My brother just launched a new personal project of his, consisting of two web sites; ifeellondon.com and ifeelnyc.com. The idea, in a nutshell, is that you browse for activities in your home city by how you feel, rather than what you might want to do, or where you might want to go.
This tool is based on a full JavaScript parser that is part of a much bigger plan. I won’t go into that just yet, but along the way I’m going to be releasing useful tools like this as they come about. It’s useful to have some short term goals to keep up morale and ensure that the framework is working well.
> Try it here: Obfuscate and minify your JavaScript code
I’ve updated my JavaScript parser to include full Unicode support.
Check out the test interfaces for:
» Full parser;
» Code highlighting.
If you learn a programming language it is unlikely that you will read the formal language specification that defines all the laws of the syntax. You may never read it at all. It is more useful to learn by example, or at least topic-by-topic. However, a mere ten years after writing my first few lines of JavaScript, I read the ECMAScript standard and it threw up some things I did not know.
There are many things that you can write in JavaScript that are perfectly valid syntax, but that you probably never will write. Here are a few that raised an eyebrow or two.
Publicreative have just launched a new version of MTV’s Best Show Ever website. It’s largely a user-contributed video site, with the added attraction that your clip could wind up on MTV.
I was heavily involved in this project as a back end developer and “web master” (for want of a better word). I may write about this project in more depth later, but for now there it is – Check it out!