nathan hammond

Today was an incredibly long day of sessions—effectively 12 hours (I originally typed years) of activity. It started with Brendan Eich and a presentation about the ever-evolving language that is JavaScript. It was titled Faster Than Light JavaScript and really had more than its fair share of bad jokes in it (I loved every one of ...

I should really start with what belongs with last night. Brian Dillard and I accidentally connected by circumstance alone. We ended up chatting for a bit about our respective approaches right outside the elevator about the design decisions that we made in our respective history managers and what we were trying to accomplish. Eventually that migrated ...

Today's experience was jQuery Camp 2008. I showed up early enough this morning (approximately the same time as the people responsible for organizing it) to be put to work carrying stuff in. Note to self, being overly prompt is only appreciated when you don't mind working. On the way over to the MIT Stata Center I ...

I'm in Boston now for jQuery Camp 2008 and The AJAX Experience 2008, but the trip here wasn't without incident. The problems start with the lack of gas in Charlotte right now. People are waiting in line for over an hour for gas at the few gas stations that do have gas, and this has been ...