Monthly Archives: December 2007

Quine using XHTML and JavaScript

By Zach Leatherman | Published: December 28, 2007
Programming Hilarity! He has a generator, and a pre-generated example. Wait, what’s a quine, you say? In computing, a quine is a program, a form of metaprogram, that produces its complete source code as its only output. – Courtesy of Wikipedia: Quine (computing)
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Faster YUI DataTable with 5 Lines of Code

By Zach Leatherman | Published: December 27, 2007
Holy Reflows Batman! The typical usage of a DataTable in the Yahoo User Interface JavaScript library involves passing a string into the constructor signifying the ID attribute of the container you want to attach the DataTable to. However, the YUI DataTable loves the DOM and creating nodes individually using DOM methods. Normally that’d be fine, [...]
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enterval, an automatic setInterval chainer.

By Zach Leatherman | Published: December 23, 2007
Hello internet. Today we’ll be exploring the magical wonders of setInterval. Have you ever worked on a project that needed multiple timers going simultaneously? Have you ever wanted to bind all of those timer callbacks into just one timer without restructuring your code manually? Well, being the Curious George that I am, I wanted to [...]
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Problems with Looping through window.setInterval

By Zach Leatherman | Published: December 23, 2007
Look at this code. What do you expect to be the outcome?
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