Nathan from onWired (a local web company) gave a presentation on jQuery, which has repiqued my interest in it. The docs were always a shortcoming, but Aptana has had scriptdoc support for jQuery for awhile now. I think if I need to do more AJAXy stuff, I’ll try jQuery for my next project. [...]

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I’ve put up a small survey which I’m hoping will help me get an idea of whether there’s any connection between computer language choice and religious identification.  Do Catholics gravitate towards Java?  Are Python users more likely to be Baptist?  It’s basically a ‘fun’ thing - I don’t claim it’ll be scientific, but I’m still [...]

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Whew!  The last several months have brought a flurry of web tech activity, the likes of which I haven’t seen in years.
Apollo/Silverlight/JavaFX all are aiming at reinventing in-browser development.
Yahoo Pipes, Ning, Coghead and some other platforms are giving us new ways to think about web-based development.
The YUI/Dojo/Scriptaculous/Atlas/jQuery/GWT AJAX toolkits - what can I say?  They [...]

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I was using the what-I-thought-was-the-standard JSON javascript library and ran in to a weird annoyance.  The toJSONString() method will take any arbitrary object or array and serialize the entire thing.  However, the parseJSON() method won’t unserialize recursively.  I ended up with values in my object which were just serialized JSON strings, which I needed to [...]

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