I recently ran across the ES wiki which is documenting proposals and features for new versions of ECMAScript (JavaScript). I was excited to see the spread operator “…” which basically brings Perl-style lists to JavaScript. I was also excited to see the spread-related rest parameters which basically implement Python’s positional parameter glob *args; however, I […]
Author: Weston Ruter
Update: See also list on MY TECHNE. What follows are the programming languages I’ve learned in the order of learning them; their relative importance is marked up with big, and small indicates I didn’t fully learn or actually use the language. Perl 5 JavaScript / ECMAScript PHP 4 & 5 SQL Visual Basic 6 Java […]
On the Shepherd Interactive site, we have a dynamic navigation menu in Flash. In order to prevent it from having to reload each time a page is changed, I implemented Ajax loading so that the SWF only has to load once. This is similar to what Lala and Facebook do. So if your browser is […]
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Photo of “Audible Ajax”
I miss the Audible Ajax podcast on Ajaxian. Photo by my friend Nathan Watkins; taken 2006-07-17 in Midelt, Morocco where I was soaking in the podcast.
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We’re Having a Baby Boy!
Five months in, I’m pleased to publicly announce that my wife and I are expecting a baby boy at the end of May! His name is “Asecret” 😉
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Portland, Oregon Snow Driving
I took this video outside of Shepherd Interactive, my work. View in HD to see the sparks fly 🙂 See also the footage of my commute home which ended up being a journey half on foot from my work to downtown: part 1 and part 2. What follows are screengrabs from Google Maps of the […]
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Google Text-To-Speech (TTS)
This demo no longer works due to changes with the Google Translate TTS API (which was not public to begin with, so this was bound to happen). The post remains here for archival purposes.
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Browser Detection Fail
Being prompted on the Google home page to “Install Google Chrome” for “A faster way to browse the web” while I am already using Google Chrome for Mac: epic browser detection fail. Anyway, Chrome definitely is a faster way to browse the Web. It’s amazing!
A couple years ago I learned of the University of Washington’s Computational Linguistics Master’s program and I was really interested. But since I had moved to Portland, it wasn’t feasible for me to attend classes—this is especially true now since I am employed here and got married a year ago. For my birthday this year, […]
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