BurningbirdThe downside of the recent flurry of activity regarding JavaScript/ECMAScript is that I’m in the middle of tech editing Learning JavaScript, second edition, and not sure what to include. On the one hand, it’s extremely important to me that the book be accurate, so my inclination is not to including anything that isn’t implemented in […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. There has been considerable discussion this week on Techmeme about weblogging tool as social networking platform, based on Six Apart’s release of Movable Type Pro 4.2. The announcement was still wet from its birth when the WordPress folks started touting BuddyPress, a variation of social networking based on WordPress. Among the […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. There has been considerable discussion this week on Techmeme about weblogging tool as social networking platform, based on Six Apart’s release of Movable Type Pro 4.2. The announcement was still wet from its birth when the WordPress folks started touting BuddyPress, a variation of social networking based on WordPress. Among the […]
Harmony is a very good thing. For some time now, the ECMAScript working groups have been split into two camps: one supporting ECMAScript 4, another ECMAScript 3.1. The former was a more radical leap forward in ECMAScript (JavaScript), while the latter favored more incremental progress. Ajaxian, John Resig, Simon Willison, and a host of others are referencing […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. For those iPhone users, bereft at loosing the I am Rich Ruby, no worries: I give you the I Am Dirt Poor Ruby, in SVG. Now, after Safari/Webkit properly builds in support for the Gaussian blur filter in SVG, you can impress your friends and still pay rent! (derived from ruby)