Monthly Archives: May 2007

Totally. Awesome.

http://michaelpaulus.com/gallery/v/character-Skeletons/

Assigned as homework in middleschool:
http://michaelpaulus.com/gallery/v/character-Skeletons/album02

Prototypal inheritance

Once again, I got doing inheritance in Javascript wrong. I was deceived, as the language designers intended, into believing that classes and objects were separate entities like in Java or C++. Nope! No such thing as classes.
Douglas Crockford gives this solution (though I added the super atribute) for getting rid of new [...]

Stuff I elided from my snippets this week

Remembered that I don’t much like computer security work–that’s why I was going to school for a degree in physics instead of trying to get back into security
Got angry at Jason for leaving me here to play with his cars
Alma talked to me about looking lonely; hopefully that’ll improve in the shuffle after the move [...]

The metallurgy of utensils

Learn what goes into making a good fork.