I wanted a convenient way to test out some javascript by running it in a browser and being able to play with it via an interpreter like python has. As it turns out the almighty Bob created a nice interpreter for playing around with Mochikit but I wanted something a bit more generic that would allow me to import any kind of javascript and play with it. It turns out this is really easy so I add[...]

So the last few days I've been playing around with MochiKit and working with Javascript. Until now I have done some Javascript here and there but not too much. MochiKit seems to make it a lot easier by providing you with lots of useful functions for things you do often. In fact it's so popular that I have a hard time explaining to myself why I hadn't tried to use it up until now. I'm certainl[...]

I found out today that the principle author of a popular Javascript/AJAX library Mochikit is my former highschool classmate Bob Ippolito. I remember him being pretty smart. I supposed he would make a name for himself in some CS circles and it looks like he has. He is also apparently a co-founder of Mochi Media, a company that makes products for content creators. Mochibot can be used to track [...]