[open tabs] some reading I did lately and you can now, too

  • Nick Bradbury (of Homesite Fame) has a great piece on [hateful hiring](http://nick.typepad.com/blog/2012/01/hateful-hiring.html), based on [37 signal’s ‘Why we don’t hire programmers based on riddles and parlor tricks’](http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3071-why-we-dont-hire-programmers-based-on-puzzles-api-quizzes-math-riddles-or-other-parlor-tricks) and I can do nothing but applaud and agree. I find it insulting as a developer to be asked to go on a whiteboard in an interview and show some clever pseudo code. We have our stuff on GitHub and online, check it before you invite me
  • [NASA chose to go open source with some of their code](http://code.nasa.gov/) and you don’t need to be a rocket scientist to take part
  • [Vexflow brings sheet music notation to the browser](http://vexflow.com/) using Raphaël
  • [Test on real mobile devices without breaking the bank](http://bradfrostweb.com/blog/mobile/test-on-real-mobile-devices-without-breaking-the-bank/) has some good tips on exactly that. I find the most annoying thing to be handling all the different chargers. Can has standard cables, please?
  • [FluidApp](http://fluidapp.com/) reminds me of Mozilla Prism – run any web site as a native OSX app instead of in a tab
  • [Why the movie industry can’t innovate and the result is SOPA](http://steveblank.com/2012/01/04/why-the-movie-industry-cant-innovate-and-the-result-is-sopa/) is an interesting history lesson on how Hollywood just doesn’t get technology
  • Michelle Levesque posted quite a few [Why this skill](http://rwxweb.wordpress.com/2012/01/04/whys/) posts about skills needed to be a web maker. Nice pattern style approach there
  • [An In Depth Analysis of HTML5 Multimedia and Accessibility](http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/html-css-techniques/an-in-depth-overview-of-html5-multimedia-and-accessibility/) is a very good read if you wondered about subtitling and captioning in HTML5 video
  • [Sevenly](http://sevenly.org/mission) have a nice idea – sell T-Shirts to bring money to charitable causes and advertise them at the same time
  • [Cross Browser HTML5 Progress Bars In Depth](http://www.useragentman.com/blog/2012/01/03/cross-browser-html5-progress-bars-in-depth/) is a good overview about this not enough used element
  • [Animating with sprite sheets](/2012/01/07/open-tabs-some-reading-i-did-lately-and-you-can-now-too/creativejs.com/2012/01/day-11-sprite-sheets/) has some good tips on saving HTTP requests and not having to worry about images being loaded or not
  • [What CSS Properties Are Supported When You Drop IE6 Support](http://www.bennadel.com/blog/2306-What-CSS-Properties-Are-Supported-When-You-Drop-IE6-Support.htm) – the future is bright
  • An interesting proposal to the CSS working group to [detect if scripting is enabled with a mediaquery](http://www.nczonline.net/blog/2012/01/04/proposal-scripting-detection-using-css-media-queries/)
  • [A plea for progressive enhancement](http://stephanierieger.com/a-plea-for-progressive-enhancement/) shows just how wrong you can go on mobiles when you think you do things right with responsive design
  • The [Mozilla event menu](http://michellethorne.cc/2012/01/mozilla-event-menu/) is going to be a very handy decision tree to see what events are worth your time and which really are just nice to have
  • [Codeyear](http://codeyear.com/) by codecademy is a nice idea – send people some code exercises each day
  • On the topic of codecademy and other “get you started quickly” resources, there’s a [my thoughts on codecademy](http://blog.oreillyschool.com/2011/12/my-thoughts-on-codecademy.html) post on O’Reilly – also check the comments, some very good points in there