Tea and Cake

I have been a neglectful blogger recently, perhaps because life is a bit up in the air at the moment on so many fronts. I understand that is not a very good excuse so I’ll endeavor to catch you up here in short almost-tweet-sized bullet points ^_^;

• My Hoodie of awesomeness arrived recently and it is now my favorite item of clothing, the folks at morphic were absolutely lovely, check out their adorable products and support creative indie businesses.
• I had dinner with Danielle from the telepathy project at The Vegie Bar in Fitzroy, the meal was fantastic and so was the company ^_^
• My good friend Elspeth threw me a link to a fantastic article about passive and active voice, which really was a most excellent explanation for someone as uneducated in the finer points of the language as I am.
• I have been trying hard to work on my use of ableist language, especially the term ‘lame’ which it seems I use quite often :(
• I am now officially on a two week holiday over easter! I will be spending the first week working hard on Pangurpad (my online story writing tool) in the hope that it will be ready for people to use for nanowrimo in November. The 2nd week I will be spending with my family, we’re going to my inlaws for easter and then taking day trips down along the great ocean road <3
• I am brushing up my resume at the moment and hoping to find a new job ASAP, one that fits in to at least some of my expectations of a good workplace.
• Elucidate is a hard dependency for all of my projects as I believe strongly in making my apps accessible to the widest audience possible, however I’m having to prioritize my work on it with everything else and I doubt I’ll have time to work on it again before May.
• I’m working on ‘pangur’, the micro-framework I’ve been developing for use in pangurpad and skunkpad, I’ll be releasing it on github in the next week or so under the MIT license, I hope other people find it useful.
• After seeing how much my girls enjoyed making our home made hot crossed buns last easter while we were holidaying at Bendigo, I’m really looking forward to doing it all over again this year ^_^

Right now I’m sitting on a friend’s sofa in St Kilda, I just had a vegie burger and yummy soy chai from a neat place on argyle street, I’m hacking away at some javascript and writing this update while trying to find session times so I can bring my girls to see Hop. The sun is shining and there is a lovely breeze coming up from the sea, and I think I might go and pop the kettle on.

Best wishes,

Pom

The Ada Initiative are running a census at the moment to gauge general feelings about women in FOSS and Open Communities, this is a fantastic opportunity to share your thoughts so let them know what you think. Here is an excerpt taken from their site:

Click on the logo above to take the census ^_^

Best Wishes,

Pomke

A long time ago, ooh six years now I was working on a heavily Javascript based project with a team of pythonistas turned reluctant UI programmers. Before you say anything, yes I know Javascript is a prototype based language and that is one of its strengths, however in some situations having a class implementation helps fit the language into functionally fixed brains.

The Pomke Javascript Library was something that I created and adapted over time to fill this gap. The library implements two basic concepts, a class and a module construct. These behave in a way that will make python developers feel right at home, modules can depend on other modules which will be demand loaded, classes support multiple inheritance with a sane MRO, your methods are bound to your objects so they can be handed off as callbacks and maintain their reference to self^h^h^h^hthis and much more.

Anyway, I’ve dug it out recently of a project which is removing this style of programming and I’ve put up a bit of a page with a demo which you can find here. I hope this can be of some use to someone somewhere ^_^

Lots of Love,

Pomke