Reviews, speculation, and other idle thoughts on hardware, software, firmware…
Each Second Counts, or Not:
The moral of the story here is to think simple when trying to optimize code, otherwise we end up going to far into optimizing and actually make the code more complex and likely slower, but this does not mean that the code w…
…but I’d feel remiss for not saying anything at all. I first caught wind of Google’s JSConf.eu scholarships-for-females program in a roundabout way. I had just started following Rebecca Murphey’s posts 1 when I saw this tweet. At first I thought very little of it but after seeing Nicole Sullivan’s and then Murphey’s more in-depth […]
Despite the carpenter’s advice about the hammer, I continue my search for an exemplary satisfactory IDE 1. The most recent experiment was with JetBrains’ WebStorm 2. The short version: I wanted to like it… First, what I did like: It seemed fairly forgiving – which is to say that it did not try to coerce […]
Inspired by some recent entanglements with a vendor’s API: The type coercion will ultimately work in your favor but the main point is that the type coercion has to take place in the first place. Granted, it is probably an edge case 1 to do something like: …but you never know. There’s some strange code […]
In case you haven’t heard yet–Flickr is rolling out a new photo page (pictured here) and I must say… It looks great. Congrats to the team that worked on this, they did a hell of a job. A few notes that I pulled together from playing around with it this week: The lightbox mode is […]
Because I have developed some sort of weird obsession with this particular niche product in Apple’s line-up, a couple of quick notes about the newly announced Mac mini: Putting the SD card slot on the back seems… well, that seems wrong (but the ports etc. were always on the back, weren’t they?); wouldn’t this be […]
Have you ever wanted (as an object-oriented JavaScript developer) to work with an object before you had an instance of it? For example, perhaps there’s a method that you would like to call without going through the overhead of instantiating the object 1. How would you go about doing this? Can you invoke myWidget.doSomeStuff() if […]
While reading Nicholas Zakas’ High Performance JavaScript, it occurred to me that there were actually two different reviews that I wanted to write. So, rather than try to reconcile them into one review, I’ll simply apply them here as an ordered list. (1) To continue with the JavaScript University metaphor (from my review of Zakas’ […]
About a week ago, I decided to dump foursquare for GoWalla 1; I’d like to tell you a little bit about why. But first, a short lesson on the schedules of reinforcement that we should all know and love from operant conditioning paradigms. In psychology, operant conditioning tells us that behavior is determined by its […]