So, I read a blog post about declaring functions in JavaScript recently. It was just about technically correct as far as it went, but, ow, the way it was written hurt (missing semicolons, invalid code samples, etc). I’ll decline to link to it, thanks very much, but instead I’ll bring out its main points together with a recommendation or two (that, in fact, the original blog post did not). […]
READ MOREIt started like this: I was reading some JavaScript code, written – he says charitably – some years ago. Much simplified, it looked something like this, with all identifiers renamed to protect the guilty: […]
READ MORETime for a quick giggle as I look at some old hardware I used to use, some 14 years ago, before I take it off to recycling. This past weekend, in a box at the back of the cupboard, I found this: […]
READ MOREA short and quick example of some baffling coding today. It so happens this past weekend I was updating some HTML and CSS and JavaScript on this site. One of the JavaScript source files (luckily not written by me) had this: […]
READ MOREWay back when, I bought a black MacBook and an iPod Touch. I was – har, har – going to learn how to write Objective-C and earn millions selling apps. You know the kind of thing: […]
READ MORESo I got an iPhone 6 the other day. Bully for me, I can hear you say, but this isn’t about that. It’s about the fact that Apple, in preparation for iOS 8, changed the limits and functionality on their cloud storage offering, iCloud. With all the iOS devices in the house, a while back I had to pay for extra storage to enable backups for them all. That storage was just upgraded at no extra cost to 20GB. Time, I thought to myself, to check on all the cloud storage subscriptions I actually have and, presumably, use. […]
READ MOREA couple of weeks ago, just before we disappeared off on vacation, Eury crashed. Before you start imagining car wrecks and the like, let me explain that Eury was our oldest cat. He was 18 years and 4 months old, which, for a cat, is way up there in terms of age. And by crashed I mean that, finally, all of his ailments – and let me tell you this cat had them all, pretty much – caught up with him and there was nothing more we could do. […]
READ MOREAs hinted a couple of blog posts ago (From ‘57 to 57), I’ve been resurrecting a stash of old film negatives from those halcyon days when I first started learning about photography after I’d bought an SLR. And by “resurrecting” I mean separating them from the stuck-together block some of them had become. A couple of people have asked me what I did, so a quick post is in order. […]
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