Stubbornella: thoughts about the web.
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Yahoo! Developer Day Conference
It is hard to remember not to make any mention of pants, even if I know what it means in British English. Beyond telling Murray Rowen that I liked his underwear in front of a crowd of people, I recently went to London to speak at the Front-end Summit being held there. I gave two…
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Stubbornella joins the exceptional performance team at Yahoo!
Today was my first day at Yahoo. I spent most of the day in orientation but I am already impressed with the culture. People seem genuinely happy and able to make working hard a part of living well. And damn they’re smart! Fabulous well-rounded geeks. I know, I know, it sounds like I’ve been drinking…
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Surrendering to facebook leads to groundbreaking discovery: Noad
I’ve finally given in and tried it; it feels kind of dirty in a public sort of way. I haven’t started writing about every detail of my private life yet (did anyone else have Cheerios this morning?) and I’ve not yet purchased any ringtones but I feel certain that I’m on the path to internet…
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I finally tried a Segway!
I’ve wanted to try one for years, and i finally got the opportunity today. It rocked every bit as much as I thought it might. Hugo noticed that the “turtle” speed was indicated. I found that it was pretty zippy, which makes me wonder what it would be like on the normal setting.
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Améliore la vitesse de vos sites web avec le YSlow extension pour Firefox.
Yahoo a sorti l’extension Firebug, YSlow, qui teste la vitesse des téléchargements et qui donne des recommandations basé sur les 14 Règles primordial pour des sites rapide.
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Improve download speed with YSlow Firefox extension
Yahoo has released the much awaited (by me at least!) YSlow firebug extension which tests download speed and gives recommendations based on the famous 14 rules for fast web pages.
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Clearing floats and printing with Firefox.
Half of my resume was missing. It was there on the screen, but in print preview and on the printed page reams of experience disappeared. Not ideal. I discovered that when you use the formatting context to clear floats, firefox treats each printed page as a “box†with the overflow hidden. Elements with overflow: hidden…
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Victor Tsaran presents screen readers
Most companies either don’t have the resources or aren’t willing to invest in assistive technologies so that they can actively test their web products, so their employees are forced to simply follow the rules (WAI) as best they can and hope that their final product is at least somewhat accessible. Victor Tsaran’s video introduction to…
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Battling the healthcare insanity.
While filling out the forms and waiting for the doctor, an hour and ten minutes total, not one, two or three drug reps stopped by, but four. Four drug reps in an hour. These salesmen, essentially marketing experts (read prostitutes) for different drug companies deliver free medicines, pens, and clipboards in an attempt to influence…
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« Oui, ca fume à Paris »
I had just gotten off of an Airfrance red eye from SFO to CDG. I was moving into a hundred person line at the taxi stand when I passed through a group of cops having a smoke. I really wasn’t coughing to make a point, I lived in France for four years, so obviously I…
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