December 2008
8 posts
HOW TO: Import Non-Commercial DVD into iMovie '08 →
for mom
“Amazon Inc. called its 2008 holiday shopping season “the best ever,”...”
– Amazon Lauds Its Holiday Sales - WSJ.com Meanwhile standard retail stores reported over a 5% drop in sales compared to last year.
“Clearly the economic downturn is the direct cause of most of these failures but...”
– Bits Of Destruction - Interesting thought for the new year. What if the recent downturn is merely accelerating a wholesale shift to more efficient modes of distribution via the internet that was avoided during the first dotcom boom due to entrenched interests.
Rather than being the beginning of a...
Ajaxian » You Leaked on my JavaScript! →
Is JavaScript the “assembly language of the 21st Century”? This seems to be the most frequent argument among those who think JavaScript needs to be wrapped in Python, Java, Objective-J, etc.
This analogy, in my view, totally misses the point of high-level languages and why people use them.
Developers initially moved to C from assembly because it freed them from the details of...
jbarnette's johnson at master — GitHub →
JavaScript wrapped in Ruby. Cool.
Typealyzer →
This site will guess your Myers-Briggs personality type based on your blog. It got me right for the SproutCore blog (http://www.sproutcore.com/blog), but thought I was an introvert based on this blog. Still pretty close.
John Resig - JavaScript Language Abstractions →
John Resig, creator of jQuery, has some thoughtful arguments about why technologies that try to hide JavaScript from the web developer lead to problems for developers down the road.
I’ve written about this myself on the SproutCore blog before, but I think it bears repeating: The native programming language of the web browser is JavaScript. To write the best software possible, you need to...
It’s Got What Plants Crave →
A blog on SproutCore from some developers working on a large SC project of their own.