December 2007
16 posts
10 tags
Useful Javascript patterns
Julien Lecomte (author of YUI Compressor) gave a talk titled “High Performance Ajax Applications” (Slides). The talk is extremely useful and I highly recommend it (actually not just this one; all the talks at YUI Theatre are brilliant). There are a few patterns which caught my eye: lazy function definition, using setTimeout() to handle long-running tasks without freezing the UI, and...
Dec 22nd
jcalderone: Filesystem structure of a Python... →
Dos and Don’ts
Dec 21st
Ola Bini on Java, Lisp, Ruby and AI: Ruby closures... →
Dec 21st
the Idea Shower » » CSS Text Wrapper →
This guy is a genius!
Dec 21st
7 tags
Steve Yegge picks Javascript/Rhino
Plus everyone will spit on you. People who don’t habitually spit will expectorate up to thirty feet, like zoo camels, in order to bespittle you if you even suggest the possibility of using a Lisp or Scheme dialect at your company. That sentence is hilarious! Read the rest of his rant.
Dec 19th
Microsoft Live Labs : Volta →
Idea - split app components into n-tiers at compile-time by annotating the components with certain tags. Volta can also compile MSIL -> Javascript; so you can decide if your component should run in a browser (in JScript) or inside a .NET VM on server-side
Dec 18th
Review Board →
A code review app written in Django by folks at VMWare.
Dec 16th
evhead: Will it fly? How to Evaluate a New Product... →
Very relevant to web2.0ish ideas.
Dec 16th
The Django Book →
Django Book goes 1.0! Apress also has a print version.
Dec 16th
Google and the Wisdom of Clouds →
This month’s contribution to Google fetish :)
Dec 16th
Anatomy of Credit Card Numbers →
What I always wanted to know!
Dec 11th
8 tags
Quants and the recent sub-prime crisis
I was reading an article titled The Blow-Up (requires paid subscription) from MIT Technology Review’s Dec issue. The article is about how Quants might have been the reason for the recent sub-prime crisis in the financial markets. The following is an excerpt from that article which summarizes the reason for the sub-prime crisis: Apparently what made it worse was most of these quants at...
Dec 8th
7 tags
BugLabs kit looks really good
Hearing the words pluggable plastic modules, Java and RESTified APIs just makes my heart go fast! Ship them soon will ya? :-) Something like this would be more useful than an Arduino board or an OpenMoko phone to hack on because you get an extensible hardware platform and not a one-purpose device. Also I’m hoping their prices would be reasonable - the base around US$ 300 and each...
Dec 8th
Developer's Guide - Google Chart API - Google Code →
Found via Simon Willison
Dec 6th
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Restoring the entire disk using TimeMachine
Today something happened which made the whole upgrade to Leopard worthwhile. I tried to edit some system files (property list files) and I guess I messed up and my MacBook won’t boot anymore. But I had a TimeMachine backup from the previous hour :-) So I pop-in my Leopard DVD; hold down ‘C’ to boot from the Combo drive; pick “Restore from TimeMachine” option...
Dec 5th
Integrating PyChart and Django →
A HttpResponse object in Django can be used like a file object - read/write bytes to it.
Dec 4th