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jQuery without a DOM

Posted on December 26, 2011 by Christopher Allen-Poole

If you’re ever using jQuery without a proper DOM, you may want to use this. It provides enough of a DOM-like syntax to suffice. (Literally, this is every function which jQuery calls on the DOM directly (assuming no selectors). I … Continue reading →

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Big-O is important, damn it!

Posted on December 22, 2011 by Christopher Allen-Poole

A fried of mine recently complained that they sent his package east to send it west, and if they only sent it west it would be faster. My response: The process is local post office -> central hub -> local … Continue reading →

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McCarthy’s Lisp

Posted on November 14, 2011 by Christopher Allen-Poole

So, I got no sleep last night due to a client project. Profitable, but exhausting. Not wanting to have a Monday go by without a post, however, I thought I would comment on McCarthy’s original definition of Lisp, which is … Continue reading →

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Cleaner HTML (strip_tags in Python)

Posted on October 28, 2011 by Christopher Allen-Poole

So, in PHP there is a function strip_tags. It’s pretty neat. It lets you remove all HTML tags from a given string except for the specified ones. Python doesn’t have this and, based on what we saw on Monday, it … Continue reading →

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Does gamification really work?

Posted on October 21, 2011 by Christopher Allen-Poole

So, the most recent stackexchange podcast talked a lot about the “Stackoverflow game”. One commenter believes that this is not the best idea. I disagree. Lend your voice to the conversation: http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/10/se-podcast-23/ Or, if you like, you could leave a … Continue reading →

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User input, part 1

Posted on October 10, 2011 by Christopher Allen-Poole

So, eventually, you’ll want to actually get input from users for a web framework (far be it). The most obvious way that you can get user input is through something called “GET” variables. If you have ever looked at the … Continue reading →

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PyFram: Let’s make a view class

Posted on September 28, 2011 by Christopher Allen-Poole

So, I don’t know about you, but this looks a little on the ugly side: #!/usr/bin/env python3   print("Content-type: text") print() print("hello world") I mean, it gets the job done, but I really would prefer something more… elegant. So, I … Continue reading →

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Google on JavaScript

Posted on September 15, 2011 by Christopher Allen-Poole

Google looks like it is trying (justifiably?) to undermine JavaScript in favor of its own system.

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Good answer to the wrong question

Posted on September 13, 2011 by Christopher Allen-Poole

I recently wrote this, trying to answer one question and then realizing that it does not sufficiently address the question. So… I am putting it here because I still like ly I’ve looked into that, actually, and I have come … Continue reading →

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Riddle for Thurs???

Posted on September 9, 2011 by Christopher Allen-Poole

No legs lay on one leg.Two legs sat on three legs.Four legs got the rest. The solution to this one might be posted late Weds. or Thurs. I am studying through Tues. evening, so I can’t give a post about … Continue reading →

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