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.
Category: Web work
These days, most of my work is very related to the online world. Building web sites, reviewing web applications, integrating with web services, coordinating people who are far away from each other, etc. Whenever I find a new tool or service or an innovative, interesting idea about working online, I share it in this category.
Browser support for URLs beginning with double slash
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.
CakeFest 2014 at Madrid, Spain during August 21-24
I am seriously considering going to CakeFest this year. Madrid is not too far away to fly to. The event takes place over the weekend, so work stuff can be easily arranged. And it doesn’t cost too much – a 2-day conference with the 4-star hotel is only $480 USD (early bird prices until July 15th). That alone is a good deal.
But looking at the schedule, it’s even more tempting. The upcoming CakePHP v3 coverage, advances queries, testing, debugging, profiling and optimization, using CakePHP with Composer, Twitter Bootstrap, Travis CI, Selenium, AngularJS and more – these are just some of the subjects that will be covered. And the speakers are on par including core developers, community leaders, and otherwise interesting people.
Bootstrap/386 – a Twitter Bootstrap theme to make webpages look like they are from the 1980s
A year without Google Reader
Mashable reminds us that it’s been a year since Google Reader has been decommissioned. They are also doing a survey to find out if people use more of RSS feeds now or less, what they’ve substituted it with and which tools people are using now to follow their favorite feeds.
I’ve completed the survey, but without any visible results just yet, I thought I’d talk about my situation here. In the last year my use of RSS has decreased significantly. Even though the actual number of the feeds I am subscribed to has increased, I read them less. I share less. I bookmark and blog about less. And it’ nothing but the tool’s fault. Even though Feedly is an excellent tool – fast, flexible, with mobile support, and aesthetically pleasing, it simply is not Google Reader, which I was practically embed into. I’ve looked around for Google Reader alternatives, I tried a few. Feedly is the best of the bunch for my taste, but it’s different.
So, with that in mind, what happened to all that free time that I used to spend in Google Reader? Sadly, I have to admit that I’m much more on Facebook now. Quality-wise, that’s a huge drop. Instead of following my favorite writers, keeping in touch with all kinds of technology advances, and learning new things, I am now participating in flaming comment wars about nothing, and watching videos of cute kittens and bouncing boobs. Cheap entertainment swallowed me and spat me out. It’s exactly like never switching a television set was in the last century. And it’s a pity.
And the saddest part is that I knew it would happen. And if I knew, Google definitely knew that too. And they killed Google Reader anyway. And it’ll be a long time until I let it go…