Timmon - Time Monitor wtfjs dartdocgen: The API Documentation Generator Use dartdocgen to generate, and serve, the documentation for your Dart package. Basic usage Dartdocgen generates documentation from Dart code in the lib directory and creates the output in JSON format. When using the --serve option, dartdocgen serves your files so you can see them locally in a browser. To deploy your documentation to the web, host the viewer on your server, compiled to JavaScript, along with your generated files. Generate documentation Here is a simple example of using dartdocgen to generate docs on the command line. Run this command from the top-level directory of your Dart package, after you have run pub get to get the dependencies: dartdocgen . This command generates documentation, in the JSON file format, and places it in a top-level directory named docs. View docs locally Here is a simple example of using dartdocgen to generate, and then serve, the generated docs to the viewer. dartdocgen --serve . Deploy docs To deploy your documentation to the web, do the following:
Xuse - Yahoo! Friday, September 17th, 2010 Progressive enhancement using nothing but JavaScript? Progressive enhancement is still a confusing matter for a lot of people who are very excited about the capabilities of JavaScript in modern browser environments. It can feel anachronistic to write your solutions for a non-JS environment and then once more enhances in JavaScript. Wednesday, August 11th, 2010 Free talk at Yahoo on the 27th about the software revolution that is JavaScript Yahoo invites to their campus in Sunnyvale, California on the 27th of August to hear Douglas Crockford talk about “Loopage”. Friday, January 29th, 2010 Addmap.js – automatically analyse a text for geo locations and add a map As part of an upcoming article on geo location I am putting together a few Geo Toys for myself and here is the first one. Monday, January 11th, 2010 Using YQL as a proxy for cross-domain Ajax OK, this is nothing shockingly new, but I found it pretty useful. Tuesday, January 5th, 2010 YUI 3 Is Out!
daux.io - Getting Started AurigaDoc IEBlog : IE JavaScript Performance Recommendations Part 2: JavaScript Code Inefficiencies Hello again, this is Peter Gurevich, Performance PM for IE. We have gotten a lot of good feedback from our first post on IE + JavaScript Performance Recommendations so I am eager to hear what you think of our second installment. This is the first of two posts concerning inefficiencies in Javascript code itself. JScript Code Inefficiencies – Chapter One There are plenty of ways to use JScript (and other Javascript engines) inefficiently since the interpreter performs almost zero optimizations when interpreting code. Optimize String Manipulations by Avoiding Intermediate Results Most JScript code used for manipulating the IE DOM requires some sort of string manipulation. The first piece of erroneous code comes in using the standard string concatenation operator + when working with strings. Performance articles often note this type of construct is slow. var myRatherLargeString = smallerStrings.join(‘’); Not only is the code simpler, but it is also much faster for this case. Thanks,
Documentation generator Document generation can be divided in several type of documents: Batch documents (all automated documents)Interactive documents (documents that can not be produced automatically)Text block correspondence (documents created based on pre-defined text blocks)Forms (forms for websites) You can place every type of document you come across in one of these categories. Writing Software Requirements Specifications Here’s the scenario: You’re finishing up your latest HTML Help project…no more late nights or weekends…back to a “normal” 50-hour work week. That’s when the development team lead strolls into your office and says she just got your manager’s okay for you to help the development team “put together the software requirements specifications template for the next major project.” “A what?” For technical writers who haven’t had the experience of designing software requirements specifications (SRSs, also known as software functional specifications or system specifications) templates or even writing SRSs, they might assume that being given the opportunity to do so is either a reward or punishment for something they did (or failed to do) on a previous project. This article will describe what the software requirements specifications document is and why it’s important, discuss how and why technical writers should be involved with them, and discuss the critical elements for writing an SRS. Conclusion
Objectifying JavaScript The web professional's online magazine of choice. In: Columns > Behind the Curtain By Jonathan Snook Published on September 18, 2006 When I first began programming with JavaScript, I created my variables and then encapsulated any functionality I needed to reuse into a function. In JavaScript, a function is an object; creating a function creates an object. As scripts get larger, functions become more interrelated. In a true object-oriented sense, an object represents a thing. The important idea here is simply that objects encapsulate related functionality. In JavaScript, we often perform a series of tasks on existing objects. We’ve established that objects are good and useful, but how do we go about creating them? using the object literalusing the new keyword with a function Let’s shed some light on these options, and the advantages and disadvantages of each. Using the Object Literal Creating a new object using the object literal syntax is very straightforward. Example: Creating Objects Prototype
Linux Installation Guide 1. Introduction This guide contains all the commands you should use to complete a stage3 installation of Gentoo. You need a connection to the Internet to download the stage3 and Portage snapshots. Timing output follows all commands that take more than a couple of seconds to finish. 2. Installation Media Download a CD from one of our mirrors. Burn the CD and boot it. Booting the CD Press F2 at the boot screen to find out what boot options exist. Optional: loading modules If you used the nodetect option, once booted, load the required modules. Network Configuration If your network does not work already, you can use net-setup to configure your network. For wireless access, use iwconfig to set the wireless parameters and then use either net-setup again or run ifconfig, dhcpcd and/or route manually. If you are behind a proxy, do not forget to initialize your system using export http_proxy, ftp_proxy and RSYNC_PROXY. Alternatively, you can start networking manually. Preparing the Disks Chrooting Reboot
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