Trick of the day...

[elfs]

I figured out how to do drag'n'drop within a limited division of Javascript, and I think I've figured it out well enough to make the screen area scroll if needed to reach things outside the current viewport. It's actually quite easy, once I figured it out. Shameful, really.

Kouryou-chan is hooked on the anime The Twin Princesses, a piece of kid-oriented silliness that's less violent than Sonic The Hedgehog. It's got significantly lighter sell than many other modern cartoons, but I can tell it's all a set-up to sell dress-up clothes. I suppose that's better than trading cards.

Omaha's out at a business presentation tonight and Kouryou-chan and I got home late, so I wimped out and made macaroni & cheese, the white-sauce, chedder, bay leaf and parmesean recipe, with bread crumbs on top and baked. Yummy!

And I contacted a local language school for intense training in Japanese, since I'm down to the last ten lessons in the Pimsleur's collection. I hope to finish them in the next month; if I do, it'll be time for me to take something else that'll encourage me to keep going.

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[lucky-otter.livejournal.com]

I've actually worked on a full-on virtual windowing system written with DHTML, with Javascript as the backend language. It was.. interesting. A friend of mine wrote most of it at a company we both worked for at the time. I don't think any part of the site with that system in place is public, though, so I can't show it off, in all it's scariness.

Truly, Javascript is a frightening language to write complex apps in. The lack of namespacing or, worse, proper library management are a huge loss.

[(Anonymous)]

I've got a couple of friend's at work who are studying Japanese but they've expressed a certain distaste for how their current study books have handled some aspect of the language or another. Well hearing that I instantly thought of your success with your current audio tape system and was wondering if you might direct me to where it could be purchased.

[elfs.livejournal.com]

You can buy the Pimsleur Japanese Language course straight from them or from Amazon. There are three sets, and each takes a month to complete if you do them at full speed (obviously, I have not; It'll have taken me nine months to finish the set when I done). But at $330 per set, you would be much better off borrowing them from the library, which is what I did.