Last night, I opened a pull request (my second) on the JSHint project. I created a wrapper for Apple’s JavaScriptCore (JSC) engine, which ships with (effectively) every Mac that’s out there. Why JavaScriptCore? That’s the obvious question, right? Why even bother creating a wrapper for JSC when JSHint is already out-of-the-box ready for Node.js, and ships with […]
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 […]
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, […]
★★★★☆ 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 […]
TSA Success Story blog at izs.me—glad to see that someone is having some success resisting (tagged: TSA politics ) Browser CSS hacks by Paul Irish—a comprehensive list of browser-specific CSS hacks: I don't use CSS hacks anymore. Instead I use IE's conditional comments to apply classes to the body tag. ¶ Nonetheless, I wanted to […]
WordPress Optimization Bible at Prelovac.com (tagged: blog cache optimization performance wordpress ) PHP « Programming « Portfolio lesterchan.net : book marked for wp-dbmanager (tagged: wordpress plugin ) Ajax code loading optimization techniques by Bill Higgins (via Rebecca Murphey) (tagged: ajax javascript optimization performance todo ) YUI Doc (tagged: api code documentation generator javascript JSdoc yuidoc […]
stevenf:
This terminal command will turn every file in the current directory into a zip file of itself (removing the original file):
for item in *; do zip -m “${item}.zip” “${item}”; done
I recently used it to shave 20Â GB off a collection of uncompr…
It has been a while since I played around much with launchd, but I ran across a problem recently that it seemed perfectly suited to solve. The challenge was as follows: there is a particular application that I need to run as root. When that application persists files, those files get written with root as […]