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Thu, 24 Dec 2009 07:23:45 -0800

CSS performance: UI with fewer images
Dec 23 This post is the one-before-last article in the 2009 performance advent calendar experiment. Often performance improvements come with their drawbacks, sometimes improving performance causes pains in other parts of the development process or strips...
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Tue, 22 Dec 2009 16:02:09 -0800

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Tue, 22 Dec 2009 11:59:46 -0800

Crockford on JavaScript: http://bit.ly/5kghpd -- free, public lecture series with updates to all of his JS talks. (via @yuilibrary)
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Mon, 21 Dec 2009 14:59:50 -0800

I compressed Amazon's top navigation image sprite by 12%. Which is a huge win for almost no work. Are they going to use it... Nope.
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Sun, 20 Dec 2009 11:36:20 -0800

Blog post on what I did with rounded corners and boxes at work. http://gregthebusker.com/blog/?p=31
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Sun, 20 Dec 2009 11:36:02 -0800

if Today == (12,20) then Today = Birthday = Greg = 23 = Awesome;
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Wed, 16 Dec 2009 18:53:19 -0800

Browser Size: a tool to see how others view your website
In a newspaper, the most important story is featured on the front page. If it's a really important piece, then it's placed "above the fold," which means you can find it on the top half of the first page — the bottom half is folded behind and isn't...
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Wed, 16 Dec 2009 14:02:12 -0800

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Tue, 15 Dec 2009 15:02:14 -0800

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Mon, 14 Dec 2009 07:07:29 -0800

Life Bird list up to 202 now for North America.
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Sun, 13 Dec 2009 07:06:33 -0800

Give PNG a chance
Dec 13 This post is part of the 2009 performance advent calendar experiment. Stay tuned for the articles to come. People are often afraid to use PNG because they think that: a/ it doesn't work in all browsers, or b/ filesizes are bigger than GIF While...
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Sat, 12 Dec 2009 11:13:06 -0800

Big list of image optimization tools
Dec 12 This post is part of the 2009 performance advent calendar experiment (12 articles down, 12 more to go). Stay tuned for the articles to come. Let's continue the topic of reducing file sizes started with the previous post and talk about making...
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Fri, 11 Dec 2009 17:58:58 -0800

Happy Chanukah
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Tue, 08 Dec 2009 15:02:27 -0800

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Fri, 04 Dec 2009 09:27:22 -0800

I favorited a YouTube video -- Tucson or Bust [version 2] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrNzp-BiuV0&feature=autoshare_twitter
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Fri, 04 Dec 2009 09:27:19 -0800

Tucson or Bust [version 2]
I favorited a YouTube video: Andy brings us this special Desert Bus presentation.
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Thu, 03 Dec 2009 07:26:05 -0800

@chirags I added an extra s and didn't accent the e, but Bloch is the important part.
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Thu, 03 Dec 2009 06:37:06 -0800

The triple murderer, French mathematician was Andres Bloch. Congratulations to Jason Rogers.
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Wed, 02 Dec 2009 19:20:31 -0800

$5 Amazon Gift Card to the first person to tell me what three person killer was also a famous French mathematician.
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Wed, 02 Dec 2009 07:19:11 -0800

Performance tools
Dec 2 This is the second in the series of performance articles as part of my 2009 performance advent calendar experiment. Stay tuned for the next articles. While theoretically you can speed up your site by just blindly following advice from this blog and...
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Tue, 01 Dec 2009 11:02:19 -0800

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Mon, 30 Nov 2009 13:02:17 -0800

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Sat, 28 Nov 2009 13:48:59 -0800

Hit 200 species of birds for my North America life list. Next goal 200 for just the United States.
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Thu, 26 Nov 2009 07:38:01 -0800

On my way to Chicago. Give me a call if you want to meet up.
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Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:29:13 -0800

I favorited a YouTube video -- The Muppets: Bohemian Rhapsody http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgbNymZ7vqY&feature=autoshare_twitter
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