I forgot to mention in the 1.0.2 release notes, the other day, that there was a minor API change. This was a mistake, as we should’ve held off on making an API change until the next major release (jQuery 1.1).
As summarized by Steven Wittens, here is the premise behind the change:
In jQuery 1.0.2, the first […]
Comment · Posted: October 13th, 2006
jQuery 1.0.2 is now ready for consumption! This release is a huge bug fix release – and it is highly recommended that you upgrade right away. As always, if you spot a bug, please add it to the bug tracker.
In addition to having a better test suite, a big push for this release was to […]
Comment · Posted: October 9th, 2006
I came across a site, today, that claimed to be a “new JavaScript attack vector” called the: JavaScript Spider. The result, however, is completely laughable. According to the web site: The JavaScript Spider is the first implementation of a proof of concept tool which shows that Javascript can be in fact quite dangerous. This implementation […]
Comment · Posted: October 7th, 2006
I spotted something that I found neat today. A blogger named Wulf recently devised a system for tracking blog comments, without using any native comment system. He uses the Blosxom blogging system that doesn’t (as far as I can tell) natively support comments. Additionally, any system for keeping track of comments is prone to being […]
Comment · Posted: October 5th, 2006
I don’t think I could possibly be any more giddy about something, than how I am concerning The Netflix Prize. In short: Netflix’s vote prediction algorithm gets a deviation of 0.95 stars away from predicting your vote for a movie. If you can do 10% better, they’ll give you $1 million dollars. That’s awesome and […]
Comment · Posted: October 4th, 2006
The other day, Digg made some changes to its voting system. Whereas, previously, votes were not weighted in any discernible manner, they are now weighted based upon the, supposed, level of collusion that you exhibit with other users. The idea is that if you commonly vote up the same article as another user, then your […]
Comment · Posted: September 9th, 2006
Recently, I’ve been becoming more interested in matters of online identity and social networking – and this latest discovery, by Andy Baio, is huge: Posing as a submissive woman looking for an aggressive dom, Jason Fortuny, posted an explicit ad to Craigslist Seattle; capturing all received emails and re-posting them to the web. The result […]
Comment · Posted: September 8th, 2006
EC2 – Apache, originally uploaded by John Resig. So I finally made it in to the new Amazon Elastic Computing Cluster service – and I can’t wait to really dig into it. I ran through the demo and it worked like a charm. The tutorial and command line tools are excellent – I had no […]
Comment · Posted: September 6th, 2006
