July 2009
32 posts
“Brief” Guide to JavaScript – Part 4 | Blog of...
Here we’re covering Arrays & Objects. I’m also testing out the some code display plugin for Live Writer. It’s not perfect, but it’s better than no color.
Arrays Arrays are a typical programming paradigm. It allows us to store multiple values into one variable, usually the values are related in some way or another. Let’s say we want to store a list of our grades for a particular class:
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June 2009
35 posts
Firefox web browser | Faster, more secure, &...
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Firefox 3.5 is here. Don’t know if it’ll replace my chrome though…
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Adobe shuts down for a week
Adobe Systems has shut its North American operations for the week as part of a cost-cutting effort that the company said it will repeat at least once more this year.
The San Jose software company, which makes editing, graphic design and Web development tools, said the shutdowns are part of a larger effort to control costs in the face of a global recession. Adobe’s sales have declined...
NYTimes and Wikipedia Save Reporter’s Life By...
NYTimes and Wikipedia Save Reporter’s Life By NOT Reporting On His Capture 88 Comments by Guest Author on June 28, 2009 This post was written by Gagan Biyani. Earlier last week, New York Times reporter David Rohde escaped from a Taliban prison. He had been a Taliban hostage for the last seven months, but the...
“Brief” Guide to JavaScript – Part 3 | Blog of...
Before I continue this article, I’ll emphasize that I’m open to comments and corrections. I apologize if I don’t get back to you, I have a job with a long commute times (~2 hours), but I do read them. And now back to your program…
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Part 3 for my JavaScript tutorial (I keep forgetting to share these)
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iPhone OS 3.0 Adoption Rate - Tapbots Blog
The data seems pretty clear. Prior to June 8th we have a fairly low adoption rate of ~3%. Starting on June 9 this jumps up to 6-8%, which can be directly tracked to the developer release at WWDC. Starting on June 17th we get a huge jump as all the non devs start upgrading. We’re currently running at an overall 75% upgrade rate which is pretty insane considering the number of devices and the...
Nickel and diming - (37signals)
Nickel and diming Jason Jun 24 42 comments Latest by Happy Over the years I’ve seen a lot of proposals from professional services firms. Designers, architects, lawyers, consultants, and others. Many of them included a small price list at the end. Here’s one from a recent proposal I received from a landscape architect I’m considering hiring: These...
8 secret scores that lenders keep - MSN Money
Credit-risk scores: These are the credit scores most of us know. The leading credit score, the FICO, was created by Fair Isaac and ranges from 300 to 850, with scores over 700 generally considered to be low risk.
Response score: This score predicts the likelihood a consumer will respond to an offer of credit, such as a new card or a balance transfer offer. Credit card issuers use response...
Girl Who Does Not Age, Brooke Greenberg Baffles...
Doctors Baffled, Intrigued by Girl Who Doesn’t Age Years Pass, but Brooke Greenberg Remains a Toddler. No One Can Explain How or Why.
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10 Ways to Instantly Increase Your jQuery...
1. Always Use the Latest Version
jQuery is in constant development and improvement. John and his team are always researching new ways to improve program performances. As a sidenote, just a few months ago, he released Sizzle, a selector library that’s said to improve program performances up to 3 times in Firefox. If you want to stay up to date without having to download the...
Clay Shirky: How Twitter can make history
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Feels a bit outdated from the world of social media, but worth noting [hey, it’s on TED after all ;) ]
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Busting IE8’s Mythbusting | Geektechnica
Over the last 12 months or so I was starting to like Microsoft a bit because of their efforts in trying to connect to the users by opening up IE and Windows7 developers blog and taking inputs from everyone on what features and improvements they want to see on future versions. That takes some balls considering the fact that many people were furious with IE & Vista in general. They took a lot...
Cuttlefish Tech » Blog Archive » I love CAPTCHAs
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Trouble is not looming in the next page…
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VirtualBox 3.0 Beta 1 released (View topic) •...
Version 3.0 will be a major update. The following major new features were added:
Guest SMP with up to 32 virtual CPUs (VT-x and AMD-V only)
Windows guests: ability to use Direct3D 8/9 applications / games (experimental)
Support for OpenGL 2.0 for Windows, Linux and Solaris guests
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Microsoft, you make me sick! - James Padolsey
I’m not normally one to protest so distastefully but Microsoft’s last move has really pissed me off. Apparently, their new devil-child, IE8, beats Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome in areas such as “Reliability”, “Compatibility” and “Developer Tools”; at least, according to this chart (IMG)! Apparently IE8 considers itself more secure and easier to use than other browsers too! I can’t...
What is a Browser?
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*smacks head*
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“Brief” Guide to JavaScript – Part 2 | Blog of...
Branching (Conditionals) Majority of the time we want some logic in our code to figure out things to do. We don’t want to attempt to hammer a nail if we don’t have a hammer. Conditionals allows our programs to make decisions based the validity of a certain conditions.
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Part 2 of my javascript guide.
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24 JavaScript Best Practices for Beginners -...
2. Eval = Bad For those unfamiliar, the “eval” function gives us access to JavaScript’s compiler. Essentially, we can execute a string’s result by passing it as a parameter of “eval”. Not only will this decrease your script’s performance substantially, but it also poses a huge security risk because it grants far too much power to the passed in...
Alcohol’s Good for You? Some Scientists Doubt It -...
For some scientists, the question will not go away. No study, these critics say, has ever proved a causal relationship between moderate drinking and lower risk of death — only that the two often go together. It may be that moderate drinking is just something healthy people tend to do, not something that makes people healthy.
“The moderate drinkers tend to do everything right — they exercise,...
Jeremy's Extreme Ford Fiesta road test - Top Gear...
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The beginning isn’t as great as later on… :)
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Daily Meh: Moments that people are in
Real happiness is uninhibited. Sitting around thinking about things is either a symptom or a cause of depression, and I don’t care which. This is really a dual problem: on the one hand, for us types who sit around thinking too much and doing too little, and whose brains haven’t understood that they’re supposed to concentrate on the doing and not the thinking when we are doing, the problem is how...
“Brief” Guide to JavaScript – Part 1
“Brief” Guide to JavaScript – Part 1 June 9th, 2009 Goto comments Leave a comment Edit Introduction So you’ve probably heard all the buzz about JavaScript, especially with the widespread use of AJAX. But you might not know where to start learning. Or maybe you just start copying and pasting JavaScript snippets from around the web....
Testing this out
Checking out posterous as a tumblr replacement. It seems to match my usage of tumblr more by using the bookmarklet & email. Posted via web from Jeff Hui | Comment »
How to Create a Video Game Dumpster: The Complete... →
Good for that 3d game I always wanted to work on.
Google Opens Up Internal Speed Tool To Developers... →
Ah yes, another speed measuring tool like YSlow.
How 99designs Built A $5+ Million Marketplace In... →
Project blog for Johnny Chung Lee: Project Natal →
Soon, you'll have to pay for Hulu →
Median # of tweets = 1 →
Some people like to pay. Let them. | Derek Sivers →
Hacker News | How I Hacked Hacker News (with arc... →
Pretty impressive
Adobe® BrowserLab →
Interesting, although I haven’t tested it yet.
Does Apple want to double charge you for apps? →
This doesn’t surprise me. It’s the same for music that I’ve purchased from iTunes. I guess the user will have to be more careful as to how they manage their apps on the road. Tim ~ developer of POOP THE WORLD gps tracker for the iPhone
Battle.net →
New Battle.net account system… like steam, but for blizzard games…