JSConf 2009 in Alexandria VA was simply the best conference I’ve ever been to. Two days, April 24th and 25th, filled with amazing speakers, fantastic tech demos, great social events, good food, and tons of fun. The conference was crafted by Chris Williams and his wife Laura as a labor of love and the passion […]
I’m going to be giving one of the presentations at JSConf2009. Scheduled for April 24th and 25th JSConf2009 is a conference for JavaScript developers and will be taking place just outside Washington DC. I’ll speaking on TaffyDB, a free JavaScript library I wrote that is at the heart of Joe’s Goals.
If you are a web […]
I’ve been working on this JavaScript News and Resources page and I’m looking for more content. The basic idea is to build out a one page reference to easily access the highest quality content related to JavaScript. I know there is a lot more out here so this is my call out to see what […]
Slate recently posted an article about incentives in the fruit picking industry and how they can increase productivity. Naturally there is a big difference between fruit and scripting, but it begs the question: can we do more in the tech industry to link income to productivity? I think we can.
A hard problem to solve
In most […]
It had to happen. I’ve joined the masses, paid through the nose to AT&T, and purchased an iPhone. Two in fact. One for me and one for the wife. Only one problem, Yahoo Mail doesn’t work on the iPhone.
Alright, maybe that isn’t strickly true. In fact Yahoo has very nice support for the iPhone. Even […]
TaffyDB 1.5 is out with some big improvements and capabilities. To download and learn more you can go here.
I’m also looking for feedback on the feature list and suggestions for 1.6. You can see a quick summary of the proposed features on the mailing list and reply via the list or via the TaffyDB feedback […]
There as been a lot of improvements with Taffy DB since I first open sourced it on March 10th. Aside from being faster and smaller there are also a ton of new ways to search and use your data when you have it within a Taffy DB collection.
In case you missed it, Taffy DB […]
I’d like to take a moment to introduce something I’ve been working on a while: TaffyDB.
TaffyDB is a free (opensource) JavaScript database for Ajax applications. It works by creating a thin (under 10K) data layer within your application. You can insert, update, delete, order, loop, and query against the data layer and integrate it with […]
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 […]
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 […]
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