McArthur GFX

It's amazing that this decade is finishing off already. Time really does get faster the longer I feel it. Anyways, here's a summary of the activity on this blog for the year.

1. I started the year off with sharing a Privates Mutator for MooTools prior to v1.2.3. 
2. Next, I shared a Drag.Dock class to allow draggable elements to dock to a side, and I asked people to share answers to an interview question: write a function that determines if a word is palindromic.
3. In March, I released the bare bones of super light-weight Rich Text Editor in MooTools that doesn't use iframes.
4. I wrote a controversial article stating if you don't want to understand CSS, maybe you shouldn't be in the web industry. I followed that up with some tutorials on how to use CSS to achieve 3D effects.
5. In May, I needed a way to tell from inside a class, the name of the class. Kind of like calling __CLASSNAME__ in PHP. So I rigged together a GetClass mixin.
6. I explored and explained how MooTools $unlink function lets you safely copy objects in June.
7. July saw my write-up of basic password hashing, as well as a great article on the ways you can call a function, and how the binding affects the context.
8. In the summer time, I started to work on a MVC framework for MooTools. I wrote about my first attempts for templating for Views usings String#substitute. Then, I ranted against an outrageous claim that web developers are stupid.
9. With MooTools 1.2.3, my Privates Mutator broke. However, a new feature was added to Classes: protected methods.
10. October was a little slow, but I still snuck in an article on geocoding addresses thanks to Google.
11. In November, I picked up the pace in my blogging. First, I updated my MGFX.Tabs plugin, and put it on github. Afterwards, I wrote up an interesting opinion on how LAMP setup currently sucks, followed by a tutorial on the various ways you can extend Models in Django. I quite enjoyed exploring Python, and I hope I can find other projects to play with it more.
12. In December, the MooTools Forge launched, and I added some of my classes to the Forge.

Next Year, Next Decade

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