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. Of the 18 available, [...]
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 [...]
[UPDATE - 1/3/2010: For the latest/greatest implementation of a JavaScript UUID function, please check out my node-uuid project. Any future improvements/enhancements to this code will be made there.] [UPDATE - 9/1/2011: 'Seeing reports of UUID collisions in the wild. Johannes Baagoe has a write up on why Math.random() can't be trusted. I'm not entirely sure [...]