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Redirect 301 / http://blog.ivandemarino.me/

Sep 3rd

Lame metaphor

Yes, this Blog is being migrated to http://blog.ivandemarino.me. Here is an heads-up.

Now days I’m changing Hosting, DNS Registar, blog technology… and much more. Stay tuned at http://blog.ivandemarino.me for more updates. I have some news for you guys

PS This also implies that some disruption could happen. Bare with us.

Books that are my Developer Mantra

May 3rd

Posted by Detro in Curiosity

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I can’t put it any simpler: buy and read those 2 books ASAP.

Getting Real

Rework

This is proper stuff. This is stuff that translates into words what you, THE DEVELOPER, would like to have in your daily work life.

And probably the reason for which having a pet project, something where you set the rules, helps remaining sane, and sometimes to dream that, one day, you will be on your own.

Job’s (a bit) wrong

May 2nd

Posted by Detro in IT / Comp-Sci / Code

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This is a set of commets to some of the asserts made by Steve Jobs in his Thoughts on Flash.

Safari has just ~5.5% of web users share

[...] Apple even creates open standards for the web. For example, Apple began with a small open source project and created WebKit, a complete open-source HTML5 rendering engine that is the heart of the Safari web browser used in all our products. WebKit has been widely adopted. Google uses it for Android’s browser, Palm uses it, Nokia uses it, and RIM (Blackberry) has announced they will use it too. Almost every smartphone web browser other than Microsoft’s uses WebKit. By making its WebKit technology open, Apple has set the standard for mobile web browsers. [...]

Ehm, what about Netscape Gecko? It’s not just Firefox and it’s share of web users, much larger than the one of Safari, but also the fact that the Mozilla Foundation is very much involved in building (W3C) standards like HTML5 et similia.
I can see that you used the word “Almost”, but that’s not a good start: Steve, let’s try to be more fair here.
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3 o’clock javascript

Mar 28th

Posted by Detro in Curiosity

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I was writing some code to react at a textarea.onKeyUp. I take the size of the current textarea.val().length, update an element and do some other stuff.

yawn

The first version of the code looked like:

$('#message').keyup(function(e){
   $('#chars_num').html( new_len );
   $('#sms_num').html( Math.floor($('#message').val().length / 161) +1) );
});

Working good, but was clearly slow: every keystroke was “giving back the cursor” too slowly for a fast typer like me. I went to take a look at twitter, and their text box was WAY FASTER.
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