I work in technology sector. And I do round a clock, not only from 9 to 5. It is my bread and butter, it is my hobby, it is the fascination of my life. And with the current rate of change particular in information technology (IT), there is always something new to learn, to try, to talk about. I often post news, thoughts, and reviews. And when I do, this is the category I use.
You just gotta love the HTML that comes out of the Microsoft Word. Particularly useful are the HTML comments, which are not closed, breaking the rest of the webpage below the paste. Yes, exactly where, for example, JavaScript is being loaded in the footer of the page.
This is a good old case of “Don’t trust any user input”, reinforced with “especially if they are using Microsoft tools”.
TestFrameworkInATweet.php – a PHP unit testing framework in a tweet. This is brilliant in its own way. It reminds me of the Perl Golf Apocalypse.
CSS Colorguard – keep a watchful eye on your CSS colors.
Here is a better description from the README:
Every CSS project starts out with good intentions, but inevitably, one too many people eye-dropper colors into nooks and crannies that you never knew existed. CSS Colorguard helps you maintain the color set that you want, and warns you when colors you’ve added are too similar to ones that already exist. Naturally, it’s all configurable to your tastes.
And here is my favorite part:
Colorguard uses the CIEDE2000 algorithm to determine the similarity of each of the colors in your CSS file. This algorithm is quite complex, but is used in the broadcasting community as the best approximation of human ability to discern differences in color. RGB on the other hand, is pretty bad at representing differences in color purely based on the numerical difference of the hex values.
Luckily, someone else already implemented CIEDE2000, so I didn’t have to. Tight. Cause this thing is mathy as hell.
Json Résumé – a community driven open source initiative to create a JSON based standard for résumés.
It’d be awesome to see LinkedIn integration with this.
For some reason, I keep forgetting if double slash URLs are supported in older browsers or not. Maybe if I post the answer from this StackOverflow question here, I will remember it myself next time:
This behavior was part of RFC 1808 (Section 4) which is about 16 years old, so every major browser should (and does) support this.
Sadly, there’s a bug with IE7 and -8 that will make them download the resources twice if a protocol-relative URL is used on a link or @import – which shouldn’t be a big problem, but is ugly and should be kept in mind.
So, that might be a problem for the CSS, but the JavaScript and images should work just fine.