http://parand.com/say Parand Tony Darugar: A Cruel and Petty Dictator Thu, 08 May 2008 19:05:04 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The Javascript Information Visualization Toolkit looks very good. Look at how beautiful the treemap and hypertree examples are. Btw, I'm voting Joshua Schachter for best link blog. http://parand.com/say/index.php/2008/05/08/beautiful-treemaps-and-visualization-for-javascript/ I'd like pick part of my jQuery call chain dynamically. Something like this: if ( some_condition ) { myfunc = jQuery.fn.addClass; } else { myfunc = jQuery.fn.removeClass; } $('#someid').html('something').myfunc('some_class'); The jQuery.fn.addClass business doesn't get me the handle to the function, nor do the plethora of other things I've tried. What's a good way to dynamically ... http://parand.com/say/index.php/2008/05/07/lazyweb-dynamically-selecting-part-of-a-jquery-call-chain/ When I first started blogging I expected no-one would read it. (Well, actually I expected to immediately become an a-list uber-blogger, but...) Now it appears I have a small group of loyal readers, some of whom I've never met in-person before. And they contribute, leave comments, etc. This makes me happy. ... http://parand.com/say/index.php/2008/05/06/the-wierdness-of-having-an-audience/ Neat Javascript function scoping trick from Dustin Diaz, master of cool Javascript tricks. His Javascript Video Tutorials were the first time I was exposed to proper Javascript (Justin, do some more!). Here's the trick: var o = 'hello world'; (function() { alert(this); }).call(o); And why is this neat? Because it lets you avoid the ... http://parand.com/say/index.php/2008/05/06/handy-javascript-scoping-trick/ My laptop suddenly and for no apparent reason started playing techno music. I started digging around, closing app and browser window after window until it finally stopped. Turned out to be coming from google reader. I re-opened reader and the music came back. I went thru and marked a bunch ... http://parand.com/say/index.php/2008/05/05/google-reader-techno-music-attack/ I don't recall where I read this, but I've been using it to great effect: as you are about to stop coding, note what your next task should be in a file called NEXT.txt . When you come back to resume coding look at NEXT.txt to get context for where ... http://parand.com/say/index.php/2008/05/04/coding-efficeny-improvemnt-tip-next-file/ I remember when I finally had Calculus, my final year of high school. It took a bit of effort to get my head around it, but once I got it I remember the distinct feeling of being pissed off. Pissed off about all the time wasted in Physics class. In ... http://parand.com/say/index.php/2008/05/03/the-case-for-teaching-calculus-early/ And that's all I'm gonna say about that. http://parand.com/say/index.php/2008/05/03/son-of-a/ Drama: Tweet Response: Go to Ev's twitter account, FAIL: http://parand.com/say/index.php/2008/05/01/twitter-in-microcosm/ There's a lot of info and tooling out there for building iPhone ready apps. But what about good old Blackberry? Are there good tutorials / docs on how to build websites that show well in the Blackberry browser? I get the sense it's not WML (or is it?)... http://parand.com/say/index.php/2008/05/01/how-do-you-design-sites-for-blackberry/