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  1. MacRuby: The Path Forward details »
    alternateidea.com Posted 4 weeks and 6 days ago by Justin

    MacRuby is quietly making progress. Destined to replace RubyCocoa as the de facto standard for writing Cocoa applications in Ruby; it’s shaping up to become more than...

  2. Browser-based Developer Tools Come Full Circle details »
    alternateidea.com Posted 11 weeks and 1 day ago by Justin

    With the release of Opera’s DragonFly, IE 8’s Developer tools, Safari’s/Webkit’s Web Inspector and Drosera; and the Grand Daddy of them all, Firebug – we’ve...

  3. Automating Rick Rolls with launchd details »
    alternateidea.com Posted 11 weeks and 6 days ago by Justin

    Lets face it: Your coworkers can be a real pain in the ass sometimes. What better way to remind them of this than automated Rick rolls? They’re likely to never know...

  4. DoubleClick and Define using Apple Dictionary details »
    alternateidea.com Posted 23 weeks and 5 days ago by Justin

    var selection; if(window.getSelection) selection = window.getSelection(); else if(document.selection) selection = document.selection.createRange(); ...

  5. A strftime for Prototype details »
    alternateidea.com Posted 23 weeks and 5 days ago by Justin

    Object.extend(Date.prototype, { strftime: function(format) { var day = this.getDay(), month = this.getMonth(); var hours = this.getHours(), minutes =...

  6. Pimp My JavaScript Skillz details »
    alternateidea.com Posted 28 weeks and 2 days ago by Justin

    Dustin might not surprise you at your house with a book in hand, but he’ll damn sure send you his innermost fu in the form of a shiny yellow and black book. It’s an...

  7. Understanding Scope and Binding in JavaScript details »
    alternateidea.com Posted 29 weeks and 3 days ago by Justin

    At the heart of binding, it’s merely a means to control execution scope—Function x executions in the scope of object y. It can be tough to grasp at first, but...

  8. Widgets the YUI Way details »
    alternateidea.com Posted 29 weeks and 6 days ago by Justin

    Why are there so many lightbox implementations? Why are there numerous “versions” of widgets? Do you know which fork is the latest and greatest? Probably not, and...

  9. I'm Officially a Portland Local details »
    alternateidea.com Posted 33 weeks and 2 days ago by Justin

    2,300+ miles, 3 1/2 days and 10 states later, we’ve completed our move from Memphis, TN to Portland, OR. Wow, what a drive! The Oregon countryside is breathtaking. ...

  10. Your Momma's So Fat...Prototype vs. JQuery Edition details »
    alternateidea.com Posted 36 weeks and 5 days ago by Justin

    The time has come once again to clear the air of fallacious statements by the myriad of people comparing Prototype to JQuery. I’m all for comparison; I believe it’s...

  11. Upgrading Radiant to Prototype 1.6 details »
    alternateidea.com Posted 39 weeks and 1 day ago by Justin

    Mislav has written up an excellent overview on upgrading Radiant (which used 1.5) to Prototype 1.6. The article does a great job of showing how 1.6 is superior to 1.5.