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 [...]

So bad it said nothing, twice March 1st, 2006

E-mail-based error reporting, whether from a system specifically designed to provide it (like Nagios) or as a bolt-on to an application or framework, is only as good as the underlying error diagnostics. So when one of our clients’ Coldfusion app sent me a message today with the brief summary “null null”, the server might as [...]