mudge

# The following will allow you to use URLs such as the following:
#
#   example.com/anything
#   example.com/anything/
#
# Which will actually serve files such as the following:
#
#   example.com/anything.html
#   example.com/anything.php
#

addyosmani

#Four Ways To Do Pub/Sub With jQuery and jQuery UI (in the future)

Between jQuery 1.7 and some of work going into future versions of jQuery UI, there are a ton of hot new ways for you to get your publish/subscribe on. Here are just four of them, three of which are new.

(PS: If you're unfamiliar with pub/sub, read the guide to it that Julian Aubourg and I wrote here http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/scriptjunkie/hh201955.aspx)

##Option 1: Using jQuery 1.7's $.Callbacks() feature:

$.Callbacks are a multi-purpose callbacks list object which can be used as a base layer to build new functionality including simple publish/subscribe systems. We haven't yet released the API documentation for this feature just yet, but for more information on it (including lots of examples), see my post on $.Callbacks() here:

psebborn

function countCSSRules() {
    var results = '',
        log = '';
    if (!document.styleSheets) {
        return;
    }
    for (var i = 0; i < document.styleSheets.length; i++) {
        countSheet(document.styleSheets[i]);
    }
    function countSheet(sheet) {

dergachev

OS X Screencast to animated GIF

This gist shows how to create a GIF screencast using only free OS X tools: QuickTime, ffmpeg, and gifsicle.

Instructions

To capture the video (filesize: 19MB), using the free "QuickTime Player" application:

desandro

I'm having trouble understanding the benefit of require.js. Can you help me out? I imagine other developers have a similar interest.

From Require.js - Why AMD:

The AMD format comes from wanting a module format that was better than today's "write a bunch of script tags with implicit dependencies that you have to manually order"

I don't quite understand why this methodology is so bad. The difficult part is that you have to manually order dependencies. But the benefit is that you don't have an additional layer of abstraction.

---

jed

How to set up stress-free SSL on an OS X development machine

One of the best ways to reduce complexity (read: stress) in web development is to minimize the differences between your development and production environments. After being frustrated by attempts to unify the approach to SSL on my local machine and in production, I searched for a workflow that would make the protocol invisible to me between all environments.

Most workflows make the following compromises:

• Use HTTPS in production but HTTP locally. This is annoying because it makes the environments inconsistent, and the protocol choices leak up into the stack. For example, your web application needs to understand the underlying protocol when using the secure flag for cookies. If you don't get this right, your HTTP development server won't be able to read the cookies it writes, or worse, your HTTPS production server could pass sensitive cookies over an insecure connection.

• Use production SSL certificates locally. This is annoying

pippinlee

Book Collection Links

Amazon links (No affiliate links!)

• Mathematical Carnival - Martin Gardner

• How to Solve It - G. Polya

• New Foundations for Classical Mechanics - D. Hestenes

wolverina

/*fuck garbage*/
a[href^="http://bzfd.it"],
a[href^="http://buzzfeed.com"],
a[href^="http://www.buzzfeed.com"],
a[href^="http://huff.to"],
a[href^="http://huffingtonpost.com"],
a[href^="http://www.huffingtonpost.com"],
a[href^="http://gaw.kr"],
a[href^="http://gawker.com"],
a[href^="http://www.gawker.com"],

ftrain

;; This is at: https://gist.github.com/8655399

;; So we want a rhyming dictionary in Clojure. Jack Rusher put up
;; this code here:
;; 
;; https://gist.github.com/jackrusher/8640437
;;
;; I'm going to study this code and learn as I go.
;;
;; First I put it in a namespace.

thebouv

du -cks * | sort -rn | head -11

# Usually set this up in my bash profile as an alias:

# alias ducks='du -cks * | sort -rn | head -11'

# Because it is fun to type ducks on the command line. :)