OpenIDSunday, 10th February 2008
Auckland and area, a photoset
We explored Auckland and the surrounding area with the much appreciated help of Justine Sanderson.
Rainbow Springs (and kiwi!), a photoset
Rainbow Springs is a nature park just outside Rotorua, which also includes Kiwi Encounter, a conservation project which hatches Kiwi eggs taken from the wild and releases the chicks after six months, once they are large enough to fend off introduced predators.
Kuirau Park, Rotorua, a photoset
Rotorua has a strong smell of sulphur across much of the city, much of it originating from the fascinating active geothermal area of Kuirau Park.
themaneater.com Launch. The Maneater’s online edition is where Adrian cut his web development teeth, so it’s great to see them up and running on Django. Important to note that KeepAlive can completely murder Apache/Django performance. 
8:10 am
Maori Cultural Experience, a photoset
The Mitai Family operate an extremely popular Maori Cultural Experience just outside Rotorua. We ate a Hangi meal (smoked meat cooked in a pit), watched a performance and went on a bush walk to see glow worms.
Cross-Window Messaging. Now in Firefox 3 trunk, the HTML 5 specified ability for JavaScript to send messages between windows (or iframes) hosted on different domains. Fantastically powerful, but must be implemented with care to avoid accidentally processing bad messages from malicious third parties. 
12 pm
Transitioning from Java Classes to JavaScript Prototypes. Peter Michaux shows how JavaScript’s prototypal inheritance can run rings around traditional Java-style classes once you figure out how to take advantage of it. 3:10 pm
Event Delegation Made Easy. Dan Webb demonstrates a neat trick for event delegation in jQuery, using CSS selectors and the jQuery .is() method to dispatch to different callbacks from a single event handler based on the target of the event. 3:13 pm
jQuery 1.2 Cheat Sheet. Handy. It helps that most of jQuery’s method names are pretty much self explanatory once you’ve been using the library for a couple of weeks. 
9:12 pm
