Inkscape is a great vector drawing tool, and perhaps my favorite opensource app. One reason being that it is much more polished than most opensource applications (I’m looking at you Gimp and OpenOffice!) But one area that is noticeably lacking is its set of default palettes. In a word, they’re horrid. [...]
One area of the Prototype JavaScript library that I have a bit of a love-hate relationship with is its support for mimicing OO inheritance. The ability to call $super from within a function to refer to a superclass’ implementation is pretty darn cool, but I’ve found myself more and more annoyed at having to [...]
http://blog.zenbe.com/2008/11/07/jslitmus-a-tool-for-testing-javascript-performance/
There’s an interesting phenomenon taking place lately that I find a bit disturbing. It has to do with how consumers are leveraging their newly discovered online powers of opinion. In principle, I think empowering people by given them tools to communicate with one another is a good thing – people should be able to be [...]
Here’s a little JavaScript treat: Math.uuid.js is a function for generating different flavors of UUIDs in JavaScript. The function supports RFC 4122-compliant UUIDs (or GUIDS), like this:
AFF147E4-5BB1-448E-B55D-0A834ADE3124
… as well as non-standard random IDs of arbitrary length and radix. For examples of the types of IDs it can generate, or to see performance data, check out [...]