I really like this book. The author does not treat you like an idiot or make 'oh so funny' jokes to make you feel comfortable with the text.
The writing style is friendly and fluid, while the content is always to point. I wish more programming books were as dross-free as this one.
Many readers are likely to read through sections twice or a few times. Crockford warns, 'This book is small, but it is dense', and it is certainly is cramed with useful information. The author states no intention of writing a JavaScript reference but has certainly written a book that I will pick up frequently on JavaScript projects
I am surprised the reviewer didn't mention JSlint a free, online JavaScript 'verifier', written by the author, that can be used to 'debug' and write better code. It may even be worth a try before you buy the book.
The BPI seem to be pressing hard to 'stamp out piracy' at present. In addition to this news, there is currently a series of TV adverts in Britain, trying to make downloading socially unacceptable
This may sound like a stupid question, but why would we see the implementation of the new Firewire spec in HDTVs when we already have HDMI using equivalent or greater bandwidth? Would it not be just as likely to see HDMI ports appearing in PCs for connections to HDTV and AV equipment?
Thanks
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Indeed. Circa 2002, more computing power was thrown away each week than there was in the entire world in 1984.
I really like this book. The author does not treat you like an idiot or make 'oh so funny' jokes to make you feel comfortable with the text. The writing style is friendly and fluid, while the content is always to point. I wish more programming books were as dross-free as this one.
Many readers are likely to read through sections twice or a few times. Crockford warns, 'This book is small, but it is dense', and it is certainly is cramed with useful information. The author states no intention of writing a JavaScript reference but has certainly written a book that I will pick up frequently on JavaScript projects
I am surprised the reviewer didn't mention JSlint a free, online JavaScript 'verifier', written by the author, that can be used to 'debug' and write better code. It may even be worth a try before you buy the book.
The BPI seem to be pressing hard to 'stamp out piracy' at present. In addition to this news, there is currently a series of TV adverts in Britain, trying to make downloading socially unacceptable
In a similar way, I use tor to route all http tracker requests.
Additionally, I use Transmission along with the Bluetack 'bad ip' blocklist. The blocklist covers various 'bad' netblocks such as record companies etc.
Mac users might like to know they already have a DNS cache running. lookupd caches DNS queries by default.
Alas, plenty of Linux servers will report 'Unix' in such a server line.
$ lynx -dump -head http://beta.slashdot.org/ | grep Server
Server: Apache/1.3.41 (Unix) mod_perl/1.31-rc4
So that's one question answered :-)
This may sound like a stupid question, but why would we see the implementation of the new Firewire spec in HDTVs when we already have HDMI using equivalent or greater bandwidth? Would it not be just as likely to see HDMI ports appearing in PCs for connections to HDTV and AV equipment? Thanks