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Oct 18 2009, 17:56 PM by Kai JägerJavaScript for people who are in slightly less of a hurry - part one
My last article JavaScript for people who are in a hurry was yet another attempt to share my appreciation for this language with the world. JavaScript isn't perfect by any [...]
Oct 15 2009, 23:13 PM by Kai Jäger
JavaScript for people who are in a hurry
Sweet mother of science, have I really not posted anything in over three months? Well, fear not because here's a brand new article for all of you out there who [...]
Dec 06 2008, 22:00 PM by Kai Jäger
Some advice on how to give a presentation that doesn't suck – part three
I know, I know, it’s been more than two weeks since I released part two of this series, but I have a pretty good excuse for that: I had [...]
Nov 15 2008, 20:37 PM by Kai Jäger
Some advice on how to give a presentation that doesn't suck – part two
Finally, here is part two of my three-part series on how to give presentations that don’t suck. If you missed part one, you can always go back. If you’re still [...]
Nov 06 2008, 22:36 PM by Kai Jäger
Some advice on how to give a presentation that doesn't suck – part one
Presentations or talks are a lot like movies: most of the time they’re “okay”, sometimes they’re awful and every now and then a presentation comes along, that is so incredibly [...]
Nov 29 2007, 17:33 PM by Kai Jäger
The Monte Carlo method for cross-browser CSS
The notorius "Second Acid Test". Left-to-right: Mozilla Firefox 2.0, Microsoft Internet Explorer 7, any browser using "Monte Carlo CSS" Abstract CSS or Cascading Style Sheets are probably the most widely [...]
Feb 11 2007, 22:43 PM by Kai Jäger
Introducing BISON - Binary Interchange Standard and Object Notation
Long before we had XML-based web services or JSON, people typically used binary protocols for the same kinds of tasks. These protocols often operated right above the TCP-layer allowing them [...]
Dec 02 2006, 12:37 PM by Kai Jäger
The singleton design pattern in JavaScript
This singleton pattern, despite the controversy surrounding it, is definitely one of the most popular GoF patterns. While I agree that using singletons to make global variables look like OOP [...]