January 2011
16 posts
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“Every calling is great when greatly pursued.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes
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“The Poop Factor is ever-present: most of what goes into running a real business...”
– Amy Hoy — Don’t Follow Your Passion
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“There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.”
– Aristotle
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Play, the Key to Happiness →
We live in a culture obsessed with wringing an external result from everything we do. Play doesn’t operate on that metric. It’s not about the end but the experience. This has made play one of the last remaining taboos, an irrational deviation from gainful obligation. What we don’t realize, though, is that it’s precisely the lack of a quantifiable result that allows play...
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MacUpdate Promo - Brush Pilot 2.0 for $12.50 - 50%... →
Brush Pilot is an extremely simple app, but very useful.
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“Chaos is guaranteed and free — structure must be discovered or built.”
– rands
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JavaScript Weekly →
If you haven’t seen it yet, JavaScript Weekly is the only newsletter I actually read these days. Totally worth it.
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JavaScript Module Pattern: In-Depth →
Ben Cherry:
Most of the advanced patterns can be combined with each other to create more useful patterns. If I had to advocate a route to take in designing a complex application, I’d combine loose augmentation, private state, and sub-modules.
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RequireJS →
RequireJS is a JavaScript file and module loader. It is optimized for in-browser use, but it can be used in other JavaScript environments, like Rhino and Node. Using a modular script loader like RequireJS will improve the speed and quality of your code.
You’d be hard pressed to find documentation better than RequireJS’s. The look and feel are superb. The sections look to be...
People Come First →
Essentially, improvement comes from reality and the people who are at the grass roots of the organization are in direct and continuous contact with that reality. Viewed from the perspective of behavioral science, when an individual performs in such a way that he or she gives the impression of being out of touch with reality we describe that behavior as “nuts”. That is what insanity...
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UX Movement - User Interface Blog →
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Private Members in JavaScript →
I got thrown off by ‘this’ again today as it fell apart through a prototype chain. /sigh
The short-term solution (in the face of impending deadlines and more important features to work on) was to quickly add var that = this; to each prototype function.
The long-term solution is to learn yet more about JS.