Falling Off the Wagon

Posted on March 25, 2008 under ( akismet comments javascript lisp ) - Comments

It’s been 12 days since I last posted. My plan was to post once a day for the next month, so I’ve obviously fallen off the wagon a bit. In retrospect though I don’t feel bad because I’ve made good progress on several other projects I’m working on.

  • ANSI Common Lisp — I’ve been reading and working my way through this book. I’ll save my thoughts about Lisp for a separate post. I do like the style of this book though. It reminds me a little of the famous K&R C book in that it’s sparse yet efficient. I’ll post some more thoughts about the book too once I’ve finished.
  • JavaScript: The Definitive Guide — I got this book just about a week ago and I’ve already read through both the core and web specific sections (not including the reference material), which is something like 500 pages I think. It’s funny, but I never imagined I would get so excited over JavaScript. I can’t believe that I’ve gone this long as a web developer without really knowing the underlying language. Again, I’ll have to save my revelations for another post, but I would highly recommend this book to anybody who deals with JavaScript, and especially for anybody doing any serious (Dynamic HTML/AJAX) programming in JS.
  • Introduction to Algorithms — I’m going back to school. I owned this book as an undergrad, and now I own it again. This is a meaty one… I’m just getting started, so it’s going to take a little bit.
  • bonesisalive.com — I’ve started work on the comments feature. I was about half-way through adding support for Akismet to block spam comments, when I realized it was really a bit of premature optimization considering I don’t even have any readers at this point. I know full well I’ll have to implement it at some point, but I think it’s much better to just get the feature out. Especially because once I get the feature out I’ll feel better about publishing the link to this blog around. It feels kinda silly to have a sight that no one can comment on at the moment.

Now with Comments!

Posted on August 19, 2008 under ( akismet comments ) - Comments

I’ve added the ability to comment on posts. Now I just need to find somebody to comment on said posts :)