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As Mike Fogus described it: I think this book is more important than it’s good. And I’m somewhere in that same vein: I like the idea of this book more than I like the book itself. That is difficult to say without feeling as though I am coming across harsher than I mean to be. […]
“Can everyone stop writing JS micro-libraries for a second. I need to catch my breath.” 1 There are a few posts (on both sides of the fence) about this shit-storm 2 of “micro-frameworks” that seem to be getting announced every other day lately; and while I’m not sure if the following referenced post is the […]
The Joy of Clojure: Thinking the Clojure Way by Michael Fogus and Chris Houser became available today. I had the good fortune of getting to read an early draft last year and got to provide some feedback. True to its title, the book is a joy to read and I do not know of many […]
Ever feeling lost in a sea of not-exactly-ordered tags when you enter git tag at the command prompt? It seems that a common tagging idiom in a lot of git repos is to tag important milestones or releases. Some repos use <major>.<minor>, others <major>.<minor>.<version>, still others <major>.<minor>.<version>.<patch> (and so on?). And as those repos get […]
In March 2007, I released the Ortho theme for WordPress, and it has served me well on this blog since then. But times change and technologies advance, and it seemed like a good idea to get familiar with those, and brush up on my skills in the process. Thus, this evening I deployed the Orin […]
Spoiler alert: toString has its mitts in everything. This all started when we saw a candidate put the following into an exercise we had given him: if (arrayToTest == ”) Our first thought was well that seems wrong… And though it seems like something that shouldn’t work, it did–when the array contained a single item, […]
By Nicholas Zakas, at NCZOnline.
I especially like this bit:
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★★★★☆ on both the Goodreads and Amazon scales. If you’re a JavaScript developer, you would be wise to have JavaScript Patterns on your bookshelf–nestled nicely between JavaScript: The Good Parts 1 and High Performance JavaScript (Build Faster Web Application Interfaces) 2. The three make a nice little troika. And read them in that order: The […]
Not necessarily the front-end developer’s primer… Rated ★★☆☆☆ on the Goodreads scale, and ★★★☆☆ on the Amazon scale. Not to be too much of a self-apologist, but let me preface this review by indicating that my frustration (and hence my lower rating) comes largely from gaps in my own knowledge. But as a result of […]
“The feedback from testing quickly sets us straight, and helps make sure that our efforts are really focused at optimizing the things that make a difference in the customer experience. ¶ If I had to summarize our learnings in three words: “simple …