Watched "I Hate Christian Laettner"

Blog Instead of being asleep at 21:55 on 17 January 2016, kitt created this:

Per Andy's suggestion, tonight's movie was "I Hate Christian Laettner" - a documentary about the rise of Duke basketball in the late eighties / early nineties, and the particular love/hate relationship fans had with Duke basketball and Christian Laettner in particular.

The IMDB blurb goes something like:

Principles of Object Oriented JavaScript

Book Notes kitt decided around 15:32 on 17 January 2016 to publish this:

As part of my belief that one should never stop learning, I keep trying to learn. This month's learning involved reading this book, Principles of Object Oriented JavaScript, a relatively short book by Nicholas Zakas.

I'm comfortable in JavaScript, but, really, haven't ever taken the time to read about some of the insides of the language. I'm glad I picked up this book.

This book is a quick read, about 132 pages of content and 25-ish of index, depending on the format you read the book and the font size you select. The book covers primitive types, reference types, built-in types, function declarations vs function expressions, objects in general, property attributes, object constructors, object prototypes, property attributes, inheritance and various object patterns. The code examples are clear, the writing voice conversational.

I had a couple "Ohhhhhhhhh!" moments, which were fun, with a lot of head-nodding-yep-I-knew-that moments, too.

I liked the book. Recommended.

Progress

Blog kitt decided around 15:48 on 16 January 2016 to publish this:

"Yeah, so, how is that plan to do n burpees on the nth day of the year going?" you may ask.

"Going okay," I would answer.

Gerrit Theming for Front-end Developers!

Tutorial Posted by kitt at 14:47 on 16 January 2016

Gerrit is a code review tool for git. You can think of it as a self-hosted alternative to github, with a number of server-side extensions to make it handy and useful. It's hosted on Gerrit's Google Code, though I'm not sure how that'll last, as Google Code is going away. Something at Google Source, maybe?

Watched The Martian

Blog Written with a loving hand by kitt some time around 22:31 on 15 January 2016

We watched The Martian tonight. Having recently read the book, I was, surprisingly, eager to watch the movie. Yes, yes, the book was better, but I find interpretations of books as movies to be interesting, sometimes fascinating. The director has a story to tell visually in a short amount of time (making, of course, mini-series a better, but less profitable, choice for telling longer stories), and has to choose what to include and what to discard, what is important to telling the story and what is inconsequential. The interpretations are, of course, open for debate, and always loudly criticized by purists and readers.

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