Web of Awesome

In which we investigate the var keyword, hunt for a hidden dragon & uncover the secrets of the scope object...

In which we explore the concept of n choose p problems, variations, combinations and permutations, & try to avoid upsetting Mr Bridges, the school’s health and safety officer.

Here’s a small change that I always make to my OSX devices. By default, there’s no keyboard shortcut to maximise a window. I don’t know about you, but I like things big and uncluttered.

Ampersand is a tiny jQuery plugin that facilitates the use of the gorgeous Open Source Ampersands library: http://opensourceampersands.com. You can use it anywhere you have jQuery available.

Closure can seem daunting, but like most things it’s actually really simple once you understand it. He we explain closure in five easy points.

Man’ I’m just full of plugins today! This little poppet takes an obfuscated email address of the form “name at email dot com” and converts it into a proper mailto with an optional subject line.

Facebook Gopher is a little Ruby library that helps with Facebook integration.

In which we investigate the workings of a Cassio SE-C2000 Cash Register.

In which we configure Dropbox as a backup service for a Linux Ubuntu server, and get filesystem and database backup, versioning and recovery. For free. In about 20 minutes.