Jon Fazzaro

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I'm a music and software nerd who's probably off looking for a cup of coffee right now.

• 20120424

  Here’s The Thing About Duct Tape.

  What I mean to get at with all the jabber about our ubiquitous silvery adhesive friend is this: jQuery is arguably the duct tape of WebForms development, and its quick-fix powers over rendered markup are seemingly without limit. Use enough of it at once, though, and it will find ways of getting stuck to itself, or indeed to the hirsute wrist of your DOM. As your page’s once-blinding responsiveness disappears over the usability horizon, you shed a single caffeinated tear, and it dawns on you that getting this untangled could be a slow and painful affair. Perhaps involving plenty of unintentional hair loss.

  

  Now, let me brush away that tear—in a totally non-creepy, platonic sort of way—as I submit for you today some tricks to get your jQuery just about as unstuck and performant as an abstraction over an interpreted language could ever hope to be.

  Slow jQuery And The Thing About Duct Tape [ Aptera Software ]

  Source: apterasoftware.com

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• 20120412

  You have to plan ahead and schedule everything so it’s ready when you need it. Programming requires patience and the ability to handle detail. Women are naturals at computer programming.

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  Dr. Grace Hopper, from “The Computer Girls” (Cosmopolitan, April 1967) [ The Computer Boys Take Over ]

  See also: What Are Brogrammers Afraid Of? [ Haacked ]

  Source: thecomputerboys.com

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• 20120411

  What If Someone Does Something Bad?

  Policies and processes we adopt over time are corporate inventory. We have to maintain them, administer them, and be annoyed by them. All these actions are waste.

  

  The tricky thing here is that all policies can be defended by “what if” arguments. “We can’t get rid of that policy … what if someone does something bad?”

  Well, what if someone does something bad? How likely is that to occur?

  We know for certain that the waste is making the group less effective when subjected to the policy. What is the likelihood of your What If?

  One Day’s Idea is Another Day’s Waste [ Personal Kanban ]

  Source: personalkanban.com

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• 20120402

  I’ll forgive almost any kind of ineptitude as long as I’ve never heard it before.

  Every time I hear something I don’t know, it’s grist for the mill, for my own work. When I hear it I think, ‘Wow. That’s some new stuff. Maybe there’s something there I can steal.’ If I know what it is, then it’s just “Oh, there’s those guys doing that stuff. I know that stuff.”

  

  The Bad Plus: On Jazz, Humility, and Finding Your Voice [ The 99 Percent ]

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