For a few weeks now, every time I try to logoff from my home banking website something bad happens. See screenshot below. (screenshot eaten by backup failure.) Firebug opens unexpectedly There's a frigging debugger; statement in the live production site The logoff process hangs until I press F8 in...
I wrote a nice little charting component for our site recently, and needed to call a Javascript function in one View (the one that was the main page for charting), from another View (one that went off to the server using Ajax to load up a list of feeds that could be charted). This would have been traditionally...
This week I experienced something that made me feel more confident about the viability of JavaScript as a first-class language in ASP.NET development. And I'm not talking about JavaScript's capabilities — those I have re-discovered long ago — my concern had always been how well other...
Recently, Tobie Langel from the Prototype blog asked me to answer a few questions about Prototype.js and my involvement with it. The interview has been posted today . The folks in the Prototype team have been producing some wicked cool code for a while and they're working on a number of interesting...
I just finished reading Douglas Crockford's JavaScript: The Good Parts and it only took me a few hours to go through it this weekend. This is a short and delightful read. The book has not been released in print yet and I read it via O'Reilly's Safari Bookshelf, which will be the subject of...