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SATURDAY IS CANCELLED.

the show at the acheron is cancelled. we are playing SUNDAY JANUARY 2nd at LULU'S (Greenpoint and Franklin Ave) with NUDE BEACH - 8 pm and its FREE come to that instead

A week away...

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ES5 Common Design Patterns Examples - Part 1

// Abstract Factory /* ({}).createInstance() (function (a, b, c) { this.sum = a + b + c; }).createInstance([1, 2, 3]) */ Object.defineProperty( // (C) WebReflection - Mit Style License Object.prototype, "createInstance", { value: (function (create) { return function createInstance(args) { var self = this, isFunction = typeof self == "function", obj = create(isFunction ? self.prototype : self) ; isFunction && args != null && self.apply(obj, args); return obj; }; }(Object.create)) } ); // Abstract Builder /* var person = Object.builder({ setup: function (name) { this.create(); this.instance.name = name; } }); person.setup("WebReflection"); alert(person.instance.name); person.create(); person.instance.name = "Andrea"; alert(person.instance.name); */ Object.defineProperty( // (C) WebReflection - Mit Style License Function.prototype, "builder", { ...

100% Client Side Image Resizing

... I know, I have said " Happy Holidays " already, but yesterday, after a (annoying) picture upload in Facebook , I had a an idea ... why on earth I should have a Java plugin to perform images resizes on Facebook? Why on earth if I don't have such plugin I have to wait the possibly extremely long upload, up to 10x slower for high quality images, stressing Facebook servers for such " simple " operation as an image resize/resample could be? The FileReader Interface In the W3C File API , I guess part of the HTML5 buzzword, we can find all we need to perform the operation we want totally on client side. The interface is called FileReader , and it provides functionalities to read chosen files from an input node with type file, and that's it: we can even disconnect from the network and keep resizing and saving images without problems . The Canvas Trick Still into HTML5 buzzword world, the canvas element and it's 2dContext.drawImage method is the key to perfo...

Happy Holidays

I'd like to recycle this good old experiment to wish all WR readers nice holidays, if any :D See you soon next year with new web development adventures ;)

The Status of Mobile Browsing

In this year I have done more tests than ever over all these tiny and shiny portable devices and I'd like to share with the Web community the result of my experiments at the end of this 2010. " why not before xmas, ffs? " ... because whatever you bought as present for you or your relatives, will hopefully be updated soon with latest systems and related browsers :) The Dedicated WebKit ... Nightmare! As ppk mentioned already in Front Trends conference, we have basically only 5 browsers in our desktop PCs/Macs/Linuxes machines. Much more fun comes when we think we are dealing with a single browser, a generic WebKit based one, and we discover that there's no browser similar to another one, every bloody device has its own implementation with few exceptions represented by Safari Mobile, almost the same in iPad, iPod, and latest iPhone. WebKit and CSS(3) Even if the CSS engine is basically the same for every single specific implementation, the number of supported, and ...

New Years Day.

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ON ZEE RADIO

we're gonna be on WNYU this afternoon 89.1 in NYC or wnyu.org anywhere else on the New Afternoon show performing, talking, drinking, etc ---- with a special guest Listen if you can Mark

THINK 7" AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER

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THINK / GATES OF STEEL 7" AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER RIGHT NOW FROM KARMIC SWAMP----- www.karmicswamp.org 100 available now on purple vinyl - ships January 3rd, 2011 We will have these on our West Coast tour as well...

Some garbage...

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So here is what is going on in our world... January 1st we will be playing a show in Brooklyn with SALVATION, SEASICK and others, this will be our last show before we head out on tour, I will post more details when I receive them. From January 6th-16th The Men and Nomos will be hitting the West Coast like a big bag of blubber. All the dates are almost filled, you can see details to your left in the "gigs" section. For this tour will we have a repress of our split cassette with Nomos on Vinyl Rites with all new artwork done by Rich Samis (Who also plays drums for us full time now). We will also have a 7" single on Karmic Swamp Records with one original jam and a DEVO cover. Lastly, we've put aside the last copies of the "Immaculada" LP repress to bring along with us as well. When we get back from tour we will be playing a "in store" show on January 23rd with NOMOS and our buddies in PREGNANT at Generation Records in NYC. I believe it's free and...

West Coast so far...

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This is what our West Coast Tour looks like thus far, venues, and more details are forthcoming - 1/6 Phoenix, AZ @ Sound Control w/ Elders, Hatred Surge Mammoth Grinder 1/7 Los Angeles, CA w/ Rayos X, Mata Mata 1/8 Long Beach, CA @ Unity Church, 935 E. Broadway, 7PM w/ Timebombs, Francis Harold and the Holograms 1/9 San Francisco, CA @ Sub-Mission Art Space (Balazo), 2183 Mission Street, 730PM w/ Skin Like Iron 1/10 Oakland, CA @ the Swamp w/ Migraine, Hesitation Wounds, No Statik 1/11 Reno, NV @ the Wonderwell, 271 Wonder St w/ Huck, registeredsexoffender 1/12 Norcal, CA @ TBA 1/13 Portland, OR @ Dunes w/ Walls 1/14 Olympia, WA @ Oldschool Pizzeria, 108 Franklin St NE, 10PM w/ White Boss, White Wards 1/15 Vancouver, BC @ TBA w/ Mundo Muerto 1/16 Seattle, WA @ the M in G-town w/ Walls, Big Crux

SATURDAY, DON'T MISS IT

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