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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

// 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", { ...

... 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...

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 ;)

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 ...