will work for doughnuts

A quick update about the 2nd Hack Day at Yahoo! I’m really tired from building my hack so this will be short, it sure was an exciting run.
Today is one of those days that makes me proud to be a Yahoo. The sheer number of hacks was overwhelming (again) and the quality of each improved […]

I’m playing with last.fm now. Love their badges, will probably write more about that later.
Eating lots and lots of thinmints and samoas. Trying to fatten up for winter.
Lots of people come to this site searching for “doughnuts”. I’m not sure I can satisfy your stomach’s craving for doughtnuts. I can only recommend that you head […]

Simon has graciously posted his notes that he used to give his 3 hour tutorial on Javascript @ ETech. The notes cover exactly what a programmer who is working heavily with Javascript today needs to know. It’s the most concise and fluff-free coverage of the language that I’ve read. All the stuff you really should […]

Alex Russell gave an excellent talk today at ETech on how to do server push in Ajax applications. The most widespread example of this in a product is GTalk inside of GMail. If you’ve used it you know how fast this can be for pushing data.
Alex recommends what he calls the Forever Frame approach. You […]

Today at O’reilly Emerging Technology Conference we are quietly releasing Checkmates. It’s a mobile + social + mapping app that I’ve been tooling around with at Yahoo! with my friends. The idea was to be able to find your friends and tell your friends where you are by using a map. I always think about […]