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Links for 2007-2-23

Posted by mattc at Feb 24, 07 05:05 AM

• Narrative JavaScript

  Narrative JavaScript is a small extension to the JavaScript language that enables blocking capabilities for asynchronous event callbacks. This makes asynchronous code refreshingly readable and comprehensible.

Links for 2007-2-22

Posted by mattc at Feb 23, 07 05:05 AM

• XPath, unleashed -- coming to Internet Explorer 5+ HTML DOM near you

  Using MSXML to give Mozilla-like xpath DOM querying.

• NCZOnline - The case against Hungarian notation in JavaScript

  For a while, I feverishly pushed forth Hungarian notation as the most appropriate way to write JavaScript code. Recently, however, I've had a change of heart.

Links for 2007-2-19

Posted by mattc at Feb 20, 07 05:05 AM

• MakeMaker made easy

Dorking to Brockham

Posted by mattc at Feb 18, 07 04:44 PM ... Comments (0)

Walked across the fields to Brockham, which took around 45 mins through the mud. Ended up in the Royal Oak overlooking the village green (slightly less pretty in the winter gloom), ate carrot and lentil soup with London Pride. Not that great.

The the trough and the old corn field were about half way between the two towns.

Links for 2007-2-17

Posted by mattc at Feb 18, 07 05:05 AM

• La Serre, our gite in the South West of France.

Links for 2007-2-16

Posted by mattc at Feb 17, 07 05:05 AM

• gotAPI.com - quick developer reference for CSS, HTML, JavaScript, PHP, AJAX, SQL and more

• Understanding and solving the JavaScript/CSS entanglement phenomenon [Update] | ara pehlivanian—Web Standards, Web Culture, Web Everything.™

Links for 2007-2-13

Posted by mattc at Feb 14, 07 05:05 AM

• Forget "best", aim for "worst"? ~ Authentic Boredom

  Remarkably, discussing 'worst" instead of "best" yielded some very useful results.

• AskTog: First Principles of Interaction Design

Tivoli w/ Graffiti Cat

Posted by mattc at Feb 11, 07 06:41 PM ... Comments (0)

Winter Malmö

Posted by mattc at Feb 10, 07 10:56 PM ... Comments (0)

Two lit ice rinks and a turreted building. I recommend the Moose burgers.

Links for 2007-2-07

Posted by mattc at Feb 8, 07 05:05 AM

• peterme.com :: Two things I’m thinking about

  Technologically ecosystems. Build systems not products.

Links for 2007-2-06

Posted by mattc at Feb 7, 07 05:05 AM

• Flickr Photo Download: Javascript (ECMAScript) grammar dependency graph

  Tufte inspired JS visualisations.

• Coding Horror: If It Isn't Documented, It Doesn't Exist

  'No matter how wonderful your library is and how intelligent its design, if you're the only one who understands it, it doesn't do any good." I've found a bad system with great documentation is far more *useful* than a great system with poor documentation.

• Programmers at Work: Interviews With 19 Programmers Who Shaped the Computer Industry (Tempus): Books: Susan Lammers

Links for 2007-2-05

Posted by mattc at Feb 6, 07 05:05 AM

• BrokenBlog » Blog Archive » How to develop for Flash on any OS, for free

Links for 2007-2-02

Posted by mattc at Feb 3, 07 05:05 AM

• » Microsoft confirms Vista Speech Recognition remote execution flaw | George Ou | ZDNet.com

  I have verified that I can create a sound file that can wake Vista speech recognition, open Windows Explorer, delete the documents folder, and then empty the trash.

• JavaScript tutorial - DOM events

• [tw] : Creating Custom Events with JavaScript: Decoupling