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new PyPy release. Much faster …

erik — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 22:08:52 +0000

new PyPy release. Much faster than CPython running some of my tools http://morepypy.blogspot.com/2010/03/introducing-pypy-12-release.html

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erik — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:00:06 +0000

re2 – "an efficient, principled regular expression library" – Should make for interesting source code reading.

Every time I hear stories abou…

erik — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:32:43 +0000

Every time I hear stories about runaway cars, I’m reminded of the eX-Driver anime series http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89X-Driver

glad my pre-”drive by wire” ca…

erik — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 01:28:24 +0000

glad my pre-”drive by wire” car only “suddenly accelerates” when I ask it to. Mechanical controls FTW!

Really interesting UI for an I…

erik — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:54:12 +0000

Really interesting UI for an IDE:
http://www.cs.brown.edu/people/acb/codebubbles_site.htm Great for wall-sized, multi-touch displays ;-)

careful out there — it’s hail…

erik — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:16:03 +0000

careful out there — it’s hailing downtown!

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erik — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 03:00:05 +0000

Internet Explorer: Global Variables, and Stack Overflows – File away under "Obscure details to remember about bizarre JavaScript behavior in IE" — this case, " any recursion that happens through the window object is limited to a stack depth of 12"

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erik — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 03:00:04 +0000

Cocoa Text System – Nice examples on how to modify OS X keybindings. I didn't realize you could define macros like this.

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erik — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 18:00:04 +0000

Teambox | Project collaboration – Looks like a nice way to collaborate on projects. I like the use of short status messages (ala Twitter) and simple task lists.

I expect future cars to have l…

erik — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 16:10:35 +0000

I expect future cars to have location-aware speedometers that display your current speed relative to the speed limit of the road you’re on

enjoying the surprisingly heav…

erik — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 16:36:26 +0000

enjoying the surprisingly heavy snow — almost doesn’t look like Texas outside

jsmacro 0.2.3

erik — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 02:02:29 +0000

The latest jsmacro (v0.2.3) adds support for “else” clauses to “if”, “ifdef”, and “ifndef” statements. Combine this with the command-line variable definition support and you can now do fun things like this:


//@ifdef IE6_BUILD
 ...custom IE6 code here
//@else
 ...code for other browsers here
//@end

Of course, this goes against the idea that your JavaScript would remain usable for development without needing to be processed, but it’s just an example. Longer term, I hope to have a different approach available that will allow conditional code substitution so that browser specific optimizations won’t get in the way of an easy development/test/debug process.