BurningbirdRecovered from the Wayback Machine. Agile Ajax is interviewing Dojo creator Alex Russell (via Ajaxian) and I was pleased to read the comment about closure: As a language, JavaScript is still horribly misunderstood. All real power in JavaScript comes from understanding closures, the “everything is always mutable” property, and the prototype chain. These are actually concepts I covered […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I’m going to be exploring moving my sites to a multiple weblog tool. I’m currently looking at Lyceum, which is a multi-weblog fork of WordPress. In the meantime, to lighten the atmosphere here and allow the smoke from the gunpowder to settle, as well as give the cleanup crew time […]
It would seem that there’s a new WordPress installation with security updates. My site was what was causing the DoS attacks that’s been bringing down the server because I don’t have this upgrade. The only problem is, I have several sites running WordPress now. The fact that WordPress does not provide multi-weblog capability, and there […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Nick Carr wrote a post that has resonated strongly with several people. He writes of the A Listers who say, “link to me to be linked in turn”, and thus perpetuate their own dynasty. He calls it an innocent fraud from John Kenneth Galbraith’s book The Economics of Innocent Fraud. It is, Carr says, about […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. A long time ago, I wrote a post called Tyranny of the Standards for O’Reilly. I was basically ripped a new one by about 40 or 50 of some of the web’s more influential people. They did so because they didn’t agree with me. I’d like to think they also did so […]