June 2011
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My Favorite Chrome Extensions
Google Chrome is my default web browser. It’s fast (starting up and rendering), has great developer tools, and uses SPDY for high speed data transfer with apps like GMail.
I also use a number of extension, my favorties are:
iReader - allows you to view news stories and other articles in a single clutter-free page. It strips out the ads and extraneous layout and displays the article in a...
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“The triumphalist narrative of the Web is the reassuring story that people want...”
– Alone Together: Why We Expect More From Technology and Less From Each Other by Sherry Turkle
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JavaScript Resources
Why JavaScript? It’s fun, the most widely deployed programming language, and many other reasons.
If you are new to programming and JavaScript try Eloquent JavaScript by Marijn Haverbeke.
If you have done some programming my favorite JavaScript book to recommend is Object-Oriented JavaScript by Stoyan Stefanov. He also released JavaScript Patterns which is a good second read.
Of course...
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Chris Guillebeau's 11 Ways to be Unremarkably...
“You don’t have to live your life the way other people expect you to”
Chris Guillebeau’s 11 Ways to be Unremarkably Average:
Accept what people tell you at face value.
Don’t question authority.
Go to college because you’re supposed to, not because you want to learn something.
Go overseas once or twice in your life, to somewhere safe like England.
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“A website and its content used to be pretty simple. A few years ago, a website...”
– Clout: The Art and Science of Influential Web Content Colleen Jones
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