I run into this site today which I find enviable a lot. Check it out. Dan Cederholm seems to do a very nice job on web design. 

SimpleBits.com

Incredible article on Javascript!

I have been programming Object Oriented languages for a very long time (since OO Turbo-Pascal in late 80’s). The truth is that I myself had probably misunderstood JavaScript. Why? Two sets of reasons: a) all those reasons described in the article mentioned bellow, b) as a result of a I devoted no time in studying it.

Well, better late than never: From now on I am going to think twice when I need a piece of functionality on the client.

Do read this article by Douglas Crockford:

JavaScript - The World’s Most Misunderstood Programming Language

P.S. Don’t miss in the article above the link to the code for inheritance in JavaScript. I am not going thought the cons of JavaScript here but in the pros compare it to inheritance models supported by C# and Java.

BTW: What do you think of multiple inheritance. We used to be able to use it in the C++ days (C++ is still around but anyway). Do you miss it in C# or Java? (I mean multiple inheritance of classes not interfaces i.e. class c inherits class a and class b. In C# and Java you can inherit form max one class and implement as many interfaces as required. But of course interfaces do not include base implementations…).

Also: Can you give me your best example where you really missed multiple inheritance?

I disovered this interesting site of a mr Stu Nicholls. He seems interested and is knowledgeable in CSS.

Don’t miss it.

One annoying thing about modifying themes and styles sometimes, is CSS caching. Although including a stylesheet in a page by using <link rel… tag is a good thing (because the stylesheet gets cached by the browser and is not downloaded again and again for all pages sharing the same stylesheets), this exact feature can become a bugger when you try to modify the CSS and instantly view the changes in the refreshed page.

I last encountered this problem when I was trying to modify this blog’s theme by editing CSS files.

To overcome this problem I kept renaming the CSS file each time i made a modification to it by appending a version number on its name (i.e. base_1.css, and then base_2.css and so on).

This forced my browser to reload the new file.

If you have a better idea please share it with me.