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Book things
In the spirit of tooting one's own horn.... Top 3 This morning I noticed my OOJS book is #3 in Amazon's JavaScript category, wo-hoo! Then it dropped down but in the evening it's up again. Nice company - OOJS, Doug Crockford's book and David Flanagan...
Welcome SitePoint.com readers
Hope you liked my iPhone web dev article that went live on sitepoint.com today! Just a quick note that I actually have a blog about iPhone web development, called phonydev.com, you might find it interesting and browse it from your phone. Other than t...
Countries visited in 2008
Counting how many countries I've been to in 2008: USA Canada Bulgaria Germany (not really, changing flights) Italy China Mexico US states California Massachusetts New Hampshire Arizona Georgia On top of that I did at least 10 LAX-SJC trips. So I ...
Start wearing purple
Today was officially my first day at my new job at in Yahoo! Search. In the spirit of less-is-more I'm stepping out of the position of improving the performance of all Yahoo's sites worldwide to improving the performance of just one Yahoo! Search - i...
OOJS book free chapter 8 on YUIblog
Chapter 8 of the Object-Oriented JavaScript is available at the YUIblog.com. Enjoy! Chapter 2 is also available at the publisher's site. Probably thanks to YUIBlog, the book was #7 in the JavaScript category on Amazon today, not bad. It's the highest...
php|works and pyWorks
I'll be speaking at the php|works and pyWorks conferences in Atlanta, Georgia in November, they'll be held together and there is a central track that has topics of interest to both phpiers and pythonistas, this is where I come in. The conference...
Vote for my SXSW 2009 panel
Stuart Colville has put up a proposal for the South By Southwest Interactive 2009 conference, or SXSWi 2009 for short. This is a panel with me and Nicole from Yahoo!'s performance team and Stuart and Ed (ex-UK-Yahoo!s, currently in GCAP Media). In St...
Now available: "Object-Oriented JavaScript" by Stoyan Stefanov on Amazon.com
I got a nice email from Amazon last week Unfortunately the book is still missing things like cover image and description, but it's a progress! – Dear Amazon.com Customer, We've noticed that customers who have purchased or rated books by Stoya...
Making money with templates
I'm under the impression that these days we're used to getting everything for free on the web, and especially so when it comes to things such as WordPress templates, phpBB themes or any other templates and themes. Are people willing to pay for extra ...
My online footprint lately
This is a sort of a catch-up post for listing what I've been up to lately. YUI Blog just published my first article, I'm so proud. It's about loading JavaScript in non-blocking fashion, because JavaScripts, they, you know, like, block downloads. Luc...
no mo' adsense
After adding adsense ads to this blog about three weeks ago, I took them off today. The reason is simple: the earnings were beyond disappointing. I guess adsense T&C do not allow me to reveal my stats, but let's say that the money this blog coul...
Back to Bulgaria
I spent the 10 hours flight LA-Munich mainly standing up, walking or sitting on the armrest while the two kids occupied three chairs sleeping, which was totally fine, who wants to sit for 10 hours with cranky underslept kids. Then spent two hours wit...
Santa Monica apartment hunting
Time goes by. Feels like yesterday, but it's actually been a whole year since I moved to LA together with the family. Guess the wonderful present we received a month ago from our landlord - $500 rent increase. W00t! Needless to say, we've been apartm...
you've been blogging too much when you…
… even as a joke consider putting your domain name on your license "vanity plate"...
The PHP QC presentation featured on slideshare's homepage
Not bad. Especially having in mind that this is the second time around. I uploaded an updated version of the presentation, that didn't work too well, so I had to delete the old one and reupload. As a result the stats and faves of the previous version...
Sharpenning those flamenco skillz
What's new today? Let me see. [x] Wrote the first sentence of chapter 6 of the new book. Goes like this "After encapsulation, inheritance is probably the most important feature of the object-oriented programming". Promising, but not exactly progress...
Zlatina = 4
So close to being finished with 5 chapters and 1 appendix of the new book (hey, that's 50%+) and just after the n-th edit of chapter 3, I thought I might share this picture I have on my desk. It's an self-portrait of my 4yrs old daughter Zlatina, in ...
Starcaster
Look what Santa brought this year: A Starcaster by Fender! (Not to be confused with Stratocaster.) Packed with an amp and everything. Looking forward to posting some recordings in 2008!...
How to write computer books
David Barnes, who works for my publisher Packt Publishing, has started a blog: "How to write computer books". Great stuff in there. If you write or intend to write a book, a blog or anything technical, it's a great addition to your RSS reader. Inspir...
Story of stuff
Take the time to watch this. http://www.storyofstuff.com/ (via Phil) Consumption and energy and recycling and generally destroying our planet are all topics that are increasingly interesting to me. Currently reading "Why we buy" to better understand...
Patch'd
Your favourite blogger (yeps, that would be me) - patched! It's been 48 hours since my hernia surgery. Don't worry about me, "everything's cool, everything's smooth". I can hardly walk and can't lift anything over 10 lbs (4.5 kg), but it's all fine...
Blogroll updated
Just updated my blogroll (long overdue). It was very easy - Google reader exports subscriptions in OPML, Wordpress imports. Then using my OPML-to-HTML tool I was able to quickly produce the following list in HTML. So here's what I read, enjoy, recen...
My recent Maui trip
Here are some reviews of the places I visited during my Maui trip, (the markup is in hReview microformat, using the hReview creator) Breathtaking view from the volcano top Nov 11, 2007 by Stoyan place The Haleakala summit ★★...
Maui, PHP Quebec, etc
Aloha, I'm back from a family vacation in Maui, HI, feeling rejuvenated after having fun on some nice beaches with crystal water, seen an ex-volcano, sunsets, etc. An email from PHP Quebec was in my inbox saying I'll be speaking at the 2008 PHP Conf...
On Raymond Chandler's writing
I've never been into crime fiction. I mean I've read The Hound of the Baskervilles, but that's about it. I like Douglas Adams, Terry Pratchett, looove Kurt Vonnegut, enjoyed On the Road, Catch-22… So it came as a surprise even to me when I star...
The "best programmer ever"
Go ahead, do a Yahoo search for "best programmer ever". Not surprisingly #1 result is the blog of yours truly For some inexplicable reason, I'm not #1 in Google search results for the same query. Bizarre, isn't it? Not even on the first page. But...
LA Web devs meetup at Yahoo
So there is this group of local LA web developers that meet every month or so to meet and discuss what's up. More about/join the group here. This month Yahoo will be hosting the meetup in the Santa Monica office (my workplace), it's actually tomorrow...
On a publishing diet
So I launched this little tool csssprites.com that allows you to upload images and create one CSS sprite image, plus it gives the background-position CSS definitions to use in order to show parts of the sprite. People have been trying it out, but unf...
