Software As She’s Developed

I only came across the MHTML image hack over the weekend, while listening to @jeresig on the new jQuery podcast (incidentally not the only

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On URL Shorteners URL shorteners are enjoying their 15 minutes of fame right now. They’ve been around since 2002, but became flavour of the month as soon as half of the planet decided to compress their messages into pithy 140-character microblogs, and there is money it, driving a massive amount of new players into the market, [...]

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Why a Chameleon File? While most browsers support SVG, IE's unique brand of interopability does not extend that far; even the latest and greatest, incarnation v. 8 of IE, has no sign of SVG. And so, we citizens of the innernets are left with two vector graphics formats: VML for IE, SVG for standards-compliant browsers, which [...]

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The Search Engine Experiment - a blind test where users rate relevance of results - reveals that Google is better, but not that much better. The methodology is reasonable - the only serious flaw might be if people are assuming Google is always relevant, then trying to pick the Google results. Or if people go [...]

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