Posts Tagged ‘general purpose

Much like MooTools, the Dojo Toolkit features a host of JavaScript language helpers.  One of those helpers is dojo.partial.  This method, which lives in Dojo Base, allows you to call a method with additional arguments appended to the front of a function signature.  Sound a bit weird?  It did to me too.  Let’s take a [...]

When the W3C unveiled the HTML5 logo earlier this week some people (including myself – see HTML5 now includes CSS3, SVG and WOFF?) felt that the message this sent made it more likely for people to confuse different web technologies. One important reason for this feeling of added confusion was the wording in the logo’s [...]

Hey there! Summer is officially over, no more fun day Fridays or extra holidays, we’re back to a regular posting schedule! And, it’s Wednesday, so this mid-week roundup is devoted to all things business and development. Some links are newsworthy, some retweeted across Twitter, and others just meet our “awesomeness” requirement, and regardless we hope [...]

JavaScript as a general-purpose “Turing-complete language” is illustrated – the example discussed in the first part of a series:  How a CPU can be emulated through JS, and how one might start building an emulation core for the GameBoy console. Looking forward:  How a game image can be loaded into the emulator over the Web. [...]

The term "cloud computing" might well be shortened to just "computing" by the time 2020 rolls around.  The results of Pew’s latest study show that a significant majority of Internet experts believe cloud computing will represent the main way in which people will interact with software at that point. Pew contacted 895 "internet experts and [...]


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