Scope in ActionScript 3 is so fubared I can barely express it in words
19 October 2008
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Entries tagged “Web Design/Programming”
Speeding up Prototype’s document.viewport.getDimensions
4 October 2008
JavaScript has a lot of haters. They gripe about its loose typing and semicolon insertion. They whine about it’s lack of inheritance and hardened classes. My guess os that many of these complaints come from programmers trying to write JavaScript as if it were Java, C or Objective-C. JavaScript, however, is a unique dynamic and [...]
If it quacks like a duck
20 July 2008
I felt a bit elitist after posting about my desire that job candidates should have a low-level understanding of JavaScript. Today a bug I caught reinforced that belief.
Intriguing Interfaces: How to share private videos on YouTube
13 July 2008
Although they label it as “beta”, YouTube has done some re-working of their video management interfaces in quite an intriguing manner. With their interface changes, the Help Center Page is a little out of date. The comment mechanism on their blog doesn’t work (note all the double comments—mine didn’t even show up). I thought I’d [...]
The Mobile Dollar: Dipping a toe into device JavaScript
10 July 2008
I’ve been working on a (very) small side project that targets mobile Web Browsers. Testing for the mobile platform, however, is ludicrous: someone I met a SXSW told me that their mobile application had over four-hundred different builds. Simple applications, however, aren’t terribly difficult to make, so long as you keep your focus small.
