Posts Tagged ‘javascript’

A re-introduction to JavaScript

Posted in General on March 1st, 2008 by slacy – Be the first to comment

I’m just starting to learn and program in JavaScript for some simple web app development I’m doing at home, and have had a hard time finding a good reference & introduction to the language and its somewhat quirky constructs. I found the article A Re-Introduction to JavaScript on developer.mozilla.org, and found it really useful, especially the discussion around functions, inner functions, closures, etc.

Drive Score, take 2

Posted in General on December 4th, 2007 by slacy – Be the first to comment

The Drive Score website is now back online, so I can tell you:

1. Death Valley, CA gets a “7/100″ (If you can find someplace thats less drivable, let me know)
2. Area 51, NV gets an “8/100″
2. Pony, Montana gets a “12/100″
3. New York, NY gets an “83/100″ (NB: In real life, do you think New York is more or less ‘drive-able’ than Death Valley?)

Thinking about this site more, I now suspect that its just a straight javascript rip-off of the walkscore site. Lots of these types of mash-ups are only implemented in Javascript, and thus, are very easy to rip off and tailor to your own needs. I bet thats whats happened here.