In preparation for an up-coming post 1, I did a bit of extra legwork on syntax highlighting plugins for WordPress and wound up switching from Google Syntax Highlighter for WordPress (GSHW) 2 to SyntaxHighlighterPro. Both of them are backed by Alex Gorbatchev’s Syntax Highlighter library. But more on that in a moment. What prompted the […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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