Bruce Boughton

Rob Griffiths on the Opera 10 Beta

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Opera has an interesting take on thumbnail tabs

The first version showing the work of UI designer Jon Hicks. Fascinating new design for the tabs — a combination of…

Visual Studio 2010 Performance Part 1: Startup

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Nice to see the VS team focussing on the “to ready” startup time
I want to start by thanking everyone that has commented on the Beta (by posting their thoughts here or…

Black Wire

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This story really appeals to my subconscious.
Amy Gardner reports in the Washington Post on the perils of construction digging in the D.C. metro area: This part happens…

Null Is Not Empty

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Eric explores the semantic differences between null and empty and shows off the rarely used ?? operator
Back when I started this blog in 2003, one of the first topics I…

The Javascript Trap

“’Only free programs transmitted to the user’ must become part of the criterion for proper behavior by web sites.” What a load of drivel.

Progressive Interfaces | Elegant Code

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Jan Van Ryswyck describes how to build fluent interfaces that are IntelliSense-friendly. I used a similar technique recently in some experimental code recently and it…

Chris Messina: My name is not a URL

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Chris Messina argues that vanity URLs would be actively harmful to Facebook. I’m a fan of vanity URLs but Chris’s points are extremely persuasive. They don’t scale, they…