Archives for February 2009

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JavaScript for C# programmers: prototypes and privacy

Continuing my series about learning JavaScript when you're a C# programmer, using Firebug in Firebox as our testing ground. […]

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Party Shuffle Friday

Last week I was travelling, so wasn't able to write up a PSF. This week, though, the guests are back and ready to, er, groove on down. […]

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JavaScript for C# programmers: prototypes, the basics

Another post in the the series that discusses JavaScript for those more familiar with C#. In this episode, the first of a couple on the topic, we look at prototypes and prototypal inheritance. […]

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Printer CSS - call to action

Ned Batchelder is a tech blogger I like to read, although he tends to deal with languages and situations I don't. Nevertheless he comes up with some great insights that have applicability to what I do and some great topics that extend what I know. […]

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JavaScript for C# programmers: closure basics

Continuing the series on JavaScript for C# developers, in this episode we look at closure. […]

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Fixing this blog for Internet Explorer 8

As detailed over on my work blog, I installed IE8 RC1 this morning. Because my home page in IE7 was this blog (it is in all my browsers), it was the first thing to come up in IE8. And IE8 immediately flipped into compatibility mode and displayed the page as if it was IE7. To put it mildly, this was both weird and aggravating, since the whole site validates both as XHTML 1.0 transitional and as CSS 2.1. There should have been no problem. […]

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JavaScript for C# programmers: void

A very short, sweet post in the series for C# developers learning JavaScript. […]

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JavaScript for C# programmers: Truth and falsity

A quick post in the continuing series on programming in JavaScript from a C# developer's perspective. […]

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PCPlus 265: Evaluating expressions

I write a monthly column for PCPlus, a computer news-views-n-reviews magazine in the UK (actually there are 13 issues a year — there's an Xmas issue as well — so it's a bit more than monthly). The column is called Theory Workshop and appears in the back of every issue. When I signed up, my editor and the magazine were gracious enough to allow me to reprint the articles here after say a year or so. After all, the PDFs do appear on each issue's DVD after a couple of months. When I buy the current issue, I'll publish the article from the issue a year ago. […]

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Party Shuffle Friday

Another quick iTunes party shuffle. I think the guests at this party will be mightily confused. […]

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