joshuago’s programming Bookmarks

Highcharts is a charting library written in pure JavaScript, offering an easy way of adding interactive charts to your web site or web application. Highcharts currently supports line, spline, area, areaspline, column, bar, pie and scatter chart types.

If you're new to NoSQL, you'll want to do a bit of background reading.

The most important thing is to have good examples on which to hang the abstract ideas. If the example takes too long to explain or is too much tied to a particular application, I might lose the interest or attention of too many readers. Thus I spend a great deal of time trying to find examples that are simultaneously easy to grasp and quite instructive.

A lot of folks get excited to build an application only to become discouraged when they realize attracting users and building content is a lot of work. The point is, if you need it, there is more than enough reason to build it.

What makes libraries so special? They save time and effort by providing code you don’t want to write. Skip the nitty gritty of this authentication scheme or that request protocol and get on with the task at hand. There are many ways for a library to capture wily domain knowledge and not all are created equal.

Most software developers if given the choice of maintaining their own code or someone else's code, will choose their own. That's unfortunate. Editing other people's code is one of the best things that can happen to a developer. It's a great way to see what works and what doesn't.

Safari comes with everything you need installed, and the tools themselves are very stable. And they even look nice, which makes debugging less of a drama.

No doubt any programmer will recognize some of his own history in what lies below.