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"The big change is how IE now interacts with Windows Update: Before you had to opt-in to have "Recommended" updates installed automatically. It's likely few folks did. Now, IE upgrades are shipping as "Important" and this class of updates are defaulted to install automatically. A user can still opt-out and immediately after the announcement of this feature they also published details on how enterprises can opt-out. But still, this is a good move, it helps."

"jQuery 2.0 (early 2013, not long after 1.9): This version will support the same APIs as jQuery 1.9 does, but removes support for IE 6/7/8 oddities such as borked event model, IE7 “attroperties”, HTML5 shims, etc." This is good but I do not look forward to explanation time with clients.

CHEESE.

An HTML5 application (based on <Canvas>) that allows you to create high resolution icons that lets your sites shine with IE9 and above.

A minimal AMD API implementation for use after optimized builds

As of jQuery 1.8, you can build a custom version of jQuery that excludes one or more modules if you do not need their functionality. This capability is made easy by our new build system based on Ben Alman’s awesome grunt tool. To build your own custom version, set up a copy of the jQuery core repo from Github and use the grunt command line options to exclude modules.

"It's been spun as "transforming the surrounding area into a vibrant new metropolitan quarter", whereas in reality it's just an aerial sideshow to lure tourists somewhere new. The engineering's an impressive achievement, to be sure, and you'll probably come once for a ride and help make it an overnight success. But Boris's unholy alliance of public money and corporate branding is more about making a statement than fulfilling a need, and hangs uncomfortably across East London's skyline."

About a billion weird/useful git & github tips.

Much fabric goodness here.

A webkit web client written in python.

Good idea, annoying PDF and KML execution.

site-wide website markup validator

Attempt at doing ImageOptim on the command line. Execution is a bit flaky but idea is sound.

Helps developers define and maintain consistent coding styles between different editors and IDEs.

[this is good]

"A simple PHP 5 framework to create RESTful web applications

A Fabric based tool for setting up Python WSGI apps on Supervisord, Nginx, Ubuntu and Gunicorn

Alternative to localtunnel?

Looks rather good.

Convert from URL is handy.

If you are not using Git, you will find yourself facing an increasing number of competitors who are, and a decreasing pool of candidates who are willing to tolerate the alternatives.

xip.io is a magic domain name that provides wildcard DNS for any IP address.

Command line music library sorting against Musicbrainz.

Not so much for the Twitter, more for the OAuth with the Python.

"I decided to rework the core of Fabric. I've documented it below — describing all the changes to the current Fabric 1.0a — including funky new features like fab shell and staged deployments." Old but W-O-W.

Don’t listen to runners that say it is hard. I don’t disbelieve them when they say that. But I suggest it is hard because they run for ulterior motives. People don’t feel they deserve certain things unless they are hard.