I really was going to let this slide. But something pushed me over the edge today. I’m not the first to complain about this; Matt Haughey said it a year ago. But since then things have only gotten worse. Blogging is a trade far more respectable than its silly name…
Month: March 2008
I didn’t know what The Escapist was before Zero Punctuation came into being. But now they’ve got Jason Rohrer, the author of Passage, writing a monthly column/game for them. If they hang onto these guys they’ll be the video game webzine that IGN never was.
"Secrets of JavaScript Libraries" panel audience
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“Secrets of JavaScript Libraries” audience Thanks to the SXSW crowd for filling the ballroom. I hope it was worth it to witness us point at slides filled with code.
Panel post-mortem
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The panel yesterday went very well. Thanks to the code‐hungry attendees for filling a ballroom for the most technical panel of the conference! John has posted the slides from the talk. Audio will be released eventually, but I don’t know when.
The REAL Secrets of JavaScript Libraries
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I must be slacking off: SXSW has already started and I still haven’t penned the “come to my panel” post. So here it is. On Tuesday, I will be sharing the mic with several brilliant individuals whose feet I am not qualified to wash: Sam Stephenson, Thomas Fuchs, John Resig,…
Thought: Internet Explorer 8
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Don’t get me wrong: on balance, I’m thrilled with the standards support in Internet Explorer 8. But I’ll highlight two areas that really disappoint me. The first is the fact that IE’s proprietary event system is here to stay. The second is that, apart from generated content, giant parts of…