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Veejayon We spent a week making Trello boards load fast

I've found that the use of documentFragment elements can provide an easy way to avoid reflows. They're easy to use, you can build your stuff on the side and then insert the fragment somewhere in the DOM as needed.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Web/API/DocumentFragme...

Veejayon How I Almost Ditched ColdFusion, learned Ruby & Python & came back

People still use ColdFusion? wow :O

Veejayon Andrew Ng's Classroom Lectures for ML

Play in Silverlight.

Cause that's always the best way to get your message across.

Veejayon Linux Fundamentals

Great article, covers the basics in detail.

Though I have to admit that I wonder how come most Linux / open source software websites are so average-looking in terms of colors, font and general styling.

There seems to be a policy of content over presentation when it should be possible and even easy to have both in 2011 without much effort.

Veejayon Is this the PC Macbook Air Competitor we've been waiting for?

Seems like a nice laptop and all, but hacking on Windows seems subpar once you've had a taste of Lion or a nice Ubuntu setup.