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JavaScript Writing

Learning JavaScript errata

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. If wishes were horses, book authors would have a herd. All too often you see the ‘oops’ and such only after the book is in print. In my case, I’ve worked with JavaScript for so long (since the very beginning) I brought along a couple of bad habits that made […]

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JavaScript Writing

New Year

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I just posted a note at Mad Techie Woman about an error in the Learning JavaScript book I could kick myself for. It has to do with quirks mode, and the fact that browsers interpret an XHTML document as HTML when served with an .htm extension, and the fact that […]

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People Political

No slam dunk

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Norm Jenson came out with an endorsement of John Edwards: John Edwards has announced his intention to run for President of the United States, that he is in favor of universal health care for every American is reason enough to support him, but equally important is that he is electable. I […]

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JavaScript

Prototype is not the de facto standard

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Ajaxian has a pushback at Prototype criticism. Among the criticism is: A lot of javascript tutorials written today are based on the prototype framework. So, I thought it would be nice to see how other people use prototype.js . What I found is that the majority of people use it only because they […]

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Weblogging

The Giveaway

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I find it humorous that after the Blogger meeting with Bill Gates–where he walked into a room of bloggers, all of whom were using Apple laptops–Microsoft works with Acer to send out Windows laptops to webloggers. As Jeneane notes, primarily male webloggers (and I’ve not seen anything among the ASP.NET webloggers about […]