Filling in Python’s gaps in statistics packages with Rmagic Randal S. Olson on Rmagic, a tool that allows you to execute R code more/less from within your Python scripts: Rmagic lets me pass my data to R, run the R function on the data, then seamlessly return the data back to Python before I start […]
Testing Grails – A Collection of Useful Resources Compiled by Tomás Lin. Some familiar, some new, some practically useless, some awesome. (tagged: testing Grails ) What We’ve Really Lost to the Fiscal Cliff: A Sense of Form Nancy Scola, writing for The Atlantic: But the approval of the Sunday-night resolution suggests that, no matter what […]
tl;dr: It’s a 150 page essay on auto-boxing, full of dangerous code examples and anti-patterns and soft warnings to “not do what I just did”, and some of the wording is not-wrong-but-not-quite-right, but hey there are some decent parts, I guess. Cody Lindley’s JavaScript Enlightenment (O’Reilly, 2012) has an awesome title, and I wanted very […]
Huddle/PhantomCSS More awesome stuff you can do with PhantomJS: CSS regression testing. An integration of js-imagediff with PhantomJS and CasperJS for automating visual regression testing and test coverage of Website styling to support refactoring of CSS. (tagged: testing CSS PhantomJS JavaScript ) Complexity Analysis of JavaScript Code Ariya Hidayat, on the JSComplexity tool. The briefest […]
A little JavaScript nugget re: scope-safe constructors: The crux here is how the scope-safe trick (with instanceof) turns the constructor into a factory for itself, which allows you to pass it to map or any similar function where you might want to operate on a whole bunch of items.
IE10 CSS Hacks Louis Lazaris at Impressive Webs. I'd somehow missed this — that Internet Explorer 10 was not going to support conditional comments. (Probably because I don't pay enough attention to IE-related news?) Conditional comments were only ever "the least hacky" way of dealing with ID's quirks — and though "a hack is a […]
An (apocryphal?) tale: 1 when Brendan Eich unveiled the original JavaScript (nee LiveScript, nee Mocha) prototype at (then) Netscape, it was a Lisp. 2 It was only at management’s insistence that the language received a C-like syntax, and even then it was mostly to have some kind of syntactic parity with Java (with which it […]
Right off the bat, and just so we’re clear about this: I read an “Early Release” edition of Mark Ethan Trostler’s Testable JavaScript, and in a lot of places… it shows. I’m sure it will come through editing and be a lot tighter by the time you read it. 1 Putting its rough “Early Release” […]
jQuery.Deferred is the most important client-side tool you have Matt Baker, writing at the Wealthfront Engineering blog. The title is a little bit linkbaity, but I'm pretty close to agreeing with it: if you're using jQuery in your web project, the Deferred object is one of the most powerful tools that the library offers, and […]
The HAR Show: Capturing and Analyzing performance data with HTTP Archive format Ilya Grigorik and Peter Lubbers on Google’s “Make The Web Fast” show, talking about HAR and tools that you can use to analyze the data. (At GoogleDevelopers YouTube Channel.) This is great. Here are their notes, and Ilya’s associated blog post. (tagged: HAR Google http […]