See the carnage for yourself. It is a little scary: the whole added-value Appleness of the unit it *ripped* off. With just bare, dry commentary underneath it.
Author Archives: Olle Jonsson
Saved by GNU tools
GnuWin32 Packages is the official list of GNU tools for the win32 platform. Some of these tools are pure magic. diff rules, and I felt all broken when my Cygwin install broke, because all my settings in diff were perfect there. Now I don’t even have to open the bash commandline, the tools are on …
Unit test for JS: JSUnit
JSUnit : > JsUnit is a Unit Testing framework for client-side (in-browser) JavaScript. It is essentially a port of JUnit to JavaScript. I talked about another, simpler testing framework, ECMAUnit the other day, but I noted that the above is the one Olav is using. Seems more featureful, and you can run some sort of …
Roleplaying scenario writing event: Amok i maj!
The scenario writing event Amok i maj is the brain-child of Danish role-playing game superstar Thomas Munkholt. You have three weeks to write a scenario! Do it! Go amok! The inspiration was NaNoWriMo, an annual event.
Theory of translations
I have begun reading Introducing Translation Studies, by Jeremy Munday, as I am trying my hand at commercial translation. _Dolmetscher_ is the slightly derogatory term for commercial translators. It was coined by 19th century theologian Schleiermacher, who still is a defining influence on translation theories. (Most things that folks in T Studies are doing nowadays …
“Number One With A Bullet”, explained
I was snooping around for the hidden meaning of the term “number one with a bullet”. Its meaning could not only be the movie with the same name. And, of course there was more to the story. I’m glad you asked, flow. As a matter of fact, the term “number one with a bullet” originated …
Free fonts for coding
Get them at Proggy Fonts.
No Software Patents!
No Software Patents! is a portal, a portal you should spend five minutes at today. The link above is to a page showcases a fictional webshop (created by The Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure) that could be any webshop, and it uses some basic functions that webshops use, such as paying with VISA, and …
Search function with auto-complete “suggest”
The search function at the PHP homepage has got a new functionality: suggesting what it is you’re typing. Like auto-complete. And Google Suggest. > The source code of this feature is released under the PHP License and is available from the PHP CVS server without any support. Nice of them. The script is included at …
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ECMAUnit: Unit testing for JavaScript
Sarissa is a goodie for those of us who wrangle with XML: Sarissa is a cross-browser ECMAScript library for client side XML manipulation, including XML loading from URLs or strings, XSLT transformations, XPath queries and more. Supported: Gecko (Mozilla, Firefox etc), IE, KHTML (Konqueror, Safari). When I started looking at its documentation, I noticed that …