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My text editor: Sublime Text 8 Jul 2012 | 05:53 am

What text editor you use when coding is a very serious subject. I’ll hardly be able to talk about what I prefer, without some people (other than you, of course ;) taking it as me trying to steal their...

[The Listserve] I’m sorry to break this to you… 19 Apr 2012 | 11:02 pm

I just got the fantastic chance to send an e-mail to ~10.000 people. What would you write if you got that chance? This is what I wrote: “I’m sorry to break this to you, in an e-mail from a random str...

What movies on Piratebay will you like the most? 9 Jan 2012 | 11:07 am

Christmas, and the weeks thereafter, are times for coding. And I’ve been playing around with piratebay and filmtipset (a Swedish movie recommendation) a little bit. I just pushed it to the filmtipset-...

Partial XMLHttpRequest responses? 9 Jan 2012 | 04:28 am

We all know how to make an AJAX request, and fetch some data. But as soon as you need to fetch data incrementally, have the server push data to you, you have to resort to all sorts of complicated stuf...

Suggestions for TweetDeck 22 Jul 2011 | 10:35 pm

To be an effective twitter user you really need a permanent window on your desktop, that shows you what’s happening right now. I’ve been using TweetDeck for a long time now, with short detours into Se...

Fixing Microsoft’s bad reputation 20 Jun 2011 | 12:07 am

Image by taberandrew via Flickr Microsoft has continuously failed at getting people in the tech crowd to like them. This is a growing problem for them, and something they need to start taking serious...

Geolocation and Google maps 19 Jun 2011 | 12:11 am

Image by heiwa4126 via Flickr Google Maps has has geolocation support for a long time, but I still find people surprised of how it all works. So here’s a short writeup, skip it if you already know al...

Animate from one element to another (jQuery plugin) 6 May 2011 | 08:52 am

Image via Wikipedia Have you even tried clicking an “Add to cart”-button and not understood what happened? I have. An although I understand the idea of adding a product to the cart, and then letting ...

Will newspapers die? 9 Feb 2011 | 12:41 pm

A journalism student in Toronto, Canada, asked me some questions via e-mail about my old article about newspapers and online reading. Instead of just sending an e-mail out in the void I thought I’d pe...

HTML5 is not an option 4 Nov 2010 | 06:20 am

HTML5 is HOT! Developers all over the world are adapting their sites, browsers are catching up, and new fallback solutions are released every day. But many developers misunderstand one thing: You can...

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