Archive for February, 2007

SamePlace 0.6.0rc1 available

The first release candidate of the SamePlace Suite 0.6.0 is available.

Downloads

Update: see here for current packages.

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XML Sync Islands – Let the web sharing begin!

It does not happen often that I find my jaw dropping in amazement on the floor and staying there. I also do not expect, should it really have to happen, that it be related to something I myself started, and which I can delude myself into believing that I know what it can do and where it is headed.

Well, reality strikes. This time, it’s been thanks to dfd.[ READ MORE ]

On Flock, xmpp4moz, Jingle, and Friday nights

Oh, great. Just when I think I have completed my duties and reported on the latest developments (“reported” as, for the most and best part, they took place far from my keyboard), and that I can enjoy a relatively calm weekend for a change, Joshua chimes in and evokes “all sorts of craziness” in Flock with xmpp4moz and Jingle.[ READ MORE ]

Memoize in JavaScript

In JavaScript, functions are objects. No big deal, until you expand that to functions can have state, and realize that things like this become possible:


function fact(n) {
    var memo = arguments.callee.memo;
    if(!(n in memo))
        if(n == 0)
            memo[n] = 1;
        else
            memo[n] = n * fact(n - 1);

    return memo[n];
}
fact.memo = {};

(arguments.callee is how you reference a function from within the function itself.)[ READ MORE ]

seethrough 0.1: sub-templates, and cache-ready

Uh oh. Beware when you take an evening’s hack and put it online, as someone who knows what he’s doing might come along and turn it into something useful.

That happened to seethrough, with a patch courtesy of Joel, who added two major features:[ READ MORE ]