Sam’s random musings

What Kind of English Do You Speak?:

Bill made me do it.

Your Linguistic Profile:

• 65% General American English
• 15% Dixie
• 10% Upper Midwestern
• 5% Midwestern
• 0% Yankee

I’m pretty boring standard I guess.

What Kind of American English Do You Speak?

Alex made me do it * 35% Yankee * 30% General American English * 15% Dixie * 15% Upper Midwestern * 0% Midwestern

(Via alexking.org: Blog.)

So been thinking alot about this as well recently and didn’t want to loose this useful post by SD (same initials as me but not me, he’s smarter). With all the bang you can get out of the javascript libraries out there. It’s time to think about getting some performance back

Not that I think it’s a serious issue. I don’t. It’s mostly one of marketing and spin. One way the other libraries keep their sizes down is with the various code-squeezing and obfuscation tools. Effective, but it makes a nightmare of debugging… as if debugging web apps wasn’t already hard enough!

read the rest it is a good set of steps for using gzip to get some performance back. Some other tips we have found at DigitalFusion are forthcoming.

For a less traditional stuffing try White Castle Stuffing:

White Castle is offering a new twist on traditional turkey stuffing that is made with that famous little burger, the Slyder. White Castle Turkey Stuffing is made with ten White Castle hamburgers, but hold the pickles. I guess it makes sense, since stuffing often has meat in it, but it seems a little odd. If anyone tries it, I’d love a report.

Ok now would you take a Kumar style road trip to go get some burgers to make this???

(Via Megnut.)

Collection of CSS Forms:

Smashing Magazine has scoured the web for modern CSS based forms.

In Web 2.0 registration and feedback forms can be found everywhere. Every start-up tries to attract visitors’ attention, so web-forms are becoming more and more important for the success of еру company. In the end, exactly those web-forms are responsible for the first contact with potential customers. Let’s take a look, which modern solutions a web-developer can use, designing his/her next css-based form.

This is a great collection of css form work tutorials and services that are really a fantastic resource!!!! (yes the collection is worth that many ! and it could probably rate a use of all CAPITALS as well)

(Via Ajaxian Blog.)

Safari Search Boxes:

I ran across a surprising little feature in Safari. If you change a standard:

<input type="text" />

field to a “search” box like so:

<input type="search" />

See source for images and some other notes…. (but here is the kicker you get a rounded rectangle with history

(Via alexking.org: Blog.)

Thinkature: Collaborative Online Thinking:

Have you ever tried to brainstorm, plan, or otherwise think online with other people? It can be tough. You could use instant messaging, but what if you want to do something visual? What if you want to share an image? You could send a link or transmit the file. What if you wanted to draw something? Open up Paint, draw, save… well, maybe not. Up until now, there hasn’t been a good way to think collaboratively while online.

This looks cool, going to have to play with this…

(Via alwaysBETA.)

MochiKit.Animator: New Animation in MochiKit:

“MochiKit.Animator is an enhanced*, fully vectorized version of Bernard Sumption’s animator.js. It eschews the use of classes and instead uses composition to build complex effects in one or two lines of code. The idea is to have everything work “right”. This means not having to specify start values, maximum efficiency during playback, and clean, automatic animation reversal. In other words, the goal is to make an animation library that doesn’t suck.”

Interesting package

(Via Ajaxian Blog.)

TextMate for Projects with Both HTML and Code:

I don’t know how many find themselves in the the situation of working on a single project that involves HTML, CSS and Objective-C, but I do. I feel it’s worth pointing out how TextMate is invaluable for this sort of thing…

nice little summary of the kick’n text editor

(Via Theobroma Cacao.)