Aug27
Most often in recent years, Biden has taken the No. 2103, which leaves Wilmington at 7:35 a.m. and pulls into Union Station — barring delays — at 8:55 a.m. Amtrak has become a recurring character in the hearings Biden participates in. “Gentlemen, I apologize,” he told a Judiciary Committee hearing in 1996 when he showed up late. “One of those things that I keep telling my colleagues: If they fully funded Amtrak, I would not be late.”
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Prototype Developer Day at The Ajax Experience
Are you going to The Ajax Experience in Boston at the end of September? Or, alternatively, are you a Prototype fan who lives near Boston? Read on.
This year, the illustrious organizers of TAE are reserving the first half of the conference’s first day (September 29) for the Ajaxian Framework Summit. Four separate tracks will run at the same time: one each for Prototype, jQuery, and Dojo, and one generic track for beginners and framework agnostics.
Christophe Porteneuve and I, already attending TAE as speakers, were asked to run Prototype’s track. You may know Christophe as the author of The Bungee Book, the awesome Prototype/script.aculo.us tome that in no way competes with my own book. I know him as a guy who oozes enthusiasm from his pores when given the opportunity to organize an event like this.
Juriy Zaytsev, creator of Scripteka, will also be attending; and we’re doing our best to get other Prototype devs to town as well.
The agenda for the half-day reads like a crash-course in getting involved in the Prototype community. The community aspect has, quite frankly, been neglected lately; around the core team we’d love to build a halo of contributors as enthusiasic as jQuery’s, or as daring as Dojo’s.
We want to show you some of the stuff we’ve been working on; we want to talk about the future of Prototype and its related projects; and we want to open up the floor to whatever you want to ask us.
You may attend the Prototype summit independently of The Ajax Experience for free. But since you’ll be there already, why not sign up for the quintessential conference for frontend web developers? TAE is three packed days of smart people sharing real-world development experience that’s worth its weight in swag. (And, oh, there is swag, folks.)
If you’d like to attend the Prototype summit, fill out our short form. If you’d like to attend The Ajax Experience as well, register now with the code Prototype to save $100 on registration.
Aug18
A good rule of thumb when theorizing about cable TV production is that everything is less expensive and less elaborate than you think it is.
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Aug8
The SXSW 2009 Panel Picker is live. If you attended our Secrets of JavaScript Libraries panel and enjoyed it — or if you missed our Secrets of JavaScript Libraries panel and would move heaven and earth to get a chance to undo the biggest mistake of your life — then give large numbers of stars to More Secrets of JavaScript Libraries, our follow-up panel. Thanks to John Resig for taking the initiative (once again).
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As he passes on the reins of At The Movies, Roger Ebert fondly remembers Gene Siskel (the Waldorf to his Statler). “Did Gene and I hate each other? Yes. Did we love each other? Yes.” The hilarious YouTube videos at the bottom of his post were discussed on MetaFilter a while back; some focus on the vitriol, but I prefer to see the begrudging friendship and mutual respect. By including the videos on the page, Ebert shows he feels the same way.
(1)Jul23
At a recent Congressional hearing, the head of the airlines’ primary lobbying organization, the Air Transport Association, asserted that pricing is not an effective mechanism for balancing supply and demand for landing slots. When lobbyists argue that basic economic principles do not apply to the industry they represent, a red flag should go up.
Jul21
The audio from the Secrets of JavaScript Libraries panel has finally been posted on the SXSW web site! John Resig has the slides if you want to follow along.
Jul14
Steven Frank, co-author of Transmit: Don’t use FTP. Finally someone says it! FTP is a crazy, insecure non-protocol, and the fact that it’s still used has more to do with ubiquity than any sort of merit. SFTP piggybacks on all the security of SSH and is much easier to work with. WordPress has a great feature that automatically upgrades your installed plugins — but only on FTP, not SFTP.
Jul11
Immature testing organizations tend to have about five clean tests for every dirty test. Mature testing organizations tend to have five dirty tests for every clean test. This ratio is not reversed by reducing the clean tests; it’s done by creating 25 times as many dirty tests.
Jul9
Brand New looks at the Hornets’ logo tweak. Scroll down to the comments section to see their secondary logo — it’s exceedingly clever, co-opts some New Orleans iconography (the primary logo dates back to the Charlotte era), and kicks the primary logo’s ass. The Saints’ fleur de lis logo represents an era when a team’s logo could be unapologetically abstract. (The bigger news is the slight color change; I’m looking forward to seeing the new uniforms.)
