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Sunday, May 4th, 2008
Please excuse the break in my MVC series, I just want to announce that one of my talks has been accepted for AJAXWorld 2008 West. I will be presenting on The Beauty of JavaScript — a topic of great interest to me as of late.
If you want to see me speak, see if you can [...]
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Thursday, December 13th, 2007
It’s been a long time since I sat down and wrote anything about JavaScript; and with Dustin’s new book on design patterns in JavaScript, I felt that this would be a good time to post about a pattern that I’ve found myself using often.
You’d be hard pressed to find a JavaScript application that doesn’t manipulate [...]
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Wednesday, October 17th, 2007
Planets are nothing new. No no, not planets like in the solar system; planets like news aggregating sites. I’ve been reading some for quite a while now as a low-fat alternative to full-on feed readers like Google Reader or Bloglines. My current favorites include Planet PHP, Planet Python, and as of about a week ago, [...]
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Thursday, October 4th, 2007
There is just too much bad JavaScript in the world.
It’s sad because JavaScript, like other functional languages, has so much potential to be beautiful. One of the biggest contributing factors to nasty JavaScript is that it has an implied global scope. This was a originally designed to be a convenience to non-programmers who happen to [...]
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