[OT] Mean Bum

2011-06-11 Thread Pete Theisen
Hi Everybody, A voluntarily homeless guy lucked out at the shelter. He got a fresh change of donated clothes, a shower, shave, haircut and a bus pass. He decided to go to the seashore and presently he was leaning up against a piling on a dock where a good-sized motor yacht was tied. The owner,

[OT] Palin Emails

2011-06-11 Thread Pete Theisen
Hi Everybody, http://palinemail.msnbc.msn.com/ Sample: August 15 , 2008, Juneau , Alaska - Governor Sarah Palin today announced she will attend a baby shower in Trig Palin's honor next week and that all gifts will be donated to help military families. Proceeds from the event will benefit the

RE: [OT] Palin Emails

2011-06-11 Thread John Harvey
That is sooo scandalous! I don't see how she can plan on going forward with anything. I guess they thought she was another weiner. If she gets the R nod, that's who I'm voting for. She is smarter than the rest of them, put together, and definitely the most conservative. John Harvey

RE: [OT] Obama green, Detroit black

2011-06-11 Thread Jerry Foote
Its hard to underastand at the money spent by the big time liberals to elect some one. You can understand the investment when you look at the returns they get when the official pushes the projects they have planned. -Original Message- From: profox-boun...@leafe.com

[NF] CoffeeScript as a high level alternative to programming in Javascript

2011-06-11 Thread Malcolm Greene
Passing on a recommendation from the Python mailing list to take a look at CoffeeScript [1]http://jashkenas.github.com/coffee-script/ This is a high level language that compiles to portable Javascript. CoffeeScript's syntax is similar to Python and Ruby. I have no hands-on experience with this

Re: [NF] CoffeeScript as a high level alternative to programming in Javascript

2011-06-11 Thread Thierry Nivelet
Hi all Took an in-depth look at the site sample code. Coding extensively in JavaScript with the Prototype framework, I saw nothing very new and/or disruptive in Coffee script. They seem to ignore javascript's automatic coercion feature when they write: if (typeof elvis !== undefined elvis

Re: [OT] Palin Emails

2011-06-11 Thread Pete Theisen
John Harvey wrote: That is sooo scandalous! I don't see how she can plan on going forward with anything. I guess they thought she was another weiner. If she gets the R nod, that's who I'm voting for. She is smarter than the rest of them, put together, and definitely the most conservative.

RE: [NF] CoffeeScript as a high level alternative to programming in Javascript

2011-06-11 Thread John Harvey
This is just what we need . . . another scripting language. I think anyone who comes up with a NEW scripting language should be shot! John -Original Message- From: profox-boun...@leafe.com [mailto:profox-boun...@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Thierry Nivelet Sent: Saturday, June 11, 2011 1:17

RE: [OT] Palin Emails

2011-06-11 Thread John Harvey
That too. -Original Message- From: profox-boun...@leafe.com [mailto:profox-boun...@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Pete Theisen Sent: Saturday, June 11, 2011 1:47 PM To: ProFox Email List Subject: Re: [OT] Palin Emails John Harvey wrote: That is sooo scandalous! I don't see how she can plan

Re: [NF] CoffeeScript as a high level alternative to programming in Javascript

2011-06-11 Thread Thierry Nivelet
What don't you like in scripting languages ? Thierry Nivelet +33 6 08 82 44 63 Le 11 juin 2011 à 20:54, John Harvey john.har...@shelbynet.com a écrit : This is just what we need . . . another scripting language. I think anyone who comes up with a NEW scripting language should be shot!

RE: [OT] Palin Emails

2011-06-11 Thread Michael Madigan
Obama was supposed to be the smartest man alive and that translated into the worst president in the history of the country. --- On Sat, 6/11/11, John Harvey john.har...@shelbynet.com wrote: From: John Harvey john.har...@shelbynet.com Subject: RE: [OT] Palin Emails To: 'ProFox Email List'

Re: [NF] CoffeeScript as a high level alternative to programming in Javascript

2011-06-11 Thread Alan Bourke
I've seen it in relation to it's use to generate Javascript for use with Appcelerator Titanium cross-platform mobile development toolkit. So it would be Coffeescript to Javascript and then to Java or Objective-C, depending on Android or iPhone, then into whatever low-level format they compile it

RE: [OT] Palin Emails

2011-06-11 Thread John Harvey
Yeah, but you have to give him credit for doing it in record time. At this rate, he's making Caligula look not so bad.:{ John Harvey -Original Message- From: profox-boun...@leafe.com [mailto:profox-boun...@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Michael Madigan Sent: Saturday, June 11, 2011 2:27 PM To:

RE: [NF] CoffeeScript as a high level alternative to programming in Javascript

2011-06-11 Thread John Harvey
I just get tired of flavor of the day, and these vendors keep pushing things, then changing it, killing backwards compatibility, or never implementing it, etc. I'm sure you can identify with that. It would be nice to have a clear path, but then it wouldn't be so interesting, would it John

RE: [OT] Palin Emails

2011-06-11 Thread Michael Madigan
Of course comparing Caligula to Obama is disrespectful to Caligula --- On Sat, 6/11/11, John Harvey john.har...@shelbynet.com wrote: From: John Harvey john.har...@shelbynet.com Subject: RE: [OT] Palin Emails To: 'ProFox Email List' profox@leafe.com Date: Saturday, June 11, 2011, 4:07 PM

RE: [OT] Palin Emails

2011-06-11 Thread John Harvey
I like the way you think! John -Original Message- From: profox-boun...@leafe.com [mailto:profox-boun...@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Michael Madigan Sent: Saturday, June 11, 2011 6:05 PM To: ProFox Email List Subject: RE: [OT] Palin Emails Of course comparing Caligula to Obama is