-- Geeks, drugs, and deception. An entertaining look into the (fictional) lives of techno con artists, and how a recently-fired comic book artist get pulled into their inner circle.
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-- Particularly useful reference when trying to eek out a few extra milliseconds of load times in older browsers.
-- Interesting tech, and somewhat engaging, but disappointing ending (or lack thereof.)
, by Neil Strauss
-- An engaging, first-person account on transforming from an urban writer into "Jason Bourne."
, by Cory Doctrow
-- A high school hacker fights the 'Department of Homeland Security' to reclaim American civil liberties after anti-terror tactics are taken to a new level.
-- Techniques-for, and the value-of sketching interactivity before developing products. Good ideas. OK book.
" -- About finding untapped opportunities in your market and repositioning yourself to capitalize on them. Easy to grasp; Longer then it needed to be.
" -- A thin book with some good best-practices, but a little disappointing. Perhaps it's JavaScript's fault, not the author's ;-)
" -- Good overview of usability issues in designing HTML forms, backed by examples and eye-tracking research. I bought the 
" by Marshall Goldsmith
-- Discusses interpersonal skills (and how to identify and fix them) that most commonly hold executives back in their career advancement.
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-- Lesson: Cut the corporate B.S. and stop wasting your time. Focus only on what matters most.
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-- Lessons on handling tough conversations: firing people, relationship problems, hostage negotiations (well, maybe not that last one.) Wasn't an exciting read, but I've been paying more attention to "turning points" in conversations since reading it.
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-- Lessons in building reusable ("pluggable") Django applications. Assumes you know the basics of Django and Python.
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-- I really enjoyed this one. Lots of suggestions and strategies for negotiating.
jsmacro 0.2 was a full rewrite (because version 0.2’s are always a full rewrite.) It’s now a little closer to what I was originally thinking. Instead of a line-by-line state machine, the parser now uses regex, and dynamically calls macro-handling methods based on the name of the macro. That’s a little vague, but in practice it means that extending the macro language is easier, and it may be possible to do it on-the-fly (as in, writing new macro implementations within the JavaScript source file that’s being parsed — which is a geeky goal I’m going for.)
Other new additions:
- Test files are now picked-up automatically when named correctly. This makes it painless to add more tests.
- Added support for setting DEFINE flags from the command-line. Handy if you automate builds for different environments (like IE6 vs. the rest of the world.)
- Added support for #ifdef and #ifndef
The next big hurdles will be how to handle else statements, and coming up with a reason to implement some type of #inline capability.
Kevin J 9:20 pm on January 27, 2010 Permalink |
iPad = o-ver rat-ed, *clap* *clap* *clapclapclap*
erik 9:44 pm on January 27, 2010 Permalink |
I’ll remember that when you want to borrow mine ;-)