RSS feeds: keep them well hidden June 22nd, 2008
All the minimalists in the house say “Yo!” All the maximalists say “Well, it really depends on a number of complex and mutually antagonistic factors….”
Compiling languages down to Javascript May 12th, 2008
A hundred years from now, all code will look both similar and different.
Emacs as an anagram of “ECMA-S” May 11th, 2008
Your editor will become your browser will become your IDE. The process has already begun. Please wait.
Pretending that Javascript is XSL, part 3: hCard to vCard December 20th, 2007
In previous posts (part 1, part 2) I established the possibility that there were advantages to making Javascript more functional, to bring it in line with CSS and XSL. I didn’t say what these were, particularly, but I then provided a few bits and pieces on top of jQuery to make Javascript just that: functional [...]
Image manipulation in the browser June 6th, 2007
While Picnik gradually converts the functionality of desktop image processing software into online tools (in the hope, presumably, of being bought up by one of the big players), Flash has found other, more piecemeal uses in augmenting the image and font functionality of your average browser. Hot on the heels of sIFR, which replaces text [...]