1. William

    William arbeitet Nachtschichten bei McDonald’s. Er kommt aus Ghana, und man sieht ihm sein Alter nicht an. Er mag die gleiche Musik junge Leute mögen, und er arbeitet die ganze Nacht pausenlos. ich glaubte er könnte nicht Älter als 35 sein. Später habe ich entdeckt - er war 58.

    9 months ago  /  0 notes

  2. Google Maps introduces weather

    Google Maps introduces weather - in the pulldown menu at the top right corner of the map itself. More on the gotofritz blog →

    1 year ago  /  2 notes

  3. Facebook continuos integration cycle

    There is an interesting screencast by Chuck Rossi, release manager, on how they manage the release process at Facebook. Worth seeing, but if you haven’t got the time, here’s a quick executive summary.

    1 year ago  /  2 notes  /  Source: blog.gotofritz.net

  4. PHP 5.4 introduces short arrays

    The more time I spend coding in Javascript, the more PHP feels old and clumsy. Many developers feel that way, and that’s probably why they introduced a small, JS-like improvement in PHP 5.4 - short arrays: 

    $a = [1, 2, 3, 4];
$a = ['one' => 1, 2, 'three' => 3, 4];

(see post in my blog)

    1 year ago  /  1 note  /  Source: blog.gotofritz.net

  5. Capsule CRM is not much use to a freelancer

    I have been using Capsule, a CRM, for a couple of years, to help me manage the endless stream of emails from recruiters. It has some good features, but it is not really suited to freelancers. It may work well for sales people, though. Perhaps. More →

    1 year ago  /  5 notes  /  Source: blog.gotofritz.net

  6. Beyond polyfills: sugar.js

    While front end developers debate about polyfills, a slightly more controversial Javascript library, Sugar.js, promises to “let you do more with less code”. I am still in two minds about this.

    [read rest of blog entry…]

    1 year ago  /  0 notes

  7. Avoid the mysql extension in PHP

    There are a few different ways of handling MySQL in in PHP. Ext/mysql, i.e. the functions that start with mysql_xxx, is the oldest and most well known. It is also insecure, doesn’t use all the database features, and will be phased out and in future releases. Use mysqli instead, or at least pdo_mysql.
    More

    1 year ago  /  18 notes  /  Source: blog.gotofritz.net

  8. CSS3 transitions callbacks →

    [blog] CSS3 transitions fire off a TransitionEnd event when they end, so that you can attach a Javascript handler to it. The only (minor) inconvenient is that the event takes different names depending on the platform.

    1 year ago  /  8 notes

  9. Evernote plugin for Firefox 5

    Evernote have a beta of their FF 5 plugin at update.evernote.com/prerelease/ENMozillaExtension/mozilla-extension-4.beta.xpi

    1 year ago  /  8 notes

  10. pdf.js: using JS and HTML5 to render pdfs

    A side project by the Mozilla developers, pdf.js is an ongoing project to render PDFs within HTML5 compliant browsers, using a combination of Canvas and / or SVG. It looks very interesting. The code is on github, and you can read more at Andreas Gal’s blog.

    1 year ago  /  3 notes

  11. Blank New Tab Google Chrome extension

    When you open a new tab in Chrome it shows to everyone who may be watching your screen (clients, colleagues, etc) the sites you visit often. Surprisingly, there is no settings to change that. However, that is easily fixed with a simple extension: Blank New Tab

    1 year ago  /  4 notes

  12. Awesome Screenshot browser extension by diigo.com

    Just installed the Awesome Screenshot browser extension by diigo.com on Chrome – very happy with it. So far it’s the best extension of its type I have tried. You can quickly just save the screen grab as is, or you can annotate it first, which is very helpful. 5 stars.

    1 year ago  /  1 note  /  Source: chrome.google.com

  13. Skype killer? Google open sources WebRTC

    WebRTC looks interesting - it allows to build HTML5 video / audio apps from within the browser (i.e., without need for Skype or an iPad app).
    https://sites.google.com/site/webrtc/blog/introducingwebrtc-anopenreal-timecommunicationsproject

    Not surprisingly it’s only supported by Mozilla, Opera, Chrome - and knowing Google, Chrome support will stop if someone develops an app that could challenge YouTube.

    “WebRTC offers web application developers the ability to write rich, realtime multimedia applications (think video chat) on the web, without requiring plugins, downloads or installs. It’s purpose is to help build a strong RTC platform that works across multiple web browsers, across multiple platforms.”

    1 year ago  /  0 notes

  14. Depth JS: interact with Kinect using Javascript.

    Javascript’s relentless quest for world domination carries on.

    Demolition of Flash - tick.
    Server side JS - tick.
    JS Database - tick.
    Interaction with Kinect - tick

    2 years ago  /  0 notes

  15. Checking jQuery version

    I always forget this. Type this in Firebug:

    $().jquery;

    2 years ago  /  0 notes