Nutty Expando Bug (JavaScript)
I stumbled on a REALLY hard to track down JavaScript bug the other day involving window.name.
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Two Weeks on Vacation – Video Experiment
I recently spent a couple weeks on vacation in South America with my dad and brother. We visited Buenos Aires, Montevideo, Ushuaia, Punta Arenas, Santiago, and Valparaiso. I stitched together some of the video I collected into a short film.
Read on..Is Free Speech in Trouble in Canada?
Are Canadians taking the idea of hate-speech too far into the realm of censorship? When we confuse unpopular-speech with hate-speech we become a censorship state.
Read on..One Week In December – Video Experiment
Last week a few people may have noticed me filming odd things around the office and outside. I was doing an experiment with the HD video features of my new camera. I want to do some video when I’m in Chile next spring but wanted to test everything out to see what gotchas I’d run [...]
Read on..Persistence and Offline Storage in JavaScript – Slides
Here are my slides from my VanJS talk earlier this week “Persistence and Offline Storage in JavaScript”. You’re free to re-use, borrow, whatever. No restrictions.
Click here to get the full Powerpoint file.
Thanks go to Allen for organizing a good event. It was also neat to learn a bit about Joyent and where they’re @ (thanks [...]
VanJS: Offline Storage and Server-Side JavaScript
UPDATE: I’ve posted the slides for this here.
Live in Vancouver? Want to learn more about JavaScript? Check out the VanJS users group. Incidentally, I’ll be giving a talk on Jan 9 on Offline Storage. Jim Pick will also be talking about Server-Side JS and no doubt some Joyent goodness! I’ll post the slides here afterward.
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PhoneGap given Apple Seal of Approval
Over the past year or so there has been a lot of consternation on the part of developers writing applications for iPhone using the PhoneGap framework. The problem seemed to be that Apple was unpredictably rejecting applications on the sole basis that they used a 3rd party framework, or that they suspected PhoneGap used techniques [...]
Read on..Slides from Max 2009 Talk
Here are the slides from my Adobe Max 2009 talk on “JavaScript 2.0 in Dreamweaver CS4″:
JavaScript 2.0 in Dreamweaver CS4
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iPhone Anim Maker Updated
After getting some good feedback on my iPhone Animation Tool, I decided to do another release. This time, I added the ability to hard-code the number of columns. Some people weren’t getting the right sized images for their purposes, so this gives you a bit more control over that. This also makes it useful for [...]
Read on..Catch my JavaScript Talk at Adobe Max ‘09
If you’re going to Adobe MAX this year and are interested in JavaScript development, you may be interested in my talk “JavaScript 2.0 in Dreamweaver” which will be held @ October 6 at 03:00PM in room 506 (Capacity: 90). While you’re at it, here are a few other JavaScript or Dreamweaver related talks that might [...]
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