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JavaScript Needs Blocks

~1 month ago by wycats on Katz Got Your Tongue?.
While reading Hacker News posts about JavaScript, I often come across the misconception that Ruby’s blocks are essentially equivalent to JavaScript...

Amber.js (formerly SproutCore 2.0) is now Ember.js

~1 month ago by wycats on Katz Got Your Tongue?.
After we announced Amber.js last week, a number of people brought Amber Smalltalk, a Smalltalk implementation written in JavaScript, to our attention. After...

Announcing Amber.js

2 months ago by wycats on Katz Got Your Tongue?.
A little over a year ago, I got my first serious glimpse at SproutCore, the JavaScript framework Apple used to build MobileMe (now iCloud). At the time...

How to Marshal Procs Using Rubinius

3 months ago by wycats on Katz Got Your Tongue?.
The primary reason I enjoy working with Rubinius is that it exposes, to Ruby, much of the internal machinery that controls the runtime semantics of the...

A Proposal for ES.next Proposals

5 months ago by wycats on Katz Got Your Tongue?.
Over the past few years, I have occasionally expressed frustration (in public and private) about the process for approving new features to the next edition...

New Hope for The Ruby Specification

5 months ago by wycats on Katz Got Your Tongue?.
For a few years, a group of Japanese academics have been working on formalizing the Ruby programming language into a specification they hoped would be accepted...

Understanding “Prototypes” in JavaScript

6 months ago by wycats on Katz Got Your Tongue?.
For the purposes of this post, I will be talking about JavaScript objects using syntax defined in ECMAScript 5.1. The basic semantics existed in Edition...

Understanding JavaScript Function Invocation and “this”

6 months ago by wycats on Katz Got Your Tongue?.
Over the years, I’ve seen a lot of confusion about JavaScript function invocation. In particular, a lot of people have complained that the semantics...

What’s Up With All These Changes in Rails?

8 months ago by wycats on Katz Got Your Tongue?.
Yesterday, there was a blog post entitled “What the Hell is Happening to Rails” that stayed at the number one spot on Hacker News for quite...

Using SproutCore 2.0 with jQuery UI

8 months ago by wycats on Katz Got Your Tongue?.
One of the goals of SproutCore 2.0 is to make it trivial to integrate the tools you’re already using together with SproutCore. One way that we do...