Coming to a browser near you – HTML 5

Found this great web based slide show detailing the changes and additions that make up HTML 5.0

http://apirocks.com/html5/html5.html#slide1

(Warning – not IE friendly)

Great comparison of web browser performance

 

Jason Gube at sixrevisions.com has posted a great article comparing browser performance. It pretty much echos day to day performance I’m seeing and backs up my decision to switch to Chrome.

Hitting the thousand mark on stack overflow

The last few weeks have seen me actively participating in the community of programmer and pundits known as stackoverflow.com.

I set myself a target of reaching 1000 rep in two weeks and Im really glad to say I managed to do it in 11 days, thanks in part to a particularly feisty conversation about team participation vs individualism and how it relates to building and testing software.

My observations are that once a popular user (read user with high reputation or awards) replies to a question, most other users will jump on that band wagon. In practice, choosing other responses that are voted up even only once or twice may be more prudent.