Never have my feelings towards JavaScript been summed up better than by this single photo: Case and point, I was attempting to make use of JavaScript’s getDay() to obtain a numerical value for the day of the week. Here’s what I get using the command line JSC: >>> (new Date()).getDay(); // Right now it's … Continue reading JavaScript Strikes Again!
Red iPhones and Other Trinkets
There’s been a few Apple announcements of note these past seven days, besides the underwhelming iPad reveal. Let’s look at them. Red iPhone When I was in Japan several years ago, I spotted a red edition Nintendo DS Lite in the depths of Electric Town. It looked awesome, with its winning combination of red and … Continue reading Red iPhones and Other Trinkets
Winterlogged
Much of the North West of this continent was hit by a snowstorm last night. Montreal is no stranger to snow, but even this mighty city can grind to a halt until the snow clearing efforts have a chance to get underway. It must have been big, as Montreal's comedy mayor was recommending people to … Continue reading Winterlogged
The Magic Apple Box
From this article published in Motherboard, it really drives home the levels of paranoid secrecy Apple will go to: If you take a phone with a cracked screen to the Apple Store, the Geniuses there don't have to swap the button from your old screen to the new one. According to one current and two … Continue reading The Magic Apple Box
Waiting for Beck
Beck promised us a new album. Beck lied, but Beck is still awesome and we forgive him. Well OK, he didn’t really lie, he’s just taking his time to perfect it and get real paid. In the meantime he’s released a bunch of singles, none of which we know for sure will be on the … Continue reading Waiting for Beck
On Streamlining Merges and Builds
It’s not often I blog about my job, but I’ve taken inspiration from the idea of writing more about technical challenges. I was musing the other morning as I was preparing for a merging session, how what used to be a long winded manual process at the command line has been reduced to a single … Continue reading On Streamlining Merges and Builds
The State of iOS Web Applications
A few years ago I started work on a webapp for iOS to report delays on Montreal’s Metro. On the front-end it was pretty crude, more of an experiment than anything else. But it developed into something myself and a few other people found useful. My overall aim was to create something which behaved like … Continue reading The State of iOS Web Applications
