JavaScript and Smart Forests
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I’ve come up with a fun way to teach both programmable hardware and forest ecology – but I need your help to flesh it out!
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I’ve come up with a fun way to teach both programmable hardware and forest ecology – but I need your help to flesh it out!
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Not everyone could be at JSConf BR, so I wanted to give you all a glimpse of the awesomeness that is the worker API.
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Is JavaScript capable of powering more than just websites?
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How often do you take something you’d otherwise take for granted back to the drawing board and start from scratch?
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One of the first things I look for when reviewing JavaScript code is the proper use (and isolation) of scope.
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When I explain to people that I enjoy writing code in C# more than PHP, they scratch their collective heads and, with a quizzical look, always respond, “why?” My biggest reason: I really enjoy working with parallel processing.
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Last year, I had the opportunity to present at jQuery Portland about unit testing. It was my first non-WordPress speaking event, and it was incredible!
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Every now and again, someone asks me how I got started in web development. They want to know what classes I took in college. What my degree is in. Who I studied under. It’s not a big secret, so I’ll tell you.
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As computers continue to develop and grow, so do the things they’re capable of; just about any laptop capable of playing FarmVille can also run a sophisticated astrophysics simulation. In college, it took me a few minutes with a room-sized supercomputer to derive the Chandrasekhar Limit. The same derivation can now run in JavaScript, embedded