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Scoping Methods and Properties in JavaScript Objects

By Tom Barker
August 23, 2010

In the Advanced JavaScript class that I piloted this summer I had one of those AHA! moments with the class that makes teaching worthwhile. It was fairly early on in the class, though it was a Summer 2 class...

Cost is only part of the Gov 2.0 open source story

By Mac Slocum
August 23, 2010

Bryan Sivak, chief technology officer for the District of Columbia and a speaker at the upcoming Gov 2.0 Summit, has honed his open source message. Instead of lower cost, which he says is not the "panacea everyone thinks it is," Sivak instead focuses on the volunteerism and transparency open source provides.

Four short links: 23 August 2010

By Nat Torkington
August 23, 2010

Open Buildings -- crowdsourced database of information about buildings, for architecture geeks. A sign that crowdsourcing is digging deep into niches far far from the world of open source software. (via straup on Delicious) Lego-Based Time Tracking -- clever hack to build physical graphs of where your time goes. (via avgjanecrafter on Twitter) Smoothie Charts -- a charting Javascript...

Understanding C#: String.Intern makes strings interesting

By Andrew Stellman
August 22, 2010

One of the first things a new C# developer learns is how to work with strings. We teach the basics of strings early on in Head First C#, and it's the same way with practically every other C# book I own. So it shouldn't be surprising that novice and intermediate C# developers feel like they've got a pretty good handle on strings. But strings are more interesting than they appear. One of the more interesting aspects of strings in C# and .NET is String.Intern, and understanding it can help make you a better C# developer. In this post, I'll go through a quick String.Intern tutorial to show you how it works.

Using CSS for Strokes on Flex Charts

By Amy Blankenship
August 22, 2010

We've always been told that you can't specify strokes in CSS in Flex. Whether that's true depends on what your definition of "CSS" is. If you define CSS as the text contained within a Style tag, then what we've...


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