February 2012's London Web Standards event at Forward London was an introduction to Node.js, the server-side javscript framework designed for high concurrency and real-time events. There were two sessions at the event, George Ornbo (@shapeshed) giving an introduction to Node, and a "Node & Tell" session, where four sets of developers came and told the gathered crowd how they'd been using Node in their work.
If you follow any front-end web developers on Twitter today, you'll probably have come across articles on vendor prefixes and the latest CSSWG fight over Mozilla, Microsoft and Opera wanting to implement -webkit- vendor prefixes. Before I delve into why this is happening, I want to make something very clear** - this is wrong and must not happen.**
Last night, I was lucky enough to meet Joe Stump, former Lead Architect at Digg and founder of SimpleGeo, who sat down with 7 developers near Old Street and showed us his latest creation: Sprintly. Here's my notes from the talk.
In my work, I'm parsing web services all of the time. Most of the time, they're XML, which does not make the best use of bandwidth/CPU time (compared to JSON), however, if it's all that you're given then you can certainly get by. I've been looking into ways to speed up the XML document traversal in with jQuery after the current best practice method was removed.
I'm investigating a problem with loading locally installed fonts in Windows 7. It's a weird one this, and it only seems to affect Firefox and IE9/10, or, those browsers that use DirectWrite.