“…Alexis hopes to show lawmakers that internet regulation is a horrible idea because for what little good it might do, it will necessarily destroy the free flow of information on which these emerging businesses depend.”
“…the Web needs something else which is not sugar… what we need are developers that know [JavaScript], use it properly, and move the web forward, rather than being stuck with sugar and sugar and sugar and sugar…”
“…PhantomJS can render a web page almost as good as what is expected from a web browser. This feature turns out to be quite useful to programmatically capture the content and save it as an image.”
“There are speakers, and then there are respected thought leaders. The keynoters, the language designers, the authors of seminal texts. Where are the women there? Can you name one in this millenium?”
“My current confusion has led me to identify a handful of principles that underlie TDD and that I don’t want to lose, however I end up programming…”
“…what this was, underneath occasional freshets of vaguely new-agey language, was a three-day workshop in practical anarchy.”
“While JavaScript certainly doesn’t have immutable variables or pattern matching it does have a strong emphasis on first class functions; mutating, combining, and using these function objects for cleaner and more succinct code is the purpose of this tutorial.”
“Firefox OS is about taking the technologies behind the Web, like JavaScript, and using them to produce an entire mobile operating system. Just let that sink in for a moment — it’s a mobile OS powered by JavaScript!”
“…if I don’t start filling my brain with positive, useful, and truly interesting information that my brain would shrivel up to the size of a raisin, and I would end up on the Springer show myself.”
“In the pursuit of a more globally harmonious online experience, let’s take a look at 10 lessons relating to aspects of web development with a cultural bent. Some of this may not be new to you, but all of it is relevant if you want to play nice with people from all cultural walks of life.”
