Java vs. JavaScript (a comic anecdote)
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Ian Darwin’s Java Cookbook is out and it’s a great resource for developers working in Java that are out there and scratching their heads asking “How would I go about…?” The thing that makes Java Cookbook stand out is its comprehensive scope. Darwin has done an excellent job of gathering a wide array of common […]
Having just wrapped up Client-Server Web Apps with JavaScript and Java by Casimir Saternos (O’Reilly, 2014), I’d say that I mostly got out of it what I wanted, and that it serves as a good jumping-off point for developers that want to build “modern” web applications on top of the JVM. More than anything else, […]
JDK8 + Facebook React: Rendering single page apps on the server August Lilleaas takes a look at using Java 8's Nashorn JavaScript engine to do some server-side rendering tricks with React components. (Bonus points for using Clojure, August…) While there are literally an infinite number of ways to solve some of the problems he's talking […]
Haruki Murakami and the Art of Japanese Translations Roland Kelts, writing for The New Yorker: Rubin said that the first time he translated a Murakami novel, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, he phoned the author several times a day to nail word choices and correct inconsistencies. “In one scene, a character had black-framed glasses. In another, […]
Pixar story rules (one version) At The Pixar Touch: #3: Trying for theme is important, but you won’t see what the story is actually about til you’re at the end of it. Now rewrite. (tagged: inspiration creativity storytelling writing ) Atmosphere 1.0, the Asynchronous JavaScript/Java Framework now available! (tagged: async WebSockets JavaScript Java Atmosphere ) Newfound […]
Delicious Deal at Seven Days — that's our café! (tagged: food Dealer.com ) Pandoc Well that looks… awesome. (tagged: markdown markup haskell text conversion todo ) A reading list for JVM-based developers at Prehensile Tail (tagged: jvm java work todo ) DOCUMERICA: Images of America in Crisis in the 1970s Alan Taylor, The Atlantic; fascinating […]
My experience of dConstruct 2010 at abitgone+ (via DF) (tagged: essay design dev todo ) JavaScript Query Engines at DHTML Kitchen—if you can get past the implied "frameworks/libraries are always bad and you're an idiot for using them" attitude, there is some interesting discussion in there about JavaScript-based DOM querying engines. (tagged: css javascript css3 […]
More school: Obama would curtail summer vacation short version: I would support this if we did not ONLY emphasize traditional academics; when we're talk about lengthening the school day, let's keep in perspective that kids need to be kids, too—more hours and more days is only part of the answer, we also need to make […]
JSTalk (tagged: javascript Cocoa JSTalk todo ) Re: 2012, Zombies & The Singularity at Babel Clash by paolobacigalupi (via John Joseph Adams) (tagged: zombie ambulothanatophobia essay blog todo ) Mac Dev Center: What’s New In Mac OS X: Mac OS X v10.6 via DF — heady stuff and most of it over my head, but […]