Sometimes jQuery is (not) the Answer
It’s difficult to say, as much as I love jQuery I must admit that it is at times the wrong route to take when addressing a problem. While looking over a few questions on StackOverflow today I came...
View ArticleAbusages in JavaScript
Upon reading a recent blog entry by Brendan Eich (creator of the JavaScript language), I found myself falling under a bit of conviction when he described a popular use of || (OR) and && (AND)...
View ArticleSorting Arrays in JavaScript, from the Inside-Out.
Every now and then I come across questions on StackOverflow that require me to do a bit of thought-work. This particular question was asking to to take an array, such as [‘a’,’b’,’c’,’d’,’e’], and flip...
View ArticleFree Web-Development Course
I have recently started offering a free web-development course both in person and online. The title of this meetup is “Home-Brew Web Development” and it takes place every Thursday evening at 7:30pm...
View ArticleProgress Dots
From time to time I need to throw together a small script to do something relatively simple. Today I had to write something that would animate a series of dots. You’ve seen it, those little lines of...
View ArticleHow to JavaScript Under Pressure
I recently came across a fun little challenge online called “You Can’t JavaScript Under Pressure.” The goal is to implement five functions as quickly as you can. The function names and requirements are...
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