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When you give to our endowment fund, you give the financial security the Dallas Arboretum needs to remain one of the nation's premier botanical gardens.
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Your contribution to our endowment fund helps to provide a portion of the annual income for:
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The Blood Type Diet Archives Volume 15
Posted By: KK (A-)Date: Tuesday, 3 October 2000, at 6:27 p.m.
In Response To: Totally feeling massively sorry for myself today! (Edna O+, in major RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE mode)
Weeping may tarry for the night, but joy comes with the morning.
I'm sorry that you are having such a trying time. I'll be keeping you in my thoughts & prayers.

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Other amenities include its host of various international and local banks which include the Public Bank, Maybank, Citibank, Eon bank and HSBC bank just to name a few; big names in retail Giant, Tesco and Jusco and the MBA Stadium along with Rakan Muda Sports Complex. Those in business are benefited by the IOI Boulevard which comprises of office units. Medically, it offers the Columbia Asia Hospital – Puchong, a private medical hospital. Academically, it offers primary, secondary and tertiary education.
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Razer Marauder StarCraft II Keyboard Review
Packing a punch, like a real Terran.
When Razer announced their lineup of StarCraft II licensed peripherals, I wondered how they would implement something like "StarCraft" into their products. Obviously once I got my hands on the TRON gaming mouse, I realized that Razer knows how to implement some of the cooler aspects of said licensed properties in completely unique ways.
And so today I'll be looking at the Razer Marauder Gaming Keyboard, while I review the other peripherals in their StarCraft II lineup over the next days. The first thing you'll notice right from the outset is that all the StarCraft II products are not only named after Terran units from StarCraft II, but that they look something exactly out of that universe.
The Marauder Keyboard has sharp, but practical angles. The whole keyboard is designed with practicality in mind, of not only playing StarCraft II effectively and efficiently, but also being portable for LAN parties tournaments. The Marauder is pretty compact keyboard for all the features it has packed in. This is achieved by combining the numeric keypad with the arrow and other navigation keys.
The Marauder may have two USB plugs, but those are there to power just the keyboard itself. There are no additional USB ports on the keyboard itself, no audio plugs either. The whole keyboard is designed to be functional in one aspect alone: being great for playing StarCraft II. Obviously that's not to say that the Marauder is not otherwise a fine keyboard. The membrane keys are nowhere near in providing the tactile feedback of the Black Widow Ultimate, but then it carries all of the other gamer centric features of the Black Widow.
The Marauder is naturally raised on the top end, and is pleasantly heavy for its rather diminutive size. The keys are all laser etched, giving them an extremely sharp (and Terran) look. Apart from the keys, the entire keyboard itself lights up from beneath the keys, along with the angular strokes on each corner of the Marauder. Oh, and then there's the base lighting as well. One thing to note is that while the Marauder comes with a variety of LED colors, the default, and sadly unchangeable, color scheme is blue. Where the other colors come into play, I'll get to that in a bit.


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WRRI Upcoming Events
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711 Hillsborough Street, Raleigh, NC 27603
Phone: (919) 787-7480
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Phone: (828) 324-9464
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These workshops are structured to educate and familiarize design professionals, contractors, and developers with the NC Sedimentation Pollution Control Act (SPCA), the rules implementing the Act, design standards for erosion and sedimentation control practices and standards, and elements that are necessary to submit and implement an erosion control plan. This comes to you directly from the source—the NC Division of Energy, Mineral, and Land Resources Land Quality Section and its partners providing you with the information you need to submit a plan and prevent soil erosion and sedimentation damage.
This fall our workshops will focus on considerations for protection of developing watersheds. Techniques will be discussed for establishing vegetation, dealing with extreme rain events, and converting to E&SC measures to permanent stormwater controls. Updates on DEMLR activities, including a new system for electronic permitting, will also be discussed.
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Cost: $90.00. This fee includes materials, breaks and lunch. Cancellations received 7 days or more prior to the workshop will receive a refund less $15 processing fee. No refunds issued 7 days prior to the event. Substitutions will be accepted.
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Professional Engineers, Landscape Architects, Environmental Consultants, Local Governments
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April 21st, 2010Man, if there is one thing I hate it's those stupid, smelly Pirates! They are the pits! They think they are so cool with their black and yellow jerseys and their winning record and their Indian minor league pitchers. They think their better than us, that's what they think! Hey Pittsburgh, ketchup sucks! Yeah, that's right I said ketchup sucks! Stadium sauce drinks ketchup's milkshake punks! And racing pierogis? HOW ORIGINAL! Seriously though, what the hell is a pierogi? A boiled or baked dumpling of unleavened dough stuffed with varying ingredients? STUPID! That doesn't even sound good! Sausages bang pierogi's girlfriends and never call her again!
Check out this stupid blog I found called "Where Have You Gone Andy Van Slyke?" (he's probably gone to the same place every old Pirate goes, straight to HELL.)
You have probably noticed over the past couple days that I'm not exactly over the moon about the Pirates' play to this point in the season, 7-5 record or not. What would make me extremely happy, however, is a couple wins against the Brewers this week. I know Brewers' fans think it's funny that we Pirate fans get all worked up over these two teams, but I really, really don't like Ryan Braun or Prince Fielder or their stupid untucked shirts and frankly, everyone needs a little bit of a rivalry to get through the season.
"Waaa the Brewers beat us when they play us just like every other team, but they have Ryan Braun and Prince Fielder who have more talent than any single player we've had since Barry Bonds, waaa! Let's romanticize a player who had like five good seasons for us, his joy for the game was infectious! Waaa!" Why don't you guys pull the tampon out of your diaper and shut the hell up? Maybe if your pitching coach Dave Kerwin could teach your guys how to pitch you wouldn't give up eight runs to us. Way to "play up" to your rival, losers.
Pirates? Pssh, more like butt Pirates am I right? EAT IT SUCKERS!
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I wholeheartedly agree with your sentiments….. I hope you remember that that Pirate fans are better than Philly fans though and will fairly show them the disdain they deserve as well….
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Yeah. All 47 of those Pirates fans are better than the Philly fans. I think I saw a section almost a third full last night.
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I've lived most of my life outside of Australia working in the Uk, Brazil, Canada and France and now I'm back to enjoy the relaxing Aussie lifestyle.
I'm Aussie and Eu citizenship so I try to take the best from both places, I prefer Olive Oil to margarine but I'm not ashamed to wear Ugg boots in the Winter(just as long as its inside the house where no one sees me)
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[1370] Clinicopathologic Characterization of Cyclin D1-Negative Mantle Cell Lymphoma
Alejandra Carvajal-Cuenca, Itziar Salaverria, Cristina Royo, Guillem Clot, Alba Navarro, Elena M Hartmann, Nicola Trim, Renata Woroniecka, Wendy Erber, Philippe Gaulard, Iwona Wlodarska, Grzegorz Rymkiewicz, German Ott, Andreas Rosenwald, Armando Lopez-Guillermo, Leticia Quintanilla-Fend, Judith A Ferry, Nancy L Harris, Elaine S Jaffe, Reiner Siebert, Elias Campo, Silvia Bea. Hospital Clínic, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain; Institute of Pathology, Würzburg, Germany; Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, United Kingdom; MSCM Cancer Centre and Institute, Warsaw, Poland; Henri Mondor Hospital, Creteil, France; Center of Human Genetics, Leuven, Belgium; Robert-Bosch-Krankenhaus, Stuttgart, Germany; Institute of Pathology, Tübingen, Germany; Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston; National Cancer Institute, Bethesda; Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel, Kiel, Germany
Background: Cyclin D1-negative mantle cell lymphoma (MCL) is not well characterized due in part to the difficulties in its recognition. SOX11 has been recently identified as a reliable biomarker of MCL, including the cyclin D1-negative variant. The aims of this study were to define the clinicopathologic characteristics of cyclin D1-negative MCL and to determine its relationship to conventional MCL.
Design: We investigated 42 cyclin D1-negative lymphomas that had similar morphology and phenotype (CD5 positive) to conventional MCL. All cases were negative for cyclin D1 expression and t(11;14). SOX11 and p27 expression was examined by immunohistochemistry. FISH studies for CCND2, CCND3, IGH, IGK and IGL were performed in all cases. The genomic profile was investigated in 35 cases using high-resolution copy number arrays (Agilent 1M).
Results: SOX11 was positive in 38 cases, negative in 3 and not evaluable in 1. The SOX11+ tumors had a classical morphology in 34 cases, marginal zone-like in 3 and blastoid in 1. All cases had diffuse or nodular growth pattern except one case with a mantle zone pattern. p27 was negative or weaker than in the associated T cells in 19/23 examined. CCND2 rearrangements were detected in 21/38 (55%) SOX11+ cases and in the case non-evaluable for SOX11. CCND2 was translocated to IGK, IGL, IGH and an undetermined partner in 10, 5, 3 and 4 cases, respectively. The genomic profile of these cases was similar to that described in cyclin D1-positive MCL with frequent gains of 3q, 18q, 8q and losses of 13q, 9p, 1p, 11q, 6q. These tumors presented more frequently in males (74%), with advanced stage (78%, stage IV), extranodal involvement (79%) and had a poor outcome (median survival 37 months).
Conclusions: SOX11+ Cyclin D1-negative MCL has similar clinical, pathologic, and secondary genetic alterations to conventional MCL. CCND2 is frequently translocated in these tumors using IG light chain genes as partners.
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Saffron Mango Mousse Recipe Cooking Show
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JavaScript Build Process – Rake Pipeline with MiniSpade
Back in the day when we were writing simple jQuery plugins, we would simply drop 2 or 3 script tags in the markup and we were off to a start. But today's front-end development environment is vastly different. Today's Web applications are deploying more and more JS code on the client.
With the increasing responsibility, architecting and delivering front end code is becoming far more challenging. Code still needs to delivered in as little HTTP requests as possible. Ideally, one single JS file serving all our code is the best solution.
The problem with ambitious front end projects starts here. If you are writing considerable JS, development cannot happen in a single file. Any serious software developer wants to decouple pieces of his software into logical modules(sitting in separate files).
If you are involved in such an application, you know what I am talking about. Your JS project has hundreds of files. Each view, controller, model and template is in its own file. There is probably a separate css file per logical module or view as well.
The benefits of such code separation are very obvious. Its a much easier mental model to understand and develop upon.
But you can't deliver all your files separately. That would mean too many HTTP requests and would slow down the user experience of your web application. Delivery of the code needs to happen as a single file optimally.
This brings in the requirement of a build process. For the last few years, people have been using build processes that deliver a concatenated version for Production and all files individually for Development environment. This allows developers to debug code in dev environment comfortably and just flip a switch to deliver the production version.
However, if you are one of those unlucky ones who happens to be bit by a bug in production which cannot be reproduced in the dev environment, i.e. dependency injection hell or minifier trouble, you understand how important it is to reduce the differences between your dev and production environment.
Hence, An ideal build process should help in the following ways:
- It should allow us to write modular code in separate files.
- It should allow us to define dependencies of each module within itself. Defining them in a separate configuration file/makefile is not desirable.
- It should deliver all code minified and concatenated in a single file but should provide me a debugging environment where I can see my original setup of multiple files rather than a single giant file.
In this post, I will be talking about Rake-Pipeline with Web Filters, a ruby build tool to help tackle such issues. You should start off by reading this post by Yehuda Katz. This should get you going in setting up rake-pipeline on your system. A few pointers though:
- Rake Pipeline will not work with Ruby 1.8. You should upgrade to Ruby 1.9.2 atleast.
- If you are upgrading Ruby, RVM is your best bet. It allows you to install multiple ruby versions. After you install Ruby 1.9.2 or higher, make sure you set it as your default Ruby binary.
- You should checkout Katz's rake-pipeline-web-filters project. This project contains all the filters that can be used as part of the pipeline. This will help understand the various filters available.
- Update the copy of minispade.js. The checked out copy is very old (I have an opened an issue related to this on Github). Github Link
- Update the Assetfile. Usage of the minispade filter is incomplete in the project's Assetfile. The minispade filter supports an "string" option. With this option set to true, the minispade filter appends a "sourceUrl" comment at the end of each module. This is later picked up by Firebug or Web-Inspector to show your files individually instead of one single file. From: Minispade Filter on Github
I am really enjoying building my JS apps using rake-pipeline now. Not only does it fullfill my 3 most important requirements above, it has a few other nifty things going on:
- It runs a local server on port 9292 for you. No more Mamp!
- It gives you a nice and consistent file structure.
- You simply make your changes and refresh your browser. Rake pipeline rebuilds your code. No need to stop the server and build again.
- The minispade filter is just 50 lines of code. Also, it follows the approach of "download all at once" but "eval on demand". This in my opinion is much better than dynamic script injection i.e. download+eval on demand. Download+eval on demand can suffer from bad user experience on those first clicks.
Promises in JavaScript
Writing code in an async programming framework like node.js becomes super complex and unbearably ugly super fast. You are dealing with synchronous and asynchronous functions and mixing them together can get really tricky. That is why we have Control Flow.
From Wikipedia,
In computer science, control flow (or alternatively, flow of control) refers to the order in which the individual statements, instructions, or function calls of an imperative or a declarative program are executed or evaluated.
Basically, control flow libraries allow you to write non-blocking code that executes in an asynchronous fashion without writing too much glue or plumbing code. There is a whole section on control-flow modules to help you unwind the sphagetti of callbacks that you will quickly land yourself into while dealing with async calls in node.js.
Control flow as a pattern can been implemented via several approaches and one of such approaches is called Promises.
First things first, Promises is not a new language feature of JavaScript. Nothing has fundamentally changed in the language itself to support Promises. They could have been easily implemented 5 years back as well(and probably were). Promises is a pattern to solve the traditional callback hell problem in the async land. There are other similar approaches to solve the same problem as well.
The reason why people are talking about Promises and other similar patterns now is partly because of two reasons in my opinion:
- 5 years back, The web was much simpler. The amount of complex, javascript based, front-end heavy web apps dealing with several asynchronous calls simultaneously were few and far between. In many ways, there was no general need for a pattern like Promises.
- The second reason in my opinion is node.js. Thanks to node.js, people are now writing all the backend code in async fashion, backend code where all the heavylifting is done to generate the right response from a multitude of data sources. All these data sources are queried in async fashion in node.js and there is an urgent need of control flow to manage concurrency.
Because of the above two reasons, a lot of frameworks have started providing the concept of Promises out of the box. CommonJS has realized that the pattern needs to be standardized across these various frameworks and has a spec now, http://wiki.commonjs.org/wiki/Promises
JQuery 1.5 introduced the Deferred object, which is another name for the Promises pattern. It is based of the PromisesA CommonJS spec.
Ok, so now that its clear that Promises is a pattern, what exactly is it and how is it different from other traditional approaches?
From Wikipedia,
In computer science, future, promise, and delay refer to constructs used for synchronization in some concurrent programming languages. They describe an object that acts as a proxy for a result that is initially not known, usually because the computation of its value has not yet completed.
Yep, that's nice in theory but in practice, this is what changes:
Looks almost the same thing. Infact, it looks like Promises can hide the true nature of a function. With Promises, it can be super hard to tell if a call is synchronous or asynchronous. I say so because this is how your JsDoc for your async call function would change.
Some people will argue second style is cleaner. I am more in favour with the first style on this one.
If you are a small scrappy startup with fast growing codebase, It's really hard to have proper documentation. In such scenarios where proper documentation is missing, Promises are a deal breaker for me as more than once, you will have to look within a function just to understand how to consume it and whether its asynchronous or not. With the first style, the function definition is very explicit and usage doesn't rely heavily on the documentation. If there is a callback, it most likely is asynchronous.
Having said that, there are some pros in the Promises approach.
The first one that is usually talked about is how Promises are good for dealing with a multitude of async/sync calls. Taming multiple async calls becomes much easier with Promises.
Imagine a typical scenario where one has to perform something only after a list of tasks are done. These tasks can be both asynchronous or synchronous in nature in themselves. With Promises, one can write code that functions identically calling these synchronous and asynchronous functions, without getting into the nested callback hell that might otherwise happen.
This function returns a promise, based on the results of a bunch of tasks. These tasks are a mix of async and sync calls. Notice how in the code, It does not have to distinguish between those calls. This is a huge benefit to most of the Promises implementations.
Typically, all Control-flow libraries following other patterns also provide this benefit though. An example is async module in node.js modules. After all, this is the entire reason behind control-flow. The difference between Promises based implementations vs callback based implementations is suttle and more a matter of choice than anything else.
Another advantage that is given to Promises based implementations is how they are helpful in attaching multiple callbacks for an async operation. With Promises, you can attach listeners to an async operation via done even after the async call has completed. If attached after completion, that callback is immediately invoked with the response.
Traditionally, we have been solving this problem using Events. An event is dispatched when an async task completes and all those who care, can subscribe to the event prior and execute on it when the event happens. The typical problem with Events though is that you have to subscribe early else you can miss an event.
With Promises, You can attach those callbacks at any point of time without caring if the call is already complete or not.
The second gist is definitely cleaner and helps in structuring your code better. You don't have to bother about subscribing early too.
This is more of a clear win for the Promises based approach in my book. As I said, you can solve the same problem with an Event based approach as well but designing an Event registry just to solve the issue of multiple callbacks would be an overkill. Events by nature bring more to the table like propagation, default behavior etc. If your app requires them for better reasons, use them by all means for multiple callbacks too. They provide a viable solution. However, if you are trying to solve just the issue of multiple callbacks, Promises do it pretty well.
To summarize my thoughts, I think Promises are a nice pattern but nothing too special. Similar functionality can be mocked in other approaches too. However, if you decide to use a Promises implementation, make sure you are strictly documenting your code as otherwise it becomes an organizational problem to bring new developers on board with your codebase.
As a test exercise, I decided to mock JQuery's implementation of its Deferred object and Promises. If you are interested in looking on how a Promises API can be implemented, my attempt is publically available here: https://github.com/lifeinafolder/Promises
Custom Events In MVC JavaScript
Events are the bread 'n butter in UI development. They are frequently used to kick off JS to deal with a user action on a web page. Any frontend programmer would easily recognize the common DOM based events like click, change, submit etc. Events are great, as they allow loose coupling in your code and help separate out logic.
With the recent advent of MVC frameworks in JavaScript, we have started loosely coupling our JavaScript through events on non-DOM stuff as well. Not only do we need events to know when a user clicked on a button and stuff, we also want events when Models change within our MVC application so that we can update our Views.
In the browser, the event objects are created automagically by the browser for us to inform about the changes on DOM elements. However, to watch for changes in different pieces of our own code; for instance, watching Models to update Views in a typical MVC setup, We have to implement our own eventing system and fire our own events. This is typically done with the help of the Observer pattern.
The observer pattern (a subset of the publish/subscribe pattern) is a software design pattern in which an object, called the subject, maintains a list of its dependents, called observers, and notifies them automatically of any state changes, usually by calling one of their methods.
By definition of the Observer pattern in the MVC context, Models would be the subject or the observable and the Views are the observers. Now, lets go ahead and create our own custom event scheme using the Observer pattern.
With the above implementation, we created our own event mechanism. The Models keeps track of its observers in a private list(_listeners in our example) and the Views on subscription are pushed to that list. When something changes, its as simple as walking through that list and invoking each observer function. This is the classic way of doing custom events. It fits the above definition of the Observer pattern verbatim and works perfectly.
However, if you are feeling the itch, then here is another way of doing the same thing.
With the second approach, you will notice a bunch of little nuances:
- Models dont keep track of observers in a private list (_listeners array is not required).
- The events we fire are very similar to DOM derived event objects. They can be bubbled, cancelled etc.
Update: Well in theory the can be bubbled but that is a moot point because they are on a single DOM node not even in the DOM.Here is a screenshot from the example of the event object that View gets when the Model changes: - We utilise a DOM node to fire off our custom events. This DOM node is never actually injected in the DOM. This is important as injecting nodes in DOM for events would be an expensive operation.
- Listening to these custom events in Views is very similar to listening DOM derived events.
The approach in Gist-1 is a classic, time-tested way of doing custom events. There is absolutely nothing wrong in it.
Approach 2 is something new and I kind of find it neat. It works out nicely as well. The only thing necessary to keep in mind while using Approach 2 is, that you can only use it in browser context as we are leveraging functions like createEvent, dispatchEvent of the document object, which are available only within the browser.
Why JQuery Matters?
If you have done any serious UI development, you know JQuery is not the answer. The quest for a proper UI framework for UI centric web apps doesn't end at JQuery. Infact, it picks up where JQuery ends. Anyone who is serious about UI development and JavaScript as a language should honestly not taunt JQuery as a skill set.
I have personally had a very love-hate relationship with JQuery. I started off loving what JQuery did for the UI developer community, the browser agnostic code and all that jazz. And then, I started hating JQuery for what it did for the community.
Suddenly, there was a JQuery plugin for everything. Writing your own code became tough, somebody had already written a JQuery plugin for you. Majority of these plugins just outright failed, and most of them are not well laid out to even do a minor tweak from its targeted use case. Before you knew, you built your app around a plugin that doesn't meet your requirements anymore. Shit hits the fan and you are cursing yourself for fixing someone else's bad code.
Claims like the following don't help JQuery too:
Often with jQuery you can use a single line of code to achieve what would have taken 10-20 lines of regular JavaScript code.
In my opinion, that is largely a false promise for any serious UI Development. Because of such large loose claims, we as a community have arrived at such puns:
There is no doubt that the JQuery initiative is nice at its core but somewhere, it started getting abused. Somehow, the lack of coherence and reliability in the plugin ecosystem of JQuery seems to be hurting the original motive of the library. I am sure that the awesome folks behind JQuery are aware of this. To some extent, the roots of the JQuery UI project lies in this problem.
So I have been mulling over my thoughts about JQuery's role in propelling UI development for the web. What clearly started as an initiative to better the state of UI development for the web seems to be backfiring in a way. Everyone knows JQuery; nobody seems to know proper UI development and JavaScript.
But we cannot discard the positive effect of JQuery as well. As a community of front-end developers, we have come a long way, thanks to JQuery. What started as a fledgling community of a few people putting small hackish scripts together to stitch simple interfaces has now grown into one of the most active and huge community of extremely talented and passionate folks making complex UI's possible. Just take a look at Github. JavaScript is by far the most popular language on it and JQuery consistently stays in the top forked projects on Github.
One of the more recent revelations about the importance of JQuery happened to me when I recently came across this article and this data.
What seems to have happened is something very very special in my opinion. JQuery has eclipsed Flash. Yes, I repeat; more websites have JQuery running on them instead of Flash. From the data gathered by httpArchive, its on 48% of the web, a tiny but impactful 1% more than Flash; and nothing makes me more happy than that.
There is no question in my head that Flash is not the framework to go forward with for the openness of the web. Some people will argue that is not true. I will not go into that debate.Some people will argue that, neither is JQuery. I'll probably give you that one.
JQuery might not be the UI framework for the future but I think its gonna lead its way into one. It will act as a stepping stone for us as a community to move ahead and flesh out the UI development stack. If you haven't noticed, that is sort of already happening. Nobody is making JQuery clones anymore as compared to when it all started. People have moved ahead to solve other issues of the UI dev-stack.
JQuery eclipsing Flash is a big conceptual win for the community and that is why, JQuery matters!
UPDATE(12/4/2011): JQuery shuts down the plugins website.
Somehow, the lack of coherence and reliability in the plugin ecosystem of JQuery seems to be hurting the original motive of the library
Cutting Loose : Dynamic Namespacing in JavaScript
Most of the JavaScript libraries come wrapped in an easy to refer single object. The object acts as a namespace, tightly wrapping everything related to the library and provides a clean systematic handle to access the functionality of the library. For instance, here is a your own awesome library that you just built :
This is all fine and dandy till you decide that you want to call your new shiny thing myFunkyLibrary instead of myAwesomeLibrary. Suddenly, you find yourself find-and-replace' ing every occurrence of myAwesomeLibrary.
Next comes a better idea. You understand that myFunkyLibrary is just not gonna sit well with the readers of HN and you will probably change it again and again.
This looks better. To change the library name, you just make the change at one place. You also get the added benefit of true private properties and functions. Also for namesake, you impress the kids on the block with the term "module pattern".
Cool! Off you release your new piece of code.
After a few days, you guessed it right. You are not very good at naming things. Some dudes are just not ok proliferating their code with myFunkyLibrary.this and myFunkyLibrary.that. Even more, they are just plain tired of writing myFunkyLibrary over and over again.
You are like, whatever man! Name it whatever you feel like but I still think myFunkyLibrary is a pretty awesome name. So you go :
With this, you basically allowed any user of your library the freedom to dynamically namespace/use your library with any darn name he wants, like this:
This is what we term as dynamic namespacing. We wrapped the entire library and used this as a stand-in for the execution context. The user of the library gets to choose what that context is by invoking the library on an object literal of his choice using call. Nice and simple!
The tilde ( ~ ) operator in JavaScript
From the JavaScript Reference on MDC,
~ (Bitwise NOT)
Performs the NOT operator on each bit. NOT
yields the inverted value (a.k.a. one's complement) ofa
. The truth table for the NOT operation is:
a NOT a 0 1 1 0 Example:
9 = 00000000000000000000000000001001 (base 2) -------------------------------- ~9 = 11111111111111111111111111110110 (base 2) = -10 (base 10)Bitwise NOTing any number x yields -(x + 1). For example, ~5 yields -6.
Now lets look at the Logical NOT(!)
! (Logical NOT)
Returns false if its single operand can be converted to true; otherwise, returns true.
Mixing the two NOT operators together can produce some interesting results:
!~(-2) = false
!~(-1) = true
!~(0) = false
!~(1) = false
!~(2) = false
For all integer operands except -1, the net operand after applying the ~ operator for the ! operator would be truthy in nature resulting in FALSE.
-1 is special because ~(-1) gives 0 which is falsy in JavaScript. Adding the ! operator gives us the only TRUE.
When to use this special case ?
We can use the operators instead of the comparison operators, like this:
Understanding Currying
I recently fully understood the concept of utilising Currying in JavaScript. The core concept can be grasped from these references:
- Wikipedia entry on the theoretical concept
- John Resig's explanation of the technique
- Stack Overflow discussion
So far, I only got the concept but couldn't understand when and how to use it effectively until now. Lets see:
You are making a bunch of JSONP calls in a loop. You want the responses to fill in an array store appropriately i.e. you want the response something like:
[JSONP Call 1 Response, JSONP Call 2 Response, JSONP Call 3 Response, …]
Since JSONP calls are asynchronous, each of those individual calls can come back with the response at a different point in time. Hence, a simple loop never works. You will end up with responses in improper locations in the array store. Something like:
[JSONP Call 3 Response, JSONP Call 2 Response, JSONP Call 5 Response, …]
If you have worked a little with JavaScript, you will most probably do something like this to counter the problem:
This is all good and fine. It works perfectly and doesn't complain. However, if your while loop is itself inside more closured functions, things can quickly get out of control. Code maintainability decreases fast as there are way too many closures to track down.
Enter Currying!
From John Resig's post:
Partially applying a function is a, particularly, interesting technique in which you can pre-fill-in arguments to a function before it is ever executed.
In the 1st code gist, we were storing the position inside a closure to persist the state for the returned callback. However, The above definition helps us rethink the problem like this:
Let's pre-fill the callback function index argument with the current position value so that when the JSONP call completes and the callback is called, it already has that index.
Notice the simplified while loop now!
I found this to be profoundly oversimplified in terms of understanding whats happening in the code. Personally, coming back days later and taking a peak at code snippet 1 wasn't easy as the closures were not self-explanatory. The 2nd code gist with currying is so much easier to wrap your head around.
One last thing: The version of curry function in the second snippet pre-fills arguments from the left. It is called left-curry. If you want to pre-fill arguments from the right, you will have to re-arrange the curry function a bit.
Image Beacons
Using Image Beacons is one of those popular techniques that you would probably know about without knowing its name. Thanks to Nicholas Zakas again, He has it pinned down and named in his latest book High Performance JavaScript.
The technique helps in cases when you are mostly interested in sending data to the server. You can receive response through this technique but the nature of the method makes it ideal for cases when you are more concerned about posting data back to the server ( maybe for analytics purposes, saving user state etc. ).
You create in your JavaScript a new Image Object and point its src property to the script on your server. The data to be posted back to the server is added as the query string in the url for the src property.
Thats it! Notice how we don't inject the image in the DOM. So, No DOM manipulation required.
Also in the particular example above, we are listening for a server response in the onload handler. If we don't want to send any data over the wire for the client to download, we can just set the appropriate response code "204 No Content". In that case, the onload won't be fired.
Now a quick laydown on the advantages/disadvantages of the method:
- Cross-domain.
- Light-weight (if no data is sent by the server).
- No DOM Manipulation.
- Since the data is sent as query string, you are limited by the amount of data the string can carry.
Moral of the story : If you want a confirmation of the call, you might as well use XHR but otherwise, this is a cheap and easy method to send data flying.
The new document.querySelectorAll() method and the gotchas with it.
The latest browsers have new powerful methods to do DOM lookups called document.querySelector and document.querySelectorAll. While the first method matches only the first element according to your selector, the second and the one we are going to talk about returns all DOM elements matching your selector.
From MDC, document.querySelectorAll
elementList = document.querySelectorAll(selectors);where
List is a non-live NodeList of element objects. selectors
is a string containing one or more CSS selectors separated by commas.The returned NodeList will contain all the elements in the document that are matched by any of the specified selectors.
The method brings home a style of lookup most JQuery developers would be used to, like :
document.querySelectorAll('#container .klass');
to select all elements within the element with id 'container' which have a class name 'klass'.The method is powerful as you can nest selectors but if used like this:
it acts just like document.getElementsByClassName.
Clearly, it seems like the mecca of DOM lookup methods.You can easily get rid of your getElementsByClassName or getElementsByTagName or the getElementById. The method seems promising to bring in consistency to your style of coding. Not so fast!
As per the recent article by Nicholas Zakas, querySelectorAll is slower for lookups that can be correspondingly done by getElementsByClassName/getElementsByTagName.
That is because querySelectorAll returns a static NodeList whereas getElementsByClassName /getElementsByTagName return a live NodeList. The dynamic NodeList elements are created in a cache whereas the static ones are populated in a separate file causing the difference in lookup speeds. The article by Zakas has an excellent detailed explanation on this.
With this post, I just wanted to bring home the point that you don't want to update your DOM lookups that quickly. Also, as always, IE7 doesn't have the native method.
Dont You getElementsByClassName me.
I recently hit this issue about how browsers and libraries differ in the implementation of getElementsByClassName.
getElementsByClassName is a browser native function used to get elements from the DOM which have the same class. Here is the syntax taken from the Mozilla page for the function :
is a liveNodeList
of found elements in the order they appear in the tree. -
is a string representing the list of class names to match; class names are separated by whitespace - getElementsByClassName can be called on any element, not only on the document. The element on which it is called will be used as the root of the search.
The first point should be carefully noticed. I'll explain what it exactly means by a live NodeList. Imagine you looked up elements by class name "list" using the getElementsByClassName function and you picked up the following in your variable elements :
Later, you modified the DOM to this :
By live, it means that your reference elements will point to this new list now i.e. if the DOM is manipulated, the changes reflect in the reference in JS for you automatically. That is how almost all other functions like getElementsByTagName, getElementsByName which return a NodeList work.
However, here comes the interesting piece of information now. Since, getElementsByClassName is not implemented as a native browser function in IE7 and below, we do what we do best – create a version of the function that uses the browser native function if available else uses our implementation. For getElementsByClassName, I use the very popular version of the same by Robert Nyman since I dont have the luxury of Jquery so far.
Now this is where it caught me. It seemed natural to me that these implementations would behave the same as the SPEC and hence spit back a live NodeList. However, both Robert's version and even $('.classname') in Jquery dont return a live NodeList. This assumption caused me a good 30-45 mins this other day when i was trying to figure out the problem in my code.
If you think about it after you know it, it makes sense as it would be radically tough for a version of the function besides the browsers native version to return a live NodeList( think about all event listeners you would have to attach/tear down for listening to changes in DOM ) of elements. So all these implementations return you a static NodeList of elements which doesnt auto-update once the DOM changes.
Next, you might think that if they do feature detection and use the browsers native version if available, they should still return a live NodeList. The answer is : Yes, they can! but that would mean different responses for different browers as it would be terribly hard to give a live NodeList for IE7 ( yuck ).
Working day in and day out in JS might cause you to forget this subtle difference. Also, it doesn't bite you unless you are changing the DOM structure after your access and most of the times ( in my code ), I wasn't changing the DOM structure in this fashion. So the wrapper getElementsByClassName was perfect for me until this day.
So, next time you use getElementsByClassName, dont assume it would behave as the SPEC. Think of it as a different implementation with different interface than the SPEC. And always remember that for your future good.


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1 Ingerman, Elizabeth A. "Personal Experiences of an Old New York Cabinetmaker." Antiques LXXXIV (Novermber 1963), p. 578.
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I love using blush to make my cheeks have some color instead of just having a pale face, lol. I use this color because my favorite color is pink, and it makes me look like a little baby doll with rosy cheeks. The color lasts a few hours but I usually always end up applying more before it fades away. Don't use too much though, it's quite an eye popping color and too much will make you look like a clown. It's a cute color and works well for anyone who needs a little color on their face!
I liked this blush very much because it gave my skin a nice rosey look without looking too harsh and un-natural. I brush a small amount over my cheek bones for a very natural look. The only thing i would change about this blush is the brush that it came with. When sweeping it across my face it was not soft and was very brittle and harsh. I use a different brush that has a contouring shape to it so it looks more natural.
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I usually don't write reviews but this is perfect. I have fair skin that's hard to find colors for...the classic pink is great for all year round. I wish it came with a bit more surface to last longer and work with typical brushes better.
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I love this blush! This was the first blush I have ever owned and I just bought it recently. I forgot how nice Cheekers Blush is. It stays on all day and gives a non-glittery pop of color. Classic Pink is a nice flirty color and is very girly/feminine. The blush has kind of an old ladyish perfume to it but you can't really smell it after you put it on. Highly pigmented and an adorable color!
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I'm very pale with green eyes and light blonde hair. This blush is perfect for my complexion. It smells good but the little brush it comes with is useless.
This gave me a soft glow and I love the smell-very clean smelling! Most blushes are too dark for me, but this is perfect! Will buy again- applies very easily and feels very soft. Blends well.
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This blush is a must have in my book! It was the very first blush I ever bought, and it's the blush I keep buying over and over again. It's so inexpensive, it's tiny and compact and very pigmented, so apply with a light hand and it will last forever. It does have a very old school makeup scent, I personally like it and it doesn't bother my sensitive skin.
I think every girl should give this blush a try!
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Cover Girl blushes are my first blush products I've brought and probably the best drugstore blush. They're really cheap and they work really well.
The blush blends really well, it's buildable, and it also last all day. Classic pink is a tad bit too pink for my skin tone, so I won't be buying this color again, but Rose Silk color instead. But I'm still going to use; however, I only need a small amount for my cheeks with a light touch.
Overall, this is a very nice blush for anyone. It gives me a nice soft glow and it makes me look alive:)
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Been using this for years and keep going back to it. Perfect shade of pink for my skintone and when I apply it and see it in the mirror, my reflection seems to say.. "Ahhhhh, that's better now"... LOL Don't mind the Noxema scent to it at all and the price is right.
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After a model by Benvenuto Cellini Italian, Florence, 1542 Bronze 1 ft. 10 3/8 in. x 3 1/2 in. x 3 5/16 in. 85.SB.69
Though I called them satyrs, they showed nothing of the satyr except little horns and a goatish head; all the rest of their form was human . --The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini Satyrs from antiquity inspired Benvenuto Cellini, but his comment makes clear that he consciously discarded the characteristic pointed ears and lower body of a goat. Instead, he limited the figure's goat-like features to the face, which displays protruding horns and a savage, animal-like expression that Cellini described as "fiery and menacing, instilling fear into the beholders." Cellini designed this and a similar figure to flank the monumental entrance of Porte Dorée, the royal palace at Fontainebleau. Turning his head sharply to his left, the bearded and horned satyr gazes fiercely--with a dramatically furrowed brow; deeply chiseled eyes; full, gnarled lips; and an open-mouthed scowl--toward an unknown intruder. Cellini posed the figure with the right arm raised to support a cornice. In the left hand, a short stump suggests the thick club the figure was designed to lean on, which was evidently broken before the model was cast. The French King François I commissioned Cellini to execute the designs for Porte Dorée in the early 1540s; however, after being accused of theft in 1545 Cellini was forced to leave France. Consequently, the project was never completed. Scholars believe that in his haste, Cellini left the wax models for his design behind, and they were later cast by an unknown artist.
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Hi there, I have alot of baking stones, and need some ideas for a way to store them. I really like them, and don't want to get rid of them, just don't have a place to store them. Thanks Tonya |
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- Posted by shades_of_idaho (My Page) on Mon, Oct 15, 07 at 22:49
I am not really sure what a baking stone is. I can sort of imagine. I store my baking sheets and 9 by 13 pans pizza pan in a coated wire record rack I keep on the lower kitchen shelf. Works well for me. Maybe your stones will fit on something like this. Also not sure how many you have. There is a paper bag holder you hang on the wall. you might be able to slip them in the slots instead of bags. Might be too heavy?? Chris |
Shades yes they are pretty heavy. Rheagle, what about dividing slots made of wood vertically in a cabinet? |
- Posted by claire_de_luna (My Page) on Mon, Oct 15, 07 at 23:56
I just keep mine in the oven. It doesn't hurt a thing, and I've actually heard if you have a gas oven, it also helps even out the temperature. That said, mine is in my convection oven, and I use it quite often. It's just too heavy to move around! I'm just curious to why you have stone(s)? Do you have double ovens or bake a lot of bread? |
- Posted by talley_sue_nyc (My Page) on Tue, Oct 16, 07 at 9:18
big flat things store well w/ tray dividers. Like these, which are the sturdiest wire vrsion I've found. But when I had a different brand (it was Feeney, which is made by Knape & Vogt, and the clips weren't as good as the Rev-a-Shelf ones I have now), I found that the cast-iron griddle was so heavy, it popped the wire shelves right out of the clips. The Rev-a-Shelf ones I have now are much stronger than the Feeney ones, but they're still just plastic clips. I don't even try to put my griddle there. Instead, I store my griddle in an ultra-skinny base cabinet I ended up w/ by the fridge. So you might be able to install a similar divider out of wood that's sturdy enough to hold up to the weight. Or you could try these wire ones, in which case i strongly suggest trying the following: |
- Posted by western_pa_luann (My Page) on Tue, Oct 16, 07 at 12:34
I have one large stone (why do you have lots of them???), and it lives in the drawer of the oven. |
Have kept them in gas oven in the past, but I did hate it when I let a pie bubble over on them, so we took them out. Now they lean against the cabinet wall (inside a lower cabinet). DH built really heavy tray dividers in there (each divider is 1/2" thick wood) that are glued and screwed in really well. They are strong enough for stones to lean against. But I wouldn't try it with most storebought ones--wire or whatever. |
I keep mine in the oven all the time. I too am wondering why someone would need many. I know that people do use them for solar ovens and BBQ grill ovens, but I would imagine that they could be stored in the units. |
Hi again, thanks for the ideas. I'm thinking I'll try the wooden divider idea in a cabinet. The reason there are so many is I have my pizza stone, and 2 cookie sheets, 2 bread pans, a stone muffin pan, and a roaster with lid (or 2 casseroles). All were given to me as gifts, because I let it be known that I like them. I do use them all though, believe it or not. Our kitchen is just so small till we get the money to redo it, and I'm trying to make the most of the space. For the people that leave them in the oven drawer, do you have gas ovens? I thought that would ruin them, so I've always taken them out and it's a pain when I want to use my oven. Thanks again. Tonya |
- Posted by claire_de_luna (My Page) on Tue, Oct 16, 07 at 23:35
Tonya, I've left a baking stone in my gas oven. I thought it really did help even out the temperature somewhat. Also, if you think about how high a temperature to use when you bake pizza (my recipe calls for 500-550 degrees), there's nothing about that stone would be ruined by leaving it in the oven. One person I know leaves hers in the oven when she sets the self-cleaning feature, to get the stone cleaned of any residue. I really don't think you can hurt your stone by leaving it in the oven at all. |
- Posted by talley_sue_nyc (My Page) on Wed, Oct 17, 07 at 9:25
Wow, I never heard of stone bread pans and stone muffin pans! Or stone roasters. You learn something new every day. I'm going to have to investigate. Do you find they bake that differently than metal? |
Talley Sue -- yes they do bake differently. They brown the crusts much nicer. The stone roasters hold the heat -- and cook more evenly. Much nicer products than with metal -- but they are not inexpensive and can be broken. Cathy |
- Posted by talley_sue_nyc (My Page) on Wed, Oct 17, 07 at 15:01
thanks for the info. I think I'll stick w/ the metal, at least for baking pans; I don't actually like the crusts of my muffins browned that much. (that's why I'm not in love w/ convection ovens, nor do I like dark metal pans). But it is interesting to me to know about these things. |
- Posted by wearybuilder (My Page) on Wed, Oct 17, 07 at 15:46
I store my stone in the oven drawer with no problems....and it is a gas stove/oven. |
Man, I hate to admit I just threw mine away after leaving it in the oven. It got so black. Electric oven, if that made any difference. I really liked my stone baking dish. You almost couldn't burn something and food would hold in them for a long time. Great for parties. I've just found that I didn't like the weight. I have some loss of hand and arm strength after my last job. I'm almost to the point I can't use some of my cast iron. I'm having to pick it up with both hands on the handle. But my current gas oven doesn't have real even temps. I think I'll pick one up at the thrift store the next time I see one and see if having it in the oven helps. Gloria |
- Posted by talley_sue_nyc (My Page) on Thu, Oct 18, 07 at 11:37
Gloria, do you think that storing it in the oven is what made your stone get so black? |
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"We'll all go down to the beach and get in and get out, this is not about heroics, it's not about seeing how long you can stay out there," said co-organizer Eric Novak. "If you're someone who believes that 2013 is the kind of year that you've never had before, you might want to consider starting off by doing something you've never done. If you're going to leave your comfort zone and make it a great year, you might as well start off way outside your comfort zone."
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I am really itching to plant fall bulbs. Since my weather here in zone Ne5 warms up nice during the day, can I go ahead and plant some fall bulbs? Please let me know! I need to play in the dirt!! LOL! Just incase my e-mail is blocked, it is firstname.lastname@example.com Thank You!!! Marsha |
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- Posted by gardengal48 PNW zone 8 (My Page) on Sat, Jan 21, 06 at 9:14
Marsha, a little clarification would be helpful. By "fall" bulbs, do you mean those typically sold in the fall but bloom in spring? Or those bulbs planted in spring that bloom later in the season, generally from mid to late summer and into the fall? If the first, unless they have been prechilled, you are a bit late. Planting now is better than hanging on to them, as they tend to deteriorate in prolonged storage, but you are unlikely to get blooms from them this season. Green growth, yes - flowers, probably not but they should produce for the following year. In my area, potted spring blooming bulbs are available now in garden centers and nurseries for early planting. These have already gone through a chill period and generally show foliage and even some budding - some snowdrops, crocus and early narcissus are even in bloom. These of course can be planted now if your soil is workable. If the second, it is still too early. Spring is at least 8 weeks away, perhaps longer in your area. Planting summer blooming bulbs in soils that are too cold or possibly too wet from winter is likely to result in rotted bulbs, or if the weather is periodically very mild, some early growth that will be damaged by more cold weather that is sure to come. Mild or unseasonably warm winter weather can be misleading. It may be best to wait for more typical planting times for warm season plants and leave your desire to garden now restricted to tidying, pruning and getting your garden ready for spring. More normal cold weather could resume at any time and undo all your hard work. But getting left over bulbs into the ground is better than letting them go to waste even if you skip this year's flower show. Just make sure your soil is not too wet to be workable. |
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Thank you so much Gardengal for the bulb info! My best bet is to wait until spring and fall and plant bulbs then, why try to fool mother nature in the winter months. Like you said, why put the time and money into bulbs and end up losing them. I will make a list of bulbs I would love to plant when the time gets here, a good winter passtime. Marsha |
I bought some spring bulbs - tullips, crocuses, grape hyacinths - a few days ago. I am going to plant them in shallow pots and keep until spring in unheated garage. I will re-plant them in a garden like one clump or after foliage dies, some I will keep in pots. A few years ago I already did the same and was really glad - I got a lot of bulbs for great price. And also I had enough time to decide where to plant them and how to arrange my flower beds. |
I didn't know we could do that! I'm zone 5 too and sub-zero temps hit us in November--my usual planting time. All my bulbs are still in packages and I noticed shoots out of the crocus ones, even though I kept them in the unheated garage. There are some bulbs in my basement. Should I chill them for a week in the refrigerator prior to planting in pots? |
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Sacrae Sinfonae : Work information
- Composers
- Giovanni Gabrieli ( Music, Images,)
- Performed by
- His Majesties Sagbutts and Cornetts, Gentlemen of the Chappell, Peter Bassano (Conductor)
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- Work name
- Sacrae Sinfonae
- Work number
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- Genre
- Composed
- 1597-01-01 02:00:00
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- Gaudeamus
- Producer
- Martin Compton
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- Trygg Tryggvason
- Recording date
- 1990-01-01 02:01:00
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Giovanni Gabrieli
Our first record of Giovanni Gabrielli is the appearance of his madrigal Quand'io ero giovinetto in 1575, but it is likely that in the preceding years he was taught by his uncle Andrea Gabrieli . Like his uncle, he moved from Venice to Munich to work in the service of Duke Albrecht. The Duke's death in 1579 led to a return to Italy - in 1584 he acted as organist at St Mark's in Venice and the following year he began playing at the Scuola Grande di S Rocco, where he continued part-time for the rest of his life. When his uncle died, Gabrielli took responsibility for composing for St Mark's, as well as editing Andrea's works for publication.
Compositions written to fulfil this obligation were collected in the Sacrae Symphoniae of 1597, a work which achieved significant popularity in Germany and Austria. Many musicians of the region were sent by their employers to study with Gabrielli and numerous German composers wrote works with similar titles. Among them was Gabrielli's pupil Heinrich Schütz .
Unlike his uncle, Giovanni kept sacred and secular composition very separate. His style in madrigals was a release from the narrow remit he allowed himself for church music. In later years he was influenced by Claudio Monteverdi, and was one of the first composers to use basso continuo (as opposed to the earlier basso seguente) in purely instrumental works.