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- Make songbird look like spotify: http://addons.songbirdnest.com/addon/1440
- Got it, thanks Paul!
- Email me your email address so I can invite you Mike (paul@paulmwatson.com)
- Happy New Year to you, as well! I was stopping by to see if you would be willing to lend a reader a Spotify invitation. I am desperately hoping to be able try out the service. Thanks! Mike
- Nice one Jamie. Even more ironic is that that "mass production" is probably still underpaid, underage workers in some 3rd world country sweat-shop.
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Slash7 has posted the slides from their brilliant Javascript Boot Camp Tutorial talk at OSCON. 108 pages of pure JavaScript love. One thing I just learnt, on page 36, is that you can pass a function as an arguement into another function. That function can then call the arguement function. Sounds
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2 years ago
I think Java has something similar.
2 years ago
This is a reasonably common feature in dynamic languages like Perl, Python and Ruby.
some of the things it allows are mindblowing; it gets even better when variable scoping is modified to allow "closures". You know the java pattern whereby you need to define an interface to receive a callback, then callers need to define instances of that interface etc. etc.? That becomes a single line of code in perl ;) it's truly beautiful in terms of simplification and readability.
2 years ago