Posts Tagged ‘ Programming ’

Could Qt be coming to my Nokia tablet?

I really do like my Nokia, but I don’t particularly like how the UI is based off of Gtk+. My dislike has turned to cautious happiness after reading an Ars Technica article about a possible new version of Maemo, the custom Linux OS which runs on the Nokia N-series tablets. Maemo 5 could very well [ READ MORE ]

New startup page

After having Slashdot as my browser’s startup page for over 8 years now, I am switching to having Google Reader now displayed by default. I do this primarily because I am very annoyed by the changes Slashdot has made recently as it seems to be attempting to make itself more “Web 2.0″. When I hit [ READ MORE ]

Compile JavaScript to Java classes with Rhino

Can you compile JavaScript to Java classes? Why, yes! Yes, you can! Rhino lets you do exactly that. Example here[ READ MORE ]

I have discovered Sinatra and gained enlightenment

I don’t mean Frank Sinatra, I attained enlightenment from him when I was in fifth grade and my father sat me down to teach me the way of the rat pack. That day, I learned many things and as I stayed up late, sneakily listening to one of his latest anthologies (remastered of course), the [ READ MORE ]

JSLint: Oh, what a wonderful thing

Just discovered JSLint. It is very good, but it does hurt your feelings somewhat. I intend to use it heavily on my code from now on. Wish there was a stand-alone version, though. Still, it’s marvelous so use it often[ READ MORE ]

Readability, it matters

Just got a tip from my dear friend and colleague, Red Beard the Pirate, who showed me the wonderful new world of Readability. The guys at Arc90 labs have a live demo and you can put your own readability button on your toolbar to instantly reformat any page for maximum readability. I am pretty blown [ READ MORE ]

My Ubiquity commands

I have written some Ruby scripts (using ERB + Rake to build and git to track+publish) to maintain my personal repository of Ubiquity commands. In addition to automagically generating pages for me, there is also a consolidated command feed which contains all of the commands I use personally. You can check out my commands at [ READ MORE ]

Trouble testing timestamps

Since I’ve been encouraging myself to write more and better unit tests, I have encountered a troubling obstacle when writing tests to cover timestamp creation and updating. Let’s say I have a Record class which has a modification and creation timestamp. The ctime instance variable is created when a Record is instatiated and mtime is [ READ MORE ]

Waiting for a new Ubiquity

I am not the only one who got slammed by the broken upgrade to Ubiquity 0.1.6. In the new version, all ubiquity commands are lost, which is bad. It’s been reported, discussed and patched. Unfortunately, a new release has not been issued yet and I find myself rather paralyzed given how much I have come [ READ MORE ]

XForms anyone?

In just general tinkering, I’ve come across two neat things which have gotten me to look at XForms, even if only in passing. Hopefully, this is a standard which will be adopted more widely in the near future. Mozilla Developer Center – XForms XForms essentials (free online book!) Intro to XForms article from InformIT I [ READ MORE ]

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Jonathan E. Magen is a passionate developer who loves cooking and writing clean code. Star Trek is cool, too. Also, books. Many things are actually really great and Jonathan likes them as well.

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