New Year, New Role
Yesterday was my last day at the job I’ve been in for most of 2015. Later this month I’ll be joining the digital team »
Visualizing the 2015 SotU on TodaysMeet
Now that you know how TodaysMeet works, here’s part 2: using the message queue architecture to build the SotU visualizations. TodaysMeet has a long history »
How TodaysMeet Works
I want to write about TodaysMeet’s 2015 State of the Union site, but I realized I spent half the time on the existing architecture. So, »
Irregular Update, 24/Oct/2014
Another update! Wow! The past two weeks have all been on TodaysMeet Teacher Tools except for the afternoon I spent dealing with a hurt finger (not »
The Problem with TodaysMeet
TodaysMeet is a project I started in 2008 to help my father solve a problem in one of his classes. The fact that it’s as »
JavaScript: Private Static Members, Part 2
Finally, it’s time to finish up the lesson on private static members and methods in JavaScript. Last time, I introduced the technique of creating and »
JavaScript: Private Static Members, Part 1
A little while ago I talked about creating private variables and methods in JavaScript. This works, but is not necessarily efficient: each instance of the class »
Firefox: Open in Blank Tab
If you don’t use Firefox 3, go get it. Then finish this article. (Safari and Opera users are excused, but there’s no promise this »
Private Variables in JavaScript
Ok, enough of this social/ranting stuff. Time to write something vaguely technical. I have a love-hate relationship with JavaScript. I think anyone who works with »
Chrome Is Not A Browser
If you somehow haven’t heard of it, Google’s Chrome is a neat, quick, Acid2-compliant “browser” designed to work with web applications, not web pages. »