Just finished the final tech review of my Learning Node book. At 400 pages, it’s a big book. I must admit to being more than a little tired. Right now, I feel I could sleep for a week. The big announcement in Node land is that unstable 0.7.x is being moved to stable 0.8.x next week. As a […]
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writings about JavaScript/ECMAScript and Node
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Future. Perfect.
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 […]
Over time as I looked at several of the new elements in HTML5, I saw a trend: many of the elements are single purpose derivations of popular, and commonly occurring, JavaScript and CSS applications. Consider the following list: the progress element the meter element the hidden attribute the details element the telephone input type the […]
I guess I will now be looking at how to port my Drupal installations to PostGreSQL, since Sun sold out to Oracle. The Java issue doesn’t impact me, as I saw the writing on the wall as regards to Java a long time ago. However, support for MySQL will most likely be completely undercut, if not […]
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The jParallax library
Every once in a while, something comes along that is so well executed, it makes you want to jump up and down. That’s what the jParallax library, and the wonderful demos did for me. Don’t take my word for it. You have to check out the library and demos yourself. No, you really have to. (Thanks for […]