• No Prize From Marvel

  A friend and I participated in staticshowdown, a code-a-thon for “static” applications. While we won’t win a prize for our app (we didn’t really finish), I was awarded a No-Prize from Marvel Comics for finding a bug in their API implementation.

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• Get Gulping

  After reading “And just like that Grunt and RequireJS are out, it’s all about Gulp and Browserify now”, I realized the power of using one module pattern for both server-side and client-side code. That makes me want to start releasing a bunch of my “go-to” snippets as NPM modules. I seem to use some form of this code on every other project, why shouldn’t I just require( "mystuff" )?

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• The First Rule Of Hackathon

  First rule of hackathon: “You don’t talk about hackathon.”

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• Fix Functional Methods

  While I don’t go in for puzzlers as interview questions anymore (yes, I was that guy), I enjoy a good brain teaser now and again. JavaScript Puzzlers! reminded me that in my attempt to tame native functions, I was missing a few. Namely, parseInt (a binary function with no receiver object and an often forgotten second parameter) and Math.pow (a binary function with a more helpful second parameter) functions.

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• Take Or Leave Functional Programming

  I appreciate orthogonality in programming. If you name a method in your app “out,” I might expect its pair-opposite, “in” to appear. Even more interesting, I enjoy seeing the implementation of “in” referencing “out” in some way (or visa versa).

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