Tangle

Tangle is a JavaScript library for creating reactive documents. Your readers can interactively explore possibilities, play with parameters, and see the document update immediately. Reminds me of something I did for a cooking site a long (long) time ago (site not available anymore), but then better. Tangle →

Demystifying jQuery 1.7′s $.Callbacks

$.Callbacks provides a way to manage lists of callbacks and it’s actually quite powerful. If we were to define two functions fn1 and fn2 we can then add these functions as callbacks to a $.Callbacks list and invoke them via the fire method. The result of this is that it becomes simple to construct complex …

Security Vulnerability of the day: Skype

Security researchers discovered several serious security and privacy flaws in Skype that even a ‘high school-age hacker’ could use to track not only users’ locations over time but also their P2P file-sharing activity. The security team warned that this information could easily be used for “stalking, blackmail or fraud.” And For example, they tracked one …