http://qfox.nl/weblog More personal blogs, not specifically tech related Copyright 2010, Peter van der Zee Sat, 25 May 2013 14:31:17 -0700 Sat, 25 May 2013 14:31:17 -0700 Weblog My own PHP abomination http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://qfox.nl/weblog?284 Created this a while back. Not sure if there was a purpose or maybe I was just bored. Either way... This is a simple implementation of the game Set. It's not complete (it will not check if there's act... Peter@van.der.Zee General http://qfox.nl/weblog?284 Sat, 25 May 2013 23:25:25 -0700 http://qfox.nl/weblog?283 I'm having a gaming phase. Seem to buy any (indie) game bundle that I can find. Getting a bit of an addiction :p But I'm mainly looking for original indie games these days but that's very difficult. T... Peter@van.der.Zee General http://qfox.nl/weblog?283 Thu, 16 May 2013 00:03:27 -0700 http://qfox.nl/weblog?282 ECMA is the organization that's, amongst others, responsible for the ECMAScript specification, which in turn is the foundation for JavaScript. We short that to JS to get rid of the bullshit capitaliza... Peter@van.der.Zee General http://qfox.nl/weblog?282 Mon, 25 Mar 2013 16:10:58 -0700 http://qfox.nl/weblog?281 I've spent a couple of days trying to implement source maps for Hutimility and learned a great deal in the process. It actually took me a few attempts to get certain things right and feel the current ... Peter@van.der.Zee General http://qfox.nl/weblog?281 Mon, 28 Jan 2013 02:37:01 -0800 http://qfox.nl/weblog?280 I'm in the middle of the 6th hell called source maps. While still a bit of a black box, I think I figured it out by now. I'll do a writeup soon about my findings which will explain step-by-step how to... Peter@van.der.Zee General http://qfox.nl/weblog?280 Sat, 19 Jan 2013 13:00:45 -0800 http://qfox.nl/weblog?279 There was some recent news about a new <code>all:default;</code> css property being introduced, which you could use as a css reset. One of it's usages is to prevent inherited styles for a widget.<br /><br />I... Peter@van.der.Zee General http://qfox.nl/weblog?279 Tue, 15 Jan 2013 14:43:29 -0800 http://qfox.nl/weblog?278 Textareas certainly are a strange beast with many applications. One application I find myself using them often for is code, in one way or another. And every time I find myself searching for attributes... Peter@van.der.Zee General http://qfox.nl/weblog?278 Tue, 15 Jan 2013 03:38:03 -0800 http://qfox.nl/weblog?277 This is a call for sponsors for js1k 2013; Spring.<br /><br />As before, your sponsorship means supporting a simple though widely loved competition of contriving a JavaScript application composed of no more t... Peter@van.der.Zee General http://qfox.nl/weblog?277 Mon, 14 Jan 2013 23:05:50 -0800 http://qfox.nl/weblog?276 Just wanted to give a quick example on why I would love for some kind of tag literal syntax to be added to JS. I'm creating a simple table. The why, why I'm doing it in JS, and the fact that you'd con... Peter@van.der.Zee General http://qfox.nl/weblog?276 Wed, 12 Dec 2012 20:41:01 -0800 http://qfox.nl/weblog?275 Sooo... another year, another js1k. Of course.<br /><br />I'd like to announce, well ahead of any kind of schedule, the theme suggestion for the next js1k! The theme will be "Spring"!<br /><br />Feel free to interpre... Peter@van.der.Zee General http://qfox.nl/weblog?275 Wed, 12 Dec 2012 01:35:20 -0800 http://qfox.nl/weblog?274 Even though we do a fair bit of testing I notice I'm still struggling with parts of writing tests. I'm convinced that integration tests are vital for a product. I feel they are more important than any... Peter@van.der.Zee General http://qfox.nl/weblog?274 Mon, 10 Dec 2012 19:36:34 -0800 http://qfox.nl/weblog?273 This is the core of an email I sent around internally regarding jsdocs. When I was finished I figured, let's share this knowledge :) These are my (current! ;) views on JSDocs and how I use them. Doesn... Peter@van.der.Zee General http://qfox.nl/weblog?273 Tue, 20 Nov 2012 22:19:11 -0800 http://qfox.nl/weblog?272 There is currently only one way to set the style for a css pseudo selector; a style sheet. So if you want an element to color red on the (CSS!) "<code>hover</code> event", you have to set the <code>:h... Peter@van.der.Zee General http://qfox.nl/weblog?272 Mon, 19 Nov 2012 21:38:44 -0800 http://qfox.nl/weblog?271 People that know me know I don't really like to work at companies where income is the main driving force. If your owners and/or managers are purely driven by income (ROI) all the programmer will be do... Peter@van.der.Zee General http://qfox.nl/weblog?271 Mon, 19 Nov 2012 17:58:36 -0800 http://qfox.nl/weblog?270 One of the reasons I wrote a JS parser was so I could actually start building my own tools. I'm not so great with using other people's libraries and this wasn't any different. I knew what I wanted and... Peter@van.der.Zee General http://qfox.nl/weblog?270 Wed, 31 Oct 2012 03:19:27 -0700 http://qfox.nl/weblog?269 I'm no angel on the road. Not a danger or anything, but I like to floor it where I can. In Holland the max speed limit used to be 120 km/h. Now it's 130 km/h, although for most of the roads it's still... Peter@van.der.Zee General http://qfox.nl/weblog?269 Tue, 02 Oct 2012 11:05:45 -0700 http://qfox.nl/weblog?268 I've been rewriting ZeParser to make it faster and cleaner. The work has progressed quite nicely and I've reached the point where I need to grasp for micro-optimizations. Stuff you'll only notice on h... Peter@van.der.Zee General http://qfox.nl/weblog?268 Mon, 27 Aug 2012 23:24:08 -0700 http://qfox.nl/weblog?266 My life is pretty much JS right now. So it's kind of ironic that Flash is still also a pretty important factor of my (digital..) life. It's ironic because "we" consider flash the closed source system ... Peter@van.der.Zee General http://qfox.nl/weblog?266 Wed, 22 Aug 2012 01:20:41 -0700 http://qfox.nl/weblog?265 I'm currently micro-micro-optimizing the heck out of my parser and it's actually working. I dropped from 600ms to 370ms on a 7mb test file (chrome). Firefox actually dropped from 1200ms to 775ms right... Peter@van.der.Zee General http://qfox.nl/weblog?265 Sun, 19 Aug 2012 23:33:15 -0700 http://qfox.nl/weblog?264 There was a thread on es-discuss that was trying to start a discussion about the various ways JS returns a failure value (that's not throwing). I jokingly replied that we should introduce a new type f... Peter@van.der.Zee General http://qfox.nl/weblog?264 Thu, 16 Aug 2012 21:08:20 -0700