I need to clarify my interests. I keep getting calls from recruiters who want to hire me to do Perl or database management. So, I am trying out an experiment in self-analysis by describing my enthusiasms as they relate to specific programming languages. I am currently interested in the web software applications of Ruby, JavaScript, […]
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I was lucky enough to present a talk about asynchronous concurrency in Clojure (and JavaScript and Ruby as it turned out) on May 27th in Reston. Thanks to FGM and Matt and Russ for organizing and hosting the Capital Area Clojure meetup. I have the slides available for review from scribd below. There’s plenty about […]
Just a quick note: at JSConf, Chris Williams, John Resig, and others called on all JS bloggers to pimp MDC as much as possible. And they’re absolutely right: we should try to push it higher in the search results pages for JavaScript by giving it lots of inbound links. So, here’s my contribution. Go go, […]
(Or, my impressions of JSConf US 2010) I wrote a very ambitious (and partially successful) post last year attempting to recap the first JSConf. I can’t even pretend to repeat that feat this year: track B was so good that I spent half my time in it, and I couldn’t get to everything I wanted […]
It’s a concurrent world, and, increasingly, it’s an asynchronous world too. Many things are going on at the same time, and it’s impossible to determine exactly when each is starting or ending. In other words, everything is fast and out of control. As a software developer, both concurrency and asynchronicity are more important concepts than […]
I drove up to Baltimore’s Beehive coworking space last night to meet the folks in the Baltimore/DC Javascript Users group. We poked around the Twitter API and looked at both what you could get from the API via JSONP and what you could do with it.
Offered for your approval, one attendee’s observations of JSConf 2009, held this April in Rosslyn, Virginia. First, propers are due to Chris and Laura Williams for setting this up. A conference for javascript is an idea whose time has come. The speakers were outstanding. The food and after-party were fantastic, too. If there’s a JSConf […]
I’ve been spending too much time with javascript lately. It probably isn’t healthy for me. I’ll get back to my own Clojure project and paying Ruby work soon enough, but right now I’m working on an interface-intensive project, so I’m up to my neck to explicit returns and key:value notation. I was looking into improving […]
So I’m building a web application that uses javascript (with the canvas element) to draw a chart of student grades over a period of time. It also lists each grade in a table on the side of the chart. Since the grade data is dynamic (coming in the form of JSON either at page load […]