bgrins

Javascript log Function

Every time I start a new project, I want to pull in a log function that allows the same functionality as the console.log, including the full functionality of the Console API.

There are a lot of ways to do this, but many are lacking. A common problem with wrapper functions is that the line number that shows up next to the log is the line number of the log function itself, not where log was invoked. There are also times where the arguments get logged in a way that isn't quite the same as the native function.

This is an attempt to once and for all document the function that I pull in to new projects. There are two different options:

• The full version: Inspired by the plugin in HTML5 Boilerplate. Use this if you are writing an application and want to create a window.log function. Additionally,

arvearve

Mathematics: What do grad students in math do all day?

by Yasha Berchenko-Kogan

A lot of math grad school is reading books and papers and trying to understand what's going on. The difficulty is that reading math is not like reading a mystery thriller, and it's not even like reading a history book or a New York Times article.

The main issue is that, by the time you get to the frontiers of math, the words to describe the concepts don't really exist yet. Communicating these ideas is a bit like trying to explain a vacuum cleaner to someone who has never seen one, except you're only allowed to use words that are four letters long or shorter.

What can you say?

tmpvar

/*
  drag.js - a blatantly minimal drag library for webkit based browsers

  Licensed under the MIT -- copyright 2012 Elijah Insua <tmpvar@gmail.com>
*/
(function() {
  var
    element  = null,
    mapEntries = [],
    mapping  = {};

gasman

#!/usr/bin/env ruby -w

# pnginator.rb: pack a .js file into a PNG image with an HTML payload;
# when saved with an .html extension and opened in a browser, the HTML extracts and executes
# the javascript.

# Usage: ruby pnginator.rb input.js output.png.html

# By Gasman <http://matt.west.co.tt/>
# from an original idea by Daeken: http://daeken.com/superpacking-js-demos

TooTallNate

// Based on:
//    http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs-dev/browse_thread/thread/a0c23008029e5fa7

process.stdin.resume();

process.stdin.on('data', function (b) {
  var s = b.toString('utf8');
  if (s === '\u0003') {
    console.error('Ctrl+C');
    process.stdin.pause();

revolunet

// LZW-compress a string
function lzw_encode(s) {
    var dict = {};
    var data = (s + "").split("");
    var out = [];
    var currChar;
    var phrase = data[0];
    var code = 256;
    for (var i=1; i<data.length; i++) {
        currChar=data[i];