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Feb 09

Introducing JSON Stackoverflow

To all stackoverflow.com users, you can now add a nifty widget with your stackoverflow.com reputation and badge count to your website or blog. There is also a JSONP service which will provide you the raw data so that you can customise the display as you like. Head over to json-stackoverflow.appspot.com for all the nitty-gritties.

Feedback is appreciated!

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13
Feb 09

Live cricket scores for your blog made easy

I will keep it short, just add the following Javascript snippet anywhere on your website or blog and you’ll get live cricket scores courtesy  oCricket.com.

The Javascript snippet:

<script src="http://cdn.ocricket.com/assets/score_widget.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

Feedback is appreciated!

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5
Feb 09

Recreating the new GMail buttons

a portion of the background on our buttons here, and discuss some of the iterations we’ve been through so far to get to the current state.

Interesting story of the design process that went behind the new GMail buttons.

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5
Feb 09

Half a second delay caused a 20% drop in traffic

Half a second delay caused a 20% drop in traffic. Half a second delay killed user satisfaction.

Interesting story from Marissa Mayer about an experiment Google conducted.

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5
Feb 09

A Clockwork Black: i was trying to avoid this

i was trying to avoid writing this post and had succeeded at that goal for almost 2 years. after some recent exchanges, i see the wisest move is the opposite. so, here goes.

The story of how Amazon EC2 was born…

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13
Jan 09

Jeff Atwood at CUSEC 2008 – Is Writing More Important Than Programming?

Jeff Atwood hit the nail on the head when he indicated that
Programmers should really learn how to write well while they learn how
to program. Being good at writing is really an indispensable skill for
all programmers.
 

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5
Jan 09

Zed Shaw at CUSEC 2008 – The ACL is dead

Amazing keynote by Zed Shaw


Zed Shaw – The ACL is Dead from CUSEC on Vimeo.

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