My kids love Cookie Clicker. And, only because they can’t stop talking about it, I checked it out. My 14 year-old told me he’s figured out how to cheat at the game so bad that he basically ends up with “infinity cookies”. Wait, let’s step back. The game is weird and silly and involves clicking… Continue reading Learn to Code By Cheating
Category: javascript
Web AIM and the Amazing Mr. Chipman
The Amazing Mr. Chipman has been hard at work on this for the past couple months, and I’ve had a lot of fun walking past his desk and looking over his shoulder at the sheer awesomeness of it. What is it? It’s AIM on the Web! Web AIM allows you to drop visitors’ buddy lists… Continue reading Web AIM and the Amazing Mr. Chipman
The Evils of document.write
As a developer who works on a site where users can paste in all manner of crappy code from all corners of the web, I’m here to beg. Please, for the love of all that is holy, it’s time to stop using document.write. Yes, I know that it’s being used in the header and footer… Continue reading The Evils of document.write
PayPal Seeks DOM Nerd for Unobtrusive Servitude
I got an e-mail from Steve Ganz asking if anyone knew any javascript wizard who need a job. I met Steve at SXSW and he’s swell (he’s also on the microformats discussion list, which is also a +1 in my book). He’s looking for a javascript expert to help take PayPal out of the 90’s… Continue reading PayPal Seeks DOM Nerd for Unobtrusive Servitude
Child Scripts Making Child Scripts!
I’ve been wrestling with a bug in one of my modules for AIM Pages for_ever_, and just found a fix today. I created this well-intentioned module called code snippet that allows you to paste in markup and it’ll get inserted into the DOM. This is really just a stopgap to allow people to add stuff… Continue reading Child Scripts Making Child Scripts!
AIM Pages and Safari
I’ve seen this now a couple places, and figured I’d comment on it (not in an official way, but in a “I feel your pain” way). The current falderal is about AIM Pages and Safari and how it doesn’t work yet. We tried, honest we did. But, Safari has certain “issues” with its DOM support… Continue reading AIM Pages and Safari
I Know Something!
Today is a banner day. No, it’s not because the cold I’ve had for four days has reached Biblical mucous proportions (if Pharoah hadn’t relented, it would have been the next plague: multi-colored, never-ending mucous). It’s not that I’ve had three days off in the last thirty. It’s not that I’ve interviewed two kids out… Continue reading I Know Something!
Wow… Someone Actually Likes It!
Someone linked to Stenomonkey and actually called it “clever”. See, you can do clever things with Dojo in only a couple hours (while jet-lagged and watching bad Italian reality TV).
Stenomonkey
I dread taking minutes at working group meetings because it usually means projecting a text editor which is hard to read for the other people in the meeting, and hard to edit for the minute taker. I’ve used IRC, but I hate that the minutes get polluted by the “back channel” discussion. On the flight… Continue reading Stenomonkey
Changing Style Elements In IE
Everyone knows what I’m working on, right? Well, this is a little story I’m telling so I don’t have to remember it. I’m working on the generic style API so users can change stuff, and wow… I didn’t think it would be as painful as it was. What caused the pain? Oh, you should know… Continue reading Changing Style Elements In IE