OneAndOneIs2

At work, we frequently refer to yaks.It's a term we picked up from the Perl community. I imagine it's used by other hacker communities as well, but I wouldn't know.The story goes:You wake up one morning and think to yourself, "I should mow th… more »

The previous JS example was all well & good - it used a closure to store the data it needed - but it was a 'public' variable - you could intrude on the object and change the value yourself. This is bad, of course. THIS is far better: Instead of cr… more »

I hate Javascript.Mostly because of things that aren't really its fault, to be fair: The DOM is ugly, so JS DOM manipulation is inherently ugly. Most of the JS you encounter is badly-written, because too many people just cobble it together unti… more »

If you spend much time chatting online, you'll have encountered URLs that are far too long to be nice in a conversation. It's nice to have an alternative, and that's what tinyurl.com and other such services do - give them a long URL, and they give you a… more »

I was reading this article about self-proclaimed programmers who can't actually program - something I've had some experience of myself. I quite liked the idea of the FizzBuzz challenge: Write a program that prints the numbers from 1 to 100. But for mu… more »