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Archive for November, 2005

Unintentional Programming

Wednesday, November 2nd, 2005

From our Hot New Technologies Editor
Imagine the setting - you’ve been working on na project for several days, and today is the crunch, everything has to be ready to ship. You’ve taken some code home and fired up your laptop, hacking away into the small hours the night before, and now you’re up early, grabbing […]

What is it that a script tag does?

Wednesday, November 2nd, 2005

Writing up some code that I’d written at work the other day, I said that my JSP page imported a javascript file - by which I meant that it referenced that javascript file using a <script> tag. Is that the right word to use? Or does it require it? What words do you use?

On Event Handlers

Tuesday, November 1st, 2005

The JavaScript Browser-Object Model (i.e. the bits of JavaScript that aren’t core language, but glue the language to the web browser) bears many legacies of the over-rapid development of features, bells and whistles from the late 90’s. One such blemish is the presence of two event models for hooking up user input (mouse movement and […]

Missing the Obvious

Tuesday, November 1st, 2005

When troubleshooting a problem (with computers or anything else), it’s always a good idea not to overlook the obvious. this particular cricket bat of good advice gave me a good whack in the face this morning.
I’m setting up my development environment at the new job, and doing the usual wrestling with unfamiliar software packages. In […]

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