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Books 2008 #3 Pro JavaScript Design Patterns

Pro JavaScript Design Patterns An excellent book. There are plenty of takeaways from this intense examination of Object Oriented programming in JavaScript. I haven’t worked on a project large enough to really benefit from OO JavaScript in the overall (classes/inheritance, … Continue reading

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Books 2008 #2 High Performance Web Sites

High Performance Web Sites: Essential Knowledge for Front-End Engineers This book? All kinds of interesting. I’ve been writing about performance a little bit here recently and this well written, concise book has really helped to expand my understanding of some … Continue reading

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Books 2008 #1 Pro JavaScript Techniques

Pro JavaScript Techniques (Pro) Reading this book I finally understand why I don’t really immediately grasp JQuery code. Resig’s doesn’t use verbs for his function names. Instead of something like getElementsByClass(), he uses something like class(). I like verbs in … Continue reading

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Movies 2007 #60 No Maps For These Territories

William Gibson – No Maps for These Territories I’ve read pretty much everything William Gibson has ever published and I own signed copies of everything short of Neuromancer (some day), so…. yeah. I really enjoyed this movie. Your mileage will … Continue reading

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It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Fish Men

Get in the Christmas spirit HP Lovecraft style 🙂 It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Fish-Men Based on the classic: The Shadow Over Innsmouth by H. P. Lovecraft

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