January 2010
3 posts
Dear Eclipse
It’s over, we’re done. No need to come by and collect your stuff. Your workspace is already in the trash. There’s no trace you were even here.
I still remember when I first gave you a shot. I had tried other IDE’s, but all they seemed to offer where headaches. Vim and Ant simply worked better.
But then you came along, with compile as you type and amazing CVS...
Sizzle: A Standalone CSS3 Selector Library
Sometimes a full blown javascript library like JQuery, MooTools, or Dojo is impractical.
I just had such a project, but the one feature I could not live without was CSS3 selectors. Walking the DOM manually would have taken hours to implement correctly, especially since each page needed to be treated differently. My first thought was to rip out the JQuery selector functions. That’s when...
2009 In Review
It’s the first work day of the new year and in order to delay heading out into the frigid cold (it’s about 15 right now), I figure it’s a good time for a 2009 recap.
It was definitely one of the busiest years of my life. The year started normally enough, with both Sonali and I working for a large public company. Unfortunately, it didn’t take long before the economic...