It’s incredibly funny, especially if you know that “Zerg Rush” is a very popular method for rooting Google’s Android OS. I wonder why that connection hasn’t so far popped up in any reports I’ve found about the Google Zerg Rush easter egg
I’ve decided to start posting about the little things I encounter day by day. Post #1: I needed less strict JSON parsing than Firefox usually does and a little RegEx seems to do the trick for now (it also allows for single word strings à la PHP, e.g. FOO becomes “FOO”: var findRelevantToken=/(?:”(?:|.*?[^\\](?:\\\\)*)”|([\s,\:\{\[]|^)([a-z\_\$][a-z\_\$0-9]*))/gi; str=str.replace(findRelevantToken,function(m,ssep,nqs){ if(nqs) [...]
Simple Demo I just needed a little engine to display isometricly-displayed, textured blocks and wow, Firefox is fast. Chrome is a lot slower and a lot uglier (no filtering), but even there it’s quite impressive! There’s no GL going on here, just old-fashioned transforms.
I’m as guilty as the next guy when it comes to the confusion surrounding the terminology used for variables that get assigned objects, but I think it’s time to get my act together and define a standard at least for myself: If “new Object()” is an OBJECT, then “var obj=new Object()” makes obj a POINTER. [...]