The author of that article is confusing the application of personal color preference with designing to appeal to others. Clearly, the author dislikes blue and wants more variety. The problem is that blue will be used because of the unconscious benefits it provides to the site, regardless of the d...

I was trying to drum up support for the Indian Culture proposal in an Indian-language chat room I'd found. Anyway, I realized that while I could post the image and the hyperlink, I couldn't post a hyperlinked image, which is sort of needed if you post the image, since it had a nice, yellow "suppo...

I'm using Api and want get some image, but it's string public String photo_medium_rec; How can I convert it to source?/image? in Java?

Here you go: I've made multiple improvements to the tab autocompleter: The autocompleter now shows avatars. The autocompleter now shows the user name including spaces (small change, but it looks nicer). The actually inserted name will still be stripped of spaces, of course. The people that s...

To use you as an example: @TonyMeyer, i.e. an exact match will cause a notification if you've been in the room in the past seven days. @Tony, i.e. a first name match (to be precise, a word boundary match) will cause a notification if you've been in the room in the past two days. @Ton will notif...

I recently read somewhere that writing a regexp to match an email address, taking into account all the variations and possibilities of the standard is extremely hard and is significantly more complicated than what one would initially assume. Can anyone provide some insight as to why that is? ...

There is no simple regular expression for this problem: see this fully RFC‑822–compliant regex, which is anything but simple. (It was written before the days of grammatical patterns.) The grammar specified in RFC 5322 is too complicated for primitive regular expressions. The more sophisticated...