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7 articles from April 2011 · show all

Ubuntu's app management better than Apple's

Even with Narwhals ubuntu is still a bitch to install

The three types of projects worth your time

A cool JavaScript property you never noticed

A few years ago I was playing around with JavaScript trying to find the cleanest way to implement callbacks in functions. Primarily I wanted a readable way to make certain the last argument passed is a callback, withut having to rely on knowing how many arguments there are and so on. Instead I stumbled upon a pretty cool feature of how javascript handles function arguments.

Benchmarking node, tornado and django for concurrency

Comparing clojure and node.js for speed

Circadian rhythm meltdown