November 6 2009
» Some real data about JavaScript tagging on web pages
Since March of this year I’ve been running a private web spider looking at the number of web tags on web pages belonging to the Fortune 1000 and the top 1,000 web sites by traffic. Using the spider I’ve been able to see which products are deployed where, and how those products are growing or shrinking.
November 3 2009
“ HTML has always been a conversation between browser makers, authors, standards wonks, and other people who just showed up and liked to talk about angle brackets. Most of the successful versions of HTML have been “retro-specs,” catching up to the world while simultaneously trying to nudge it in the right direction. Anyone who tells you that HTML should be kept “pure” (presumably by ignoring browser makers, or ignoring authors, or both) is simply misinformed. HTML has never been pure, and all attempts to purify it have been spectacular failures, matched only by the attempts to replace it.
October 29 2009
» Underscore.js
Underscore is a utility-belt library for JavaScript that provides a lot of the functional programming support that you would expect in Prototype.js (orRuby), but without extending any of the built-in JavaScript objects. It’s the tie to go along with jQuery’s tux.
October 27 2009
» Retrospective: An Axiomatic Basis for Computer Programming
C.A.R. Hoare revisits his past Communications article on the axiomatic approach to programming and uses it as a touchstone for the future.
October 26 2009
October 21 2009
“ If Oracle is allowed to acquire MySQL, it will predictably limit the development of the functionality and performance of the MySQL software platform, leading to profound harm to those who use MySQL software to power applications…
