Whoops. I posted to mozilla.dev.apps.thunderbird about an updated version of logsploder at the end of 2009, but forgot to blog about it. I do so now (briefly) for my own retrospective interest and those who like cropped screenshots. The gloda (global database) tests and various Thunderbird mozmill tests have been augmented for some time (1+ […]
Tagged log4moz, logging, logsploderI’ve hooked up jstut’s (formerly narscribblus‘) narcissus-based parser and jsctags-based abstract interpreter up to the ajax.org code editor (ace, to be the basis for skywriter, the renamed and somewhat rewritten bespin). Ace’s built-in syntax highlighters are based on the somewhat traditional regex-based state machine pattern and have no deep understanding of JS. The tokenizers have […]
Tagged ace, bespin, jstut, narcissus, narscribblus, skywriterAsynchronous JS can be unwieldy and confusing. Specifically, callbacks can be unwieldy, especially when you introduce error handling and start chaining asynchronous operations. So, people frequently turn to something like Python’s Twisted‘s deferreds which provide for explicit error handling and the ability for ‘callbacks’ to return yet another asynchronous operation. In CommonJS-land, there are proposals […]
Tagged asynchronous, jstut, narscribblus, promises, protovis