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July 23, 2008
Stoyan Stefanov writes about Non-Blocking JavaScript Downloads on the Yahoo User Interface Blog. Good content all around, but I’d like to add a note on an item he somewhat casually skimmed over.
In the “Dependencies” section of the article, Stefanov describes using the onLoad or onReadyStateChange events of the dynamically generated script tag to receive notification […]
Tags: JavaScript, Programming, yahoo
Filed under: Programming, Web |
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July 15, 2008
I found a happy little email in my inbox this morning. It was a note from Handango informing me that my application to become a Handango Developer partner has been approved. Woohoo!
Ya, you know, that application I submitted more than THREE YEARS AGO when I was at Borland experimenting with writing .NET CF apps for my smartphone […]
Tags: .NET, Borland, Delphi, Handango, Programming, smartphone
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June 26, 2008
In the midst of writing some Silverlight code, something struck my funny bone: .NET has an Application.Current.
“Current” suggests “now”, and its existance suggests there was a need to distinguish “now” from something else. Does that mean there could be an Application.Next? Application.Future? Application.Past? Those could save me a lot of effort. How will I fix […]
Tags: .NET, silliness, Silverlight
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June 25, 2008
In getting back up to speed with Silverlight, and in particular the new Silverlight 2 beta 2, I’ve been surfing through the many quickstart topics on various web sites. While skimming “Receiving Plain XML Messages with Silverlight” these words lept out at me:
note: The WebClient class does not currently support cross-domain calls.
Say what?
The article then […]
Tags: cross-domain, Microsoft, Silverlight, XDR
Filed under: Programming, Web, Work |
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March 6, 2008
I found myself in a lull between storms a few days ago, so I decided to do some housecleaning in our makefile before the next code rush hit. And therein lies a story…
We use one makefile to build all versions of PicLens for all browsers on all platforms. It’s loosely patterned after the Google Gears project makefile […]
Tags: concurrent, gnu, make, optimization, parallel, performance, windows
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February 22, 2008
Ok, first off, I just have to say my new all-time favorite recently discovered funny/witty/hilarious domain name of the week has got to be: RockPaperShotgun.com It doesn’t really matter what the site is, the name alone is entertaining enough - just plain hilarious.
Eskil Steenberg, an early contributor to the PicLens concept design team, is back in SF this week […]
Tags: eskil, fractals, graphics, Love, StarFlight
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February 21, 2008
Charlie Calvert writes about dynamic method invocation that has been implemented in the .NET DLR and is working its way into getting proper support by the full VS.NET tool set. Dynamic method invocation is late binding to the extreme - the lookup is performed at runtime, every time the function call executes. The compiler has […]
Tags: .NET, Delphi, DLR, IDispatch, Variant, Win32
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