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Archive for May, 2007


Debugging and Profiling JavaScript

Meaningless blabber

Before starting, I have to say that I am with you, all those that have been traumatized by Internet Explorer’s epic refusal to help JavaScript developers in their humble quest to debug code.

I personally think that IE hates JavaScript developers; I think that all the IE’s in the world have united into a secret masonic order that wants to rule the planet. They are the Axis of IEvil1 and their plan is:

“Let’s refuse those JavaScript bastards their rights to debugging. We will say that all errors are syntax errors and they all take place on line 1 at a random character; also we will ally with our friend Notepad which will refuse to show line numbers for all eternity. Thus, our evil plan will be complete! Mmbbuhuhohaha…”. (more…)


  1. Along with the old lady that lives on the 3rd floor. She’s the mastermind behind it all, I just know it!

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Programming Languages by Generation

Although most of us are aware of all the major programming languages that have risen since the beginning of the informational era (70’s) we are not very well aware about what makes them fundamentally different, or about the context in which and purpose for which they were conceived. (more…)

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Cross Browser Drop Shadows

I seem to remember that a few years ago I was making rather extensive use of a drop-shadowing technique for texts under Internet Explorer (this was way back when IE 4.x and Netscape 4.x roamed the earth).

Recently (and surprisingly) I felt the sudden need to use that again, but a trigger inside my brain told me: “Hey! you can’t do that straight out like you used to back then! Browsers evolved, you know!”. So then I started searching with Google for a while and came across this interesting piece of blog candy: Click here for candy!

Hope it’s useful!

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