Robert’s read: links and suggestions, September 30th 2011
First idea was to publish these posts on a regular schedule, but I’ve realized now it will be when I have enough good links (and time 
. Tons of links now, so, here goes – another issue of Robert’s read!
Tip: remember, you can always find all my reading suggestions in the Robert’s read category
Robert’s read for September 30th 2011
Here are the links from the latest two weeks:
- SlideShare moves to HTML5 from Flash
- How to help your parents, minimal effort needed
- Mozilla Hacks Weekly, September 29th 2011
- What’s your carrier’s state machine?
- Oracle doesn’t seem like a nice company to be dealing with
- MeeGo rebooted as Intel and Samsung launch new Tizen platform
- Amazon creates first viable non-iPad tablet by not copying the iPad
- “Amazon will capture and control every Web transaction performed”
- Amazon announces “Cloud Accelerated” Mobile Browser named Amazon Silk
- Firefox 7 – now using much less memory
- The secret numerology behind the iPhone event invitation
- Browser Market Pollution: IE[x] is the new IE6
- It’s the end of the web as we know it
- The OpenPhoto project
- Future friendly, or Forward to Yesterday?
- The makeup of the Open Web stack – Comprehensive & accurate listing of the APIs & specs
- Scientists broke the speed of light
- NASA International Space Apps Challenge – open data + open source + open technology
- Well, Actually
- How To Write Unmaintainable Code
- The web is a different problem
- Pandora Rolls Out Its Slick HTML5 Player To All Users
- CSS3 Flexible Box Layout Explained
- Google+ drops invitation barrier, allows anybody to join
- Firefox 7: Telemetry – Firefox 7 marks a turning point in how we measure Firefox performance
- Twitter admits editing offensive Trending Topics, plans more
- What does it feel like to fly over planet Earth?
- Skype Aware Of XSS Vulnerability In iOS Apps, “Working Hard To Fix” It
- HTML5: briefing notes for journalists and analysts
- Get a sneak peak of UX improvements to Firefox
- BrowserID demo from the Mozilla All-Hands – Identity on the web
- Google brings flight search into the Jet Age
- Critics call foul as Google takes aim at JavaScript with Dart
- Critics call foul as Google takes aim at JavaScript with Dart
- WebGL Skin Rendering Demo
- Mozilla Launches Open Badges Project
- Facebook Launches Subscribe Button for Following Anyone’s Public Updates
- The HTML5 scoped attribute for styling
- The Web Standards Hoedown
- Un-fixing Fixed Elements with CSS Transforms
- Brendan Eich on Ecma TC39, JavaScript.next, and Google Dash
2 Comments
October 17th, 2011 at 1:14
You have so many links each week I don’t bother looking at them. If you just had a few I’d probably pay more attention!
October 17th, 2011 at 16:27
njn,
Thanks for the feedback. However, for me at least, having 20-30 links is a good overview of very different kinds of topics, where I hope there will be something to appeal to everyone.
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