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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.

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.

Careful w/ #2 though…

"Find your character!" — what a great idea (and a great design)

at IEBlog

at A List Apart: Articles (by @slicknet [Nicholas Zakas]) — great discussion of what can and can't be minified, why minification is important, and also a short discussion of "the gzip caveat".

at Al Dente

at blog.rebeccamurphey.com — marking as "to read" not because it's about jQuery-to-Dojo, but because it looks like an interesting case study in how to boldly go into (personally) uncharted territory

at Wise Bread — resonates with me because I've been thinking about making a bookshelf or three…

at NCZOnline — yes please, anything to kill off sprites

by Marc Ruxin (via B&sup2;) — contains many of the same thoughts I have as I wrestle with this quirk of our modern landscape:

And so, as the tactile pursuit of the cultural arts disappears, it is only fair to acknowledge how, in many ways, you were never armed with the right equipment in the old days. There was no Amazon collaboratively filtered recommendations to check, no www.metacritic.com meta scores to cross reference, no social web to tap for peer review. and feedback. There was no www.IMDB.com available for film, no Pandora for music discovery. Of course, part of that old paradigm is that mistakes were made. Bad records and books were bought. Disappointing films were rented. Despite these minor setbacks, the joy of the unexpected existed, and the mitigation of mistakes took actual work.

by Eric Meyer (at ALA) — a worthy and reasonably in-depth discussion

at BeerAdvocate (via @tharx75) — ZOMG! want!!

"One-touch cleaning system" — really? this is the only way to get a new foot cap?

at Unreported

Isn’t that nice? Businesses get to dress up delinquency as “a negotiated transfer to lenders.” The next time you can’t make your credit card payments, try calling up your Visa representative and say, “No, no. I’m not late. We just need to engage in payment negotiations.” See how that goes. Also, enjoy prison.