Category: Programming

New features in JavaScript 1.7

Firefox 2.0 includes JavaScript 1.7 - here's a breakdown of the new features. Looking at this list of features, which includes destructuring assignments, generators, and list comprehensions, it seems to me that the Mozilla guys...

FirefoxJavaScriptProgramming

XUL Templates are a Waste of Time (i.e., “suck”)

A long rant on the suckitude of XUL Templates, with a lot of the points ringing true for me: XUL Templates are a Waste of Time (i.e., "suck") Another thing that sucks about "XUL Templates" is the name - it's so generic that it's...

LinuxProgramming

Patch for GNU touch to add -p option, a la mkdir

The other day I realized that often when I'm using touch, I'd like it to have the ability to create ancestor directories that don't exist, a la mkdir -p. I quickly hacked together a shell script to do what I want. Then I thought...

Programming

Yahoo! Hack Day 2006/Q4

100+ hacks. Amazing. Technorati tag: hackdayq406...

LinuxProgrammingPython

urllib2 – The Missing Manual

A nice little intro on Python's urllib2 library, including how to use handlers and openers to do things like authentication and handling of proxies. I've been messing around a bit with the Python FUSE API so this was of interest...

Programming

So many web frameworks

So many web frameworks these days: Ruby on Rails (Ruby) Django (Python) TurboGears (Python) Zope (Python) CakePHP (PHP) Struts (Java) Seaside (Smalltalk) UnCommon Web Framework (Common Lisp) ErlyWeb (Erlang) Ocsigen (OCaml) A...

ProgrammingPythonRuby

Django vs. Rails

I just finished going through a Django tutorial. My first impression is that Django is perhaps a little trickier to get going than Ruby on Rails (though this probably becomes immaterial once you get accustomed to it). The thing...