Fashion geekery. One of the benefits of being a in mixed couple is that we don’t echo-chamber each other. The girl tells me stories about life in the fashion industry, and I regurgitate TechMeme. But sometimes worlds collide, like when fashion invades Teh Geekosphere.
Show me the money. “The point is that business is not a sporting event. Victory for one company doesn’t mean defeat for everyone else.” Every once in a while we get a company, like Nintendo, to remind us that it’s not about being No. 1. It’s about being profitable.
Show me your toolbox. Dan Pritchett asks: “Why then do we, as software engineers, have to work so hard to reduce our toolbox to the ultimate tool?”
Show me your functions. Justin Palmer rounds up the cool functional features of prototype.js. If you thought prototype.js is just about AJAX calls, think again. If you need a little help understanding each, map and inject, this post is the place to start.
About those functions … Wesner Moise: “One problem with functional languages comes from its heritage in academia. … Functional programming languages look hard or too mathematical, when in fact they should actually be conceptually easier.”
