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First off, this is the article that almost didn't happen. If you don't want to hear this, just skip down to the "All That Aside" heading below, but I encourage you to first read through my little "aside" here first so you can understand what's happening in this article since it doesn't follow stan
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Ever noticed in Gmail, Twitter or Facebook how the last portion of the URL (the so-called "hash") changes with each navigation, while the actual URL remains the same? This unique AJAX technique, employed by some of the top current Web 2.0 apps, has many benefits besides usability: it actually sav
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Twitter decided to give a nice Happy Halloween to users today in the form of radically changing the site's design and modifying tweets upon an update containing solely "#trick" or "#treat" tweeted from its standard web client. Below are some screenshots of this temporary feature (for historic pu
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To start off, let me say that I'm not a huge fan of Opera. I just never really adapted to their desktop browser, and their proprietary rendering engine sometimes tends to subtly "botch" websites that otherwise appear fine in Gecko/WebKit/Trident-based browsers. However, despite this fact, I have
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So somebody sends me this: http://quaoar.ww7.be/ms_fud_of_the_year/569458-microsoft-attack-linux-retail-level-probably.html Words cannot describe the rage I feel as a result, but read on for a pretty decent attempt. Get The Facts V2 So Microsoft has been both sued and accused of falsifyi
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I currently have a Blackberry Curve as my personal phone, and I have written a lot of software for the iPhone in addition to using one on an almost-daily basis for debugging ...and because it is awesome. I love them both, and while I haven't traditionally leaned towards one or the other in terms
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For about two days following The Coffee Desk's 100th article, the site was flipped upside-down. It's back to normal now, but in case you missed it here is a screenshot: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="421" caption="The Coffee Desk Upside-down(click the image link for the full screenshot
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(If you missed this when it was originally posted, then go here) To celebrate our 100th article, we decided to flip the entire post (and website) upside-down. If you are a weenie and prefer the right-side-up version, then go here. ˙(ʇɐɯɹoɟ ǝuılǝɯıʇ uı) ʎɹoʇsıɥ ɟǝıɹq ɐ ǝ
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Some of you may have noticed that we started putting a "motto" (technically a tagline) at the top of the website, just under the logo. It's honestly nothing but a snarky one-line commentary that usually reflects something the last few recent articles discuss. For example, the first motto was,
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This is an experimental way to accomplish the implementation of a background app/daemon on an Apple iPhone. As of this writing, the iPhone SDK does not allow the development of "true" Unix-style background processes (daemons) within the iPhone OS (which itself is based on Darwin Unix). This metho
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