The second edition of the JavaScript Cookbook just went live at O’Reilly. If you’re wondering why I haven’t been writing about technology as much lately, it’s because I was saving all my tech writing mojo for the book. We went a somewhat different path with the second edition. I spent a lot less time on syntax, and […]
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It’s just a tool
I gather that Mozilla has named some marketing person as interim CEO as they search for a replacement who would be acceptableeffective. I don’t care, really. Mozilla is an organization that provides support for Firefox, a tool I use. I’m using Firefox because it is the browser that irritates me the least at this time. I […]
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Web Server 101 for Ghost
update I disabled the Ghost weblog because I don’t want to maintain two different weblogging software applications, and Drupal is my primary weblogging software. The configuration listed here was sound and reliable for well over six months. —- Recently I installed Ghost on my server. Ghost is a Node.js weblogging tool that you can host […]
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JavaScript, not a ‘real language’
Simon St. Laurent and I have been discussing that exciting upcoming conference, DHTMLConf. Party like golden sparkles following the mouse cursor is cool again! If you’re going to JSFest, how can you not go to DHTMLConf? This is a conference celebrating a time when all of the technologies we take so seriously now, were fun! Simon is […]
For years I battled with members of the WhatWG and others over elements and attributes in HTML. Months, we’d go back and forth about the usefulness of the details element, or in passionate defense of the beleaguered longdesc. I wrote hundreds of pages in defense of RDF over Microdata; the virtues of SVG in addition to Canvas; and […]