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JavaScript-based syntax highlighter with support for multiple languages. It backs several syntax highlighter plugins for WordPress (several of which I've tried, and one of which is currently used here on blog.F_D; none of which seem to use the latest). Seems the CSS highlighter needs a little help.

Read this a few years ago and have been bumbling around trying to find it again. Found it again.

Rebecca Murphey's MVC-like approach to structuring large JavaScript-based applications.

via @rmurphey:

The real answer is JavaScript IS object oriented already, without any “help” from libraries. It seems that most developers simply don’t get it, and cannot get past the concept of traditional “Classes”. Javascript is a prototypal, object oriented, instance based programming language.

via @johnjosephadams — though I take issue with: [1] how many movies there are (since so many movies are usually so bad); [2] The Andromeda Strain (whose scale is hardly apocalyptic); and [3] that Adams' The Wastelands collection is missing!

at Los Angeles Times:

Blockbuster has lost a total of $1.1 billion since the beginning of 2008 and has been severely hamstrung in efforts to grow its business due to interest payments on $920 million in debt.

Heh. Maybe they shouldn't have been so soft on late fees?

…don’t try and hide a wrapper behind HTML5 bling by using a section, that’s wrong.

at Nettuts+ (via @devongovett)

via PL — worth the link for the recommended reading

by Lisa Katayama, at Boing Boing — Absolutely awesome article. I agree with every word. (Except about the Rubik's cube; I kind of hate the Rubik's cube.)

Climbing feels like playing Tetris with my body.

at Opera Developer Community (via JP)

at GitHub (via Badass JavaScript) — a new minifier/mangler/compressor utility running in Node.js.

at Badass JavaScript — this seems to keep coming up…

at Ajaxian

via @lepht— The quote everyone is latching onto:

One frustration of early employees is that they’ve had limited upward mobility as Facebook has matured.

…which is the one that rings true—though it's hard to feel bad for folks that (just extrapolating here) took their $1 million in options money to start their own company so that they could be in charge. Just the same, it's a sentiment worth absorbing.

at Clientcide (via @rmurphey)

at NPR

at SXSW 2011 PanelPicker

at totes profesh — interesting list; favorite part:

If video on the web hadn’t moved beyond pictures of fish and into voyeurism and pornography, I don’t think we’d be talking about video in HTML5 today.

Harvard Business Review (via DF):

Despite an unbroken string of 11 blockbuster films, Catmull regularly says, "Success hides problems." It's an insight Google should acknowledge and act on. Google's leadership admirably tolerates failure on side-projects (and big projects as well), but what Pixar has that Google does not is a culture where the fear of complacency is a strong motivator, where new problems are identified, discussed, and addressed openly and honestly, all of which requires humility.

Paring down to ≤100 personal items is perhaps taking it to an extreme, but there are a lot of great points in here. Especially the one about how paying for experiences (e.g., travel, concerts and events, etc.) is far more fulfilling than paying for "stuff".

Tangentially related to my recent post about The Shallows (at One Thin Tumbl).

at Stubbornella, and w/r/t/ my recent post about The Shallows — Nicole Sullivan manages to say more of substance in this blog post than Carr does in 250 pages. (Perhaps because of its more personal nature?)

at SPIEGEL ONLINE, and w/r/t/ my recent post about The Shallows:

He'd never dream of keeping a blog. Nor does he know anybody else his age who would want to. And he's certainly never tweeted before. "What's the point?" he asks.

Whitney Hess at A List Apart:

My client says, “I want to build a spaceship!” I say, “No, we need to make a kite.”

at msnbc.com (via B²)

at Mother Jones:

I sat down, and they said on the back of your Social Security card, there's a number. That number indicates the bank that bought you when you were born based on a projection of your life's earnings, and you are collateral. We are all collateral for the banks. I have this look like, "What the heck are you talking about?" I'm trying to hide that look and look clueless. I figured clueless was better than argumentative. So they said, "You don't know this?! You are a member of Congress, and you don't know this?!" And I said, "Please forgive me. I'm just ignorant of these things." And then of course, it turned into something about the Federal Reserve and the Bilderbergers and all that stuff. And now you have the feeling of anti-Semitism here coming in, mixing in. Wow.

at Theresa Neil

at markitechture:

Marissa Mayer had a question – the right question – and she answered it by testing. ¶ “If you make links less blue, do we lose money as a business?” ¶ Yes, yes you do.

at msnbc.com — Let's check back in annually, shall we?

at Beautiful Interfaces (via @rmurphey)

Zeldman on "HTML5":

To encourage what should be encouraged, yet not add confusion to an already over-vague understanding, folks like us might want to say, “HTML5 and related technologies,” or “HTML5 and other new technologies,” or something along those lines. ¶ Sure, it’s a bit stiff. But such a construction allows us to participate in the current frenzy and be understood by non-technical people while not fostering further misunderstandings—particularly as we also need to concern ourselves with web colleagues’ and students’ knowledge of what HTML5 is and is not.

"JavaScript performance playground" (via <a href="http://badassjs.com/post/893443459/jsperf-the-github-of-javascript-performance-testing"?Badass JavaScript)

at Perfection kills (via Bad Ass JavaScript)

at Spoiled Milk ApS (via Bad Ass JavaScript)

Inspire the web with just 10K.

"simple and flexible Atom/RSS syndication for WordPress"

"The completely naked theme for WordPress"

by Alex Payne (via @fogus)

Moving forward just means spending several minutes thinking about your problem and picking an implementation technology with slightly better performance characteristics than whatever you were using before. ¶ This is where I believe Node fits in.

Great interview, great discussion.