Learning

"Learning Haskell even though you don't use it for work is just like running, cycling, and swimming even though you aren't a pro triathlete." -- https://twitter.com/raganwald/status/333945282226184192

Notable comment:

"@raganwald True for all new modalities. Learn orthogonal to what you know, increase the dimensionality of your mind!" -- https://twitter.com/drsteveplatt/status/335804367070445569


There's a chatter in office about the usefulness(or perceived non-usefulness) of Pluralsight account for all engineers. There are some engineers who thinks it's not useful for them, perhaps they are just learning what they already know. There are tons of courses on Pluralsight that can increase the dimensionality of your mind, don't get stuck with one form of knowledge.


Pluralsight is an apt name, it's where we can see many forms of knowledge.

JavaScript alphabet song

If JavaScript has an alphabet or elementary song, I think this is the one:

1: function foo(){} foo(); // calls foo 
2: foo = function(){}; foo(); // calls foo 
3: ( function(){} )(); // calls the anonymous function

Shopping for client-side MVC

If you have a hard time shopping for client-side MVC, let http://todomvc.com/ be your guide

You can't parse HTML with regex...

You can't parse HTML with regex...

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4683046/regular-expression-for-extracting-script-tags


...and if you do, someone will write some poem of poetic beauty quality:


http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open-tags-except-xhtml-self-contained-tags/1732454#1732454