http://rossboucher.com Just another WordPress weblog Wed, 20 Aug 2008 00:16:57 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Yesterday I gave a presentation at the San Francisco JavaScript Meetup about the new JavaScript touch events API in iPhone 2.0. I thought I'd share the slides, in case people were interested in viewing them after the fact. I owe a great deal of thanks to Neil Roberts from SitePen, ... http://rossboucher.com/2008/08/19/iphone-touch-events-in-javascript/ Yesterday I was working on making a textarea element automatically resize itself to fit its content without a scroll bar. I've seen this done before, so it isn't something strictly new, but I did notice that a lot of people are doing hacks with rows/columns, so I thought I'd ... http://rossboucher.com/2008/07/28/resizing-textareas/ We launched 280 Slides two weeks ago, and it's been a great experience. After putting five months of non stop work into it, it's a good feeling to be able to point to it and say "That's what I've been doing." It's also fantastic to be getting all kinds of ... http://rossboucher.com/2008/06/19/aftermath-of-280-slides/ The WebKit team announced the list of participants they'll be working with on this year's Google Summer of Code today. Of particular interest to me was this applicant. Anyone who does serious web work can attest to the difficulty of debugging anything in Safari, meaning that most web ... http://rossboucher.com/2008/04/21/safari-web-inspector/ Paul Graham wrote an essay last week where he compared employees of big companies to lions in a cage at the zoo. Sort of. I was in Africa last year and saw a lot of animals in the wild that I'd only seen in zoos before. It was ... http://rossboucher.com/2008/03/23/lions-in-a-cage/ Those of you who read Engadget, or follow tech blogs, or are otherwise incredibly geeky, have surely heard of the Optimus Maximus. Vaporware for years, Engadget has finally got their hands on one. The verdict? Typing on it, well, sucks. This is a shining example of people building tech products ... http://rossboucher.com/2008/02/22/optimus-maximus/ My good friend Brian sent me a link to his demo reel yesterday, which he uploaded to Vimeo. I'd never heard of it before, but I was impressed with the site. The most obvious reason to fall in love with Vimeo is the quality of the videos they ... http://rossboucher.com/2008/02/20/why-i-love-vimeo/ A while ago, the New York Times had an article about cold brewed coffee that peaked my interest. I'm not much of a coffee drinker, but iced coffee is, on occasion, a pretty exceptional summer time drink, so I filed the article in the back of my mind for ... http://rossboucher.com/2008/02/15/cold-brewed-coffee/ A lot of people working on web applications these days seem to be oblivious to the rest of the world beyond their own team. Naturally, most of these people are using Firefox to do their browsing, and subsequently to do their development and testing as well. This makes ... http://rossboucher.com/2008/02/11/on-browser-share/ I don't have anything to say today, except the fact that I've gotten rid of some cruft from the site, in the beginnings of bringing it back. I even linked it up to rossboucher.com instead of having it relegated to blog.rossboucher.com. Thus, in theory at least, I will ... http://rossboucher.com/2008/02/11/whats-old-is-new/