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[Links] Super Mario Bros in JavaScript

In: Code, Interesting, JavaScript

It’s unbelievable how far we’ve come since JavaScript was first utilized on a web page to create a popup window or an annoying alert box.
Now we have full blown e-mail clients, street view mapping APIs, and… Mario Bros!
check it out:
http://blog.nihilogic.dk/2008/04/super-mario-in-14kb-javascript.html

What’s Pylons?
I’ll assume you’ve heard the buzz about Ruby on Rails. Pylons, like Rails, is an MVC framework, but written in the Python language.
This isn’t meant to be an intro to MVC frameworks, but for those just getting started… MVC frameworks let you keep the presentation, business logic, and data separate. They also [...]

Testing out my new syntax plugin

In: CakePHP, Code

This will be a short post. I just installed Ryan McGeary’s WP-syntax plugin for Wordpress. Let’s see a few examples…

<body>
<?php
echo $javascript->link(’prototype_1.6.0′);
echo $javascript->link(’scriptaculous_1.8.0/scriptaculous’);
echo $javascript->link(’home’);
echo $scripts_for_layout;
?>
</body>

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class Example
def example(arg1)
return "Hello: " + arg1.to_s
end
end

That looks pretty good. I did find a bug when using [...]

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I am the Co-Founder of OpenAction and lead Product Development. We are a open platform social enterprise that helps organizations engage with donors, share knowledge with other non profits and empower the community to get involved to create positive impact on our planet.

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