Category Archives: programming

Whoa.

January 12, 2009 – 4:38 pm

Via Dion, Palm’s new Mojo framework for the Pre is based on Dojo! As far as I know, it was a total surprise to the Dojo community (myself included). I can’t wait to get started writing apps for this thing and see what device APIs Palm has surfaced.

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OSCON 2009 Call For Papers Is Open!

January 11, 2009 – 2:35 pm

I’m a bit tardy on this, but the OSCON 2009 Call For Papers is now open. In the past couple of years the shift from desktop-centric to a more web-centric OSCON has continued to make the conference useful and engaging, and great work on topics like JavaScript/Ajax performance, Dojo, Comet, and many of the emerging [...]

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Census 2: More Than Just A Pretty Graph

December 16, 2008 – 8:59 am

Numbers without context are lies waiting to be repeated.

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Notes To A Future Self: Getting Productive On WinXP

December 8, 2008 – 2:15 pm

Windows XP is truly a horrid desktop OS, particularly if you’re a programmer. The default install contains roughly nothing useful, and even getting a development environment going requires grabbing the likes of cygwin, Visual Studio, and a zillion patches from Microsoft. The truly dispiriting thing, though, is how badly cmd.exe still sucks. I fully admit [...]

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delegate(), delegate(), delegate()

October 10, 2008 – 4:50 pm

My MBP batteries keep dying after about a year (each). I usually have 2 that I tote around with me, and each tends to be good for 1.5-2hrs of actual work. This means that I tend not to be able to work through a cross-country flight, and particularly not if I need a VM for [...]

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