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Refining Superclass Method Calls in JavaScript

2007-02-10T05:57:07Z

Last week I was revisiting the always fun problem of implementing “classical” inheritance in JavaScript. I’d taken a few stabs at it, and had gotten it to a reasonably good state that borrowed some good ideas from Doug Crockford, Sam Stephenson, ...

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Adobe Makes an Open Source Play

2006-11-07T15:22:59Z

Adobe has given the Flash ActionScript (ECMAScript or JavaScript 2.0) interpreter to the Mozilla foundation as the new open source core of SpiderMonkey, the JavaScript engine for Firefox. It's called Tamarin. Brilliant.

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Graphics

2006-08-23T07:21:33Z

Recently dug up some old photos, er screenshots from the days when I was a graphics geek. I'm supposed to give a presentation about same one of these Thursdays.

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Holy War

2006-07-03T21:27:34Z

This is a brilliant solution to the age-old problem of tabs versus spaces in source code. Instead of treating tabs as indent of a fixed size, treat the source code as tabular data, where the tab character jumps to the next logical column, where t...

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