ties in with some of my more depressed trains of thought over the last half year. I’m certainly not sure that I entirely agree – but I am sure that I don’t entirely disagree.
On stage at An Event Apart Chicago, I made reference to recent efforts I’ve been making to develop a set of “diagnostic” styles. I’d hoped to have them ready for presentation in Chicago, but didn’t get it done in time.
Eric's Archived Thoughts — Along the lines of the “Helping Your Client Maintain Markup Quality” link above.
HTMLEntities is a simple library to facilitate encoding and decoding of named… or numerical… entities in HTML and XHTML documents.
RubyForge — I’ve not been paying attention. Sigh.
