Blog of Jeff

Moved

Jeff — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 03:17:19 +0000

Heads up to anyone on this site (or RSS readers), I'm moving towards a custom-built django blog. More details on the new site. This is the start of things to come (after my road trip), I promise. For historical purposes, this site will remain here for a while.

Django’s Flaws

Jeff — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 01:07:20 +0000

This is a response to Brandon Taylor. It was a bit lengthy, so I thought a post would be better off. Like you, I felt this "poor" design pain from Rails. The less then spectacular docs (although that's changing too) made me prefer Django over it. With that being said, the settings.py of Django is a crutch. [...]

Clojure

Jeff — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 08:48:14 +0000

I've recently picked up on Clojure, a LISP-dialect that runs on the JVM and I absolutely love it; but like other programming languages, it's difficult to convince others to try a programming language other than c/c++ or PHP. Many friends are in the blub paradox camp: people view programming languages only in the mental model of [...]

“Brief” Guide to JavaScript – Part 11

Jeff — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 21:02:00 +0000

You should check out the previous parts before continuing with this final part: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Part 6 Part 7 Part 8 Part 9 Part 10 Ajax It's part of the "Web 2.0" trend. Ajax, or Asynchronous JavaScript and XML provides a background-styled http request to a URL. This is different from the traditional, "load a new page to perform [...]

“Brief” Guide to JavaScript – Part 10

Jeff — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 08:16:38 +0000

Yes, this is no longer becoming brief; so check out the growing list of previous parts: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Part 6 Part 7 Part 8 Part 9 Objects Revisited Objects are the core of JavaScript, so I'm going to a bit further in-depth than previously mentioned. I didn't say explicitly, [...]