The Accidental Developer

More People Alive Today Than Have Ever Died

A few years ago, I ran across this quote:
“There are more people alive today than have ever died.”

As we contemplate overpopulation, a quote like that is quite thought-provoking and shocking. Could it be that the living today outnumber all of our ancestors? It’s astounding. However, I didn’t believe it. I still don’t believe it, and for good reason.
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Tags: Javascript, jquery, mathematics, population, simulation, trees

jQuery is AWESOME

I just took (and finished) a small project to add some ajax and javascript whiz-bang to a website. (actually it was the home page for a web development company you would think that they would keep that in house) and I decided to try out jQuery.

It blew my socks off. I’m really really impressed with jQuery, and I’m looking forward to using it a lot more. It took me an hour or two to really get a handle on how a few parts of it work, but man is it a powerhouse. If your website needs to sing and dance…. jQuery is the way!

Tags: jquery

Javascript textarea counter

I’ve been thinking more about the textarea counter issue that I mentioned in my previous post (“Users Paste Differently“).

First of all, I noticed that some of the textarea counter scripts date back to at least 2000, so this has been a problem that developers have been looking to solve for 8 years. I checked the HTML 5 specification and found that in HTML 5, the textarea element has a maxlength attribute. Presumably user agents will build in the most elegant solution.

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Tags: delicious, forms, Javascript, jquery, textarea, twitter