Code Simplicity by Max Kanat-Alexander (published by O’Reilly, 2012) is the kind of book you might give to a junior or journeyman programmer and say: “Read this over the weekend, and then on Monday we’ll talk about your design.” There are many quotable passages, pithy aphorisms, and axioms that take the form of definitions, facts, […]
something something something Russell Davies: Anyway. It's not just sci-fi. I'm also depressed about the lack of future in fashion. Every hep shop seems to be full of tweeds and leather and carefully authentic bits of restrained artisinal fashion. I think most of Shoreditch would be wondering around in a leather apron if it could. […]
The cost of privacy James Coglan writing at The If Works: However, encapsulation does not need to be rigorously enforced by the machine, and using this style has all sorts of annoying costs that I’ll get to in just a second. Encapsulation is something you get by deliberately designing interfaces and architectures, by communicating with […]
In all of last week’s commotion, I almost missed this completely: In October 2010, we were privileged to get a tour of Portland Head Light, 1 including a peek inside the actual lamp housing. As so many of my pictures do, these ended up on Flickr to be shared with the world. 2 And sometime […]
Young kid skateboarding No helmet? Sure, whatever. But flip-flops? What gives?
At 10:30am on April 12, 2012, we welcomed our new son Emery Stephen into the world. He was 8 pounds, 7½ ounces, and was 21 inches long. “He’s a real singer,” the nurse complimented as he launched into a forty minute wail. But he is a handsome devil, and we cannot wait to bring him […]
We are driving: A. and H. and I. A. is driving, I am in the back seat with H. We see lights flashing in the rearview. Blue lights flashing. The police? A. pulls over. It is not the police, it is a Domino’s Pizza Delivery Guy. Who gave him the authority to pull us over? […]
Understanding MVVM – A Guide For JavaScript Developers Addy Osmani on the MVVM pattern, and using Knockout for his examples code, no less. (tagged: Addy Osmani KnockoutJS MVC javascript MVVM ) The Amazing Trajectories of Life-Bearing Meteorites from Earth At Technology Review: Their results contain a number of surprises. First, they calculate that almost as […]
You are back home (???) on the St. Mary’s campus, only the sense of scale has changed. Has the campus grown? Have you shrunk to minuscule proportions? You are back for a new semester and though you have moved in to your new room, you have not been back there in… weeks? You have been […]
Eric Sarrion’s jQuery UI (published by O’Reilly) is a beginner-to-intermediate level overview of the jQuery UI library and its widgets. 1 Sarrion walks through these widgets one-by-one, chapter-by-chapter, offering a description for each, elaborating on the UI problem that each is designed to solve, and then detailing the API for each of these widgets. Each […]