Today’s moment of Angular zen: Try to think of it this way: Anything that you set on the scope object in the directive’s return object, those will be the properties pre-populated on the scope argument passed to the scope parameter in the function assigned to link. And those can be inferred from the attributes passed […]
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a little JavaScript library called a2z for creating ranges of characters and published it to npm. I was inspired by a rather painful bit of code I had come across where each letter in the alphabet had been specified one at a time. While I could see that […]
Last night I gave H. his first lesson in chess. I taught him on the board and with the pieces that my grandfather used to teach me. If I recall correctly, the board and the pieces were hand made by one of my uncles and given to him as a gift. When he died, my […]
You’re at a pool party. One of your co-workers/team-mates pulls you aside. He knows a secret. (“Well, more of a rumor but…”) The Company has recently come into a large-ish stockpile of intercontinental ballistic missiles. With nuclear warheads. And they’ve been buying up retired quarries in Barre as places to cache those weapons. They’re calling […]
Making Maven Grunt. Fantastic Addy Osmani post with tips on integrating Grunt, Yeoman, and Bower into otherwise-Maven-based projects. Straightforward and useful. (tagged: Grunt Bower Maven Yeoman JavaScript ) JavaScript Isn’t Scheme I'm not going to quote it. Just read it. (Although by now you almost certainly have since I'm about 2 days behind on this […]
I can’t even remember why I started this blog 10 years ago. I think it was as a way to stay in touch with friends and family. We’d moved up to Vermont not long before and I think I was feeling… Well, not homesick, but I missed my friends. People were tagging each other back […]
Just like it says on the tin, Functional JavaScript (Michael Fogus 1; O’Reilly, 2013) is just that: a book about writing JavaScript in a functional style with Underscore.js as the foundational library to give you some of the higher-order functions you need to get started. 2 First, a disclosure: I have a very personal relationship […]
They’re coming. (It’s coming?) A storm gathers. Evening settles in. It is darker in the house than outside. But you know that the night advances along with the storm and the night brings a terror with it. You are but a scared child. Mother claims the doors are already locked but you know that it […]
Do the right thing, Wait to get fired Brendan Sterne: In general these rules are better than the alternative – no guideposts or structure. They help new managers and teams to function effectively. They push employees to do things in a good way. But greatness rarely happens by following rules, process and structure. That is […]
Five Patterns to Help You Tame Asynchronous JavaScript Decent post by Jim Coward (writing for the Tech.pro blog) covering callbacks, the observer pattern, messaging, promises, and finite state machines — all as approaches to dealing with your async JavaScript. It's a decent read and is a fairly comprehensive survey. There is some nit-picking that can […]