Jason Zimdars jzimdars

Jeremy Kemper's bio, as interpreted by me:

Jeremy Kemper is a former member of a regionally acclaimed dance group called "Sparkle Motion". After his ballet techniques were deemed to be "too controversial" for mainstream ballet, he joined a company called 37 signals. Now, when he isn't pirouetting through Rails internals or building web applications, you can find him doing extreme ballet in the streets of Brooklyn under the name "Periwinkle Thunderhorse".

What forces layout / reflow

All of the below properties or methods, when requested/called in JavaScript, will trigger the browser to synchronously calculate the style and layout*. This is also called reflow or layout thrashing, and is common performance bottleneck.

Generally, all APIs that synchronously provide layout metrics will trigger forced reflow / layout. Read on for additional cases and details.

Element APIs

Getting box metrics

elem.offsetLeft, elem.offsetTop, elem.offsetWidth, elem.offsetHeight, elem.offsetParent

Rdio -> Google Play Music

Abandon ship!

I've used the following method to export a playlist with 601 items, matching 580. The remaining 21 are a mix of artist or album mismatches, along with some tracks that just aren't available.

Requires

An rdio account (big surprise).
A Google Play Music account.
OSX
homebrew setup with the following installed:

	EASY MARSHMALLOWS
	-----------------

	Marshmallows are perhaps one of the simplest confections you can make. They only
	require a handful of ingredients, a batch can be thrown together in 10-15 minutes
	(plus cough 3 hours for them to set), and you can flavor them however you like.
	(You haven't LIVED until you've had coconut marshmallows!)

	Hardware needed:

	<!DOCTYPE html>
	<html lang="en">
	<head>
	<meta charset="utf-8">
	<title>Cross-browser kerning-pairs & ligatures</title>
	<style>
	body { font-family: sans-serif; background: #f4f3f3; color: rgba(40, 30, 0, 1); width: 500px; margin: 80px auto; padding: 0px; }
	a { color: rgba(15, 10, 0, 0.8); text-decoration: none; border-bottom: 1px solid; padding: 1px 1px 0px; -webkit-transition: background 1s ease; }
	a:hover { background: rgba(0, 220, 220, 0.2); }
	p, li { line-height: 1.5; padding: 0em 1em 0em 0em; margin: 0em 0em 0.5em; }

	function toSentence(array) {
	var wordsConnector = ", ",
	twoWordsConnector = " and ",
	lastWordConnector = ", and ",
	sentence;

	switch(array.length) {
	case 0:
	sentence = "";
	break;

	Found this tip in comment here: http://www.tipb.com/2011/01/04/tipb-bug-home-button-working-iphone/

	1.) Open any application

	2.) Press and hold the power button until the slide to shutdown swipe bar appears.

	3.) Release Power button

	4.) Press and hold Home button Lightly
	until screen returns to icon screen

	+ (void)describePreferredFonts
	{
	static NSArray *textStyles;
	static dispatch_once_t onceToken;
	dispatch_once(&onceToken, ^{
	textStyles = @[UIFontTextStyleHeadline,
	UIFontTextStyleSubheadline,
	UIFontTextStyleBody,
	UIFontTextStyleFootnote,
	UIFontTextStyleCaption1,

	Array.prototype.to_sentence = function() {
	return this.join(", ").replace(/,\s([^,]+)$/, ' and $1')
	}

	[
	// Make paste-and-indent the default paste behavior
	{ "keys": ["super+v"], "command": "paste_and_indent" },
	{ "keys": ["super+shift+v"], "command": "paste" }
	]