Art of ASM

80x86 Assembler Course

Evolutionary Program Repair

Automatically fixing C code with genetic programs. That's definitely some interesting AI work.

Some notes on CSS drop shadows

So I wanted to do some CSS shadow for a project I was working on and it turns out that IE has filters to emulate the CSS3 box-shadow property:

.shadow {
 -moz-box-shadow: 3px 3px 4px #888;
 -webkit-box-shadow: 3px 3px 4px #888;
 box-shadow: 3px 3px 4px #888;
 -ms-filter: "progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Shadow(Strength=4, Direction=135, Color='#888888')";
 filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Shadow(Strength=4, Direction=135, Color='#888888');
}

This works fine and dandy for the simple cases, but there are a couple of caveats that should be written down since I haven't seen these mentioned anywhere:

1. The IE shadow gets the box model wrong: it adds the size of the shadow to the width/height of the element to which it's applied. Beware when floating and applying to elastic layouts.
2. The IE shadow does not necessarily appear around the element. If you have a div w/ a background-image that is smaller than the div itself, the shadow will be applied to the edge of the background image, not around the outline of the element

Why gas is expensive

Huh, that was an interesting read.

Monads in javascript

Quite easy to understand.

Placekitten

Useful. Kitten image placeholders.

Chocolate and child slavery

This is probably the worst piece of trivia I've ever heard about foodstuff.

Clever business models of 2010

Of course, execution is still king.

Analytics tools

A list of popular ones

Zero rupee bill

This is pretty cool.