The strange thing about search is it’s a lot like academia: full of assholes. I know, since I’m one of them. So I was trying to figure out why this twitter about my Keynote bothered me so:
“@tychay apparently serving red meat to the faithful at #phptek proving there are language Nazis on both sides.
—tweet from [...]
Restarting this policy…
Job listing - User Interface Engineer (PHP) in Mountain View, California. Contact aknight [at] this site.
The company has developed a shopping search engine that delivers comprehensive lists of products and their corresponding images, ranked by the leading products, brands, stores and styles on the very first page of results. They call this [...]
It’s interesting how self-context can change a city.
Last time I visited Amsterdam, I was in a terrible relationship, living in South Bay and I got robbed leaving Schiphol. Three years later, I’m single living in San Francisco and am a tiny bit wiser.
This time, for instance, I found out that Amsterdam smells a lot like [...]
Because I work in social networking, people often ask me about advertising in social networks. For some reason, they don’t buy the obvious excuse that I’m an engineer, not a business person or entrepreneur. What do I know?
[The problem of advertising in social networking] (more…)
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I just get back from Amsterdam and two of our engineers are leaving Tagged and we have a lot of job openings.
One of the departing wrote an interesting e-mail on leaving which I’ll quote below and maybe it’ll give you an idea what it’s like working here. But first, some open job reqs…
[Tagged Jobs Reqs [...]
(I am sitting in a presentation on a web framework in our office conference room given by a former employee who is now a consultant. One of my engineers asks the consultant to give an example from experience where he had to modify the framework code itself.)
R—: “Yeah, that happened to me, you know when [...]
Every time I talked about web cookies, my ex-girlfriend would say, “Mmmm, cookies.”
Besides messing with my train of thought, it also gave me an unhealthy obsession with cookie implementations in web development. Today, I was taking apart how YUI implements subcookies, and the source had this comment in the subcookie parser…
PLAIN TEXT
JavaScript:
/**
* Parses a [...]
I guess the news in my world today is that Bebo sold to AOL for $850 million.
Trust AOL to make the Microsoft-generated $15 billion “valuation” look like a steal. I’m curious how much Hi5 must be worth now:
Just trying to add some perspective. Not sure how Falco thinks “dominating in the United Kingdom” is going [...]
The other day someone asked me again about what I thought about jQuery, and I’m getting tired of repeating myself for almost a year. jQuery actually is fodder for an interview question I sometimes ask:
What’s wrong with the jQuery $() function?
[Showing you the money after the jump.] (more...)
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We use YUI at Tagged because that’s what I chose. We lost a couple front end engineers at Tagged so I’m having to pick up the slack—this means actually having to learn the Yahoo User Interface (YUI) in earnest. So I whipped up this diagram of YUI 2.5:
There are some errors, but it’s good enough [...]
