I’m listening to this excellent BBC podcast on Unintended Consequences of Mathematics.
In his book The Mathematician’s Apology (1941), the Cambridge mathematician GH Hardy expressed his reverence for pure maths, and celebrated its uselessness in the real world. Yet one of the branches of pure mathematics in which Hardy excelled was number theory, and it was [...]
There have been a dizzying array of Tiddly* products spun off recently. I’m talking merely about the core infrastructure stuff rather than applications like TiddlyPocketBook. We’re starting to get some convergence within the team, as we’re working on a high-level product called TiddlySpace. It’s basically the manifestation of earlier discussion too.the ideas we were discussing [...]
Amid the tablet hype is an interesting article from Derek Powazek – http://powazek.com/posts/2234:
“”” I’ve been thinking about how to make money from online content since I launched Fray in 1996. Really, I can’t tell you how many nights I’ve sat up, obsessed with it. It’s been my white whale. And here’s what I’ve come up with: [...]
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Last week saw a confluence of excellent events. In the same week as a house move, it proved to be a week of much learning and little sleep. I’d hoped to do a better write-up, it never happened, a combination of being too busy and new MAC BATTERIES SUCK, meaning the lappy couldn’t last [...]
Tags: CSS·CSS3·Design Patterns·Fonts·html5·Javascript·NodeJS·Web
Quick mention of projects and writings outside this blog:
jQuery iFrame plugin – Stepped up work on this, as it was buggy and not very jQuery-plugin-like. Whacked it in GitHub along with test cases. Not all are passing on the 3058 day old browser, yet. This was a good opportunity to play around [...]
Tags: Navel-Gazing
TiddlyWiki MU is what I’m calling – in the absence of an official name – an effort within Osmosoft to pull together a bunch of work into something that will be very useful in the enterprise and beyond. You could also call it “tiddlywiki as a service” or “multi-room tiddlywiki”. Similar to Wikia or WordPress [...]
Tags: Osmosoft·TiddlyDocs·tiddlyweb·TiddlyWiki·TiddlyWiki MU
On Demand Javascript – Scalecamp 2009View more presentations from mahemoff.
These are the slides from my ScaleCamp presentation, covering various techniques for various styles of On-Demand Javascript, including Script Islands, “async” and “defer” attributes, and library support.
One of the interesting things at ScaleCamp is that many of the folks there are dealing with third-party advertisers and [...]
"Script Island" is what I'm calling a design pattern I alluded to here. The pattern is to embed Javascript in your HTML like so:
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HTML: <script id="greeting" type="x-deferred-script"> alert("this is my script - it's eval'd on demand"); </script>
When the page loads, the browser should say "I don't know what 'x-deferred-script' is, and therefore ignore the concents [...]
Tags: Ajax Patterns·Design Patterns·Javascript·Performance·Presentation
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