The Old New Thing

August 19, 2013 - The Old New Thing

A dream about forgetting to deploy the backup brake pads

August 19, 2013 Aug 19, 2013 08/19/13
Raymond Chen
I dreamed that that I was driving through a parking garage when my brakes suddenly failed. I tried executing turns to bleed off speed, but it was largely ineffective. I managed to avoid hitting a parked police car (which had arrived to investigate some other accident), but was unable to avoid another parked car. An insurance adjuster who was ...

The tiny table sorter – or – you can write LINQ in JavaScript

August 19, 2013 Aug 19, 2013 08/19/13
Raymond Chen
I had a little side project that displayed status information in a table, and I figured, hey, let me add sorting. And it was a lot easier than I thought. I just put the header row in the and the table contents in the , then I could use this code to sort the table: Each cell can have an optional custom attribute which specifies how the ...