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Gainesville: PHP/Javascript Developer Position Open

The Office of Distance Learning is seeking a web programmer with considerable experience with PHP, Javascript, and SQL to aid in the creation of and maintenance of several web and mobile applications. The person we’re seeking will need a strong understanding of and experience with: PHP5 Javascript object-oriented and functional programming styles related technologies such

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Allen Hunt: Gay marriage is worse than incest

On December 13th (just rebroadcast on 97.3 The Sky), radio host Allen Hunt, in a conversation about a recent adult incest case, stated that “incest is easier to defend than gay marriage because…at least incest is opposite sex and has the capacity to create new life.” Earlier the implication was made that gay marriage is

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Magical Translator Window

Indistinguishable from magic, and available in your pocket. Your jetpacks have arrived!

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Closure Compiler is smarter than you

I’ve known about Google’s Javascript minifier, Closure Compiler, for awhile, but after sending a couple snippets through it today I realized it’s a pretty impressive piece of work. Input: function howManyMatch(arr, pattern) { var l = arr.length; var total = 0; var i = 0; for (; i < l; i++) { if (pattern.test(arr[i])) {

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Less is More: Billie Davis 1969

“Nobody’s Home to Go Home To” was a 1969 B-side for Billie Davis that I have a weakness for. The bass playing is incredible and the song cleverly jumps between three keys, but the strings and backing vocals kind of take over the recording. I noticed this morning that they’re both panned hard right and the

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Kristof on Haiti & Trade

I can’t agree more. Ultimately what Haiti most needs isn’t so much aid, but trade. Aid accounts for half of Haiti’s economy, and remittances for another quarter — and that’s a path to nowhere. The United States has approved trade preferences that have already created 6,000 jobs in the garment sector in Haiti, and several

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It’s a big building with patients, but that’s not important right now.

Leslie Nielson will be sorely missed.

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Bring Back TSA Classic

At this point very few would expect that you should be able to carry metal items undetected onto a plane, so I don’t have too big a problem with metal detectors at airports. However, society has a general expectation that the image of one’s naked body is private, so we should certainly consider the new

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Customizing a Zend Navigation Menu

Zend Navigation has a menu helper class that can output a basic nested UL menu. You can set id/class attributes on the A elements, and it adds an “active” classname to A elements in the active branch, but customizing the markup beyond that gets complicated.

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?YouWontSeeMe

In beta 11, Opera’s going to hide all “http(s)://”, and also all querystrings (until you focus the addressbar). Opera’s devs are right that users consider them mostly “gibberish”, but I think this change could cause a ton of problems and confusion for people, especially support staff, and there are plenty of sites/apps still out there

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We need a frontend design tool for live web pages

It’s quite frequently that an HTML/CSS designer might want to make changes to a live web page. Maybe she doesn’t have write access, or maybe the fixes needed aren’t worth the start-up cost of copying the page locally and working on it there, or multiple designers want to work up ideas on a given page

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“Buy American”

When economies are struggling, protectionism seems well-intentioned: By “buying American” we can go back that golden fantasy age when everything was American-made and everyone had a decent-paying job and could afford the latest luxuries. I have some examples that I hope can convince you that freer trade benefits everyone. It’s not completely intuitive; we commonly

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E-mail Address Munging Still Mitigates Harvesting

At least a decade into the use of simple e-mail munging on web pages (my own solution here) there’s a growing consensus—and it seems like common sense with the advancement of the web in general—that this surely can’t still work on modern harvesters. While trying to look up some old research I’d read about this,

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Using jQuery Before It’s Loaded

It’s better to include scripts like jQuery at the end of the BODY, but this makes its methods inaccessible earlier in the page (e.g. inside a WordPress post). What you can do is use a script like the one below to queue DOMReady functions before jQuery loads. (function (w) { if (w.$) // jQuery already

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Tiny E-mail Munging Script

I’ve seen a lot of these that are bloated/less effective/inaccessible, so I might as well put this out there. It’s simple enough to modify if you’re comfortable with Javascript. Markup: <a href=”mailto:john{@}example{.}org”>john{@}example{.}org</a> (function(){ var a, i = 0, o = this.onload; onload = function(){ o && o(); // run the old window.onload if existed while

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Too much time on hands

Notation of the first half or so of “Baby Lulu” by Stereolab. [original] Hit the play button at the top left to make it go. Their built-in instruments sound like crap. This is state of the art of sampling in a Flash app apparently.

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Today’s kids have a few things left to tinker with

[Drafts clean out. This one from January] Mark Pilgrim laments the slow eradication of Apple products to which the owner has full (and gratis) software/hardware access. Anyone can develop [for the iPad]! All you need is a Mac, XCode, an iPhone “simulator,” and $99 for an auto-expiring developer certificate. The “developer certificate” is really a

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Imagining Better E-mail

[Sitting in my drafts folder since August... Why not] For building a clean and complete “paper trail” within a single message (which is irrefutably valuable in situations), top posting works great. For responding to individual sections, inline reply is great. Combining the two is generally a mess. In both top/inline models the manual management of

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“Cartels don’t make any money on marijuana”

Opponents to CA’s Prop 19 ran pretty well with the narrative that legalizing cannabis would yield no reduction of the cartel violence in Mexico. After all, they don’t really make their money on pot; it’s all California-grown, they promised. They even were kinda sorta convincing me that might be the case.  Maybe—just somehow—they know that.

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The Hard Road Ahead

I’m starting to believe the only way out of this recession and national deficit is through tough choices that offend the ideologies of every political party: higher taxes for everyone spending cuts, including the military bailouts for state/local safety nets that ease real human suffering, not select industries finding and migrating to foreign aid measures

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