So, I haven’t been accepting comments on my posts for a while now. From a practical standpoint, it’s because I hate spam, and spam was all I was getting. In a more philosophical vein, I liked Dave Winer’s stance on comments, and Joel Spolsky’s gloss of Dave Winer’s stand — if you want to comment, […]
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Thanks to a plug from my study group from Lispy, I’ve gotten several emails from interested Schemers, and there are now seven of us. I’ve decided to “close admissions” now, since I don’t think a really big group would be advisable. I’ll be posting this fall about the course, so please follow along if you […]
As promised, here are some links to work real programmers are doing on JavaScript. First, from raganwald, the self-described passionate software developer with the mighty Viking name, a long examination of using block structures in JS. And from Eric Kidd, a guy who describes himself as “into compilers, robotics, and programming language design”, here’s a […]
In my latest dispatch on JavaScript, I describe some curious ways to decompose your program into functions that return functions. This technique seems to promise programs that are structured into more cohesive and smaller pieces, and the process of coding accordingly sure feels like working from the specific to the general. Plus I produce, among […]
Update: I’ve signed up six people for the study group, and I’m capping the size of the group there. Hooray for acronyms. How else could I fit all that information into my post’s title. To unpack the question — is anyone interested in joining me in taking the MIT course 6.001 Structure and Interpretation of […]
My next-door neighbor just told me about Blackle, a site that presents a Google custom search on a black background with gray text. The site’s owner, Heap Media, produced this in response to a blog post that claimed megawatts of energy could be saved worldwide if the millions of screens displaying Google’s main page every […]
You know what I hate? Captchas, Challenge questions, spam-nine, and squinchband. Open rant tag here…
Squidoo is a personal web content aggregation tool. In classic Web 2.0 style, Squidoo lets you collect a lot of online content about a specific topic and add your own text and images to it. I’ve given it a try, and I think it’s worth my time to put some effort into it. I do […]
Recently I mentioned I was looking into ways to do unit testing in JavaScript and that I found the script.aculo.us file unittest.js to be promising. Because the maintainers of the code have better things to do than document it completely, I found I needed to read through the code to get a good idea of […]
Introduction This article walks the brave reader through the guts of the unit testing code provided by script.aculo.us, (hereafter referred to simply “scriptaculous”, because that’s hard enough to type as it is) the JavaScript library that powers most of those nifty interactive and Ajaxy effects you’re enjoying on web sites these days. This exegetical exercise […]