classical geek

Nope, not the fast car variety, this one’s straight out of Monty Python.
The Bristol Drag Race is a fund-raising activity organised by Bristol Cancer Help Centre, in which grown men and women who ought to know better race across an inflatable 300 metre obstacle course dressed in drag. My wife and daughter found a flyer […]

My ongoing love-hate relationship with JavaScript closures took another twist the other day, when I discovered something new about their usage.
Let me back up a bit first. Closures are a powerful feature of JavasCript, and they allow you to get things done in a very fluent fashion. I use them quite a bit in my […]

The nice folk at Skillsmatter, through whom I run my Ajax training courses, are putting on a half-day Ajax Seminar in London, at which I’ll be discussing how to make Ajax projects succeed.
The Ajax landscape has come a long way in the last year, and the pioneer days of rolling your own request, UI and […]

During a bout of shameless time-wasting the other day, some friends and I decided to pick upon that lowly form of internet life, the automatic phrase generator. E-Bay has a running ad on the Google search page ’sponsored link’ sidebar, that seems to parrot back any phrase or saying typed in as a search. We […]