Everything in technology is an abstraction of something else. The browser is an abstraction, the keyboard is an abstraction, C# is an abstraction; they all sit on top of other things and hide the details, with the goal of making you productive. (And each of those layers is actually comprised of many substrata.) ..
Dave Ward has a very extensive post (with benchmarks) on jQuery selector optimization. Really interesting stuff — the lesson is, the more specific your query, the faster it executes. The DOM is a data source, after all. He was able to achieve a 10x performance improvement by adding just 11 characters. ..
I’m excited about the new announcements from Apple today. Can’t wait to update my iPhone to the 3.0 OS and use the bitchen ZipCar app. ..
If you use Twitter, you are familiar with URL shortening services like bit.ly and tinyurl.com. They are useful for saving characters in the space-limited messages that Twitter allows. ..
Just experimenting a bit with using Windows Live Writer as a publishing tool for BlogEngine.Net. So far, it works really nicely. For one thing, it respects the theme of the blog right in the editing environment. Check it out: ..
Ed Koch is doing movie reviews. What’s not to like? blip.tv [http://blip.tv/play/g8s2gYbdKZfJDA] ..
Dave Ward has updated his ASP.net implementation of Highslide, a very nice ajax-y photo browser. I like the idea of encapsulating javascript into controls, btw. ..
Google has released some preliminary versions of Chrome for Mac and Linux. They announced it almost apologetically. ..
Nice set of performance tips for jQuery selectors: http://www.artzstudio.com/2009/04/jquery-performance-rules/ They are all quite logical if you are used to selecting from data sets or file hierarchies. More specificity = faster selection; don’t do the same “query” twice. ..
For perspective, here are a few companies whose market cap is greater than GM: ..