Posted in Misc on July 25th, 2003 No Comments »
I just found out that a friend of mine in high school, Josh Byers, died in Iraq on Wednesday. Josh was one of the good guys, an honest man who was a patriot when being a patriot was one of the least cool things to be.
Posted in Tech on July 16th, 2003 No Comments »
aol lays off the rest of their netscape development team that was actively working on mozilla. mozilla now has limited funding and a smaller salaried group, and will probably lose a number of their talented developers. On the bright side, mozilla is finally an independent entity, no longer controlled by aol. aol [...]
Posted in SVG, Tech on July 11th, 2003 No Comments »
After more than a year of no new releases, and rumor that Adobe would no longer release stand-alone svg viewers, they release a beta for asv6, their most feature-rich svg viewer yet. It includes a lot of experimental stuff from the SVG 1.2 RAX draft, some high-end DOM features (mutation events, etc.), audio and [...]
Posted in JavaScript, Tech on July 9th, 2003 No Comments »
I recently had a need to automate JavaDoc style documentation for JavaScript code on a Windows platform. After reviewing what was out there, I put together an obscure hybrid that combines the following technologies: Ant, Doxygen, JavaScript, and Perl. It works, but there has to be a better way of doing this.