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Archive for September, 2008

I have 4 exciting new books about JavaScript, that I’m reading and reviewing.

1. JavaScript: The Missing Manual, by David McFarland, published by O’Reilly Media, ISBN: 978-0-596-51589-8, 543 pages, US $39.99 ~ A great reference, and tutorial on JavaScript
2. JavaScript: The Good Parts, by Douglas Crockford, published by O’Reilly Media, ISBN: 978-0-596-51774-8, 153 pages, US $29.99 ~ A solid JavaScript reference and delightfully opinionated how-to manual for avoiding the bad parts of JavaScript and maximizing use of the good parts.
3. Dojo: The Definitive Guide, by Matthew A. Russell, published by O’Reilly Media, ISBN: 978-0-596-51648-2, 450 pages, US $39.99 ~ The definitive guide for powering up AJAX development techniques with the popular and powerful Dojo JavaScript library.
4. Mastering Dojo, subtitle – JavaScript and Ajax Tools for Great Web Experiences, by Rawld Gill, Craig Riecke, and Alex Russell, published by the Pragmatic Programmers, Pragmatic Bookshelf, ISBN:978-1-934356-11-1, 555 pages, US $38.95 ~ Dojo is a set of client-side  JavaScript tools that help you build better web applications.

Sanctus Real – Everything About You

Be my light in this darkened room…
Questions fade when you invade
You chase all my fears away
With your love in my atmosphere
All confusion disappears
And nothing but your truth remains

Check out Cris R’s photostream  on Flickr.

An example of code colorizing MySQL table creation.
This example shows creation of a simple contact list, or client list.

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CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `clients` (
 `id` mediumint(8) unsigned NOT NULL auto_increment,
 `email_address` varchar(72) character set ascii NOT NULL,
 `firstname` varchar(16) character set utf8 NOT NULL,
 `lastname` varchar(20) character set utf8 NOT NULL,
 `date_added` datetime NOT NULL,
 UNIQUE KEY `id` (`id`),
 UNIQUE KEY `email_address` (`email_address`)
) ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1 AUTO_INCREMENT=1 ;

What’s up with IS?

I guess IN and IS are considered key words in MySQL and the Geshi Generic Syntax Highlighter colorizing library. Is that a bug in the parsing routine, or what?