Debikartica

December 5th, 2006

The first case-study talk went quite well. Even though I work for the company that presented the project I learned quite a few new things which was great. Unfortunately the number of visitors was quite low – you really did miss on a few thing that could’ve triggered a few sleepy synapses.

Jernej and Igor were a good match, talking about the client and the methodology aspect and the technology respectively. I guess each of the themes actually deserve a talk of its own – unfortunately the number of Wednesdays in a season is finite and good willing speakers are hard to find around here. If you happen to know one (doesn’t need to be from Slovenia) drop a comment.

I’m quite busy in December as you can see from the lack of posts this month – I do have a few longer pieces in writing but don’t have time to finish them.

JavaScript sorting – the talk

November 29th, 2006

Last week I had an emergency talk about JavaScript sorting since the original speaker had a last minute change of schedule. I decided to have a talk about sorting since I was just finishing my research into sorting algorithms.

The talk went quite ok – I wish I had more time to prepare though. There were just a few real JavaScript developers in the crowd so it was more challenging than I thought. I was hoping to get a bigger crowd because of the Ajax in the title, but I guess they saw right through me..

The slides to the talk are already online. I’ll be preparing a short article about what I found out soon.

There’s another talk today at Spletne urice, this time a case study about Debikartica.

Internationalization

November 23rd, 2006

Made up by Stuart: Iñtërnâtiônàlizætiøn. Unfortunately no Slovenian special characters in it. Can I suggest that he changes the z into ž?

I feel Slovenia

November 21st, 2006

I didn’t want to write about this shame, but now it got public.

No more breaking code

November 21st, 2006

Dean Edwards strikes again. This time he solved a problem with extending built-in objects that tends to break other scripts. It seems this might be utterly useful.

In other news I’ll be giving a talk tomorrow in Cyberpipe about sorting in JavaScript, datagrids and a bit of AJAX to spice it all up.

GPLed

November 14th, 2006

Java has finally been opensourced.