Archive for October, 2007

Fun with Joe’s Goals

A friend was playing around on the Joe’s Goals website and sent me this screen shot:

It isn’t art but it is kind of funny.

Joe’s Goals Celebrates 1.5 Million Checks

One and a half million checks! Isn’t that amazing? Who would have thought Joe’s little goal tracker would make it so far?
Take a look at these stats as we voyage into the realm of endless goals and see just where all these checks were placed.
Most checked goals
These are the goals with the most users and […]

Enhanced Javascript Lazy Function Definition Pattern

Filed under tech bits

The lazy function definition pattern is pretty simple at heart: you have a function which does some work, caches the results through a closure variable, and then overwrites itself with a new function that simply returns the closure variable. So the first time you run a function will be the only time the […]

How to write for internet readers

In April 2007 Technorati reported that:

There are over 70 Million Weblogs.
Over 120,000 new Weblogs are created every day.
Over 1.4 million posts are published every day.
Nearly 3 million bloggers are taken advantage of tags to better categorize their content.

With all that writing, why is it that half the time I can’t figure out what any of […]