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Javascript scoping makes my head hurt

over 2 years ago by Piers Cawley on Just A Summary :.
Who came up with the javascript scoping rules? What were they smoking. Here’s some Noddy Perl that demonstrates what I’m on about: my @subs; for...

Baby's first screencast

over 2 years ago by Piers Cawley on Just A Summary :.
If you follow the Ruby blogs, you will probably have seen a bunch of programmers attempting to do something akin to Haskell’s maybe, or the ObjectiveC...

I am not a rock star

over 2 years ago by Piers Cawley on Just A Summary :.
I am not a rock star. I am a computer programmer. I think I’m quite a good one. You are not a rock star either. 387,000 matches to that query...

Joined up thinking: why your resources want links

over 2 years ago by Piers Cawley on Just A Summary :.
Remember the good old days? The days before Google? The days before Altavista? The days when a 14k4bps modem was fast? Did I say good old days? In those...

Patterns and principles

over 2 years ago by Piers Cawley on Just A Summary :.
Recently I’ve been thinking about the way that patterns on different scales interact with each other. If you read Christopher Alexander’s A Pattern...

The authentication tarpit

over 2 years ago by Piers Cawley on Just A Summary :.
At work, we’re looking at adding the Atom Publishing Protocol in a few places where it makes sense. APP’s got a lot going for it – the spec is a great...

Martin Fowler's big mouthful

over 2 years ago by Piers Cawley on Just A Summary :.
Martin Fowler is writing a book about Domain Specific Languages and, because you could never accuse Martin of a lack of ambition, he’s trying to write...

Getting to grips with Javascript

over 2 years ago by Piers Cawley on Just A Summary :.
I’ve been busily adding AJAX features to the work website, and I got bored of writing Form handlers. I got especially bored of attaching similar form...

The secret of comedy is...

over 2 years ago by Piers Cawley on Just A Summary :.
... timing. You either have it or you don’t. Does this count as good timing? Finish up some improvements to the way Typo sweeps cached pages...

Typo 5 is out - and more on the future

over 2 years ago by Piers Cawley on Just A Summary :.
Right, we’ve cut a Typo 5 gem and it’s on rubyforge and heading to various mirrors I hope. Frédéric’s writing the release notification which...