Posted by mattc at Jul 31, 08 05:05 AM
Cheap for NPO's. Screengrabs make it look like another ugly Thoughworks UI - I wish they would spend a few hundred quid on a designer.
Posted by mattc at Jul 29, 08 05:05 AM
Although I can think of loads of benefits of knowing a little about a lot.
Need to try this out. I always assume Selenium was a single user system.
Posted by mattc at Jul 28, 08 05:05 AM
Posted by mattc at Jul 26, 08 05:05 AM
Nice use cases describing an extended hyperlink (ie. a-href) specification for HTML5.
Some quite playful box animations using dojo. Coupling these with sound I think would be better.
Posted by mattc at Jul 25, 08 05:05 AM
Libraries to query and manipulate geographic data.
I wonder how you define a partial wildcard attribute in your schema language? Not sure if XML Schema or RelaxNG support this.
Could be useful to extend Firebug for organisations with their own standards, for example.
Talking to Matt at work about this the other day, AS & PHP have gone through a similar rebranding over the past few years. Makes me think about my perceptions of other languages I know less about.
Posted by mattc at Jul 24, 08 05:05 AM
Not sure if tag soup matters that much, some applications I've worked with haven't even bothered to seperate out the presentation layer! XSLT is the tidiest, most logical templating system I've used, not the most flexible though.
Another take on client-side form validation.
Interesting impementation of conditional selectors & field synchronisation.
Posted by mattc at Jul 22, 08 05:05 AM
I wrote an essay one this book once. Would quite like to re-read it. It's about how we are caught in an vicious technological circle of increasing complexity/speed and the need for society to control it (with technology). Doh!
Interesting architecture diagram for a Firefox extension, embed Jetty & Lucene.
New(ish) blog covering issues of freedom as we technology becomes more centralised..
Done with Processing apparently.
Posted by mattc at Jul 18, 08 05:05 AM
Rod Lord explains the hitchhikers graphics.
Posted by mattc at Jul 16, 08 05:05 AM
You can't easily use rsync with S3 - I don't trust the various little perl/ruby scripts that are knocking around the web - so I switched switch to rsync.net. Easy to set up, now doing daily differential backups of 3 machines via Ant.
Posted by mattc at Jul 15, 08 05:05 AM
Notes on managing UI events. Good point about cascading.
Nice use of browser, urls etc. to compare test results.
I like his points about needing a cofounder because developers need to be pessimistic about the code/design in order to improve it.
A very useful jsdoc Ant task from Mr Hurley.
Posted by mattc at Jul 14, 08 05:05 AM
Old(ish) news, but interesting that Becta complain on the basis that forced upgrades have a negative impact on kiddies learning outcomes.
Posted by mattc at Jul 11, 08 05:05 AM
Pixar: 'a tightknit company of long-term collaborators who stick together, learn from one another, and strive to improve with every production."
I really want to swap hosting companies but it will take days (if not weeks) to reinstall websites, wikis, blogs, db's, email, dns admin ... so maybe I'm stuck for life. Dreamhost look good value.
Posted by mattc at Jul 9, 08 05:05 AM
I got addicted to Darwinia over xmas, it's certainly not mainstream though so this might be a good partnership for indie gamers rather than C4 competing against big-budget consoles.
Posted by mattc at Jul 7, 08 06:18 PM ... Comments (0)
It would be nicer if RegExp objects assigned the mismatched portions of the test string to an array in a similar fashion to which they store portions of successful pattern matches.
var foo = /^[a-z]+$/;
foo.exec("34asdf"); // returns null
So, the developer knows the input string ('34asdf') is invalid but not why. It would much more useful to the calling method to know the specifics of why the string didn't match the pattern and, say, in the cases of interfaces and web forms be able to communicate with precision to the user the reason why their input has failed not just that it has.
Eg. Given the regex test above, it would be useful to be able to look up a failure property that has been populated as a result of the test,
foo.failures = [ "substring '3' found at position 1, expected '[a-z]'", ... ];
I'm not aware of any language that implements regex's doing something like this. In JS you'd have to either throw away your regex pattern and write a lot of custom substring checking functions or split your regex in to multiple parts, but by doing this you lose some of their concise beauty.
Posted by mattc at Jul 6, 08 05:05 AM
My Opera top three: 1. Spatial keyboard navigation, 2. Custom searches (which are actually just custom REST-style requests), 3. Amazing visit history indexing.
Posted by mattc at Jul 5, 08 05:05 AM
'It’s more fun to write new code than read old code, but this fun wears off."
Posted by mattc at Jul 4, 08 05:05 AM
Posted by mattc at Jul 3, 08 05:05 AM
Nice, but people generally don't build big text-heavy Flash sites these days do they - apart from portfolios sites? Most of the new stuff you see are games, visualisations, or embedded components etc.
Posted by mattc at Jul 2, 08 05:05 AM
Urg, lots of stuff to read.
More lovely wall stickers
Threadless surface stickers.
Posted by mattc at Jul 1, 08 05:05 AM
An apache XSLT module
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