classical geek

Within a couple of weeks of almost getting my head around Ruby meta-classes, here’s a link to an interesting presentation on metaprogramming Javascript (in PDF format) by Adam McCrea. I’m not completely convinced that

show(”brutus”).when(”us-state”).is(”Ohio,Michigan”)

really qualifies as a DSL - reminiscent of Prototype’s somewhat cheesy Try.these() - but it’s a pretty mean feat of coding nonetheless.

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I’m hanging out at the JavaRanch saloon this week answering questions about the new book, and very excited I am to see it in print at last. One reader has asked me this morning why the book changed it’s name from ‘P & S Quickly’ to ‘P & S in Action’ at the last minute, […]

I spent most of the day at the Ajax track, but snuck off upstairs to join the Ruby crowd for Dave Thomas’ talk on Ruby meta-programming. Partly, it was the draw of a big name, but mostly just for the fun of guddling in low-level language stuff. I’d been playing around with closures in JavaScript […]

Nat Torkington of O’Reilly Radar (who first appeared on my radar as author ofvthe Perl Cookbook), has written a very nice future timeline of the Web. Nuff said on my part, go have a look.