… and then there are programmers. jQuery creator John Resig has ported the Processing visualization language to JavaScript. Not only is this an incredibly cool hack, but it also makes Processing a heck of a lot more useful in a practical sense. I wonder if this will become the new best approach for presenting graphs [...]
There are programmers …
May 9th, 2008 · No Comments
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Links for April 3rd
April 4th, 2008 · No Comments
The Quick and the Ed. How class (or income bracket) affects college admissions. Usually it’s better to be a rich idiot than smart and poor. O’Reilly Radar: Review Board is good software. Software for managing code reviews. David Pogue: Can Blogger-Bashers Predict the Success of a Product? Unlikely. I find the gadget blogs to be nearly useless. FP [...]
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Links from March 14th
March 15th, 2008 · 3 Comments
Sports metaphors for Clinton vs. Obama. - Excellent top to bottom. I still contend that the rules of Quidditch prove that JK Rowling was never a sports fan. jQuery creator John Resig demonstrates some cool JavaScript programming tricks in Search and Don’t Replace. Fred Clark explains how rising land prices can put mobile home owners in a [...]
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jQuery evangelism
March 10th, 2008 · 3 Comments
For the past few weeks, I’ve been completely obsessed with jQuery, one of the many fine JavaScript UI libraries that are competing for your attention these days. I can’t really tell you whether jQuery is better than any of the other libraries, but I can say that it’s infinitely better than writing your own JavaScript [...]
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