Random thoughts about Javascript

Some of my friends have heard me say, "Javascript is the cockroach of all programming languages: when all other languages are defunct, Javascript will still be around."

I just googled it and it turns out I must have heard it from someone else (so much for my sense of originality). Here's the weird part: this guy tweeted it almost 2 years ago, and I can't tell that he's connected to me in any way at all. Hmmm...

In any case, I am reminded of this after watching a security video of Douglas Crockford talking at the 2012 BayJax event at Yahoo, where he has one slide talking about what language will still be around when all other languages are dead (he wasn't TALKING about Javascript at the time, but I was thinking it right before the slide came up and confirmed exactly what I was thinking).

One of these days, I'm going to write something useful in node.js. That and be involved in a flash mob. It's just a matter of time.

SourceTree is TortoiseHG on MacOSX

There's some irony in the project for TortoiseHG on MacOSX. The code is up on Atlassian's BitBucket.

Yet Atlassian has a TortoiseHG on Mac killer product called SourceTree (I've connected SourceTree to both BitBucket and GitHub, and it also supports Kiln, a hosted mercurial repository from FogCreek, the makers of Trello and FogBugz).

If you love TortoiseHG, and you are at home in Mac or Linux, maybe SourceTree won't be "just right" for you.

But if you're a Windows user in a mac (like me), don't even waste your time. You want a product that installs in a snap and just works. Your love affair with TortoiseHG has to take a back seat to your tryst with developing on MacOSX.

SourceTree is free for a limited time, whatever that means.