I’ve been… not away, but simply taking pictures. I should get back to writing… more JavaScript (to refresh myself), more XLST, a little Django/Python here or there. I’ll do that soon.
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March 31, 2009
Posted by Eddie
Url Fairy Tales
On Mar 31, 2009, at 11:45 AM, Edward Welker wrote: >> Aaron wrote: >> This may be one of the best URLs I have ever seen: >> http://www.ringling.com/FlashSubContent.aspx?id=11654&parentID=320&asset >> FolderID=340 >> >> Just looking at it, I can tell exactly what I can expect when I click >> it. *** To me, that URL tells […]
January 29, 2009
Posted by Eddie
Review of “Prototype-Based Programming”
I ran across a mention of “Prototype-Based Programming” back when I was first learning JavaScript. I thought it would be an interesting read, but forgot to bookmark it, and forgot to look into it further. Once I finally remembered it, it proved hard to find (and an expensive gamble from Amazon), until I found it […]
January 25, 2009
Posted by Eddie
Review of “Expert Python Programming”
Based on the title, Expert Python Programming, (by Tarek Ziadé) I had expected a book covering the Python language… syntax, advanced data structures, maybe some functional programming… stuff like that. This book surprised me. Rather, it contains a hodgepodge of information about the world of Python development, from setting up editors to distributed version control […]
January 9, 2009
Posted by Eddie
Sibelius Symphony no. 1
My orchestra is playing Sibelius 1 tomorrow in Columbia, Maryland. It’s not my favorite symphony, seems a little naive, though he wrote it when he was 35. If you wanna check it out, first check out the site.
January 8, 2009
Posted by Eddie
My XSLT Toolbox – 5 Favorite XSLT Books
I love reading programming books, especially to learn a new programming language. Learning XSLT, I read a large number of books, as there are quite a few available. The quality of the XSLT books struck me as particularly all over the place, some were quite good while others weren’t even worth the time to skim. […]
December 31, 2008
Posted by Eddie
Visits came from 79 countries/territories
Simply put, thanks to everyone who visited in the past year. Still amazing to me that people from nearly 80 countries took a look at something I did. Cheers to the new year, may it be good to all of us!
December 28, 2008
Posted by Eddie
My XSLT Toolbox – Recursive XSLT templates
Recursion is one of the core concepts in programming. It’s valuable not only as a technique for writing programs, but as a general concept for solving problems. XSLT provides many useful elements such as for-each (and apply-templates), but occasionally you will run into a problem which must be solved with recursion. Let’s take a look […]
December 27, 2008
Posted by Eddie
My XSLT Toolbox – copy and copy-of
Using XSLT to copy elements is extremely common when you’re transforming a source document of a certain type (XML, HTML, etc.) to the same type. Often, you need an exact copy of an element verbatim, but other times you need to selectively choose certain elements to copy and others to discard. XSLT makes this process […]
December 18, 2008
Posted by Eddie
Affecting your situation
I don’t typically link to other blogs/articles, nor do I mention classical music particularly often, but I found this article and blog entry so interesting and thought-provoking that they deserve a re-post. First, a moving blog entry from David Finlayson, trombonist in the New York Philharmonic, and second, the New York Times article describing the […]
November 25, 2008
Posted by Eddie
Advantages of push-style XSLT over pull-style
Working with more than a few new-hires over the last few weeks, I’ve noticed that new XSLT developers often write pull-style XSLTs by default. However, this tends to defy XSLT’s functional heritage, and is not as useful as the opposite form, push-style XSLTs. Pull-style XSLTs reach into the source document and pull out the data […]
November 11, 2008
Posted by Eddie
Horror Movies, Final installment
The final installment… a little late. Amityville Horror – (The OLD one, not the new one.) I’d watched this before, but it was so much better than I remember it. In fact, I felt it was the scariest movie that I ended up watching. The scene at the beginning where the priest goes into the […]
October 30, 2008
Posted by Eddie
Next-to-last Horror Movies
Latest installment… The Blob – Pure 60’s cheese (well, technically 1958, but close enough). Not scary, more silly than anything else. I was amazed that at one point, there was 24 minutes of no blobbing. Instead, we were shown a nearly 30 year old McQueen pretending to be a high schooler. At least I can […]
October 26, 2008
Posted by Eddie
More October Horror Movies
Continuing the reviews of my house’s October horror movie film-fest: 28 Days Later – Rick told me that this was among the most realistic zombie movies ever made. While it had a realistic look and feel, I had a problem with the unrealistic (and porous) plot line. Of the 4 or so main characters, the […]
October 25, 2008
Posted by Eddie
Review of “Object-Oriented JavaScript”
I recently read Object Oriented JavaScript, by Stoyan Stefanov. In reviewing it, I found it was one of the most interesting books I’ve read in a while, for some good reasons and a few more curious reasons.