February 28, 2008, 11:11 pm · Filed under: JavaScript, Life, New Zealand, Ruby on Rails
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I am a web developer, living and working in New Zealand. I’m into my family, photography and frisbee sports.
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Let me apologise in advance. This blog post isn’t really about any particular topic. Or, at least, I didn’t think it through enough to find the theme. It’s more a series of points that, to me, hang together because they all relate to a slice of my time, but to you might make as much sense as a cauliflower sandwich.
Parrots rock. See? Random.
WAPID.animation). It combines the module pattern with good old fashioned constructors and prototypes (implemented as private members). The result makes sense, at least to me, and just feels good to think about. It’s code that makes me smile.
I know it’s shellfish, I mean…selfish.
And so concludes my (to you) random collection of points about this little slice of life I call the last 2 weeks. We’re off to a bach in Pataua for the weekend for some family time. We’ll swim in the ocean, hunt for seashells, then it’s back to the real world come Monday.
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