I’d heard about The Mosquito a few years ago as a European solution to the “teenagers loitering outside storefronts” problem. (In America we just make our teenagers stay at home.) A Consumerist thread pointed me to this YouTube video that you can use to figure out if you can hear the sort of high‐frequency sound generated by The Mosquito. I could near nothing until 17.7khz — at which point it clicked in, clear as a bell and annoying as Pauly Shore. It made me wish for the age‐based hearing loss that makes those over 25 supposedly unable to hear it. Will this keep kids away from your place of business? Yes, but it’d also keep me away, and I’m 26.
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Aren’t you annoyed at having to remember to declare your script tags in the correct order? Your dependency management solution has become tiresome. As I explain on the Prototype blog, we hope that Sprockets will become a natural part of how Prototype add‐ons are distributed.
Thomas and Amy apparently don’t have enough awesome stuff going on yet, so they’ve decided to release a book on JavaScript performance. Thomas tells me his findings have some implications for how we package Prototype & script.aculo.us.
Convenient though it would be if it were true, Mozilla is not big because it’s full of useless crap. Mozilla is big because your needs are big. Your needs are big because the Internet is big. There are lots of small, lean web browsers out there that, incidentally, do almost nothing useful. If that’s what you need, you’ve got options.
How to write a robust isArray. Faced with a long‐standing problem, Juriy finds the solution by reading the spec. Let this be a lesson to all of us.
Git has a redesigned homepage that boasts about the major open‐source projects that use the up‐and‐coming DVCS. Prototype is one of them. Thanks, Scott!
The New Orleans Saints finished the regular season at 8–8, but finished dead last in the NFC South. This table confirms that our division was, indeed, the hardest this year. Parity is a bitch.
This image “evolution” simulator would be a good benchmark for the up‐and‐coming JavaScript engines… but, sadly, Google Chrome doesn’t yet support Canvas#getImageData. Anyway, both Firefox 3.1b2 and the latest WebKit nightly do very well.
Gay marriage: the database engineering perspective. Perhaps at least 2% of California voters are DB engineers who voted against Proposition 8 so they wouldn’t have to solve this problem — and would change their minds now that Sam Hughes has done it for them. But I must admit that’s unlikely.
CSS Advanced Layout Module. I suppose this is a good spec, even though the syntax is a bit weird. But — Christ — can they please stop overloading the display property? It’s hard enough to use as it is.