November 1, 2008 – 3:23 pm
A funny thing happened on the way to building a delayed real-time feed display: I got temporarily obsessed with implementing a template language in JavaScript that, as it turned out later, I didn’t need. About the feed project itself, I hope to write more soon—but for now I want to get this extra [...]
October 29, 2008 – 10:42 am
From Mark Bernstein’s entry on Practical Prototype and script.aculo.us:
When chemists consult a volume about professional chemical technique, or when surgeons reach for the latest update on neuroanatomy, they can usually find a book that isn’t couched in terms of silly examples and jokes. So can poets, mathematicians, and geologists. For some reason, though, [...]
September 1, 2008 – 12:37 am
In my last post, I got all fluffy about how cool Ubiquity is but didn’t share any code to prove the point. As it happens, I have come up with at least one useful command that I’m starting to use habitually in posting bookmarks to Delicious. You can subscribe to my command or [...]
August 31, 2008 – 12:07 am
When I was a wee hacker, I lived my digital life though a Commodore 64. I played games on it, did homework, talked to people far away—you know, all the stuff they showed in the pictures on the box. I also took things apart—both the machine itself and software running on it. [...]
One bit of hackery I did this weekend was to explore the CodeIgniter PHP framework, which is even less magic yet more glued-together out of the box than the Zend Framework. Also, very much less magic than CakePHP and barely in the same universe as Symfony. I think I may have found my [...]
