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Is Online Censorship On the Rise?
Censorship of the Internet is definitely alive and well in countries where oppressive government regimes seek to control the flow of information, such as China, Uzbekistan, Cuba, and Iran. The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) found that there are 125 journalists behind bars around the world as of the start of this month. That’s actually ...
Userfly: Usability From Your Actual Users
Chris Estreich, a senior engineer at classifieds site Oodle today soft-launched a new site aimed at web developers called Userfly. Using JavaScript, Userfly captures and records browsing data from your visitors and lets you plat it back as a movie later. The site is really rough — this is a very beta release — and ...
Australia’s Net Censorship Sparks Outrage
One of the most important Internet stories in Australia right now is that country’s federal government’s plan to start requiring ISP level censorship of the Internet. As part of Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s AU$125.8 million Cyber-saftey plan. The plan requires that ISPs deliver a “clean-feed” web service to homes, school, and and public web access ...
8 Sites for Watching English Evolve
Posted by John in Just for fun, Shared on November 27th, 2008
In one of my favorite television shows, “Futurama,” there is a running gag that in the future, the word “ask” has been replaced by the more colloquial “aks” (pronounced axe). It might be a long time before the accepted spellings and pronunciations of common words like “ask” change, but the joke highlights a very real ...
arguments: A JavaScript Oddity
Posted by John in JavaScript, Programming on November 12th, 2008
arguments is the name of a local, array-like object available inside every function. It’s quirky, often ignored, but the source of much programming wizardry; all the major JavaScript libraries tap into the power of the arguments object. It’s something every JavaScript programmer should become familiar with. Inside any function you can access it through the variable: ...
7 Places to Find the Code You Need
Posted by John in Programming, Shared on November 4th, 2008
A recent thread on SitePoint’s forums discussed how best to learn from other people’s code. For many people learning by example is the optimal way to pick up a new programming language, idea, or technique. But finding that ideal piece of code to look at and learn from isn’t always easy. That’s where code search ...
Techy Treasures #1: Feelin’ Empty
Posted by John in JavaScript, Programming on October 17th, 2008
Techy Treasures is a new, regular feature where we’ll be publishing tips, tricks and code snippets for web developers. These are not blue-sky bubbles, they’re solid, proven ideas that you can use in the wild with confidence. SitePoint Blogs » Techy Treasures #1: Feelin’ Empty. I know I'll be adding stuff from here to my code library!
Adobe Releases Flash 10 Player
Adobe today officially released the tenth version of its ubiquitous Flash player on the world. Flash 10, which was previously known under the code name “Astro,” adds a large number of new features to the Flash player, but the most flashy (forgive the terrible pun) are certainly the 3D support, the new text engine, and ...
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