2009-12-05 Green Ice In The Sunshine

It's a first for me to have ice cream on the beach on the same day I take my wife to a Christmas party...

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You know the Kevin Bacon game, right? Well, everybody does, I guess. What I didn't know is that someone actually tapped into the IMDB web service API to implement the whole thing as The Oracle of Bacon. I'm torn between calling it cheating and brilliant.

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Another thing I didn't know is that there is such a thing as The Jargon Files. Here's a randomized version of it.

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And while we're talking about computers, ere are two handy tools for JavaScript:

The first one is JSLint, which checks your JavaScript for common mistakes.

The second one is Google's Closure Compiler, which not only minifies JavaScript code, but also optimizes it by removing unused functions (among other things).

(I'm secretly in love with Google...)