September 2008
16 posts
Amazing demonstration of a generated parallax... →
“If someone paid us £100million [for Cesc Fabregas], you pay 40 per cent tax on...”
– Peter Hill-Wood
“I came to this world with nothing,
And I leave with nothing but love,
Everything...”
– Mike Skinner
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Next generation Javascript web-apps
The folks behind Cappucino have developed ‘Objective-J’, a programming language modelled on Objective-C (the giveaway’s in the name) and built entirely on Javascript. A terrific idea, and a not-insignificant undertaking I’m sure, but the proof of these things is - as they say - in the pudding. And the pudding that is 280 Slides is a pretty slick pudding. I’m intrigued...
Make your 404 pages more useful →
A little snippet of javascript later and Google has generated some links that may help your users on a 404 page. Very neat.
“Training is a tax you pay for a lousy hiring environment…Marketing is a tax you...”
– Robert Stephens, via SvN
“Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It’s them...”
– John Lennon
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The Dark Knight
Directed by Christopher Nolan (2008)
It took me a long time to get round to seeing Christopher Nolan’s follow up to the superb Batman Begins (and even longer to write about it, my visit to the IMAX was over a week ago) so I had plenty of time for plenty of people to attempt to mould my opinion in advance: half an hour too long, Bale putting on a silly voice, and so on. If any of it was...
“Fate doesn’t hang on a wrong or right choice, fortune depends on the tone...”
– Neil Hannon, The Divine Comedy, Songs of Love
