In truth, I need another instant messaging program like I need a hole in the head, but at work we just adopted Microsoft Office’s Live Communications Server, and I have to say it’s pretty impressive.
Month: March 2006
A (Re-)Introduction to JavaScript. I’m going to save this and the slides from the presentation so that I can send them to a developer whenever he wants a crash course in JavaScript.
The redesigned homepage for Python, the original rabid‐fanbase language. It’s really nice to see a programming site that doesn’t view design as a triviality. Can I have a volunteer for a SourceForge redesign?
Judge references Billy Madison in recent opinion. If I were a judge, this is how I would write all my opinions: with derision, arrogance, and bizarre references to pop culture.
There is no transformation that will keep a determined hacker from understanding your program. This turns out to be true for all programs in all languages, it is just more obviously true with JavaScript because it is delivered in source form. The privacy benefit provided by obfuscation is an illusion. If you don’t want people to see your programs, unplug your server.
Sam Stephenson makes the three greatest svn commits ever. Prototype 1.5 is finally ready to start using at my job. Sam, I don’t know you, but I feel like I owe you a case of beer for the amount of work you’ve saved me.
Last but not least I have to thank Jon Stewart for reminding the Academy (time and again) that everything we were forced to endure (from the endless montages to the finger‐wagging lectures) was insulting and, in the end, utterly absurd. I’m sorry to say that you’ll not be hosting the event again next year, Jon. (The Emperor does not like to be told that he’s not wearing any clothes.)
I bombed in front of, you know, a lot of different audiences. This will just be the most famous audience that I bombed in front of.
Like a blog, only more so.
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Since LazyWeb these days is the place where all the trackback spam hangs out, I find I have no choice but to turn my ideas into action. I envy the flexibility of tumblelogs like Projectionist, in which quotations, photos, chatlogs, and links commingle. That said, I don’t want to go…