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This is a brain dump, many grammatical errors to follow ...

About a week ago I was chatting with my team about my technology choices for now (things will change) and the subject of Javascript arose. Obviously there's a lot of talk going on about Javascript, both good and bad, which frameworks to choose, the overall poor performance of the frameworks, etc... I've simply come to the conclusion that I'll only use Javascript when there's a clear UX win.

This got me thinking about Javascript in general and resurrected some older thoughts regarding the difficulty that still exists in web development. Difficulty that I think should not still exist.

So I was wondering why that is. I think it's that we are still dealing with an old foundation. Javascript is a language with many flaws and not one designed with security in mind. HTML has made some advancements with HTML5, but I think so much more could be done. CSS could use a lot more power/flexibility to reduce code duplication and help code reduction. Addressing a

	#!/usr/bin/env ruby
	# Pass in the name of the site you wich to create a cert for

	domain_name = ARGV[0]

	if domain_name == nil
	puts "Need a domain name, I can't read minds."
	else
	system "openssl genrsa -out #{domain_name}.key 2048"
	system "openssl req -new -key #{domain_name}.key -out #{domain_name}.csr -subj '/C=US/ST=GA/L=Roswell/O=Nookwit/OU=IT/CN=#{domain_name}'"

	/ Slim source

	project Slim JSON
	url = slim_url
	contributors
	- people
	username = username


	Where slim_url is a method that returns 'https://github.com/stonean/slim'

	# shared/errors.slim

	- if model.errors.any?
	ul#errors
	- model.errors.full_messages.each do \|msg\|
	li = msg

	# posts/new.html.slim

	= render partial: "/shared/errors", locals: { model: @post }

	def meth(*args)
	puts args.inspect
	end

	meth(1,2,3,4)
	[1, 2, 3, 4]

	meth([1,2,3,4])
	[[1, 2, 3, 4]]


	class Array
	def sum
	inject(0.0) { \|result, el\| result + el }
	end

	def mean
	sum / size
	end
	end

	$(document).ready(function(){
	setInterval("nextStep()", 20000);
	});

	<h1><%= header %></h1>
	<% if not item.empty? %>
	<ul>
	<% for i in item %>
	<% if i[:current] %>
	<li><strong><%= i[:name] %></strong></li>
	<% else %>
	<li><a href="<%= i[:url] %>"><%= i[:name] %></a></li>
	<% end %>
	<% end %>