• Tavi Calendar – macro for doing calendar/event display for WikkiTikkiTavi
• Blog it Bookmarklet for Drupal – launches drupals bulky entry interface (see Drupal for Power Blogger) – sorta frustrating. Drupal has a lot of cool stuff and an architecture that makes a lot of sense to me, but the stuff I want to do would take almost as long to modify as to write a system from scratch
• Using Accesskeys – Is it worth it? – a pretty comprehensive examination of accesskey compatibility/support
• Blessing of the Non-Anti-Commons
• Airbag Industries – I can understand the reasoning, but it definitely a pita to lose one’s domain

CVS web tools:

• CVS Monitor – tracks and creates graphs for modules; RSS support
• CIA Open Source Notification System – 3rd party open-source project cvs tracking
• Chora CVS Viewer – is this the best web CVS interface?

simple assitance for code management: description, notes, fm ping/integration for releases?

• A Proposal of User Centric Profile Aggregation, Integration and Utilization
• Congrats!
• Thanks for the Memories – a Flash retrospective on Saddam Hussein, which includes a short history and also made some allegations with respects to the original Gulf War which seem to be… 100% true. Apparently, Saddam asked for approval and was given a green-light by the US to invade. Jeez, how many percent of the American public do you think knows about that? (f’in Bush’s)
  • Christian Science Monitor: US Ambassador to Iraq April Glaspie
  • US Ambassador April Glaspie’s Interview with Pres. Saddam Hussein, July 25, 1990: Excerpts From Iraqi Document on Meeting with U.S. Envoy

Seymour Hersh gave a belated address at the University of Chicago last week. Brad DeLong has some scattered notes from Rick Pearlstein on the talk. Gripping stuff. I dropped a line to the UChicago contact, but was informed that Hersh requested that no public transcripts be made available. (too bad, would love to hear all he said).

• Granted Sony’s new linux-based 3D map navigation is cool, but I’m not convince how useful it’d be in day to day life (vs having a more removed, maybe 3/4 view). Also, unless these things have real-time traffic data, I refuse to be impressed
• The Undead Zone – Clive Thompson writes about the uncanny valley and video games on Slate
• UThink: Blogs at the University Libraries – the University Libraries at UMN is using Movable Type to provide blogs for every student, faculty, and staff member
• Lots of good stuff at urlgreyhot (Drupal Usability):
  • Supporting enterprise knowledge management with weblogs: A weblog services roadmap
  • Blogging in Corporate America
  • K-Logging: Supporting KM With Weblogs
  • Weblogging and News Feed Aggregation for Knowledge Management

To catch up on:

• The W3C Workshop on Web Applications and Compound Documents – read position papers, presentations; see also Hixie’s notes
• Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group – so far most of the discussion seems to be on chrome (Web Forms 2.0) and not on piping. Also, I agree w/ ppk
• WHAT’s going on? – Simon’s summary
• Server Sent Events 1.0 – unified event model, good idea; based on dom events, probably not so good

Some travel this month and next. I went and read up on the TSA’s air travel guidelines (hey, clippers are ok, also, lighters and matches are ok (for carry-on, but not check-in) — interesting).

• June 19-23, Denver, JA-SIG Conference
• July 8-11, New York, HOPE 5
• July 13-15, San Fransisco, Advanced uPortal Training
• July 25-31, Portland, OSCON 2004

Orbitz had me filling about 3 screenfuls of crap and then after entering in my credit card number, gave me this message:

Because flight availability can change rapidly based on traveler demand, the flight you selected is no longer available. Please make another selection. (Message 150)

• What the Bagel Man Saw – fascinating article on how trustworthy people are

So, I haven’t seen this mentioned anywhere, but event attachment is pretty damn slow in JavaScript once you get up there in items. On an application I’m writing, for 2000 items, it takes about 46 seconds to attach keypress functions onto them (43 seconds if you pass a function reference instead of using listeners) in IE. It takes over 10 seconds just to loop through the elements!

Suffice to say, if you’re not attaching events, unless you absolutely have to, it’s probably best to use inline attachment. (the attachment appears to scale linearly, it’s just slow [using sa’s addEvent, but difference is marginal]). Here’s a testcase (stripped of cruft). Mozilla takes longer to render the input fields, but is much (~100x) faster at attaching listeners. It also scales linearly. IE loads the inputs very quickly, but attaching listeners increases at a greater than linear rate (and deadlocks browser while loading). Inline attachment is O(1), as you would expect:

• Event Attachment Performance Test: 100 elements
• Event Attachment Performance Test: 1000 elements
• Event Attachment Performance Test: 2000 elements
• Event Attachment Performance Test: 3000 elements