I’ve alluded before that I did a large chunk of my development in some form of ECMAScript for the first ten years of my professional life. Now, JavaScript is cool again for the first time. Everyone wants to learn it. So, like me, you probably already kinda maybe knew JavaScript. But times have...
I’m lazy. I remember reading somewhere that that was a desirable trait to have in a developer. I’m not sure where though, and honestly it’s just too much effort to bingle it. This laziness came to the forefront recently as I was playing with Node. In my last post , I showed you how to spin up a quick...
What is Node? The simplest answer, albeit a simplistic answer, is that Node (or Node.js) is JavaScript on the server. Actually, it’s a more than just that, but you can read about the more in other places . This is a good enough answer for us n00bs. Unless you’ve been living in in cave, you might have...
Just the other day I had a need to use arguments.callee and I realized that's not something you really see every day in JavaScript. Maybe I could talk about it a bit. Anonymous functions everywhere It's not news to anyone reading this blog that one of JavaScript's workhorses are anonymous...
Do you like JavaScript? Have you been looking for a reaon or an idea to learn and start using HTML5? Google Chrome extesions are a great way to get into HTML5 and all its new APIs with bite sized applications. Anatomy of a Chrome Extension A Chrome extesion is nothing more than a tiny website that runs...