BurningbirdWhen last I posted, I had planned on updating that post with W3C co-chair decisions on my other HTML5 issues. I wasn’t quite expecting to be here, over a month later, still waiting on decisions. Not sure what’s happening with the W3C HTML WG at the moment, other than I think the group is making […]
We just finished the last of the quality control checks on the JavaScript Cookbook, and it is now on its way to the printers. The Table of Contents should be showing soon at the O’Reilly book web site, but I’ll give you a taste of what I covered: The usual suspects, such as String, Date, Math, […]
This weekend we spent going through the house and creating four piles: books to donate to the library computers and electronics to recycle at the electronics recycling place stuff for Goodwill a recycle/toss pile. This will be the first time I’ve recycled computers. In the past, I’ve found homes for older machines while they were […]
I finished copy edits on my JavaScript Cookbook, which now enters the production process. The first half of the book focuses on the basic components of JavaScript, while the latter half gets into the more complex material. I touch on the basic JavaScript objects, such as String and Number, but also spend a considerable amount […]
Thirty years ago I was living at my Dad’s in Yakima, going to college. That Sunday was a beautiful day, and Dad was outside in the garden as I was getting ready to go to work. I worked for a photographer, who had a studio in the Yakima Mall. I liked working Sundays. Sundays were […]