A chip of the Old Block?

Lovely post by Reg Braithwaite on bringing code blocks to JavaScript. The idea being to write blocks of code that contain variable declarations with local scope. The approach, which is ably demonstrated with code, tackles the issue in a manner that does not require the user of named functions to wrap code blocks which avoids a persistent code maintenance headache – “where else might this function be referenced?”.

If you are into JavaScript go check it out – if you are not then go and take a look anyway as you will be impressed by the flexibility and power of the language.

Does it run on Linux?

If your idea of “Open Source” on the Microsoft platform is that the genre is limited to “tricks and tweaks” on the web then you might like to review this post which is a list (edited by one person) of the top 25 project hosted at CodePlex. If you add this to the vast wealth of Windows based projects hosted at SourceForge and elsewhere you might well be persuaded that the open source movement has a long history and a wide scope on Microsoft platforms – and open source software is certainly not all about Linux.

Old Fogey

And if you are feeling just a little bit under-whelmed by the code just submitted by a junior software developer then, like J. Timothy King perhaps you just have to accept that you are now officially an old fogey.

A quote from the post: “I’ve discovered a new rule: When your junior colleague thinks his fancy object-oriented code is simpler than your straightforward procedural code, you know it’s time to raise your rates. Because they’re not listening to you, so you know you can’t be charging them enough.”